New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-05-25
THE TRIBUNE AS a NEUTRAL,

, When We remember what Horac.
Greeley did for his cause of huma,
freedom, how honest and how earnes
was his advocacy of the Kansas resistanc,
to the invasion of slavery, how valiant
was bis exhortation that the federal army
should "on to Richmond, we find that
death premature in the execution of biz
principles cut him off from the respon
sibilities of his policy.
The vast change which he advocated
and the bloody chasm which he aided to
open, have followed the period of his
| life and labor.
When we are reminded of the ability
with which Horace Greeley aided Henry
Clay and W. H. Seward, and Carey and
Kelley, in the establishment of the Amer
| lean protective system, we feel that the
period has arrived when the success of
that system should reflect honor upon
those who advocated it.
At this era of responsibility, we find the
journal with which Horace Greeley had
overthrow the institution of slavery and
established protective tariff has passed
into other hands and is conducted under
other counsels. We find the Tribune not
merely neutral on the reconstruction con-
sequences of abolition, but we find it
throwing the heaviest responsibility upon
the Republican administration which has
been called on to carry out the undis.
puted consequences of policy for which
Mr.. Greeley received such honor. The
New York World thus taunts the Tribune:
1t We are not greatly mistaken, the Tri-
bune, within the past eighteen months, for
mally declined to discuss the tariff; and
somewhat whiningly complained that it was
unfair to challenge an independent Jour
nall to such discussion.
It has been thus that Horace Greeley.
who proclaimed his adherence to all his
opinions, and his responsibility for all
their consequences, has been replaced by
a successor who has disclaimed any such
responsibility, and who has even taken
position with that ''sham Democracy,
which it was the life labor of Horace
Greeley to defeat. But the Tribune seems
to have gained little by its neutrality and
submission to the Democracy. After a |
feeble effort which the Tribune made to |
exculpate the American system from the
of having impaired the foreign
demand for exports, the World. jealous of
its intrusion upon Democratic premises
thus pitches into its pretensions:
The Tribune now returns to the defense
Of its medieval protectionst theories and
swindling protectionist monopolies.
So much for Tray in bad company. The
Liberal movement having served its turn,
he Democracy has no further use for the
Tribune. If, indeed, it were conducted by
/ Democratic protectionist it would be all
light, but the very faint of Republicanism
which fingers about the Tribune will ever
md efectually exclude it from the conf
lence Of the Democracy. Rejected by its
reacherous allies, the Tribune will fall
Jack upon the party it has done its worst
o injure. 1t will be found, perhaps, one
hing to build up a journal by life of
onsistent ability, and another to run it
own by campaign of inconsistent in
incerity. To constitute successful neu-
rality requires the power to control either
f the contestants. This the Tribune does
OF possess. Whether, therefore, it shall O
OK the political boots of the World, or c
aeak quietly back to the rear of the ad- .
ancing cohorts Of Republicanism, will !
lake little difference in the results OF the s
ext political campaign. t