Daily Los Angeles herald., 1883-04-29
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superflne PoIitIcs-The ChronI-
cie's Absurdities.
Our esteemed contemporary. the San
Francisco Chronicle. In the general wreck
Of It's party, indulges In sort Of politi-
cal disquisition which can be called, with
truth, very gauzy. 1t has tackled the
question Of protection In a shape which
challenges the contempt Of all horest
men. All sane observers know that the
issue Of protection Is largely one Of To-
cality. If Gen. Hancock had approach
cd this delicate subject from the stand.
point Of localities instead Of pronounc.
Ing II ''local question:" he, and not
Garfield, would have been the Presi.
dent Of the United States. While the
question OF protection has been one Of
localities, II has mover been local ques
tion. There Is he,e distinction with a
tremendous difference. While tariff i'm.
posts bear upon all the people of the
United States alike, the demand for
high tariff proceeds from such States as
Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Eng
land generally. Ohio and Indiana. A
failure to diagnose the merely metaphys.
ical aspects Of the matter, conjoined to
q coloysal Republican corruption fund,
In our opinion, with the side issue Of
Kelly's treason In New York, made Gar.
fields success possible. But the aspects
Of the tariff question suggested by the
Chronicls, in a recent article, are absurd
to the last degroe. They are. in the
main, that Ireland relies upon high
protective tariff in the United States to
cripple England. through her manufac.
lures The Chronicle, in Its wisdom,
chooses to erect tho Democratic party
into the Free Trade party, par ercei.
lence, Of the United States, 1t Is
somewhat unfortunate for our esteemed
contemporary's hypothesis, that, while
II was the Wing party which was most
clamorous for protection without reason,
the Democratic party was always the
party Of incidental protection; in other
words, reasonable protection. The
Democratic shibboleth has always been
a tariff for revenue, with Incidental prof
lection merely. The Democratic party,
we are able to assure our San Francisco
contemporary, will show its devotion to
its old-time shibboleth Of incidental pro-
lection by electing Samuel J. Randall,
of Pennsylvania, Speaker of the Forty
Eighth House of Representatives which,
like the Forty Fourth, also overwhelm.
ingly Democratic, will signalize itself by
course eminently conservative
as respects all the essential man.
ufacturing interests of the Unit
cd States. The Forty Eighth
Congress, instead of applying itself to
disorganising the business interests of
the United States will, under Randall's
skillful leadership, devote itself to con
serving them. in the future as in the
past
The Democratic party, while it has al.
ways allowed the business interests of
the country to eujoy natural expans.
ion, has simply, at times, called a halt toa
tariff spoliation, in which, otherwise, the
people might be stripped to the skin,
The supreme absurdity of the Chronicles
attitude as respects the Irish, the De.
mocracy and the tariff will be better un.
derstood when we recur to the utter.
ances of the leading English journals,
Immediately following the decisive Dem
ocratic victories in the United States
last Fall, which, with the unerring mo-
tion of the magnet to the pole, presage
Democratic national victory in the
Fall of 1884. The HERALD quoted the
utterances of lea ding organs OF British
opiuion, in which these triumphs were
held up as positive outrages. That the
people OF the United States should dare
to vote outside of the trammels of New
England, which, on the whole, has al.
ways been sort OF appanage of Great
Britain, we were told, was something in.
credible and not to be endured. When
we use the phrase, the "trammels Of
New England, we, of course. mean the
trammels OF the Republican party. The
two terms are convertible. For week
Or ten days after these splendid Demo
cratic victories, there seemed some
doubt as to whether or no England was
not ready to declare war against this
country for exercising its independent
Judgment. Like Belshazzar she saw
the handwriting on the wall. With the
instinct of gorged and pampered appro.
priator Of all the good things of all the
four quarters Of the world, she realized
that the restoration of the Demo
cratic party to power in the United
States meant the restoration of ihe
old Fifty-Four Forty or Fight impulse
of the Polk campaign, with kindly
sympathy for the Irish people super.
added. The idea of soaring any Irish.
man out of affiliation with the Demo.
cratic party by tariff hocus' poeus is
one of the comedies of the age. The
cream of the joke is that both the Irish
man and the Teuton have settled down to
living amity which means discontinue
TO the Republican party and re-asser-
ton of the old time prestige OF the
United States.
PERHAPS the most interesting feature
Of tENerowth of Southern California, OF