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A WHECK AT OLD WHIGGERY,
And n Torchllght Applied Under its
WfiKE1tnE Tail.

From The Ienia 10Y 7brchl,ght, june Is.
The most rapid Of all paztisAnship was Old
WhggerE. When the party was alive it was
venomous from head to tail. It struck its
tanes and its sting into everything that ven
tured to oppose it, or even differ with it.
Though, according to the logical course Of hu-
man events, it ought to have been thoroughly
dead about Ecore Of yeara ago. yet its tail
keeps w1iSgling here and there over the coun-
Try still, with the sting in it as deadly spiteful
as ever. .'
This tail end of Old whiggery is found wris-
CLING IN both parties to-day, but mostly in tic
Republican party. Yet, whether it goes by
the maine Of Republican or OF Democrat, let
the magical words pig iron. Bessemer steel,
or protection to homo industry be sounded,
any member Of either party that dares ques-
tion the plenazy inspiration Of what Horace
Greeley Knows about political economy
Political economy is Old Whiggery's hobby.
But. like old Bousbon;s.n,~ 6h whiggeiy
ssts asi ;Dya aaa id its Tsss asgf5 ,e sn
ssele s noafans ., pol political eoonomy @ con- H
sists in = tatir screwed up as high
At the racked and agonizcd body polite can
endure and live. It advocates this torture Of
the country under the nsme OF sprotection to
home manufactures" o., - # eometimes
maintains in effect, that every poor woman in
America ought to pay 3 tAtih-tA1 on her calico
frock IN order to build up houe manufacture
of-for rinstaEe-Senator William Sprague, OF
Rhode Islsnd, who is made worth, in conse-
quence, millions Of dollars. So much, briefly,
Is illustrating Old whiggery'a doctrine Of pro
lection in general
THIS posthnmous Old Whiggery, or dead
alive candal remains Of it aforesaid, fastened
mainly On the Republican pxrty. In tho name
Of that party it controls q dying newspaper
here and there : and the virulenco with which
hi
and hite at al those men who represent the
true interests Of the peop1e-the labotiuE
una*ses-is amusing to Witness
OF the Ohio delegation in Congress, Hon. J.
been conspicuous in the fight against the pig
ironers and the Bessemer stcelers, and
qasnce, ps ; Incurred tue nnaf7eesSlo nesve hs
tired Of all the posthnu,us Old Whis-
gerry there is left in the State. TAe Cincinnati
Chronicle, winch is, IS it Tere, IN Old Wing
coprolite recently dag up, has almost daily
nangs Of laboring to utter this unutterable
hated. Mr. Winans. in particular, is The OBJ
ject Of it's most forribly feeble omptyings OF
wrath. It does not ike Mr. Winans, and it
says 90 with q reiterated muchneas Of state
ment that leaves the public no longer any
| room for doubt. It carps at, censutes, dis-
| tatee to, and threatens him, as If it were the
nouthpiece OF the Repubicaulsm Of the Sow
enth District, and could control nominations
END elections mere.
Nov, We do not believe that Mr. Winans has
been trying to represent the Cincinnat
Chronicle in Congress. Neither has he proha-
t1y been tI.ing to represent the posthumous
Old Nhiggery Of which it is the weak, faint,
dying tail-Wt3ggle- He WAS elected to repre-.
sent the people Of the Seventh District ot
OHIO. Tins be has done with marked efficiency
and ability- He may not have entirely pleased
the two or three dozen high protective taIiEitet
| in the four counties. Perhaps be has moi
given satisfachon to the fifteen or twenty sub
scribcrs OF the Chronicle in the Seventh Dis,
trict. But he hae, without any doub', the un.
qualified approval Of al candid members 81
his party who are intelligent OF the true inter
| eets Of his constituency.
He has opposed the tariff for protection.
There Is no interest in the seventh District
that demands this thrift, 1nd almost every in.
district was never better represented than
when Ninans stood up against those high tar
| if robbers which 60 under the narne Of pro
lection to home industry and denounced the
nonstruus systen- which taxes tho forty mill.
ions Of people OF the nation to protect 8 few
dozen men in 4 gigantic tnonorcl- 81 n.
| manufacture As1d .Ala OF Ralt, OF steel, o.
iron, or Of any other Of the great uecessa1ies
Of general use
But a11. Winana' position in this respec!
has been putposely and Old ;Whiggiahlyi mis-
| represented. Because he pronounced agains
this great swindling scht me of so-called pro
| tection, BY which ono dollar Of the imports
paid by the people goes into the Treasury, AMI
ten dol1ars 80 into the pockets Of SOME huge
monopoly. tho epiIhet OF treetrdder has been
hissed at lin Just a. that of 4oolaionist wa
J rcnt to be u-ed by the came Old Whiggery in
| tincs past. What matters it that he WAS il
| taror Of tariff for repezut-that is, tariff
for bringing the money into the Treasury
| with protection as an incident The man whe
! did moi believe in tariff for orotection-tba
! ir, for bringing the money into priro&e pocs
cts-vith revenue AZ mere incident, must b
persecuted-