The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1883-02-03
TIE INDEPENDENT.
SATURDAY, EEBRUARY saD. 1883
tariff BILL.

TAhlEF B1hL.
The menied aristocracy are in confu-
sien and are having their energies tax
ed to the uttormcst to know how to
maintain high protective tariff and at
the same time prevent the payment Of
the debt, and retain the national banking
institutions. So long ss they can man.
ACE to use the accumulation of money
arising from the revenues by an extrav
agant and proiigate administration,
the banking institutions whose share
holders have been fattening off the Ia
Dor of the country for mere than twen-
ty years, can rest in comparative secu-
rity, but when money is allowed to ac-
cumulate in the treasury the people
viii at once clamOr for the extinguish-
ment of the debt and the lifting of the
burden which the unjust and unnatural
banking laws have sndeavored to entail
upon the coming generations.
The monied power, foreseeing the
difficult, and fearing the murmer of
discomfort which was then spreading
itself throughout the lard, in conse-
quencs Of the dispropertion in price of
the necessaries Of life and the price for
labor required to purchase them, dur
ing the laat session Of Congress had a
commission appointed to devise means
OF escape and at the same time promise
the people relief and allay their discon-
TINT. Congress has met and the ses-
sion is drawing to close. The COM
mission has made its report and the
promised relief has not been granted
nor is there any likelihood of it being
realized during the present session.
The following extract from the speech
OF Gen. Rosencrans will be found In
teresting in this connection:
During General Rosecrans' speech on
the tariff, in the house, he said that
freights from Europe to San Francisco
have been as cheap as freights from New
York. Articles Of consumption which
the Pacific slope people have had, were
cheaper in the European market than In
the east, yet when the national defense
called for tariff which deprived them
Of these advantages, they submitted
without murmur. They took their
goods from inside our tariff line or ex-
ported them and paid the debts to the
emsuAs OF Sc, ,0oo, 900 per annum, bu
our people regard the present tariff sys
tenn as full of injustice and oppression
They think it is Building great mo
nopelies and special interests at the ex
psAso Of the great mass of producer
and consumers, which could only bt
Justified by certain sudden and desper
ate national exigencies. They have tbs
eonyiction that common justice and the
interest of revenue for the last ten years
have demanded thorough revision and
great reduction of duties, and I share
fully In the convictions of nay constitu
ents Of the Pacific coast when I think
that the present tariff should be thor
eughly revised, simpli6ed and reduced
to the simplest rates of duties which
will produce the revenue required foI
the economical administration and q
reasonable protection to labor. Oul
people on the Pacific coast are specially
anxieux that this should be done. Any
lsgialAticn looking honestly to this END
will have my cordial support, and
shall b governed by the convictions
have here announced to my colleagues
on the floor. Does the bill now befor,
our committee answer the demands &
oar peoplef ] answer that it does not