The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-12-12
CARLISLE.
In His Election as Speaker Principle
Prevailed.
j. S. Moore ON the Situation, in the New
York Times

mo, don't congratulate me; this fight was
made upon a principle. Be glad because the
principle has prevailed; 1 only represent it,
The above sentence was the first answer
made by Mr.. Carlisle when congratulated on
his nomination for Speaker. The friends of
Mr.. Carlisle all along maintained that the
fight was not for men but for principle. In
my letter which you printed on Friday last
1 clearly showed this fact. / also foreshad-
owed that the real fight was between Mr..
Carlisle and Mr.. Randall and that the Sec
ronal stratagem started by the indiscreet
friends of the Northern candidates would
prove fatal boomerang. Every peaceably
inclined citizen must indeed feel grateful
that the Infamous attempt to revive
sectional hatred has signally failed, aud
the Speaker Of the Forty-eighth Congress will
justify the feeling of the whole country that
after nineteen years of peace there is no
section" and that those who try to revive
fratricidal policy have only some selfish in
terest to serve. Another great principle
gained in this struggle is the triumph of
truth. Protection and monopoly desired
darkness and secret voting. Freedom md
truth demanded open and outspoken action.
Light prevailed over darkness, and Mr.. Car
Isle will be Speaker. But what a revelation
must the overwhelming majority for Mr..
Carlisle be to the worshipers of the tariff
fetch! Fifty-two out of 1873 was all that
Democratic protectionists and Democratic
tariff reform dodgers could muster. Of
course, the votes for Mr.. Cox, complimentary
though they may baye been, all, In my opin-
ion. represent tariff reform. And right here
] may remind my readers that the asser.
ton OF Mr.. Carlisles friends that he would
De elected without the aid of the New
York delegation proved perfectly correct
And it may teach New York Demo-
Gratis at least a lesson. L have no doubt it
will teach some Democratic members of this
city lesson next fall. Now that the "prin
ciple has prevailed" the country will nat
urally be anxious for the future. OF course
/ can only give my opinion, which may not
be worth more that any one else's opinion
Well, then, l fully believe that the very
saDgQine expectations of hot-headed free
traders, and even those who clamor for very
heavy general reductions Of duties, will be
disappointed. But also believe and feel
sure that a bill for judicious tariffreform and
judicious reductions of duties with additions
to the free list, will certainly not only be
brought very early in the session before the
House, but will pass the House, and by a
large majority, too. The defeat of Mr.. Ran
dali means very emphaticallv that the coun-
try is not ripe TO give drunkards untaxed
whisky or smoke untaxed tobacco, But a
reduction of the whisky tax to fifty cents
a gallon and a further reduction of the
tobacco tax will really involve little
Jess OF revenue, as former re-
d1ction of taxes on these articles have fully
proved. 1t is therefore perfectly clear that a
reduction OF duties on some prime necessa-
ries of life a total abolition OF duties on
al xV1i in lie n 20
interest of man ufacturing industry, is indis-
pensable. Add to this certain notifications
OF the present tariff absurdities, and the
whole programme is or at least ought TO be,
before US have solemniy declared often
enough and now reiterate It, that grad
nal and judicious tariff reform is the only
feasible plan to adopt, and it is in the inter-
est OF tariff reiormers to sincerely adopt such
a moderate policy. OF course, there are mon
strous abuses in the present tariff that. like
some pest, stalk about in open daylight, such
as the wiDdow-glass and plate-giaSs tariff
robbery, and a score of kindred rotten monop-
olies. These, no doubt will find proper and
judicious level But there are many articles
now in the tariff that require no alteration.
If tariff reform is to be attempted at ALL
particularly by such gentlemen of the Ways
and Means Committee as the Speaker will
place there, we may be sure that the con-
sumerS will be considered and taken care OF,
a luxury which they have not enjoyed for
the last twenty-five years, and their turn
has come at last AS for the absurd reiter-
alton made chiefly by those Democratic
journals that were trying TO make the tail
wag the dog in this tariff policy-namely.
that Republican Senate will not pass a
tariff bill-why, such an assumption is
neither correct nor wise. There would indeed,
be odlum on party that would go before
the country next fall with the stigma of re-
fusing to reduce the War taxes in time of
peace. Besides. what policy can that be for
party to do nothing themselves ,and give
their opponents the chance to go before the
country and say, you can not expect nothing
from these timid, vacillating people. but give
us a full chance in all branches and we will
reduce taxation? And fully believe they
would faithfully do it, too. But the Demo-
cratic worshipers of the tariff fetch, and
that sneaky faction which advise the ostrich
policy in this tariff reform business, will
speedily wheel into line. To them the elec-
ton of Mr.. Carlisle as Speaker will prove a
Waterloo. The time of action has come,
and that action, feel certain will be mod
crate. judicious and beneficial 1t will re-
store health and strength to industries that
are now sickly and many of them in a pre-
carious state. Ii will restore employment to
scores of thousands of workingmen who are
now on strike and in a state of revolt
against employers and capital. 1t will re
lieve the country of the excessive War
taxes under which, after nineteen years of
peace, it is still groaring. And it will pune
ture the disgusting tester of monopoly under
which few hundred corporations and a few
thousand individuals have accumulated the
greater portion of the wealth of the country.
Business and industry can only gain by
the election of Mr. Carlisle as Speaker, and
the fact will speedily assert itself.