The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-12-09
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THE REVENUE REFORM INTRIGUE.

taking possession of the next House of Repre-
sentatIves. Thefe is o small knot of North
western Republicans, conspicuous among
them Mr. Allison, of Iowa, Senators Carpenter
and Trumbull, aud scattering company
from the upper wheat-gro wing countries, who
claim that the agricultural interests of the
West demand greater consideration than 'the
small minority of manufacturers in Penn
sylvania and New England who have hereto
fore controlled the tariff These gentle
men, it is said, now propose to unite with
the Democrats, elect revenue reform
Speaker, and make revenue reform COM
mittees.
The immediate objection to this is, that il
is not political measure, but an intrigue.
The Democrats may contract, but can they
deliver? There are many Democrats who
believe in protection as thoroughly as Mr.
Greeley. Mr.. James Brooks, for instance
can scarcely be trusted on this issue, for the
old leaven of Whigism may begin to work at
any time. Pennsylvania Democrats will have
frail sympathy with any cause that will lose
them votes in the iron and coal DISTRICTS for
your Democratic politician will as soon make
pig iron hobby if he can ride il into power
as a Republican. We do not see how it is pos
sible to divide at present on this issue without
both parties resolving into chaos The sug-
gestion is not based upon principle, but an
expedent. Mr.. Schurz aud Gratz Brown NAV
have abundant and eloquent reasons for
such an alliance. But their elouuence
is that of the fox who having lost
his own tail proposed general shearing of
tails among the community of foxes. How
ever dear revenue reform may be to Allison
and Garfield and Trumbull, dear also is Pre-
sldental patronage-the widely open door of
the mansion, the bright, welcoming fire. ana
gracious President willing to give and re-
ward. All of these comforts Carl Schurz has
lost, and he means over it. Ulysses, ne cries
aloud, will see the Quakers, bat not the Sena-
tor; although according to usage what
ever that may be- a Senator has the prece-
dence of all the Quakers in the land. Mr..
Schurz will fad it an uneasy task to coax the
revenue reformers into his cold seclusion.
the inner chambers barred and no face yisi-
BILE in the White House but the impacable
face of General Dent. These Republican re-
venue reformers like Office, if thev do hate
protected pig-iron, and doat on patronage as
violently as they cherish free wool and un-
taxed copper.
SO we may dismiss this revenue reform in
trigue so far as it affects the organization of
the next House. The advice we give to its
leaders is to tarry in Jericho until their boards
are grown. A cause like what they champion
cannot be won in day, nor should it be
perllled by being dragged into the lobbies of a
political caucus. For, as we have said there
is much in revenue reform-much that is wise
and timely. But it requires drilling, disc-
pine, education of the people, and more ex-
tended system of prosely tism. The Southern
States are ripe for such an issue. Teach Cuf-
fee and Sambo that he is taxed on his sugar
and coffee and tobacco; that he pays the Gov
ernment, as well as his baker and grocer for
every breakfast he eats, while iron-masters
and growers of wool are protected into the
realization of immense fortunes, and there
Will be revolution in the untutored mind
which no Republicans can check The negro
owes the Republicans gratitude slender and
short-lived virtue. Let the Democrats offer
him cheaper breakfast and the work will be
done.
1t is with President Grant to check this
uneasiness in his party-for uneasiness it is.
and bodies him no good. AS the Herald
showed the other day. the power of the Demo- |
cracy was with Tammany; that New York was
now the real Keystone State; that when de- |
feat came upon the raw and wild Democratic |
battalions of the ''red hot" copperhead States
the Democracy of New York, under it's su- |
perb leadership, stood like the Imperial
Guard of the great Napoleon and disdained |
the very idea of defeat or retreat. And |
around the Imperial Guard new army is
forming, with younger and better officers and |
with the inspiration of new tactics in politi |
cal war We pointed to the South for the
opening of the campaign, and behold from
the South we hear the first gun. An Atlanta
paper has taken down the name of Grant and
run up that of Hoffman for President in 1872 |
Ihe 17Ibune informs us that the editor
has just left New York, where he was |
diligently seen by the Tammany leaders and |
intimates that he took with him the most |
substantial and unanswerable reasons for his |
conversion. Whether true or not, it shows |
that Tammany means to hold the South, to |
possess its avenues of opinion and influence |
to make votes in every direction in States |
which are Republican from exceptionalsinflu |
ences and by the frailest tenure We have |
seen Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia,
Virginia, and North Carolina drift back to
the Democracy, mainly, we must admit, |
under the propulsion and influence of Mr.. |
Greeley, and General Grant is sure of none |
of them except South Carolina, and even |
South Carolina by military occupation. |
Tammany means to take and hold them all |
to take them with money. She has beaten |
the administration in New York, the State |
where the administration necessarily he's its |
greatest strength, after fierce, open fight |
beaten it, with its army and navy co nbined. |
Now she goes into other regions, aud already |
there are signs of conquest
With the Northwest uneasy and mutinous
the South slipping from Republican control, |
New York anchored to Democracy, Indiana |
Democratic, Pennsylvania Just held by the |
negro vote, in the North all sorts of mutter- |
ings from good people, who fear that we have
not enough of civil service aud political re-
forms and the promised works of righteous |
ness; with an uncertain and feeble Treasury
policy with Cuba grievances aud Irish long |
iDgs for an English war; with al Cabinet |
whose members, excepting Mr. Fish, are only
so many decimal ciphers on the diminishing |