New-York tribune., 1878-05-11

ful moment %, single swaying twig Of the tariff,
and then bithely carols out his heavenly song that
the war tariff is the cause of woe, and that the
pallor Of our politicians before the lron-masteTs OF
! Pennsylvania is the cause of the tariff!
! If Mr. James Freeman Clarke would but descehh
an instant to the gruesome earth and examine an
official table giving the price of No. l piC-iron in
/ the Philadelphia market for every year OF the
/ century, and for every month of every
wear from 1892 to 1s7s-not half so
! soDorouS service as standing in Boston
synagogue and denOuncing Pennsylvania sins, yet
not without certain mean, mOusng advantages-he
would find that never since the American Union
WAS formed, under High Tariff. Low Tariff. Pro-
| tective Tariff Compromise Tariff or Free Trade
/ Tariff under tariff fashioned by Henry Clay or
/ formulated by Robert J. Walker was pig-iron 50
cbeap TO the American consumer as il is in this very
/ year of grace under this very War Tariff which he
has taken occasion to single ont for denunciation
from the sacred desk. Rise in that desk tomorrow
morning, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke. IN ashes
and sackcloh and say to your people that you have
sinned a great sn and that pg-ron Is selling IN the
PHILADELPHIA market at eighteen dollars a ton for
first quality. and as low fifteen dollars ton Tor
the inferior grades. Ii is sad mndrnnce TO the
correct couduct of life that when Sir Oracle opes his
month in the pulpit no dog in the pews can bark
without throwing organized society into confusion
II is sfrlInblng-bOck in the way of National pro-
gress that the clergy has been permitted to take out
q perpetual charter offmmunity from contradiction.
and may preach any amount Of sacred or secular
untruth from the pulpit without the smallest risk OF
being taken to task for it, The first impression re-
garding a man who should speak out in meeting
would be that be was lunatic and II is generally
the true onc cierCyman'S evil utteranccs have
consequently full course to run and be Clorifed.
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Trade OF any Legislative Assembly, or any tarih
caucus, he would have been instantly bfou.At 10
book. challenged. ridicuJed riddlcd disgraced But
behind the barrcade Of the pulpit he can forge and
illuminate his pigron thunderbOIts and not run tine
risk Of so much as powdeT-fZzic by way Of Tepn-
sails
VIII Mr. Clarke he 50 good as to drop down mo-
ment from his glttering and sounding gcneraIilcs,
and vOUchsafe 10 tell us who are these politicians
that are not bold enough to oppose the WISHES OF
the iron-naters of Pennsylvania i il the Sena-
tors and Representatives from Pennsylvania who
aaye not the courage to antaConize the industries
aud IN cres,s Of their own state! Docs Nh. Clarke,
speaking ilom q Boston pulpit, mean to convey the
idea that Massachusetts has been injured by this
war tarlf and injured by the votes from - Pcnnsy-
vana and elsewhere" " forcing this tauf upon her
If Mr. Clarke were instructed and intelligent on
tIority upon IT. as a minister should doubly and
tTebly be who goes ont of his way to rebuke ana
rccilc those whose study and business aud proics-
SION it is Ire would know that for fifty years there
has not been a tariff levied for the protection and
development of the iron interests IN "Penn-
sylyauia and elsewhere" that did not receive
the vote of every Senator and ReprcscntaiiN"
from Massachusetts, Daniel Webster. Rufus
CL9ato, Honest John Davis, John Quincy Adams,
Mr. Winthrop, Charles Sumner, Henry Wilson, Nr.
Hoar ST., and both his able and accomplished If
somewhat crotchcty sons. Mr.. Boutwell,, Nr. Dawes
MT. Hooper, Governor Rice, and the entire long ls
have voted steadily, strongly and uniformly for
protective tariff including the war tariff when It
came; and something's for tariffs Tuch higher in
deed in the rate Of duty than this war tariff which
the courageous Mr. Clarke attacks with his sword of
the spirit Granting that these men, one aud al.
are aTrant towards, what had they to fear from
Pennsylvania What harm can the iron-ma-teIs do
to Senator Dawes or Governor RICE, that they
should not dare to say their souls are their owna
'What have they to gain by moments sin,
To weigh in the scale with their innocent ycarsl"
should think that the whir Of the ll.whees Of
Pttsfcld under his windows would be louder than
the roaring o all the forges Of Pennsylvania in the
ears of Senator Dawes
If Mr. Clarke had been willing to patronize the
n
papers he might have learned to correct the optical
illusion arising from the respective localities Of
notes and beams. IT is amazing, it gives us new
revelation of clerical possibilities, to see how the
/ great beams of the protected cotton mills aud
/ woolen mills at Lowell and Lawrence and FAN
River and the protected carpet factories at Clinton
! and Lowell aud Worcester and the numbcrlr,s
other py3cctcd handicrafts in all the valleys and
/ by All the watcrcourses of Observation-Disclosures
/ crafts which have made that lovely. beloved, but
! exasperang old State, 50 rich and prosperous and
powerful that she shed her reformcrs like water
! from n ducks back and sail along stcadfast and
| stately under a shOwer-bath Of self-conccit and
wrong-headedness that would sink forty fathoms
deep weaker commonwealth-it is amazing to see
how those enormous beams elude Mr.. Clar;c''
vision. while the mote of pg-ron in the fratcrnal
eve of Pennsylvania elcits such disaPproval and
disgust that he must stretch forth his pnesty hand
! across three States TO pluck il out.
! have before me copy or compilation OF the eI-
isting tariff laws passed from time TO time, with
| thcIr various notifications and changes for more
| than half century. 1t is not thrilling narrative.
Mr.. Clarke could lay 1t down at any place without
! counting the minutes before lie should be able to
take it up again. will not say that even myself,
left to my own unassisted reason, should not haye
| surrcptitionsly skipped a page or two here and
! there. But with the ald OF TWO experts IN the
tariff citizens respectively Of the two largest manu-
featuring States Of the Union, have gone through
the whole line by line and find that Of the entire
law, four lines ont of eUay fire contain some form
q protection in favor of some industry followed in
Massachusetts, and that ont of all provisions Of law
containing especial determinations intended to
protect American industry fire lines out Of
ererg sic contain something of interest and
value to Massachusetts,. In short, Massa-
chusetts has built up her wealth and
hcr nnlyer ont OF manufacturing industrics that