Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-09-03
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WOODSTOCK:
SEPT. 8, 1916.

Nh. Hay,0ood's .Address.-We have
read the address of the Hon. w. H
Haywood, to the people of North Car
DINA, in justification of his course rela.
tive to the Tariff bill which passed
) Congress few weeks since. He en-.
) beavers to justify his course, by say
ing that, since 1914, the people
or rather the Democratic party, had
gone INTO the elections, for Congress
men, in the different states, making is
sue with the Wing patty upon the prin-
ciples of the policy embraced in the
measure known as McKay's Tariff
blll-that the new law violates every
principle of that policy-and that,
therefore, he feels himself absolyed
from all allegiance to the Democratic
party on that subject. He argues, up
on these grounds, that it was fairly I'M
derstood, when Mr.. Polk came into
power, that the policy contained in the
"McKay bill' of 1914 was to be car
ried out in modifying the Tariff of ~
that, in short, the whole Democratic
party, north, south, and west, were
committed in favor Of the "McKay
BILL" And to render his defence dou-
bly, strong, he quotes from the Messa-
ges of all the Democratic Presidents,
to prove that all Tariffs ought to be
constructed upon the same principle.
He says that the policy of the "McK Kay
blll'' Of 1914 was to afford "inciden-
tai protection" to home manufactures;
and that this feature is entirely revers-
ed in the new bill;-the highest duties
being laid on those articles which do
not come in competition with "home
Industry" All this, at first thought,
seems very plausible; butAapy man
who has studied the principles of the
Democratic party, as developed and
maintained since the compromise
act" was abolished by the Wings,
knows that it has advocated 'reve-
nue." tariff, in opposition to the "pro-
tective" policy-that it has only admit.
ted, or sustained the latter, when it
could do no better. This is known to
every intelligent Democrat. Who has
forgotten the sharp contest which took
place upon the floor of Congress, when
the "compromise act'' was assailed,
and finally repealed, and the tariff of
AZ substituted in its place?-the
Democrats defending the former with
all their power, as the only true policy
for laying the excitement which had SO
long agltated and shook the Union.
Mr.. Haywood may, it is true, Justify
his course, in resigning his sect in the
U. S. Senate, in the eyes of his con-
stituents and in the eyes of the Wigs
generally, but he cannot prove to the
Democratic party that they have all
gone astray upon the subject, and that
the true faith is only to be found in his
late Address to the people of North
/ Carolina. If he has been true to his
constituents, we shall see whether their
representatives will re-elect him to the
Senate of the U. S. AS faithful ex-
ponent Of their views upon this subject,
they should not forsake him now in the
hour of his trial. We shall see.
-e8e-
School Discipl;ne.-Mr. JANNEY's
very excnllent Address on Education
is concluded to-day. Let every man,
woman and child, who can red, give
the Address a careful perusal. Circu-
late it far and near; for it is certainly
the best, most philosophical, practical
document that has appeared for some
time.
The "Weekly Paper -In another
column will be found the prospectus of
the "Weekly Paper" If the No. be.
fore us be fair specimen of the future
character of the paper, it will not be in
ferior to the most useful papers of the
kind now published.