New-York tribune., 1870-11-17
1.-THE REVENUE REFORNERS.v

ain the game that ensued," AYERS Truthful
James of the rencontre between the heather
Chinee and the White blackleg who had claimed
monopoly of cheating, l did not take hand"
We maintain like independent position with
regard to the controversy now raging among
the "Revenue Reformers" as to the cxpediency
of boiling the Republican party now or hang
ing on and trying to bully it little longer.
We think, however, that those who urge an
immediate bolt make the less contemplate
figure. They know perfectly that the Republi-
can party is not and will not be FreeTrade
party, and that they all alike mean to defeat it
in 1872 if they can. They Will not deceive any
one by pretending to remain, while their jour-
nails improve every opportunity to disparage
the President and excite against him preju-
dice that will render his reelection impossible
The country knows what to expect from this
cabal, and has but languid curiosity as to
the time and manner of their setting about it,
1t is annoying, certainly, to see extracts from
The Evening Post or The Chicago Tribune
paraded through the Democratic journals as
the views of ga Republican journal" and even
ga leading Republican journal; !" but the bear
ing of those journals is by this time so well
understood that little actual harm is done.
They are following in the wake of The 81.
Louis Democrat, which has already reached the
point of assailing Gen. Grant more frequently
and bitterly than its consistently COpperhead
neighbor, The st. Louis Republican, The others
are little behind, that is all.
The Republican party cannot be saved from
defeat by turning its back on ITSELF 1t
might as well apologize for and profess to
regret it's resistance to Secession as for the
Economic policy which enabled it to make that
resistance effectual. When that policy goes
down, the party that revived it viii share its
| fate.
But let the Republicans frankly, promptly
say, "Yes, we did restore and maintain Pro-
"tection to Home Industry: we ere proud
"of it, and will stand or fall with
the work of our hands," and they will
rally to their standard thousands who have
hitherto opposed them. When this City was
divided on the Tariff question, James X. Polk
carried it over Henry Clay by some 5000 ma
jOrity now, on different issue, it is against
us by $4,000. Half the Iron produced in Penn
sylvania comes from districts which are strong
ly Democratic, not believing that Democracy
is hostile to Protection. Delaware, Maryland,
duu w tot NHBuild, haNc JuoV Soh0 3SdihcV NO
on other issues we can contest each of them
with spirit and hope if the Tariff be the main
question. Minnesota will speak with no equiv
ocal voice in the next Congress while Mr..
Binghams increased majority and Gen.
Schenck's triumph, if the votes of the manned
soldiers are counted, expose the errors of the
assertion that the Alleghenies divide the Re-
publicans on the Tariff issue. Let the party
which saved the Union abide by its record,
| and it can win two working men to its stand
ard for every shipper or trafficker that the
Revenue Reformers" can carry off from it.
Every Republican journal OF speaker who
decries Protection is recognized by the Demo-
Gratis as making votes for their next Presiden-
tial ticket. Every emissary of the Free Trade
League is just as venOmOus against the Presi-
dent and the Republicans as he can venture to
be without displaying too boldly the cloven
foot of the great original Secessonist and
Democrat. He who does not see whereto all
this tends must have eyes to little purpose.
AS yet, the Republicans have slept while the
enemy sowed tares. The Free-Traders have
mandatory of tracts and staff o. canvassers,
to which clear field has most unwisey been
accorded. We ought long since to have Or
ganized to counteract these agencies; but
everybody's business is nobody's, and they
have been allowed to poison the public mind
unressted. If we mean to live and not die, it
is high time that we aroused and prepared to
give the masses reasons for the faith that is in
us. A year hence, it may be entirely too late.