Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-09-09
Senator HaywOOd'S Address.

The Washington papers contain Mr..
Haywood's address to the people OF North
Carolina, in justification of his course on
the Tariff BILL 1t covers seven anu half
columns in the Union. We are not among
those who have looked for this exposition
with any great curiosity--the Senator's
position was merely political curiosity
it had been made certain that he could
never be of any use to either wings or de-
mocrats again; and therefore it mattered
little, except to his personal friends, that
he should be able to clear himself of sin,
by convicting himself of folly and weak
ness. Indeed, as politician merely, he
had better have brazened it out and detied
the moral sense of the world.
We have never believed Mr.. Haywood
guilty of deliberate treachery; and finding
absolutely no decently respectable motive
for his course, we were, at the time of his
resignation, completely at fault for the ex-
PLANTATION. This address does not afford
the clue to his conduct, and so far relieve
us. 1t shows that Mr.. Haywood is exceed
ing ignorant on the Tariff question. (he
confesses that he was when he first went
to the Senate, but claims to have impro-
we'd since, in which we differ from him,
and that he has much of that perversity
which belongs to combination of igno-
rance, prejudice, vanity and Weakness
There is not single point in his discus
sion of the Tariff that is fairly stated, and
in not single instance does he submit his
statements to the test of specification
| Now let us see what he aims at.
After some flourishes, Mr.. Haywood
proceeds to lay down "McKay's Tariff
Bill of 1884," as his standard of a propeI
tariff, and he fully and unequivocally
avows his past and present approval of thai
bill. And he justifes himself for de-
nouncing the tariff of 1916 as ruinous tc
the country, on the ground of its differ.
ence from that blII!! 1t will be impossible
for any welI.informed person to suppress
his wonder al the enormous folly of such
declarations. The two bills in all their
general features are the same, and IL
nearly every instance where they differ
the original "McKay Bill" which Mr.
HAYWOOD warmly approves, was lowe
tariff than tina, of 1916, which he de
nounces for its excessive reductions and ii
ruinous effect on manufacturers. Thlrt,
per cent. was the maximum rate undo
McKay's bill, and il provided further tina
the 80 per cent. duties should be reduce'
to 25 at the end of two years. The pre-
sent law, with the same articles at the SAM
rate, contemplates no such reduction
Again, McKay's bill levied the duties Of
the foreign cost only-the present law OF
the cost and charges. Mr.. Haywood
very careful not to give any specifications
in justification of his absurd distinction
between the two tariffs.
He next proceeds to talk in favor of pro
lection and to quote authorities for it,
Here he assumes, directly in the face
the obvious fact that the Tariff OF lS46
pure free-trade scheme. The truth i
that it is from the beginning to end charae
: .erised by discrimination for the advar
tage of the hitherto protected classes
The discrimination is moderate compare
with the wing tariff, but it is there. Th
duty on imported wool, which has bee
quoted by the press as an instance of dil
elimination against protection was in fax
only an instance Of conflict betweeu tw