The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31
EDITORIAL MATTER,
From Tri-Weekly issues of FRIDAY u Monday
The Repeal Of the Internal Rev
enue Act - Dodge Of the
''High ProtectiOnists.'

the absolute repeal OF the whole inN
ternal revenue system and the aboli-
ton of Commissioner Raum's entire
army of political dependents, and the
Senate and the President will not
dare to resist the action of the House,
and that the whole corrupt organiza
ton must go. The Times does not
seem to remember that one branch
of Congress is under the control Of
the Protectionists. But this will not
release the Democratic majority in
the other branch from the perform.
ance of their duty. We will see. -
Jackson Clarion.
Which branch is"under the control
of the Protectionists'" We confess
to a considerable degree of ignorance
upon:this subject. At the last session
of Congress every reduction in the
Tariff that was effected except
upon few Southern agricultural
products, was made by the Senate,
while the House bill proposed to in,
crease every item in the woolen and
metal schedule, including even iron
cotton ties. The bill as it first pass
ed the Senate was far more satisfac.
tory than any "Revenue Tariff man
had reason to hope for, and was de-
nounced as ruinous by the Senators
from Pennsylvania and other high
protectionists. When it went to the
House it met with overwhelming
opposition, and in Conference Com.
mittee the rates were so advanced to
meet the views of the House referees,
that it came near failing altogether
in the Sentate. 1t passed by the
vote of Senator ingalls, Of Kansas,
who withheld his vote until the last,
and then voted for it to prevent the
utter failure of Tariff Legislation in
the 47th Congress.
The Senate as at present constitu-
ted is not "under the control of the
Protectionists' unless the Republic
can party determines upon making
the policy of high Tariff Protection
prominent plank in its PLATFORM
and even then it cannot count con-
fdently upon the consistent votes OF
the Senators from Nebraska and
Kansas, or upon the votes OF the
Junior Senators from Iowa, Mime
sofa and Michigan.
The Tariff attitude of the new
House cannot be easily mapped, as a
very large number of its members
are men without public record and
whose status in regard to this and
many other questions can only be
coniectured by those who have care
fully studied the interests and prom
inent industries of their respective
districts. Democrats, and many OF
them, will appear on the floor of the
4Sth Congress who will be recognized
as Protectionists of the most pro-
nounced type, while the Republican
wing of the House will supply some
of the most blatant Free Traders.
We think when the next House
assemblies it will be found that most
of the Democratic members were
chosen in consonence with the spirit
of the Revenue plank of the plat
form of 1872, which declared, that
'* recognizing that there are
in our midst honest but irreconcila'
BILE differences of opinion with regart
to the respective systems of Protec-
ton and Free Trade, we remit the
discussion of the subject to the peo.
pie in their Congressional Districts
and the decision of the people there
on, wholly free from executive inter-
ference or dictation y
As to the Internal Revenue sys'
tenn, that was completely wiped ou'
by the last Congress with the excep
tion of the items of Liquor and To
bacco, and we would call our able
cotemporary's attention to the fac
that every prominent Protective
Tariff man in the United States il
heartily in.accord with the Philadel.
phia Times in demanding "the abso'
lute repeal of the whole Interna
Revenue system. The reason fol
this is apparent-it will cut off th'
sources of income of the country tt
the extent of from hundred to {
hundred and fifty millions of dollars
year, and thus afford the soundes
and best of protexts and argument
in favor of maintalng the Tariff ia,
upon imports at its present higl
protective standard.
This scheme was thoroughly un.
derstood and appreciated by tn
leaders on both sides of both House
last session, and but for the fear of
possible heavy falling off in Custom
House receipts during the fiscal yea
commencing July 1st, every Protec
ZIONIST in Congress would have de
manded the absolute repeal of th
whole system, as every projections
outside of Congress, did demand it
For our part, so long as it is nee
essary that vast revenues shall b
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