Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-04
Mcclure and Carlisle.

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Mcclure and Carlisle.
His contemporaries are making fun of
Col. McClure's Carlisle fright. His agi.
tation is so clearly exaggerated beyond
the demands Of the situation as to be-
come ludicrous. 1t is remarkable that
so old politician and editor should have
so completely lost bis head and " this
lesson teaches" that 1t is very advisable
for woud.be instructors Of the people not
to be too precipitate in their lessons
tley should he sure that they understand
what they are talking about before they
60 ahead Col. Mcclure would by no
means say to day what he said yesterday,
for, of course, he realizes what a silly
screed it was. Mr.. Carlisle has said
in his address, on taking the speakers
chair, that which takes the wind entirely
out of the sails Editor Mcclure so frauti
cally spread, and leaves him becalmed on
the rolling waters. He foretold that
Carlisle's election meant an instant free
trade assault upon the tariff and the
business Of the country. Speaker Car
Isle says that sudden aud radical
changes in the laws, affecting our com.
mercial interest should never be made
unless imperatively demanded by some
public exigency ;" which emergency he
declares does not exist in the opinion
Of "auy considerable number of those
who have given serious attention to the
subject" Editor Watterson and other
hare Drained politicians may be Of
the small number who think diff
ferently, but certainly Mr. Carlisle
distinctly proclaims himself to agree
with the majority who are opposed to
| any radical change in the tariff laws.
"Many reforms are necessary" he says,
but ''it there be any who fear that your
action on this, or any other subject, vii
actually be injurious to any interest, or
ercn afford reasonable cause for alarm, |
am quite sure they will be agreeably
disappointed.
Now that surely ought to quiet Editor
McCluro's mind and relieve him of hi:
toreb0dings ; and doubtless does, only hC
cannot admit it, since he has gone 50
far astray, without disagreaa5le con.
cessOn Of error. Editors seldom have
the magnanimty to admit frankly their
mistakes. They think it bad policy 10
concede their fallibility. They make a
great mistake, as the public is quite
acute enough 10 discover the asses
ears without the asses help. This edlto.
rial quality of never owning 10
error is so thoroughly appreciated
by sensible politicians that they do
not fret themselves 70 straighten out
the ordinary editorial misconceptiou Of
themselves and their acts. As Speaker
Carlisle said, when he was asked what
he had TO say TO Editor McClure'S
assault upon him editorial structures
have to be borne because the editor
always has the last word" What can |
say" be asked, beyond what have said
this afternoon In my speech" Nothing,
we should say, that would add to the
conviction Of every fair and sensible
man, who admits the speaker acknowl-
edged honesty, that there will be no
disturbance Of business interests in
the execution OF any policy the speaker
favOrs. He said very shrewd and true
thing when he declared that the trouble
with the Pennsylvania people Of the Nc
CLUE type is that they would be against
any party that should try to reform the
tariff and " would view with alarm the
most conservative steps towards the re-
duction Of the profits of the great mo
nopoIies Of their section" That IS
| exactly true.