The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-12
THE OHIO CONTEST AND THE TARIFF
QUESTION.

QUESTION.
Tho Ohio democracy have very prudeptly
determined upon tho still hunt policy in their
gubernatorisl contest this summer. Their
platform ia scarcely one TO go before the
country with OF to stand much dissection ana
ventilation in the view Of the leading minds
of that state or the country. The gliuering
generalites that twinkle all through it are
not yet bright enough to keep from being
seen one of the ugliest features, and that is
the advocacy of high tariff principle.
Mr.. Bookwslter, tho candidate for governor,
ia very wealthy man of only middle age, at
present, having grown TO DO this from very
poor boy, ALL through the fundamentally of a
practice of the general government
that builds up few favor
cd Zones at the expense of the many.
Mr. Foster, the republican nominee, ia not
the popular man nor the very rich man that
his opponent is said to be-. and Il may bs
that the latter will defeat him in the race,
but IL is to be regretted that there could not
hsve beon fair, square Issue made on a
democratic principle, Cor the great subject
of the tariff in bound to figure
in the future in important.e elections. The
great interests of ihe country demand that
some definite, settled policy shall DO pursued
The iron, the wool, the cotton, the lumber,
the shipping-thesa are Of the great in
dustries thst require honest treatment beS
cause SO much ofcapitsl, skill and labor are
involved. They affect our cotton growers,
our sheep rNisers, our mining people, our
lumbermen who attend TO producing the
raw material. They then affect tho manu-.
featuring industries and the vast army
of all the worked up products
We are yet without the returns of the last
census, but by reference to that of 1870, it
appears that the iron production footed up
to the enormous amount Of over $500 000,-
600. In the matter of wooden goods we
produced, exceeding in value, Sl50,000,0e0
Our production of cotton yields over $780,.
100000. These arc of those materials that the
people at large pay a tax on in some shape.
Now lei us take one or two instances to illus,
trate this. Under the present tariff ono pur-
chases a blanket and pays $4.00 for it, when
under different laws nc need pay for it bu.
$275; he pays S2 90 for hat, when il.
ought 10 cost him but Sl,25; no is charged
eight cents for q spool of cotton,
when he ought to ba allowed
to get it for cents. Now this is simply be-
cause there, exists an import duty on blankets
of 100 per centum; of so per centum on
WOODEN hats; of &c per centum on thread
These are articles in very common use and
the pooreatin the land must have them. Now
how many blankets were produced and sold
in this country we have forgotten, but of
hats and caps, the production is something
over $25, 100000 annually. Now here are
$40 1000. 900 taken out ofthe peoples pockets
to support the hat and cap manufactures.
AS it is with this .sp cislly, SO il is through
out all tho whole list Of .dutsble objects
This is the internal lotus flower
whose subtle poison has for years, under re,
publican rule, been disseminating into the
great masses of the people, the tyranuous
evil that has made the rich richer and tho
poor poorer, some of them oven unto pau
perism. 1t has intoxicated the people rs
with strong, bad liquor, and made their
minds fuddlcd as TO the real nature of this
blight called protection, and there will never
be any relief until il shall have been swept
from our statute books. A tariff for
revenue only is what this country needs, and
the only one consistent with sound demo-
cratic principles. aud an honest,
impartial government II was by
trying in the last canvass to
pander 10 the protection elemen! to catch
its votes that the democratic party lost
ground ond won disgrace. People are no.
to DO hoodwinked in any such way, and we
say that 1t is TO DO regretted that platform
in Ohio could not have been more sincere
AID outspoken than to have talked about "a
tariff for revenue with Wow to protection"
whatever that may mean. By whose plastic
hand ard ingenious and adroit mind that
fearful ugly phrase like the hump on the
camel's back, WAS conceived and placed
there, We know not, but il comes not of
democratic psrentsge and is mi.chicvous
hermaphrodite and should not be tolerated
by even an "0hic man" Let nothing bo hid
by such Mokams-like veil, but lot lis
try issuesi in fair and manly way. It is the
best In the long run 10 win on,
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