The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-08-24
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/ crisp article, directs attention to fact
whose Significance ought to excite inter.
est everywhere in Texas AS well as III
| Illinois or Virginia. his is the fact
thu; the interested adyocates OF - high
/ tariff nppe IA 'urce'Ht every session Of
1 the commission which congress institu'
ted TO investigate the tarifl question.
Aud when those high tarin men have
set forth all their Arguments
Ia favor OF continuing nigh du.
tics ou almost every article Of necessity
that is manufactured III or imported
this country, tue! invariably invite the
commissioners somewhere TO see some
mauufhctory ~ operation, the invitation
is accepted. ,hr vine flows, the com
m!ssiuuers take notes. and the protective
men are happy In the background are
the masses OF the people who demand
tariff revision --stlent and dirconteuteI
Not yet, according to the Herald hHs
any advocate NJ free trade pr materially
reduced tarln, appeared before the com
mission. 1t B., only the prote"tiouists
who deem 1t worth their WIN t. TO put 30
al Appearance and they hive 1t all
their own way 1t is difficult to account
for this apathy aud indifference on the
part oi the FREQ trade or low tariff men
1t Is not respectable explanation
to say that the commission Is "stockcd"
tribunal, made mp IL the protective IN.
tcrest, Tor such is not the case. Among
its members Rrv men who favor hish
nud low tariff, men who are Routherners
eastern, northern aud western men. men
who are democrats and republicans
C0ucedluX,tor Arguments sake, the gen.
erHl bias # the commission 10 be toward
protection and the concession does not
warrant low tnnT men in declining to
state their side Of the question, any
more than Il lawyer having doubts as to
his ability to influence an entire jury
would be warranted in abandoning
ellen r cause without su much as ap.
ponrinR IN court The commission il
toll that the people Of the United States
domand revised turi1, with
lower duties IN view, and yet no advo-
cate, on Of millions Of people, Of
such tariff appears before the com
mission Why should not states and
communities move IN this natter Why,
for example, should not delegation Of
representative Texans. penking Tor the
| agricultural, industrial and commercial
needs OF Texas, ~ to Long Branch or
| New York and tell those commissioners
whn, the people of Texas want aud why
they want il z IL the mutter is as i'm
portaut, nH vital ns political platforms
md politicians allcRu, there should not
be lnching competent, earncst men 10
perform the duty First-clnas mea can
always be found, every two or four
ycRrs, 10 attend etnte or Il national po-
liticnl convention aud puy their own ex.
pcnEes at TINT. Scores Of cstimnbu
gentlemen Hre supplied every year with
money Tor railroad FIRE and
hotel bills TO represent Tex
IN religious interests IA somo
religious body or bodies III distant
states, And yet here Ia IA matter which,
1t is claimed, affects the welfare Of every
household in the land and hardly man
to raisc his voice ON Que side Of the
question. The people should know that
the next congress wili be very likely to
shape tHrlh Legislation in accordance
with the views puDm,ttel by tins tariff
| com miHeion, winch appours to be studi
ously ignored by everybody but the high
tariff men. II Texas is REALLY ns much
OPT uscd TO the existing system aH somc
people sny she IL, she might well afford
to send u delegation Of her purcst and
ahlest mon u talk to the commits
siouers. Evory citi2,u who feels that
the present tnritl wrongs him should hc
proud to share the expense Of cquipping
and maintaining such delegation. Ton
cents, contributed by each OF the l75,Oo0
drmocrHtsln Toxns, would provide fund
Of 81, 800 to equip such delegation
supplying It with rcsuurcrg ia the way
II facts, iigur"s aud duta to make II
highly respectable and turcihle prrecu-
tution of the low tnrin side uf tho lucs,
ton. II the matter possesses any i'm.
portuuro at all 1t mcutp nj least thip
merely nominal effort
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