The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-23

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before long, our Government will be compelled
to take notice of Mexican affairs, and institute
a vigorous policy in regard to that country |
We take totally different view of the propo-
sition that was made by a Senator at the
closing hour of the session, in favor of our
Government mediating between France and
Prussia in the matter of Luxembourp II is |
just as well that this idea was introduced to |
the Senate at the moment of dissolution.
On the whole, it must be said of the Senate |
and its labors at this session, that in eeasing
to assault and thwart the Executive-that in |
cooperating with him in carrying on the pub
lie service-that in confirming the Russian
treaty, and working in general for the public
interest," there have been ends subseryed of
no little Importance to the American people.
Final Fling from the Free Traders.
WE transfer to the columns of THE EVENING
TELEGRAPH the following timely and excellent
article upon the proposed Republican cam
paign in the South from the Iron Age, and
heartily endorse every word of it,
Our readers are aware that Committee of
Republican members of Congress is at present
in session at Washington making arrange
ments for the political organization of the
States lately in rebellion, and the distribution
among the Southern people of documents de-
signed togive sound and correct information on
the great questions of public policy which are
now Of special interest to them. Among the
documents solicited by this committee for extern
sive cirCulatiOnin this way, were the speech de-
livered by Judge Kelley in the House of Re-
representatives. on the national policy, and the
argument delivered in the Senate by Hon.
Senator Cattell in favor of the Tariff bill of
last session. We printed considerable extracts
from both these speeches in the Iron Age, and
drew attention to them, as exhibiting in a
remarkable degree the characteristics at once
of profound craftsmanship and practical good
sense, admirably suited to the exigencies of
the times, and, rising above class and party
considerations, expounding eloquently and
| lucidly the great principles which lie at the
| foundation OF national greatness and national
| prosperity.
No documents more wisely suited to the
! industrial condition of the South-disorgan-
lied and impoverished as it is-could possibly
! have been issued by the Congressional COM
mittee; nor could they have expended the
funds confded to their care with greater judg-
ment or advantage than in giving them cirou-
! lation; but we find by the EUening Post of
Monday last that their doing so has excited
the wrath of that small section of loyal Anne
ricans represented by the Evenng Post, which
maintains its connection with the Republican
! party, and yet, with utter inconsistency, adVo-
| Gates the doctrines of British free trade.
In the article to which we refer the Post
! delivers itself as follows-
! A friend, radical Republican. has sent us
! two of these documents, which he tells us are
now sent by the Republican Committee at
! Washington broadcast over the Southern States
| as Republican documents, One of them is q
ii favor of protecti1e tSri the other Gs'S is
speech of Philadelphia mei chant, Senator
| Cattell Of New Jersey, also in favor of protec.
tive tariff. This trash, In favor of a measure
which the enormous Republican majority in
the last Congress deliberately, and in spite of
the most strenuous efforts of its friends put
under the table, is now secretly circulated as
Republican sentiment and policy, by the Re-
subscribed by Republicans. A. more outrageous
long time.
The circulation of these speeches by the Re.
publican committee is an assertion that pro-
teCtiVe tariff Is a part of the policy of the Re-
on IS af T6e sGf6 aR
has never been approved or put into platform
by by any national Republican convention. 1t
quarter OF the Republican rank and file.
1t would be difficult, even for the Post to
compress into the same space an equal amount
of Observation-Disclosures and palpable false
hoods, We are constrained to think.
The first and most conspicuous is the state
ment that ''the Protectionist policy has never
been approved or put into platform by any
National Republican Convention" The Pos
knows very well that the Chicago Republican
platform of 1860, on which Abraham Lincoln
was first nominated to the Presidency, con.
tanned the following resolution, written, we
believe, by the pen of the first and greatest o
the advocates of American industry
That, while providing revenue for the support
OF the general Government by duties upon i'm.
ports, sound policy requires such an adjust
ment OF these 1mposts as TO encourage the de-
Velopment of the industrial in interests OF the
whole country; and we commend that policy
OF national exchanges which secures to the
Worklngmen liberal wages, to agriculture re-
munerating prices, to mechanics and manufac
turers an adequate reward for their skill, lbor
and enterprises, and to the nation commercial
prosperity and independence.
! And although the principle of Government
encouragement" to domestic production il
here distinctly declared in way that never
was doubted nor misunderstood, vet the Pos
shamelessly declares that it was never APP
proved by any National Convention
AS false is the allegation that 'the
: last Congress deliberately, and in spite of the
! most strenuous efforts of its friends, 'sput
under the table, the Tariff bill 1t is quite true
! that the tneSSe of few members of the late
l Congress (probably including the "radica
Republican" referred to by the Post as its
intormant), did succeed in battling the grea
majority of that body, and SO delaying the
measure as to necessitate its eventual post
ponement until the next session; but that th,
EUealng Post, with the fact before it's ewes tha
, both Houses of Congress did, by more THAI
two thirds maorities, pass bills, each largely
= increasing the tariff duties upon imports
should gravely assert that it was "put undel
= the table" by an enormous Republican ma
y lonty'' does evidence such capacity for un
% olushlng talsehoOd as, we confess, surprises
n us NO allegation more palpably untru,
"a could be made. 1t is matter of taste will