Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-03-28

cause OF 70 muCn cOmment
First Of al, then, the democratic
pres must realize that there has been
a deluge. Old things have been swept
away. lie who looks backward shall
share the fate Of Lots wife; he alone
who looks forward shall live, move and
have a being. That the democratic
party has survived the deluge Is Of
good augury. II tells us that its
existence has been prolonged for some
great purpose. IL 10 for the demo
cratic press 10 understand that within
that purpose are bound up no reactions
and no revenges. The democratic
party can not come into power, and il
ought not 10 come into power, as an
avenging deity, still less destroying
angel. II must come in, IL il comes
in at all, as the party Of action, not re.
action; the party Of reform. not re-
dress, the party Of TO BAY, not YES.
rRRDAY, applying its energies to the
adjustment OF the country and itself
TO Che new and extraordinary condi.
tions which modern science, invention
and research have. wrought wherever
the tinkle Of the telephone is heard
and the sparkle Of the electric light is
seen. ' -.'' 80
You will say that these are but
glittering generalities, and hacking IN
specification. Sir, ! will be specific.
| mean "a tatiif for revenue only" /
mean the CELEBRATION Of navigation
laws which have driven our flag from
the high seas. i mean the divorce
ment Of the civil service from party
service. i mean a careful and Just
revision Of our national banking sys-
tem-which conceive the best bank.
ing system We have ever bad, and
which, with certain needful modifca-
iions, essential both 10 it, preservs
ton aud the equities Of taxation, /
would relegate % the place in bust.
ness where il belongs and whittier il
should have been sent long ago. l
mean the reduction of the national
debt 10 a thousand millions, where il
should be funded and made perpetual.
The people are being taxed TOO much
The debt is being paid TOO fast. All
taxes should be leyied with an eye
solely 20 revenue. and no more reve-
nue. should be collected than is re-
quired TO support the government and
carry the debt. ftf NansA hitn iftAt n
The key 10 all these propositions--
the pivot around which they are group
ed and about which they turns to
be found in that simple sentence, "a
TARIFF FOR REVENUE oSLy.Y Z IL is
not my sentence. | neither invented
it nor discovered ii; though | would
no more dream Of compiling a demo-
cratic platform without it than l
would think Of issuing an edition of
the New Testament without Christ's
sermon on the mount. Ii is axiomat.
ic, and taken bodily out of that mag
nifcent enunciation of democratic
principles-on which we won a glori-
GUS national victory-the matchless
platform adopted in st. Louis in 1876.
| would not surrender word OF it,
nor a syllable. II expresses with
precision the exact position of the
party upon the tariff, that when the
government gets its taxes, then and
there the tax shall stop. Whatever
incidental protection" that Affords
we'll, il affords, -and let protectionists
make the most Of it, In truth, they
had better; for protection, like slavery,
is doomed; only, unlike slavery, it
will no longer linger upon the stage
10 battle freemen aud stay the march
OF freedom. 1t cannot become sec.
tionalist, as slavery did. 1t can not
get into religion, as slavery did. Yet
il is as monstrous in every respect as
slavery was. Looking back into that
far-of time. il staggers the mind TO
contemplate how long the institution
of slavery did stand against reason,
common sense, humanity and public
policy. All men now admit that there
was not an argument TO protect il.
The present generation Of men can but
lily comprehend how it survived the
agitations Of single general election.
ID is gone, thank God, and there istheI
end Of il; but lis history is full Of in
struction and warning. II tells Us in
thunder tones to beware of the sophis-
tries, the arrogance and the power of
oligarchism and 10 behold In the job.
berry and robbery of protection New
SLAVERY, rearing its lofty head to-
threaten the people and curse the land.