Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-27

The tariff plank OF the Ohio Demo
cratic Convention, was probably con-
structed by the def hand of the "Od
Roman Mr.. THURMAN.
1t is an original PLANK. 1t Is distinct
lively the Ohio idea.
1t is so comp extensive and ingenious
in its construction that Republicans and
Democrats alike seem to regard it as
just the thing.
II has struck a responsive chord in
those Democrats who believe in a reve-
nue. tariff, and those other Democrats
who believe in a revenue tariff with res
ervatiOns.
The Hartford Times, a journal of pro-
tective tariff tendencies, is willing to
take the Ohio idea italicised after this
fashion:
ave favor a tariff for revenue limited
to the necessities of q government eco
numicaily administered and so adjust
ell in It's application as to prevent I'M
CyUUI burdens, encourage productive IN
terCSts at home and afford Just cODlpeR-
SqtiOR to iUbOr, but not To create and
foster mOnopOlies."
I'm this shape the Times declares it TO
lie admirable. 1t says these Sound
Jeffersonian doctrines will meet with a
hearty response on the part of the
Democrats and Liberals Of the cOuu-
try"
This is encouraging. Mr.. WattersOn
is also i'm favor Of the Ohio idea, anu
We do not for a moment doubt that Mr..
Randall and Mr.. Carlisle will be able to
pull with an even trace when hitched
behind this tariff ambulance.
When Ohio is not original she is
nothing. 1t was only necessary that
the genius of her statesmen should be
called into requisltiOn, and we nav the
whole tariff problem settled in a single
paragraph.
The Ohio idea should therefore be
understood. 1t declares in flavor Of a
tariff for evenue limited to the neceSsi-
lies of a government economically adj
ministered."
That is not all of the tariff plank, and
yet it is all. What follows is only eX-
~lanatory of the above. What follows
dds nothing to, and does not in any
Use qualify the principle contained in
the above declaration.
What follows simply explains that
this tariff for revenue" shall be:
|. $50 adjusted in its application as
to prevent unequal burdens"
:. Encourage productive interests at
home"
). "AfIord just compensation to
labor"
I. "But not to create and foster no.
nOpOlies."
The above is the whole paragraph
contained in the Ohio platform.
1t will be observed that it is first a
tariff for revenue" platform and it
proposes to relieve all the objections
that have been urged against any and
every kind of tariff.
a tariff for revenue" has been as
sailed by the high proteetionists and by
many other factions and theorists, but
il remained for the Ohio idea to demon
strate that a tariff tor revenue" might
he adjusted so as to answer all the OBJ
jections as to unequal burdens" the
productive interests at home" to
''afiord just compensation to labor"
and not "to create and foster monopo-
lies"
Under the Ohio idea - tariff for rev.
enue" assumes, therefore, q new mean
ing, q significance it never had before,
and furnishes Il political panaeea for all
evils complained of.
The virtue of the Ohio idea is in the
adjustment ofthe tariff. 1t wants only
"a tariff for revenue;" and it wants
that revenue limited to the necessities
Of government economically admin,
istered."
The proteetiOnists have heretofore
called that q free trade" or Glow
tariff" plank, but when the Ohio idea
was applied to the adjustment Of this
revenue tariff it is made a protective
tariff, a manufaeturer'stariff q labOrer's
tariff, and every other kind of tariff,
save only q tariff for monopolists.
Getting down to figures the Ohio
revenue tariff would be an average Of
about 10 o. Is per cent. on the articles
which now pay customs duty. 1t
would apply and adjust these duties so
as to protect those Industries that need
protection, protect labor, protect all
classes from urequal burdens, and at
the same time reduce the tariff tax to
the necessities Of the government.