The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-09-18

leading issues which they have rallied upon for the las
twenty years are not only no longer available, but tina
their place has been ehectually taken by democrat,
measures to the great prosperity of the country and The
complete satisfaction ofthe public. mind The Louisville
ounalpublished under the eye Of Mr. Clay, and gene
rally regarded the especial organ of his opinions
makes its confession on the subject as follows
The protective policy is now an issue before the
people, for in addition the fact that the present oeooeo
tariff nequfoocay apoWedy protective its features we
all know that the payment of the great war debt VIII re-
quire such tariff for least quarter of century, as
will afford all the protection that the most strenuous iaVo
of protection regard desirable national bank I
issue before people, for the wings, although
their opinions unchanged to the ultimate necessary %
such Institution resolved to make no movement III
favor of it, long the State Institutions continue er
present prosperous make movement IN favor
oft until another financial convusion shall impress the iac'
OF its necessity upon the minds the people OF the United
States. Thus of the issues that divided the parties IN
1892 in 1885, in $780, and in 1874, either obsolete
adjourned to future, and perhaps, distant day
the awkward and miserable sub-ueasury, with one hand
full of gold and silver for the government and the other full
of for the people, being almost the only one OF the od
questions that still remains for discussion and for action
This declaration of the Journal quoted and endorsed
by that saunch wing authority in western New York
the Buffalo Express In reply. the Rochester Daily Ad
verse very properly calls attention to the taclle manner
in which the Clay whgsn which feat the SEwARD-ites
are but little less dexrous-set aside unfortunate issues
1.-THE locooco tariff is unequivocally protective in lis
effects and hence orsoot the wings very consistently
drop the discussion of that Question Does the Journal and
does Buffalo contemporary expect to impose upon its
party with such dimsy and shallow preence! Or have
they lust discovered that any tariff of 10 per
cent, necessarily and inevitably favor or protect
home product similar TO the foreign one which duty
levied The present tariff bill its passage was de-
trI,,a
revenue was predicted it would utterly fail
But now the bill, it is declared will afford ALL the
protection that the most strenuous advocates oil protection re-
gard desirable Was such ignorance dishonesty
displayed by any political party
But then the CAY-ites-and in this, too they join
ed by the SEwARDes of the Buffalo Express long for
return OF the paIny days of National Bank, when wing
editors and wing Congre ssmen We're accommodated to
any desirable extern: We are hence admonished that,
though dubbed san obsolete dea, the wings still cherish
hope that circumstances will yet enable them re-estab-
h National Bank Hence the necessity of keeping
the public mind prepared for such issue by the incubation
osound political ethics and principles the subject
OF banking and currency
We put no faith in the alleged purpose of the wings
ultimately to surrender their pet issues ola high Protec-
tive Tariff and National Bank In regard to the bank,
Mr. Cays organ says in terms, that the party will.
ing only to blink that for season, and to bring
ii up they have hope of carrying it through
The case is just the with high tariff Give the
wings power, and they will lose no time in manacHng the
and the industry of the country they did in
1912. But in the present state of the country and in
view of the well working of the democratic party as es
abished, the wing leaders striving with might and
main to conceal their purposes. Their present game is
cheat the people first for the purpose of misgovernng
them afterwards
Such game quite familiar to the usages of that par
N And to say the TRUTH there little chance for the
old wing issues before the people, that cannot
wonder that such plan of temporary dsavowal and
ceament has been resorted to- We copy from the New
York Evening Post the following pointed article show
ing the position Of the leading wing nanciers and states
men before the tariff OF 1916:
Predictions OF THE PRorEcroSsrs Persons who have
been in the habit of visiting Washington during the periods
of interest arising from the discussion of important
al topics, will remember that time Tor many years has
there been excitement than the passage of the
tariff Of 1916.
"Ruin RUM ruin % cried Mr. Webster; sruin to the man
uiacurer, because there will be many goods importsd
and ruin to the revenue because there win be few ~
Ruin p echoed Mr.. Evans, there will be more than
nineteen millions under the act, and this too in time
of war !"
81 have said" Mr. Webster says, that in my opinion
there be augmented income from importations as
is relied on will not into this subject large. 1t has
been discussed satisfactorily ably, will say admirably by
gentlemen this floor who have preceded | refer
particularly to the Incompatible speech of my friend Mr.
Evansl from Maine. He has been Is years in the
public service He has devoted himself specially studying
and pretending the and finances of the country
and he understands the subject well as any gentleman
connected with the government since the days of Craw
and Gallatn--nay, well either of those gentlemen
ever understood itp'
Here was the endorsement by great orator. of great
fnancie Let how both drawer and endorser ap-
pear Mr.. Lewis OF Alabama, had stated that the relaxa-
ton Of the laws in England would induce great
portaons growing of great explorations. He read
the Senate table showing the exports from New York to
have been as follows
magnetic speed with which exports have increased in
anticipation merely, of the modification of the laws
by England. The table shows the amount of exports in
city of New York alone from January LIST June GOTH
1916, compared with the expds for the period
time in 1915
From Jan. l.. to June 80, 1885, Is45
Corn, bushels 529,6B 1926 Il times great
Corn meal, in bbl5 5f,lH Ii, 507 Ga times great)
Lard, kegs 76,737 Al $50 (neary doube)
Wheat 322SS8 16OO GOO times a much)
Flour, wheat 4li,075 1O3,6A a times much)
Rye flour 6,499 2,70l Qa times much)
Butter 1907 1861 Oh times as m uch')
This table, at the ne excited great deal of interest in
the Seuate 1t is matter of much interest now moi
from its showing great expectations comparatively then
but from its entire ngncance with what has since taken
place. The whole six months included did not equal the
exports oether of tue single months of June July of this
year. Mr. Lewis added,
Such is the ascerained result of the actual reduc-
ton, but only OF the anticipation OF the reduction the
English laws. What, let me ask, be the enec
OF their total repeal by the passage of Sir Robert Pee law
which am told has reached in authentic FORM in y
from c wing paper-from tariff paper-the New York
Tribune"