New-York tribune., 1870-04-27
themselves against the possibility OF anotner
such Legislature as that which has just de-
can1ped with its punder from Albany.
WILL you BE HUNG OR DROWNEDt

WILL you BE HUNG OR DROWNED!
Sidney Smiths amiable valedictory to tho
departing missionary, hoping that he wouia
not disagree with the savage who shouid ea'
him, is not echoed by the rival organs IN our
City of the anti-Tariff interest. Ihey DOM III
sist that the Republican party shall be destroyed
by the Tariff question they only differ as 10
the mode. The World urges that the Republican
Free Traders shall 90 over To the Democratic
marty and thus secure it's early and signal triumph.
Ignoring the Democratic ProtectOnists as OF
no account or servilely welded to their party,
il counsels the Free Trade Republicans that
tbey can only make themselves felt by joining
the Democratic party-saying:
"The fact that FreeTrade ideas are making progress
among men who have heretofore acted with the Repub
can party must not mslead Democrats into the belief
that the Protective system be Oyerthrown by any
other means than the triumph OF the Democratic party.
The FreeTrade discussions will lead sooner or later TO
the disruption OF the Republican party but not 10 an
oberation of the present party lines Democrats must
stand firmly upon their ground and repel all coaii-
tons Tho Free-Trade Republicans will soon perceive
that there is no other way Of carrying this important
reform than by acting with the Democratic party.
Free Trade can never prevail by thrdparty or
no party movement, conducted outside OF the great
political organizations 1t is natural enough that tho
Republican converts should try to carry the reform
in this way and attempt to induce both parties to NOM
mate antTar candidates. but the Protectionis inter
est too powerful and active for this kind OF tactics 10
succeed The Protectonsts far more numerous and
they are even more earnest than the FreeTrade Ke
pubicans. The Republican party can more safey dls-
pense With the support OF the n lts rak
than wifi the support of the Protectonsts IL must
ultimately lose tho other and it will OF course pre-
fer the smaller loss.
% Erea-T -Trad themselves
that the Protective system be overthrown without
strenuous bitter party contest 1t Is question which
admits OF compromise the battle must be fought out
until one side the other is reduced to 40 hopeless
minority preclude all further expectation OF sue
That point be reached only by great party
struggle"
The Evening Post, on the other hand I'M
dertakes to bully the Republicans after this
fashion,
"At the next Congressional elections the people will
vote upon tho question whether laws shall
be made for revenue for punder whether the next
Congress shall in taxation regard the interests OF the
whole people only those Of certain classes II the
Republican party an organization, should go before
the people upon the platform OF the Schenck tar or OF
the tariff in force and against revenue REFORM IL
will lose the control of the Government, and lose 1t
sooner we fear than the nation spare its services
at time for Republicans both In and out OF Con-
gress who are unwilling to give up either tho organza
the party its true principles, to bestr them
selves and avert the necessity OF choosing between the
two, with which the monopOsts threaten them Letthe
attention OF the people everywhere be fairly di-
rected to the real question at issue let 1t be distinctly
understood by the party managers that no man Will DO
sustained by the mass Of for nomination or
an election who will regard their interests IN legsa
ton and the principle OF equality OF rights among ct
zens may yet be carried complete triumph by the
party which first proclaimed It,"
Comments by The Tribune.
These rival manifestocs though specifically
diverse, have essentially the same purpOrt.
The Post has no expectation of bringing the
great body of the Republicans over to its
Free-Trade views; for, if it had, it would not
so grossly, wantOnly insult them. 1t is not 40
maladroit as to stigmatize as mOnOpolists
and plunderers those whose convictions differ
from its own, if it were intent on winning
them over to its way of thinking. Not till
hopeless of conversion do disputants resort to
abuse. The Post expects only to carry over
its squad to the party of its early love-that
party whose leaders it never singled out and
assaied when they voted for Protection as it
now assails Republicans who do likewise.
The Post now calls upon itsi adherents to
vote for no candidate for Congress who sus-
tains Protection but it did not, when DEM
ocratic paper, denounce by name Martin Van
Buren,, Silas Wright, Michael Hoffman, Jonas
EaIll, John Magee, and other Democratic Con-
gressmen, who voted for the Tariff of 1928;
nor did it denOunce Silas Wright and other
Democrats who supported the Tariff of 1912.
And why7 Because it wished to strengthen
and uphold the Democratic party, as it now
seeks to weaken and dissolve the Republican.
That explains the Inconsistency.
The World sees fit to say that
"The Democratic party has been, FOR more than forty
years committed to FreeTrade principles During the
whole existence of the Wing party, the Tariff was the
leading issue in our politics." &c.
in the light of the above assertions, will
The World tell its readers how the Tariff of 1923
came to be passed by a Democratic Congress' And
how Van Buren, Benton, Eaton, Il. NJ. Johnson,
Wright, Buchanan, Hoffman, &c, came to vote
for it7 And how Pennsylvania-then and now
overwhelmingly for rProtection-wents so strongly
Democratic in 1923, in 1892, and in 1sA-the
only contests which directly involved the fate
of Protective Tariff In short, will it tell us
how a party COMMITTED to Free-Trade princi-
"plesn managed to swindle the State most in
tensely for Protection into turning the scale in
its favOr2 Let there be light!
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