Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-11-21

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They are all willing. ready and anxious Z,
reduce the tarid on any and every artiel
in which their constituents have no par
ticular or special interest; but none an
willing TO meddle with such article ss th,
people Of their district have On interest in
The member from Pennsylvania is williua
to reduce the tax on any thing except iron
Oh, yea, the tariff IA iniqnitous aud unjust
aud must be thoroughly revised; but from
some reason, Ineligible only to an iron
man, the tax on iron must not be distnrb-
ed. The industry il just now, this repre-.
sentative Of the iron men will tell you, in
such q condition that any tnmperiug with
the present protection given to iron by the
tariff would crush ont that industry and
bankrupt every body engaged in the busi-
nrss. Tho tariff must be revised aud re-.
duced but iron must bear no part Of the
reduction. aud the iron orator and states
mar can give thousand reasons why not,
and 20 on to show on what articles the re-
duction should lsc made and demonstrates
| TO his own satisfactio that iron should be
afforded still further protection In any re.
vision Of the tariff that may be made. lie
will never vote for anything that will take
a dime from the profits Of iron mcknight
never get back to Congress IL he did, 40 he
il for reducing the tariff on every other ar
ticic and incrca .ing il on irun.
The Representative from . Lonisiana
sugar district, good Democrat, 10 lsud in
bis deuunciation Of tho present tariff.
Taxation mnst I've reduced; but sugar must
be protected. 1t will never do to disturb
Ithe protection that article enjoys. The in
au,try would collapse if the least part Of
the tax on sugar were taken of, and this
Representative NJ sngar and sugar growers
can show what articles the tarif should be
reduced on, and why il should be increased
instead Of diminished on sugar. He will
not vote for any reduction Of the tariff
that includes sugar. In this way the work
goes on. The Congressman are all willing
TO reduce the tax on articles which their
constituents are not interested in having
protected, and there comes mp . general
swopping Of votes. The iron man votes
for tariff on sugar, aud the sugar man
does the same for iron, and 80 the work
goes on. Ii il then discovered that no re-
duction ofthe tariff 10 to be made AZ er all,
and 10 some little insignificant article in
which nobody is interested il discovered,
and the tax GU this is reduced, and a great
ado is made about reform and what has
been done for the people.
We do noe favor tariff for protection.
There Ia no industry which we are willing
to see the people taxed to make those en-
gagged in it rich. We favor . tariff for
revenue only. A tariff that will raise
money enough to dcfray the honest and
legitimate expenses Of an economical gov
erpment is all that is just and all tina, the
people arc willing to bear. A tariff Of tbp
kind will Of course give some incidental
protection, and this incidental protection
10 all the protection that we regard rs just
moro Ia robbery. Why il il that sng,r
must be protectedi An acre in cane will,
il we are correctly informed, with lees
work and expense produce about three
times the valne Of the yield Of an acre in
cotton. Cotton Is grown without any pro
lection. Nobody asks for the large num-
Der Of persons engaged in cotton planting
to be protected by tariff on cotton but
sugar must lie protected, We are told, and
even the present protection isuot snfficirnt,
il must bc increased. There is no jnstic-
in protecting sugar. Making sugar wouh
be as profitable as cotton growing without
any protection, and M would many other
things that arc protected by the present
tariif laws. The prrsent tariff mnst he re-
duccd to basis sufficient only to raise
revenue adequate to dcfray the expenses OF
All honest government.
We now have Democratic Congress,
and If 1t does not manifrst disposition
aud Willingness to revise the old war tariff
thoroughly. it will he pushed aside and
patty found which has the courage and
justice to do it. The tariff question will
be made live issne. The country is
awake to the wrongs and outrages of the
present tarin. The country wants relief
and will have it. No more legislation in
the interest of special industries, corpora
tions and monopoles il wanted. The
country does not want any more bids for
popularity in the shape Of Legislation.
The lines must be drawn and the issue met.
Parties must exhibit their principles IL
they have any-h not, give way TO those
that have.