New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-06-15
DEMOCRACY.

| doctrine OF democracy that ''taxatlOI
levied on labor and paid by toll must b.
limited to the necessities Of government
economically administered" This means
tariff OF duties for revenue strictly. Il
is Southern Democracy. anti-taritf. W.
have thus the Bee. so intensely Demo
cratic that it has denounced any and all
combinations with Greeley and Warmoth,
since the failure Of these troupes. The
Bee says:
! II the next Congress, which will be
] largely Democratic in the House. and
nearly equal n the Senate. wishes to do
] something tor Louisiana. it should allow
I her at once to relieve herself of the govern
ment OF adventures to which the State can
boldly attribute all her evils, and should
then offer in compensation OF her Losses an
| increase Of the duties upon sugar imported
I into tho United States.
The reader will readily note the incon-
sistency--the absolute antagonism of
! these two organs of an intolerant party.
Upon what is the increased duty to be
levied: Upon labor. By what is it to
be paid: By toll. The consumers Of
the sugar throughout the United States
are the laborers Of the farm and toilers in
the workshop and mine. The lumber.
man Of Maine. as he warns his frozen
feet before his camp fire, solaces himself
with cup Of coffee or Of rum. taxed on
the sugar OF the one or the molasses OF
the other. i he no laborer: The poor
sewing woman in her garnet. as she. in
the late watches Of the night. renews her
weakened energies with the stimulant OF a
cup OF tea. Is she no toiler: Then the
inexorable rule that policy shalt not be sub
stilu,ed for principle is SO far relaxed that
one Democratic journal may be anti-tariff
and another Democratic journal address,
ing the same constituency though under
the disguise Of dead language may de.
mand protection simple. per- Sc. and a
tax upon the ninety-nine people who
consume sugar for the benefit of the one
who produces it. We have long been
aware and have so advised our readers
that this an:agonism Of principle existed
between the free trade Democrats of Ala
bama and the protective tariff Democrats
Of Connecticut. It is now apparent that
there is somewhere power of dissolution
under which. if man be true to the name
of Democracy he can enjoy plenary in
diligence to maintain any doctrines which
may be agreeable to his Lax orthodoxy,
and most profitable to the propagandism
Of the faith. and the gain of the Demo-
cratic treasury. Democracy is then sim.
ply-hypocrisy.
We could nevet expect. Of course. jour-
nails alien in sentiment toward our form
Of government to comprehend the prin.
ciples Of constitutional rule. Emperors
are sometimes very amiable persons, and
the crown falls upon benev.
client temples. 4 measure of policy. there.
fore. very useful in France, under all i'm
perial decree might be an illegal act. and !
therefore impossible in the United States.
II We liken the sugar planters. who num-
Der some twelve or fifteen hundred. to the |
members of suppressed aristocracy of !
the Bourbons or Nnpoleons, we can very |
well see how it might be. under restora.
ton, generous and graceful act to levy |
a tax of q cent a pound upon all sugars
imported from foreign countries. II the
duty should be added to the market price !
it would amount upon an average crop to
\ bounty Of about one million two hun.
bred thousand dollars. We admit also it
might possibly benefit the colored labor.
ers who made the sugar, though it by no
means follows that there would be an in.
crease OF wages corresponding to the in
crease Of market price. Yet our Gallican
ariffite does not seem to comprehend the
difficulties which beset this bounty to the
planters. The Democracy will have
majority in the House Of Representatives.
IS it. then. tariff Democratic majority:
Then the tariff Democrat must denounce
he departure from principle. II there
'e an anti-tariff Democratic majority.
hen it would be impossible to carry
his bounty on sugar. There is. we are
old. almost an equal number Of
Democratic members in the Senate. As
We believe they have not ye, decided to
onstitute Senate In France, the i'm.
'ortance Of that body to the enactment Of
law can not well be estimated by any
those ideas OF perfection are drawn from
be political system Of France. We will
therefore, mention that an American
enate can neither be controlled by the
louise Of Representatives. nor b.: the
We will also obsery. tina:
lere is 4 Republican majority in the
'nited State, Senate. 1t is essential. under
ur form Of government that bill! shall
eceive the signature Of the President to
ecomes law. The President OF the
nited States is a Republican.
The same difficulty. however. occurs in
le Senate rs in the lower House. Are all
le Democratic Senators in favor .: y
protective SYSTEM: Then the antagon-
m of our !oca! Democracy is made still
ore apparent. I: the Democratic Sena-
RS are anti-;a-i.. how can ths sugar
Dunty scheme expect success: Then this
emocratic scheme of Il general tax for a
'eciai protection could only pas, by a
,mbination between Republicans who
's'ain the principle o; protection. ard
who deny th., principle. and
/ we Sc. al. combinations denounced.
There will be a farther difficulty. While.