The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-12

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| ard, Blair, Brown. Butler. Camden, Cameron {
Pennsylvania, COnger, Davis of West Virgins
Dawes, Frye. German, Groome, Hampton, Harr
Jones of Nevada. Lapham, Mcmillan. Mcpherson
Malone, Miller of California, Miller OF New YOrk
Mitchell. Morrill, Platt Plumb, Rollins, SauI
Nsys-Messrs. Beck. Call, Coke. Davis of Ill
nOis, Farley Garland Harris, Jonas, Maxey, MOI
gan, Pugh, Vance. Vest, Walker and Williams
is.
We presume the bill will pass the House
or something similar. The Senate bill pro
vides for Commission Of nine members, t,
be appointed by the President and con
frmed by the Senate, who are to receive a
compensation for their services $40 per day
when actually employed, and travelling anc
other necessary expenses. They are 10 in
vestigate all the various questions relating
to the agricultural. commercial, mercantile
manufacturing. mining and industrial in
terests Of the United States, so far as the
same may be necessary to the establishment
of judicious tariff or revising of the exist
ing tariff and the existing system ofinternal
revenue laws upon a scale of justice to all
interests, and are to report to Congress from
time to time, and to make final report not
later than the first Monday in January,
1888. The bill passed is the Morrill, tariff
bill, framed by the most fanatical protec-
zionist in the Senate, the man who boast
ingly calls himself the author of the present
Ubiquitous tariff known to the world as
a combination of denominations, n
cocted for the express purpose Of
taxing the many for the benefit OF the few,
of building up monopolies, and in all things
ignoring the semblance of justice. This
man Morrill, saw that the people demanded
relief from tariff oppression, tariff robbery,
monopoly and taxation, and set himself
about cOncocting a scheme full of duplicty
and the United States Senate, by vote of
thirty-eight 70 fifteen. has endorsed the out
rage. The lawmakers, the men chosen to
perform the work, for which the people pay
them S. 900 year, have lodged the issue,
and placed the responsibility of framing a
tariff upon men to be selected by the Presi-
dent. These men Will be protec
tionists, the paid hirelings of mo-
nopolists, the avowed enemies of
the people, the corrupt advocates of
a policy. which in the future, as in the past,
will be productive of open and fragrant out
RACES It is well said by contemporary that
lit will be difficult to secure the services of
men who are fitted for the delicate and I'M
portant duties of such position, and who
will command the respect and confidence of
the country for $50 week and found
The consequence will be that, if the bill ever
becomes law, the men selected to carry out
its provisions must be picked from among
the ranks of hungry ofice-seekers, who
haunt the National capital, and make the
lives of the President, the heads of Depart
What kind of tariff scheme would such
men concoct, Naturally they would work
to make unto themselves friends among the
capitalists whose immense profits can only
be assured by a continuation of the burdens
imposed on labor and industry by the mon.
strosity known as our present tariff system"
Evidently the purpose is to per-
petuate protection for the ben
eft OF monopoly combinations,
who. when their schemes are exposed. or
ganize lobby, and by the use of money.
wrung from the pockets of their victims.
defeat the will of the people. What sort of
a Commission will the President name and
what will the Commission do when it is
named and organized? Nothing under
Heaven of benefit to the people ut will"
On va thu Roafon Post ttrOS.Do,,o IL =.
which calls for immediate attention for at
least two years, and then bring the question
back to the very point where it now is, with
nothing decided and with nothing suggested
that Congress, if constituted as at present,
will be any more ready to act upon than
upon the naked question as
it now stands before that body and
the country. 1t is simply a post
ponement OF justice to the people who are
paying the taxes and bearing the burdens,
and it hands over to nine unnamed gentle
men, to nurse and keep out of sight for the
next year or two, this question of questions,
which includes within itself the principle
of economic reform upon the grandest
scale that it has ever appealed to this
country" The great body of the people
for two years longer must continue to pay
tribute to few manufacturers who are able
to control the Senate of the United States,
and possibly the House of Representatives.
The great mass of consumers may read in the
vote OF the United States Senate that that
body disregards thei interests ami is
willing to perpe,aate their bondage. The
rebuke may be slow in coming, but come it
will as certainly as that the mills of the
gods grind exceedingly small.
THE extent to which the internally in