The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-29
sxxAroR CoKE's TARIFF SPEECH.
,v., A "Kentuckian'' has to Say on the
Great speech Recently Made by the Great
rexas senator.

Texas Seh"i'
oyerawsd by the majesty C)l assembled
.,;.dom the nation, your correspondent
had settled down in chair ii secluded
-.rt of the room, just in earshot distance of
,motley group of senators, representing
N shades of political belief, who were dis
cnssipg in very animated manner the
.,polucal situation
aWhat do you think will be the main
issue of the coming campaign" inquired
salisbury, who had finished his toilet and
NOW Joined the group.
VINE tariff responded every one with
al, dissenting voice. Then there enSued
sSiyointed debate between them on the
tariff interlarded with many undigniiied
sIpletiyes.
'gWhere there is so much smoke there
nust be fire. says an old adage. If that
betrue the tariff certainly will be the is
me Of The coming fall campaign. We have
heard nothing here among the politicians
Srt The tariff 1t is discussed earnestly
amid anil the clink Of glasses 1t is served
nm in huge slices at the, public dinners and
Tpested over the social games Of whist and
mixer. The discussion of this subject (and
,heard i'm all places from the hotel lobby
10 the hall OF the legislation) pervades all
classes f one should desire book from
lbe public library that has any bearing on
Inc science of political economy, he is sure
10 he met with the answer
at out; a congressman has it, who is
reading up the tariff"
The chief of the bureau of statistics COM
psins that his clerks are overworked by
congressmen hunting statistics on the tariff.
II one should peep into the committee
room during the meeting of the house, he
will find these astute statesmen busy,
amid piles of musty books and documents,
comparing speeches on the tariff And
their lucubration ION the tariff at night
extends far into the "wee small hours" of
morning Even the ladies complain that
the balls, hops and receptions are broken
up as they express it, with this detesta-
be tariff question" and, TO complete the
climax the district gas company will, it is
said, declare dividend in few days on
account OF the congressional zeal over the
tariff,
What are the good constituents at home
10 expect from all this work on the tariff ?
Why, deluge of speeches on that subject
Is Inevitable. With only few months of
the session gone, we have heard already
0yera half dozen speeches on the tariff in
the senate, with many more, it is said, to
come from that body yet. With only one
exception none seem to meet reissues the
subject presents on the proper ground or in
the proper manner Most of them have
been the rantings of demagogues bidding
for reelection, and, of course, were buried
in their borning hour, while those who
have endeavored to rise above demagogism
have enveloped the subject in iog-bank Of
mysticism.
But we have, fortunately, one political
Noah who will tide us over this deluge OF
nonsense and demagogism, ana he halls from
the great southwest. 1t was reserved for
the Texas statesman, Richard Coke, to de-
tariff. Unlike most of its predecessors, this
speech did not fall still-born-a dead, mis-.
shapen mass amid empty seats, to be hur-
ried out of sight and buried in a moment
but from the outset it bore all the indica.
tons Of enduring strength, and was listened
to with the greatest interest by o full SEN
ate. In it there is no superiluity, no re
dundancy, no strained effort at rhetorical
display, but every argument he adduced
is bold, logical and clear, and each bear.
such q relation to the whole as to present
the country q masterpiece of symmetrical
proportions. Its popularity, too, has beer
something unprecedented Every mem
Der who has read it land there ar,
few who have not have sent larg,
orders for it in order to distrib
ute 1t among their constituents
the demand now far exceeding the capacit,
of the printer. There is no subject a
stereotyped as it is that presents bette
Opportunities" for the forensic ora or thar
the tariff. 1t was the favorite theme of tn,
last traparatinp IF OF al ~ and'thn HalI /,
which the genius OF Clay delighted to roam
A humorst like Sidney Smith has even in
Vested it with a species of grim humor. Blu
Mr.. Coke, with the shrewdness of the &C
eomplished politician, and the diplomac,
ola statesman, studiously avoids anything
that tends to antagonize those whom h
would conciliate; and with dietion that |
iorcible and precise, and style of deliver,
which is calm, clear and unaffected, seek
rather to convince by force of reason thai
TO shine in the glamour of rhetoric
He takes broad, comprehensv
view of his subject. It is tn
view of one who has been accustomed to be
hold the boundless plains of the west an
southwest teeming with fertility ana await
ing the development that is sure to folio,
IN the wake of free trade. 1t
the view of one whe sees the whole countr
awaiting impatiently the dawn of the da
when It can pour its rich stores OF wealt
into the marts of the whole commercia
world. 1t especially addresses itself to tina
wing of the young democracy of the sout
who have imbibed the sophistries of pre-
lection and seem ready to desert the goo
Old orthodox standard of free trade and
tariff for revenue only" Ii is stron
plea for agriculture and cheap transports
ton and powerful blow at the iniquiti,
Of the present system of protection. Ever
hypothesis he advances he SUI
ports with an array of facts an,
hgures that Is iucontrovertible an,
bear conviction on their face. This speecl
70 be appreciated, should be rea
thoroughly, and ought to be in the hand
olevery voter in the country for that pul
pose. Nature herself seems to have marke
nm out for one of her noblemen-to be
leader among the leaders; for in every lin,
ament of his full, honest face there ar
Namped the deep burrows Of character an
intellect. IL was only yesterday that
mead prominent politician, who plume
himself upon his capacity to pun, remark
~ the tariff is TO be the question of is
thls Texas timber will do tocoke these d
protectionis,s with" Ii was yillainol
pun, but II voices the opinion OF many
our leading men here, aud for that reaso
wul pass mus'er.-[Washington CORES
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