Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-09-30
PlaIu Tariff Talk,

mission was organized in the in
 terest of the manufacturers Is not new, although it was hard ly expected that one of the com
 missloners would publicly acknow- ledge it. It is evident that the com missioners are chagrined by the neg lect of their masters. They seem to be men who are not wholly devoid of self-respect. That is, they respect themselves sufficiently to wish to ap- pear we'll in the eyes of their fellow countrymen. But the manufacturers have treated them not on y as If they were purchaseable, but as If they were to be had at rather cheap fig ure. In this, the manufacturers ap. pear to have overreached them selves; or, rather, they would have overreached themselves if they had felt any concern whatever as to what the commission would report.
 We are afraid that if the truth were known, the protected monopo. lists of the country do not care what the commissioners shall report. They conceived it as a measure of delay. They foresee very cleary that the present burdensome and un- just tariff cannot exist much longer. They know that its discussion will show the country the grossness of its inequalities, and that it is simply a mean device for robbing the poor in the interest of the rich. They know better than any other class of men in the country that the tariff is unjust and ought to be reformed. They realize that when the country begins to find out what they have long known, the tariff must fall. They have therefore devised the commis- slon as an instrument that will en- able them to retain the law which every year puts enormous sums of money into their pockets. As they know that there can be but one out come to this tariff discussion, they are careless as to the conclusion the commission may reach. Whatever that conclusion may be, it must be discussed in Congress. Already the protectionists have thrown so many hindrances in the way of discussion, that they know pretty we'll what they can do in that direction. The com- missioners' report, no matter what it may be, will only increase the diffi- critics, and add to the delay. In a
 word, the commission will help put
 off the day of revenue reform.
 Another reliance of the protec.
 tionists is upon divisions in the ranks
 of the Democratic party. By skill
 full management the Democratic rev.
 enue reformers have been hampered
 by protectionists who are alleged
 Democrats. It is pretty we'll knowr
 that there is at least one prominen
 Democrat in the House of Represen
 tatives who retains his seat by the
 connivance of Republican protection
 ists. It would probably be impossl-
 ble to prevail on a certain protec
 tionist leader on the Republican side of the house to deny that he has sai(
 that this Democrats vote Is worth tC Republican protectionists ten Repuo
 lican votes. If the Democrats secur the majority in the next House o Representatives, Democrats like tn
 man to whom we refer must be sup
 pressed. They must be counted a enemies of Democracy in the organ ization of the House. If the demo
 cratic party IS to have right t exist. the next Democratic speake , must he A man like Mir. Carli sl or MT. Morrison. There must b no moro Democratic ways and mean committees made up in the intere' of protection. If the Democrat should fail to improve the opportun ty to put their revenue reformers the front, they will lose the oppo Il tunity to revise the tariff. IT 7, Republicans will reap the reward u Democratic labors. They will revi' D tho tariff themselves when they a V forced to, and the Democrats wi .' have the pain of seeing themselv J followers where they should be lea' '' CTS, and wholly because they hay n not have the courage to suppress u 'i protectionists who have been smui u gled into their ranks, some of the '" by Republican intrigue.