Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-04-21
A Stolen SOMA Wisconsin
Charlie Ross Case
Reported.
The Emigrant Boom in The
Northwest Makesa New
Movement.
A Formidable Issue.
THE DEMOCRATIC sH1rBoLErH.


WASHINGTON, April 1S.- Sunset"
Cox is preparing great speech on the
tariff question. To an interviewer he
said:
Revenue reform" will be the issue
upon which the democratic party will
make the fight in 1854. We have been
led into a snare and made to take q
false position before the country. This
will not be allowed to happen again.
We shall array ourselves as party in
favor of not only revenue reform, but
also reduction of the revenue to the
lowest point consistent with the raising
of sum sufficient to pay the expenses
! of the government, with perhaps a fair
allowance for 9, moderate extinction of
the debt. Our surplus for the year
from our system of taxation, after pay
ing all the enormous expenses of the
government, will be something like
$50, ,000, 600. Now, there ire two evils
arising from such an accumulation; |;
one is the enormous over-taxation, the
other the tremendous Incentive for the
party III power to reach out its
hands and get hold of some Of
that surplus. The democratic party
will take time ty the fore
lock, in fact will assume the offensive,
and go to the country on this issue.
We can show the mechanics, artisans
and laboring men that the position of
the ultra protectionists, which is prac-
tically the republican position, is one
which simply benefits The capitalists,
while under revenue reform both capi-
tai and labor are fairly and equitahly
treated. Now those democrats who do
not propose to stand with the party On
this matter may go where they can
find congenial company and we shall
not be bullicd or bamboozed by pro-
tectionists who call themselves demo-
Gratis. We have had enough of this
sort Of thing, and next time it will be
an earnest, courageous and offensive
fight on our part.
Mr.. Cox had natural delicacy about
being quoted when he came to per-
sonalities. 1t was entirely evident that
he snares the feeling of many democrats
respecting Barnum's method of con-
ducting a canvass. The democrats
feel it, beyond question. Mr.. Cox
feels, that when the republicans sprung
the tariff question, in 1880, the only
thing for wide-awake aud shrew dem
ocratic leader who occupied the place
Barnum did was to have accepted the
issue and made the fgh. on it, instead
of adopting Barnum's prevaricating,
double-faced apologizing policy-a
policy which made the democratic party
protectionists inone state and the reverse
in another. Cox and others say that if the
proper thing had been done, and the
party had stood by its platform con-
| tentedly and firmly, it would have been
in splendid shape for 1884, even if
beaten in 1880. Cox himself ana some
other leading democrats while praising
Hewitt's speech, do not give him their
un5ounded confid ence, There is a
lurking suspicion that Hewitt is a pro-
tectionist in disguise. and mis- party
will m axe him declare his position in
such plain terms that there can not be
any mistaking it before they trust him
wholly. The revenue reformers, Cox
says, will hereafter distrust all 'Greeks
bearing gifts"