Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-12-01
THE FARMERS HAVE COMMENCED

20 understand this, and they are consequently
commencing to assert their rights as the ma
jorty. They know that iron enters into the
composition OF every implement on their farms,
that they pay tribute to Pennsylvania whenever
they buy a hoe, and that they cannot cut down
lies TO build higher and higher the walls which
keep them away from cheap markets. They
pay from
FIvR TO SEWN DOLLARS DAY
for harvest hands, when wheat is only seventy
five cents bushel, and they trace this cond!-
ton of affairs to the ABSORPTION of labor by
manufacturers. They commence to see that
when they pay direct tax
AVERY DOLLAR GJES INTO THE TREASURY;
but that the tariff, or rather b. IN tariff, takes
ten dollars from them tor every one that Cess
into Uncle Sans vaults. It is nonsense to say
that the manufacturers are valuable TO tha
farmers as consumers. They form but small
portion OF that class. Why, one or two count .es
in Minnesota alone can raise enough whe t in
one ye ar to supply every cotton operative in the
United States wICh bread for an equal length OF
time and then probably have some to spare No
Fir, the Biddle-men OF commerce, the people OF
the trades. carpenters. &c, are the consumers,
and 0utnumber the manufacturers almost a
much as the agriculturists do. They are equally
interested with the agriculturists in CHEAP
prices, so that you may count the whole conn
try except in localities where manufacturing
Influences predominant, as joined with the
farmers"
''Plesse explain, ;" said we, chow only
ONE DOLLAR OUT OF TIN
collected by tariff from the farmer goes into the
Treasury"
"Ob, that's simple enough" he answered.
"lts just this way, suppose you buy ni-e t.
Giles of home manufacture, and one of foreign.
and that Is the ratio OF iron manufactures [ be-
leYe, you pay for the home made article Just
ire same tnat you pay for the fore.g one but
the latf ,r, coming through the Custom HoU.~
pays duty which goes into the Treasury. while
you pay the duty on the former TO the manufae-
ture-."
THAT'S very plain, sir" we ssid;" but you
seem 10 be drifting towards
SUNSET Cox's FREE TRADE DoCTRIgRs,o
" Free trade" he replied, is an experiment
which 10 man of sense would venture. Per
haps Sam. Cox is nearer free trade man in the
literal sense of the term than any other man In
the country; but il he was called upon 10 draw
up tariff bill for the democratic party, a bill
Oh which that party was TO live or die lie
wouldn't dare TO make it purely tree trade
No; there Is n wide difference between free
trade and high tariff, and in that difference Won
will find the happy medium OF revenue tariff
lou will remember that have voted with ALI
son all the way through on his propositions Tor
purely reyerue tariff and could lay We carried
my district on it, because the people know and
encorse my views IN that respect"
4" We certainly must have revenue from some
source" we suggested.
Yes" he continued, ave must keep the
public credit inyiOlable; must pay Our army and
bavy pensions. and OF course we must raise
money TO do il with. The revenue tarIf j..
probably the most feasible, if it is not the most
acceptable, alter all. As was saying,
yHE DEMOCRATS DARE NOT
accept free trade a finalty. Iremem5er that
once, during tariff discussion, Jim Brooks de-
nOunced the tariff in very comprehensive terms:
but he afterwards admitted that duty of TIM
ty-three and third per cent. was no more than
right. Now, my idea is that thirty-tve per
cent. Is sufficient protection for our home man
fractures, and that il is also enough Tor revenue
Let us keep UP the tax on whisky aud tobacco
in addition, and We will get alorg ali right.
" What, We asked, - will be the influence o!
thu revenue reform business on
TIRE MKT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION"
Grant he replied, ''has the affection OF the
people. They have confidence in him, and he
viii be strong n III under any circumstances.
but rs revenue TeIoTmer he would be inynci-
bic. He has mPde GOOD record thus far has
reduced TIE debt, and has firmly retained the
.Cod Will OF the masses"
HOW ABOUT SECRETARY Coxon
we asked.
"Cox is a weak man p he answered. '.Grant e
the strongest, and outside OF Ohio that little
furry i'll the Interior Department. didn't Al
n; CT much attention. Ii wouldn't affect to
votes in my STATE, one way or the other. TIE
administration gained rather than lost by that
affair. because, as told YOU, the people believe
IN General Grant, and they think that lie did
right in getting Cox out"
SHOW ABOUT sCHURz,'
was our next inquiry. els he disorganizer 49,
"Well, he has that reputation was the
reply, " and perhaps he deserves il. remem
Der riding whole day with him in a buggy.
when we were stumping my State together in
1SJ6. We spent a good portion OF the time in
discussing the debate between Webster and
HayDe. He astonished me then by his evident
inclination towards the States rights doctrine.
OF Calhoun. have since learned that many of
these red republicans are given to license
which they mistake for liberty. Their idea OF
independence Is different from ours, and does
not embrace that respect for the ancient aa-
tEoTlty OF common law that ouls does
" Nevertheless the Gle. mans of the Nortbwes:
are generally republicans" we suggested.
Certainly they are, he continued, land i'm
ADDITION TO them we have another foreign ele-
ment III the republican party OF the Northwest,
THE NoEwKGIANs,
who habilitate themselves more readily AZ cit
zens than even the &c. mans. They are reve-
nue. reform republicans too, or would be If the
party would nominate men in whom they have
confidence. They are frugal, honest. steady
going people, who pay their taxes promptly; but
wfo "ould very naturally prefer to pay as little
as posi- BILE.
- Did the democrats capture any OF them in
tie late election" we asked.
"The late election" he replied, "was 10 a
great extent, question of preference between
men, rather than question Of principles, for
tie two platforms were Identical. There was
rot single point of material difference be-
tween them: One was democratic and the
her republican revenue REFORM"
Ard with this the interview ended.
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