River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-06-15
DON CAMER0N's THREAT.
This Is AristOcraey; This Is the
List.
Gath in Cincinnati Ennnirar

This Is Arist0cracy; This Is the
Crown; This Is the Queens Civil
List.
Gath in Cincinnati Enquirer.
The threat of Don Cameron to stop
supporting the tariff in erests of Penn
sylvania unless they coagulate to elect
his regular republican ticket il new
turn in the game, and shows the tariff
interest that it can never reform this
country unless it be itself reformed
No reformation of moral abuses and
despotism will stop this side of the
tariff abuse and despotism. The tariff
interest must consider that it is a spec
ial favorite, also boss, and an abuse
OF itself. The poor lobbyist who stands
around the doors of congress, getting
his Sc, 900 year to secure some spec
ial legislation: the miserable striker
who stands near. the same doors, 10
force money to be paid to him ere
special legislation can pass; the jobber
who puts up scheme to get money
out of the government and squanders
il without carrying out the scneme or
letting the scheme fall-all these
no more take money out of the
public purse and abuse their
times than the manufacturer who
asks the Government to give q
bounty or protection that will distinctly
make him rich. Reform always means
menace to the high tariff interest. 1t
is in vain that these protected manu-
faeturers say that the settled policy of
the country is protection, and that
therefore they are merely deriving
benefit from the legal and established
condition of things. A bounty obtain
ed in spite of the republican doctrine
that all men are equal becomes an in
novatien and corruption of one of the
testers of the times. The civil list
voted to the English Queen of about
81 600 600 year to support the figment
of the monarchy is source of stand
ing annoyance to all reforms in Eng
land. The moment men grow radical
on existing evils they say why are
these gilded flies sustained by the gen
eral taxation?" So must men say on
this side of the water with reference to
a condition of manufactures that does
no longer ask for protection till it can
stand upon its feet, but sets up the
audacious claim that its bounties are
never to be withdrs wn, but are the set
tied policy of the United States for all
time to come. This is aristocracv; this
is the crown this is the Queens civil
list. The republican party Is the parent
of the tariff system. As long as the
Southern States remained in the Union
without manufacturers or variety of
occupation the tar If even under the
protective system had to be kept low.
When the North united to maintain
the country against secession the tariff
interest stepped forward and said : 1--WE
will help put down the South for con-
sIderation. That consideration must
be unlimited tariff support for us.
You shall fight the war against the
South, but at tariff prices, and we will
do the manufacturing"
Hence the war was not only the tri-
umph of the republican party, but of
the manufacturing Interest, and after
the war it secuted the idea that its
bounties could be taken away, and has
ever since gone on demanding more
bounty, until one of the potent causes
of the now threatened stagnation and
collapse of our country is the working
of this settled tariff. The beneticiaries
whereof possess no national sense
whatever, but stand with their hands
out, taking bounty, until competition
all around them becomes formidable,
the markets are glutted, the tax payers
are worn out, the corn crop fails, and
down falls the short-lived fabric of
prosperity, and then there is wall,
and burnt-out chimneys and mines and
FORCES stopped, and the smoke of riot
rises on the summer air; but the tariff
man never considers that he is part
of this periodical confusion. His hand
is out the next time, and he fercely
the man who challenges his
right to bounty as British spy, per-
sonal enemy, u rebel or rascal.
I met on Broadway, Sunday morn
ing, Mr.. John G. Patterson, formerly
an occupant of seat in the United
States senate, beside Cameron. Pat
terson and A. K. Mcclure, one of the
Pennsylvania reformers, went from
the region of Harrisburg to
South Carolina soon after the
war closed to regenerate railroads
and rebels. The outlook did not please
Mcclure, but Patterson remained, and
went to the senate in due time as an
honest supporter of our tariff laws and
the third senator from Pennsylvania.
The legislature of South Carolina sent
him on the Cameron plan, but he was
a Pennsylvania senator all the same.
was prolific of senators
in those days of carpet-baggery. Not
one carpet-bag senator ever learned
the first lispings of revenue reform or
free trade. They were all for oceans OF
tariff and small division to the legis-
lature which passed the tariffs. There
were Powell Clayton, from Pennsyl
vania, representing Arkansas, and S B.
Conover, of New Jersey, representing
Florida, besides members of congress
by the legion, all eminating from the
Pennsylvania tariff SYSTEM. Many
such kept one eye skinned for how
much protection Pennsylvania wanted
and the other eye on their vest pocket.
Too many tariff senators we're bound
to break up, but some of them re-
tudlu6u III IuS SOutu anu SldItSd 1iftb-
industries, and hence there
is tariff interest in many of the south
ern states to-day ready to unite with
that corrupt portion of Pennsylvania,
which never would have her tariff priv
ileges questioned.
Grants sale Of His Name.
New York correspondence st. Louis
Post Dispatch: If General Grant goes