The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-31
THE FORTY-sEVENr CONG RES5
WILL NOT GIVE THE COUNTRY
TARIFF REFORM.

WILL NOT GIVE THE COUNTRY
TARIFF REFORM.
There is not an honest man in the country,
no matter what his party affiliations may
be, who believes that the present Republican
Congress intends TO give the country any
substantial tariff reform. 1t is well-known
that proceedings, so far, indicate anything
but reform. The New York Times, with
considerable boldness of speech, says that
"some of the principal Republicans in the
Senate are inclined to have recourse to a re-
ductiOn of internal revenue, and to leave
the impost duties unchanged. They are, it
is said, receiving letters from labor organi-
cations threatening opposition to the Re
publican party il the tariff be redsced,
and they are bullied by the powerful iron
and steel interests which claim 70 hold the
balance Of poweI-and usually do bold it
in the very important States Of Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio. With these influences
pressing them, they argue, as it appears,
that the contest of next year can be carried or
in the same way ss that OF 1880. and their
ticket elected by the help of the msnufac
ture7s' money and the votes of their work
men" Every step that has been
taken by these principal Republicans
IN the Senate has been in the
interest of proteotionists and monopolists
and the Times gives the reasons for such
treason 10 the masses of the people. 1t is
the campaign Of 1884 thst is Low looming
up in the distance. But the Times declares
that the principal Republicans are mistaken
about the help the protectionists and
monopolists can furnish in 1884. 1t says:
"They leave out Of their account the fact
that the Republican party has since 1880
suffered an Overwhelming and humiliatIpg
defeat brought about, not by any accident
not b. discomfort arising from commercial
depression, not by the strength of its oppo-
nents or the here indifference of its mem
bers bat 5y revolt. They forget that last
fall hundreds of thousands Of Republicans
voted the Democratic ticket for the express
and avowed purpose of rebukiag their own
party, and that the Ie0uke was directed in
great part 10 the recklessness with which
peace These men voted the Republican
ticket in 1850 because they hoped that their
party under Garfield would enter on a
changed course. They went over to the
Demo crazy last year because the party had
stuck to the old policy. They will not come
back next year if the party continues to ad-
here to that policy. If they do not come
back. how is the Republican ticket to be
elected? Not by the votes which the mar
control We had those last year.
They will not be so numerous next year.
They did not save us in 1882. How can
they save us in 1SSI?' Here are plain
facts plainly set forth by a Republican
organ which is laboring with lis party for
the purpose OF beating some common sense
into the heads of principal Senators" of
the Republican persuasion who are disre-
garding the mandates of the people. One
of the shameful phases of this altogether
bad business is that these principal Repub-
leans" whose mistakes the Times wildly
outlines, are able to entrap Democrats and
obtain their votes TO help on their outrages;
and when the campaign of 1884 begins and
Democrats again contend for tariff reform,
the Republican party will have it in it's
power to point TO Democratic votes which
helped the Republican party 10 maintain
old outrages or perpstrate new ones. The
New York Herand's Washington CORE
spondent says:
The Republicans in Congress do not intend to
relieve the burdens Of taxation. They mean TO
maintain in force the odious and needless inter
ference of the internal revenue system, with its
8 100000 worth of tax eating office.holders aud
Its spies. So far as the tariff is concerned the
programme is now pretty we'll known.
II Is that both Houses shall. st all hazards, pass
their separate ta-if bills, so that the whole ques
ton may then be RENTED in the last weeks of
the session to Conference Committee. Such a
Conference Committee has six members, three
from each House, appointed bS the presiding
officer In each House. The Tariff Conference
Committee would consist for the House Of Mr..
Kelley and perhaps Mr.. Kasson, both extreme
and Mr.. Carlisle or Mr.. Morrison,
refOrmer; aud in the Senate of Messrs. Morrill,
and sherman. extreme protectionists, and per
haps Mr.. Beck, reformer. This would give four
extreme protectionists and two reformers. and to
them, sitting in private, would be committed
the final shaping Of the tariff The result can be
easily foreseen.
Those who have expected tariff reform of
the Forty-seventh Congress may as well
abandon all hope first as last 1t will not
come-and the reason for it is that the
Republican bosses expect protectionists and
monopolists to bulldoze their employees in
1884, and furnish the money to keep the
Republican party in power.
HON. HORACE HEFFREN.
We have noticed from time to time very
conference.-the eff,rt ON tho mart of nartaiu