Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-10-05
THE TARIFF INFAMY.


manner:
Among It's other resolves, striking al
ami subsidies, the Peoples
independent Party Convention present
cd one against the present highly protec-
tive and unjustly discriminating tariff, +.
.'as the result Of dishonest and corrupt
system of bargaining in Cougress.'
There can be no doubt Of this. The his
tory Of the tariff for the last twenty years
proves IT. When Clay explained his
American system" he and his party
made no pretense that protection was to .
lie a pertinent policy Of the Government.
All they desired was protection for the
DEVELOPMENT Of home Industries, then
over forty wears agO-WeaE eLpetm -nts.
Bu, the result has shown that The strong
er the protected have become. the .
greedier they have grown. Worse .
than all, it j. demonstrated that Just .
about in proportion to their strength has
been their corruption in Congress and .
their arrogance and oppression. The
iron men and the coal men Of Peuu-y.-
yania, the salt monopoly Of New York,
the cotton monopolies Of New England,
altogether, combined with the railway
corporations, Tepressu. q power within
the Government greater than the Govern
nent itself And we do not believe 1t
would be difficult to show that they have
uaii to their allies in CgLcsess more
wages than the Treasury Of the United
States has in the sane time pzIi - Cd
the Senator's and =pIesentatlves- ILsF
could well afford it, 10. tn Sums voted
to them in tie shape q VEaJll1--s CT
their WORK have for many yea-s uEsl
hardly less than four hundred million
dollars Per year. Often more thsu
This. 81 first tn Trytert!gllsts PIE
tended tina; their tariff vas IL
tended for revenue principally and in
protection incidentally. Il.s .s.seLCod
was 50 transparent that the eyes Of all
soon penetrated II, TITS not difficult TO
sse that when q tariff puts bat $500, OO0,-
90 into the treasury aud S4tJ, gD,uJy
into the pockets Of OEergr9vD mouoPO-
lies, il is tariff not for revenue bat to
make the rich richer at the expense Of
the millions Of common people and poor.
OF late days, fortified by their railway
allies who want Subsidy, the protection
lists have thrown of the mask, aud now
audaciously demand their hundreds Of
millions from the consumers Of the coun-
try as a right and upon high principles
Of public policy. II is a policy rulnCls
TO the people and beneficial only to an
arrogant and insolent nristocracy that
rules by sharing very small portion Of
its premiums with the creatures 1t en-
ploys in Congress to make the laws it
dictates.
1t is really gratifyiu2to old line Demo.
crsts-those who sympathized with or
aided the South in her struggle against
the tariff swindle--to find the Union, for
over twenty years the advocate Of both
Wing and Republican principles, come
plainly over to the Democratic side on
the tariff question. The Democrats al
ways charged that this thing called pro
lection to American industry was lie
a snare and a cheat, and it is really ;
high Endorsement of Democratic fore
sight to find the Sacramento Union, ad
hitting that "the stronger the protected
have become, the greedier they hav
grown, and that just about in proper
ruption in Congress aud their arrogance
and oppression. Never was the Unioi
more correct than in saying that protec
ton is "a policy ruinous to the people
and beneficial only to an arrogant an
insolent aristocracy that rules by sharin
very small portion Of its premium
with the creatures it employs in Congrrs
to make the laws it dictates.
TELEGRAPH DELINQUENCY AGAIN
The Eureka Sentinel gives our view
on the remissness Of the Western Unio
Telegraph Company a hearty Indoors
ment. In its issue of Friday the Sent
mel says
Az the readers of the Sentinel are We
aware, we have growled almost incessan
~ for the last year at the Western CniG
Telegraph Company for the very shabt
manner in which we have been treate
with reference to news dispatches. "
felt that we were alone in the matte
but fortunately the Phoebe RECORD com,
10 the rescue. The annexed article
that journal OF recent date is time
and to the point.
Here follows our article OF Wcdnesd.
last, after which the Sentinel conti
ues:
The Sentinel and Record receive wol
for word the same report. The price e
acted is onerous and must be prompt
met at the expiration Of each mOntl
Our part of the contract has always bee
fulfilled to the letter. How well the TIE
egraph Company have discharged the
obligations, is succiuctly set forth in ii
above article from the Record; the +
ports being identical; the Sentinel, {
course, has the very same grounds {
complaint. We have tried hard to hay
these things corrected; have written lie
ter after letter, but to no purpose. "
sometimes succeed in getting fair prom
Uses for amends, but oftener we are falls
ly told by the managers that they a
transmitting to us regularly each day q
Of the most important occurrences til
come into their possession.
The Postal Telegraph is the only hoI
Of the interior press. The Union, Br
.etin and Call, composing the Associate
Press on this coast have monopoly
the news dispatches, and their confer
poraries must either be content wi
such garbled trash as the telegraph
company sees proper to dole out to thei
or do without telegraph reports altoget
err. The consistency OF the journf
mentioned is hardly apparent. Tn
claim to be the staunchest opponents
monopoly, yet do not hesitate to mail
tain corner on the news OF the cou
try. Such effrontery, we undertake
say, is without parallel in the who
history Of journalism. 1t is nothi
more nor less than downright disho
esty.
Through the efforts of the writer he
of, the Legislature of Nevada at its Il
session adopted a resolution, memoria
zing Congress to pass the Postal TIE
graph law. II the newly elected Legis
ture of California is honestly opposed
monopoly, as is claimed, it will pursue
similar course. The Western Uni
Telegraph Company is as much N
nopoly, and as unreasonable in its {
manda tba ra,kra1 paoiHa Railro