Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-09-21
Nauseated BY Their own Principles.

I
The following comments BY prominent
ieadersand journalists Of the Republican
party shows the estimate on which the
issues Of that party are held:
No private soldier need apply in the
Republican party. did desire TO ser-e
the private soldiers in Congress. Money
dominates our party to-day. The rich
rule with an iron hand, and poor men
are nothing at all A poor man has no
chance at all, and no vested right left
but to vote freely and independently il
he will-Prirdte D1lseH..
The out cry OF liquor dealers rebellion
and desecrated Sabbath is futile. The
influence Of the unnecessary and untime-
ly agitation will not be toward sobriety
and sanctity. 5The Bible
in one hand and Bottle in the other. to
set an example of holiness on the Sabbath
day. Leaders of the Re-
publican party have been false TO their
promises and principles, and we shall not
be responsible for the consequences. We
shall tell them the truth il it destroys
their digestion.-Cin. Com.
| II Keifer. Robeson apd Hubbell are
the Republican leaders, let us try anoth.
er party.-Boston Herald.
"As it stands, the United States tariff
is indefensible. It is the most complex,
involved and yoluminous system of ex-
terror taxation ever devised. 1t is not for
protection or revenue, but it is an organ
| lied grab. There is not
as much science as there is stealing about
hetariff as it stands, and good deal of
it isvery rough stealing, too. The rings
together bind the country in chain
which is CALLING; and the people are treat
ed like children by the ringsters. and the
dearest twaddle is made to pass for the
very. philosophy of political economy.
| "There are no bounds to the claims
made in behalf of protection. Hardly
nybody is satisfied. Gigantic interests
that were nourished as infants are more
and more urgent for protection. When
will they be strong enough to stand
alone? There is demand for a higher
duty on watches. How long since we
were boasting that we could beat Switz-
| erland in matchmaking? If we can,
what do we want with any duties at all?
Why not open the markets Of the world
for ourselves? Our paper-makers iii the
Miami Valley would be glad to have free
trade all around. They can beat the world
making paper il the absurd duties are
taken from chemicals and the wood
| pulp fraud wiped out.
An awakening is taking place on this
subject. We have coddled ourselves in
artificial conditions until our ships have
vanished from the seas, and we have
thrown the richest trade in the world, or
that was ever between nations-that be-
tween this country Europe-into Eu.
ropean hands exclusively, and tariff theo-
ry is that we shall apply subsidies as a
| remedy, when it is notorious that the
world subsidies is synonymous with
corruption
ave want the tariff simplified and
made scientific, and the way to begin is
toput nine-tenths of all articles now
taxed on the free list. This Nation is
ableto stand alone.-[Cin. Commercial.
THE working man is he that should be
Cor sid red Ia chiefs sain u protective tariff
and that the workman is the consumer
of all the article whose price is raised by
protection. The enormous amount and
the kind of manufactured goods that we
are importing, under tariff several
times higher and vastly more compre-
hensive than the founders of the Ameri
can system ever thought OF, the circum
stance that imports appear to increase
with the increase .of protective duties
the fact that the higher the duty the
greater the apparent need of the manu-
facturers for more, the shrinking of oul
export of manufactures, the extinction
of our shipping, and the general discon
tent of our workmen, signify that there
4 is radical wrong in the adjustment oi
our tariff, and that it needs to be taker
hold Of by higher intelligence than it has
had for the last twenty years. Gin. Ga
sette, Sept. 4th.
! A large number of the federal Office
holders at Washington, according to tht
newspapers in different parts of the
, country, are absent from their desks il
the departments at the capital. The
Commissioner of Pensions is reported t.
be somewhere in the East. The Com
. missioner of Internal Revenue is, it il
| said, in the West, and the announcement
} is made that he intends to speak this fal
in every Senatorial district in Illinois il
behalf Of "the grand old party" This il
, not the work for which the country pay
Mr.. Raum very handsome salary. Hi
, business, is not to make speeches but t.
. collect the revenue, to see that the law
! are not evaded and that no one is plund
+ ering the Treasury. Each and every on
1 of bis clerks has just as good a right t.
go round making speeches as he has.
. is evident that il they all followed hi
r pernicious example it would be easy t,
2 start up the old whiskey ring and t
: cheat the government out of the revenu
which belongs to it. Mr.. Raum's plac
is in Washington, not on the stump il
Illinois. II a clerk should absent himsel
without leave for day he would find hi
pay ''docked." Who has given MI
Raum permission to be away, and is b
/, drawing nay for service which he is nc