The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1883-12-26

The great question now before Jho
country is one affecting its indus
trial interests. The election OF Car
Isle as Speaker was such an evident
victory of the free-trade Democrats,
and caused such an alarm among
the manufacturers of the country
that an attempt is being made to
create the impression that conserva-
tive counsels will prevail. and that
there is no imminent danger of
radical reduction of the present tariff
being urged. That this is a mere blind
intended to conceal the real intent
of the free-traders controlling the
Democratic party, until after the
coming presidential election, admits
OF scarce a doubt.
Mr.. Carlisle has established for
himself the reputation OF being an
able, honest, fearless enemy of pro-
lection, and that this fact was per-
fectly uderstood at the time Of his
election is shown by the following
extracts from some of the leading
Democratic papers OF the country.
Thus. the Louisville CObrier-Jcur-
nal, the leading Democratic paper in
his own state says:
Democrats must now enter upon
the work of tariff revision" 1t IN
vites the fellows to ''go to the rear
who do not like that policy. The
Eastern gentlemen who failed even
to compliment Carlisle with a vote
are to be taught lesson, and they
are expected to take their drubbing
as meekly as a lot of school-boys.
Possibly some of them may kick.
The St. Louis Globe-DemOcrat de-
fines Mr.. Carlisle's position in the
following brief paragraph:
Carlisle is nearly six feet high and
every inch in favor of the reopening
of the tariff question and reducing
the duties to as nearly free trade
basis as possible.
The Macon Georgia. Telegraph,
published in a State whose infant
industries are in a prosperous condi-
ton. foresees the rocks ahead and
says:
The Democratic party will be
forced to fight on platform of tariff
for revenue only. 1t was badly
whipped on this platform, and seems
not to have learned wisdom from de-
feat. 1t is quite safe to say that the
voting power of the country will not
accept the platform. The financial
power of the North, the East, and
the West, in our judgment, is equal
to the task of defeating any candidate
for the Presidency who shall adopt
Watterson's cry as the shibboleth Of
the party"
The Doylestown Democrat, one of
the leading organs OF its party in
this State announces its convictions
as follows:
''The election of Mr.. Carlisle is in
opposition to the conservative masses
of the Democratic party and, we may
as well add, for we think it, to the
business interests OF the country. If
he shall do aught to disturb these
interests, Just recovering from the
recent change in the revenue laws,
be will be buried deeper than plum
net ever sounded. What we write
seems the natural inference to be
drawn from the election of Mr.. Car
isle
The Philadelphia Times expresses
its disgust in this pithy sneer;
The following would be the logic
al Carlisle Democratic ticket for
1884: President, Joe Blackburn, OF
Kentucky; Vice President, Billy
Morrison, of Illinois. Platform
Abolish all factories and custom
houses. Music-Therebel yell
While the Philadelphia Record, an
out and out free trade journal boldly
saws:
"A tariff for revenue onlyP is the
only proper tariff. The point of diff
/ ficulty is to conduct the country
safely out of the protective mire in
which it founders with as little in
| jury. as possible to industries which
stand on a tariff bottom. We are in
sight Of the other side OF Jordan, and
in good time we will get across.
The country viii not listen to those
insidioIs advisers who desire to
camp permanently where we are, nor
to those rash advisers who would
push into the food unprepared.
These are che opinions and decla-
rations of but few of the Demo
cratic papers of the country, that
have come under our observation,
but they are certainly sufficient to
show that despite its present pro-
fessed conservatism, the Democratic
party. If it again obtains national
power, will wipe off our statute
books every law intended 10 protect
the manufacturers of the country
from ruinous competition with the
under paid labor of foreign lands. ]