The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-01
4 rHoRnraH nEERHAuLING.

The Philadelphia Press said the other
day that at the next Congress ''the tar
/ iff will receive the most thorough over
hauling it has had since 1854. The
/ GOODNESS with which papers like the
/ Press make such utteIances is remark
I able. as is also the GOODNESS with which,
when made, they ale received by the
/ Republicans.
If a Democratic paper were to prom
/ ise. speaking for Democratic Congress,
''the most thorough Overhauling of the
/ tariff that it has had since 1860" such
/ a howl of indignant dissent would 90
/ up, not only from Republican editors
/ and stumpeTs, but from their rank and
| file, as would set the whole state, if not
/ the entire country, in a ferment.
Garfield by his votes and speeches in
| Congress had shown himself a Free Ira
der. Hancock, on the other hand, could
not be quoted that he ever said that he
was ever antagonistic to the protective
theory. He is, besides, a Pennsylvan-
ian, and as such naturally tariff man.
Yet papers like the Press daily urged
the wOrkingmen that in voting for Han
cock they would be voting to thorough
ly overhaul and overturn the tariff.
while IN voting for Garfield they would
be voting to retain it in its present hon
est and effective shape, In this way
by this grossly dishonorable misrepresen
tation-thousandS were influenced to
withhold their support from the man of
their choice, Winfield Scott Hancock
and-accord it to Garfield. With what
result With the result of victory for
Garfield, and the acknowledgment from
the Press, now, not only that the tariff
is unfair, unwieldly, unburdensOme and
sadly in need Of revision, but that it is
the distinct purpose of their party at the
next session of Congress to give the
most Thorough overhauling'' it has had
since 1864. WOrkingmen were asked
to vote for Garfield in 1880 to prevent
the tariff from being interfered with.
They are asked in 1892 to vote for Bea-
yer to make sure of its being modified.
The party which two years ago represen-
ted the bulwark of labOr's salty. thing
1t would be almost sacrilege to touch, is
glad enough to beg support on the
ground that if they receive support and
are victorious, then Congress will make
amends for the crimes of the late session.
by giving the tariff the ''most thorough
Overhauling it has had since 1862 at
the next.
Democrats properly look upon the ne
grOes as the dupes of Republican trick
steTs. They see them support their par
ty year after year, when not one in tWen-
ty Of its white members that holds the
entire race in hearty contempt. and
would almost as lief sit at table with an
Ourang- -Outang as with one of them.
\ ct the negroes are no more dupes than
are the white workingmen who permit
themselves to be inveigled into support
ing Republican ringsterS, because they
are tariff men and want to see the tariff
sustained. The tariff has been the ex-
cuse for more demagoguery than has
been bred in all other parties. or at.
temptS at the organization of parties.
the country has ever had.
On the desk on which this article Is
written lies an open copy of the July is
sue of the Free Trade Bulletin, journ-
al published by the New York Free
Trade League, and which, as its name
indicates, is devoted wholly to the ad-
vOcacy of Free Trade. In it is an ad-
dress delivered before the Free Trade
Club, June j, 1892" by Capt. John
Goldman, on the iniquity of Protective
Tariff Capt. Goldman is one of the
most positive and OutspOSen free traders
in the country; yet in this address, after
calling attention to the fact the ''nOisi-
est diecipleS of the doctrine of protection
are frequently the most ready to excuse
the importation of Chinese and cheap
labor" " says:
1.-The advocates of Free Trade cannot
be accused of any such duplicity. Their
doctrine, carried To its finality, as soon
as circumstances 'rjU admit Jcjtb Justice 20
eristjug interests etc, etc. Here is one
of the rankest of the enemies of pro-
tective tariff, we don't want to change
it until it can be GOue with Justice to
existing interests The Press, on the
other hand, promises that it is to have a
thorough OverhaUling" right away,
which, being in effect an admission that
',justice to existing interests" calls for
it right away, sis fairly construable as an
emphatic free a trade doctrine as Capt.
COdman's.
Let wOrkingmen give these facts a lit
tie thought. They ale worthy of it for
they are facts from the record-facts in
disputable. They certainly ought to,
and probably may, result in fewer of
them being lured, by empty or dishonest
tariff harangues into giving their coun-
tenance and votes to CamerOnism and
AuthuTism and all their attendent ours
es.- WUbesbdrTe Leader.