The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-05-05
SERVING THE DEVIL.

And now Senator Blair, of New
Hampshire, wants an extra session
Of Congress, to give home industries
more protection. His zeal arises in
the fact that a company engaged in
the manufacture of woolen net goods
have notified him, that the late de-
cision ofthe Supreme Court of the
United States that the duty on such
goods is 50 cents, instead of 80 cents
as heretofore held, is about to para
lie the woolen net goods manufac-
turies in the United States. 1t cer-
tainly is most serious thing that
consumers are thus relieved some
what of burden by being permit
ted to pay at the rate of 135 instead
of $50, when the price of foreign
goods without duty show that they
ought to get these goods for 100. 1t
is certainly a most serious ques-
ton that the New England
manufacturer gets 135 instead
of $50 cents, when his neigh
Dor, the English manufacturer, is
glad TO get 100 cents for the same
goods of better quality. But Mr..
Blair is Republican senator, be-
longing to party which lives on
the poverty of the poor and the
| wealth of the rich, and therefore the
poor should be made poorer and the
rich richer. These manufacturers
can not make goods at reasonable
prices, and when the Republican
campaign fund agents call around,
without a murmur they turn over
checks for ten, twenty or hundred
thousand dollars to elect Mr.. Cam
eron or Mr.. Blair, and the obligation
is then and there signed, sealed and
delivered, that whatever legislation
the monopolists, desires he must
have. Unfortunately there are some
Pennsylvania and New York Demo-
Gratis and few others placed in the
same position, and so we have
failed and will fail to re-
ceive that reasonable adjust
ment of the tariff question
which the public interest demands.
And yet it can hardly be possible
that the President may be influ-
enced to act upon such demands.
The Republican party is just now
putting itself in more unenviable
light, through disgraceful trades
made in the United States Senate,
than ever before, in the sight of in
telligent people of the North. We
admit that there is an element at
the South ready at any time to
sell most sacred rights for mess of
pottage. at the public board, and
while the Republican stalwarts be-
lieve they will thus secure more
states, in which their calculation is
false, they seem to be unmindful of
the fact that they are losing support
at the North. The Mahone-Riddle-
bargain appeared as very nice
thing on paper in caucus cOnsulta-
ticn, but when that grand old state,
the mother of the greatest men this
country has known, or any other
Southern state, is led off after Conk-
ling and Logan and Blair and
other such tricksters, i'll support of
bargains entered into tor turning
Southern states over 10 them, there
twill be a base degeneracy in the
South unfit for free government and
only fit for making hireliDgs and
servants for the base. But the ques-
ton becomes one of solution at the
North. A very large per centage,a is
shown now of neutrality-suspicious.,
will not follow these men in their
schemes of plumber and rapine, when
they are to be carried out by an en-
dorsement of reputation. They
have been, heretofore blinded, be-
cause these staIwaris have deceived
them, in making them believe they
were working for a principle-oppo-
sition to the old secession clement
when present facts show that they
are ready to ally themselves with
rebel brigadiers, or with the devil to
retain the power of conservatism in
their. own party. The West is dis
satisfied.with the East, and, if dis
tribution of offices among cX-Con-
federates can secure to them the
balance of power they desire TO
maintain, all would be well with the
stalwarts. Their bargain is to
shape legislation in the interest of
monopolies that make Congressman
and emptyinto their pockets wealth.
The nomination of Mr.. Garfield at
Chicago was a rebuke, in their own
party, to these eastern monopoly
agents, and it could hardly be pos
sible that he would be led by them,
when internal dissensions threaten
the power that made him Presi-
dent.
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