National Republican., 1883-01-31
Amonr ncmocrntlc Doctors.

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Yc,cnts Among Democratic Doctors.
lsngrccn lebate on Monday Senator VEST, Of
In the H. declared that "while he believed in
TissouriA Ae.or revenue he also believed that in
tariff }e limits of tariff for revenue the pro-
de thKS incidental to every tariff should be
,ctioErl to infant industries" Then Sona-
ivciN NhsCoNGER said he was glad Senator VEST
n - come into the ranks of the protec-
ADJ Nnists. Then Senator BAYARD with char
CAtutcristic solemnity, and in q tone of firm
Nt5ut regrctful reproof, expressed his sorrow
at such goings on on the part of Mr.. VEST,
nv and even went so far as to say that Mr.. VEST
/. had confessed himself under the influence of
4 "local considerations" and that if such be-
4. havior became general at would be abso-
g lutcly fatal to all attempts to reform the
tariff" Mr.. VEST refused to be pulled down
by the senator from Delaware, and continued
n to clamor for the soothing sirup of protection
d for the infant industries of the country. 1t
was hcathful breeze, and proves the inability
" " of the democratic and deputy democratic press
No and tho foreign frce-trade lobby combined
to unite the democracy on their anti American
cry of "a tariff for revenue only" That
Il phrase is an oiTense to the laborers in Amer
=, lean factories and to the producers in
n this country of every commodity, which
is also imported 1t is declara-
L tion of war upon the principle Of protec-
tior as advocated by Mr.. VEST Tho re.
publican party is for protection in revenue
tariff. 1t is not for aprohibitory tariff, but for
such a rate of duties as will preventa monopoly.
either Of foreign or American manufactures
II wants foreign products admitted upon the
d payment of duties which will give them an
3, equal chance to compete in the market with
American products, in manufacturing which
ID American rates of wages are paid. Its latest
declaration is in the following words taken
- from the national platform on which GAR
FIELD and ARTHUR were elected:
We affirm the belief, avowed in 1876 that tht
duties ieried for he purpose Of should so dis
: crimindte as TO favor american tabor.
The latest declaration Of the democracy was
ic, in its national convention of the same year,
n, viz: "a tariff for rcrenuc only" This was an
y" offensive expression of the hostility Of that partl
m 10 the principle Of protection, even where its ap
al. plication would neither prohibit imports on
the one hand nor create a surplus revenue Oh
i.' the other.
The American artisans and workingmen
understood this perfectly, and gave their sup
if port to the party which considered theii
lie welfare worthy element in revenue legisla'
tion. No jugglery with words can change
the plain import of these opposing declara'
to tions, The democratic party is against pro-
ct lection to American industry, as of old, and
i'll frowns upon it MS n necessary evil when
70. incidentally it is promoted in the raising OF
necessary revenue. The republican party SC
c. adjusts the revenue laws as to prevent chcar
lis European labor from monopolizng the Amcri
to can market.
e. The frankness of HARRY WATTERsoN as
platform maker let the democratic cat of in
difference to American laborers out of tho
n bag. The democratic leaders have vainlS
,s strven since to repair the mischief some
he times denying and at other times defending
~ the only construction of which his famous
tariff plank is capable.
The most velvoty covering of the cats claw
IS which has thus far been exhibited to show the
ty absolute scratchlessness of her character is il
MS the concluding words of Mr.. BAYARD'S re
q buke of Mr. VEST. He said:
70 Any truly reiormatory law upon this subjec
must be enacted upon the principal that II tarii
should be only in the public interest and for pub
lie purposes and that no local or individual de
sd mnnds should be considered or heard.
he But for what public" does Mr.. BAYARI
of speak? Is it the American public or is it th
on federation of the world " to which the free
pc. traders aspire? If no "local" demand
e; should be considered, what does Mr.. BAYARI
call local? Does he mean one country or
lesser subdivision of the world?
Ir. Is Mr.. BAYARD ready to say that congress
ho should legislate for American interests, or j
ID he imbued with that broader spirit of phi
Rz lanthropy which possessed the good Mr. sLEEI
no when he withheld aid from the family of
cat disabled brcklayor in order to contribute t
. fund for "placing in the hands of ever
baby born in Africa a penny tract, a AannC
lo- shirt, and a fine-tooth comb?" BY their fruit
m shall yc know them.
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