The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1883-01-14
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
tectcd BY the Tariff mUncertstnty-EIe
Vated Railways In snowy weather
Theatrical and Operate Wander.
biit wants the Orphans 90 Get out
of Hfs WAY.


NEW YoRH, Jan. II, 1888.
If Congress could be transported over here
/ for q few days | am Inclined to think IL would
be Sartled-n anything short Of political
revolution starte that august body-to
see how dependent business is upon prompt legs-
! laton with regard to the tariff. But II seems
| to I've impossible to make Congressman understand
that uncertainty Affects values more quickly and moro
seriously than actual legislation. The Congressional
wseacrcs that II lisa specious argument to urge
that legislation which will not 20 into effect TIL year
or more hence can have any real bearing upon bust.
The pseudo statesman's idea Is that trade
depreSslons now are In point Of fact fictitious, and
that business really adjusts itself to politics like salt
TO water, The humbost aborer will tell You differ
entity. rrivations iunumerable growing out OF nom
employment are actual resulting facts which
| no subtle argument can dsprove. Granted
that there was overproduction last year, and that
desire to curtall production and manufacturing is
OF business dulluess, stlll the paramount
disposition In trade circles, employer and employ6
| alike, Is to put the whole responsibility upon Con-
grcss for Its delay In not settling the tariff question
! The complaint here is almost universal OF hard
! times Mills are shutting down, factories are dis.
! charging operatives mechanics are without employ
ment clerks are dispensed with needless luxuty
/ Of peace and prosperity we see carklng care and
painful poverty, don't overstato the facts. Every
American Industry Is more or less affected by the
pending tariff bi in Congress, aud not one is salts
fed with the legislation proposed. It Is denounced
rs crude, vicious, lncongruous, aud un- American.
/ Tako for instance, the tobacco interest. with tho
Inauguration OF the internal revenue system tobacco
became inseparably connected with whisky. Tobacco
is a natural product whisky Is not Tobacco has an
average larger than the cotton belt, aud consii-
uency numbering over nve millions OF people. For
twenty years tobacco has paid an average Of nearly
forty millions annually to the Government The
people Indirectly pay these taxes, the manufac-
turers who act as collectors have no cause for COM
plnlnt. But they do compl lain Of system which
subjects their business to Government espionage and
of bond feature which practically shuts out the
business to any but capitalists. To make
my meaning clearer, state that the
the Government requires bond OF S. 900 before any
one can engage In the tobacco business The result
that monopoly Is created. Now, In point OF fact, very
! few tobacco manufacturers want the Internal taxe
abolished. But there are other propositions before
Congress which vitality affects their Interest. The
| tariff bill proposes to lower the duty imported
cigars, while 1t raises the duty tho raw MATERIAL
imported leaf tobacco II the bill passes In Its present
| form cigars eau be made In Cuba and In Europe
cheaper and OF better qua ty than In this county,
hence these nicotine tears and tobacco convention In
country ro s,,oc, ~ oa,a,a 'ar s @ W w..
to conhne II to the space of a column, but know how
THE HERALD Is readily Congressional solons, and
want to point out that inacton In Washington Just
now means hunger and want In New York And az
'clncher " may add that never In the history Of
the Government has the tariff question been settled In
detail as is proposed by the pending bin. The wings
undertook the Job. and finally, In 1867, had to
abandon 1t and pass Joint resolution making a
horizontal reduction Of 20 per cent In bulk That is
what the present Congress- will have tn do ~ anv Mn
4, n,sa, =, ~, ,,, -, ',' ' W Wv :, Guy o'''
~ an 'ns seSSion' OF am vastly mistaken.
with an old-fashloned snow-storm covering the
streets to the dep,b OF peorly n foot of snow
what n b,.,s,ng the T. r,,Is ara ,n ho
sn,o ,y,,,a ,na s,,,,,s -, 'v"u ", o W Nv
o",s, "n''e '"e su,'..e cars make aig-1aE pas.
surface locomotion Is almost an impossibty the
elevated cars glide TO your destlnoton Win cait,n,v
and celebrity why it makes travelling aposltlve
luxury! We like to abuse the elevated system some :
times as nuisance but we don't really mean IL and
really Nav yo,r ,n.,a, ,,,ha, ,a .". ~. "uu
W., ~ - 80, m "i'o". t"o ~ ''o'' "u"'
"Ua De new ork at an You know !. Is one of the
p,rt of the world do tbev an ,uctIv rasen, ,,n,n1
ioy,roo ,no,,a sao 'e.', ."". ~ ".
s,u,' . w., nav" sven nen M'' are p'ou'ga' WIN
money In matter OF enjoyment and personal graft
hcaion argue for two hours when they thought they
-, e ,, ',, " .'"' '"o'' ~ ~ ueUo"eN
"'a''er vi business ptihcip'e ana New Workers.
rated rbov d,d c,rrv ,ntrco viii, a., ,r,,,r,r a., =,
-, -, Vs. ~ "s' WV, u " a, ,oi.'"'s "n"
rechtess manu. Ihe doctrine oil ancient lights and the
old common law doctrine, that aman's right to his
property extended to all below him and all aloye him
was ant,raIv d,orac,rI.d ,rh, n,,s,noa 81, d,,,n y
-, h' " "S' W "i'Pfi"'
cihueis anu uhy water 100, evoked growl that
found ready echo in the Metropolitan press on the
first of the month tbey took Off tbc ,r,,ns affair
ni,h, on ,h stv,ha,o,, , , ,s. - .'e ~
% "s"' va '"o 'N'',"'o""e 'o'"' "u" """e uosol
t'iihk the press said ABOUT such an arrangement?
quote the literal language of leading daily; nTbc
tnkiny ou or noht tra,ns IL , yr,u, consso,,tn, n,
A., ~ "
t"e PeoP'e iBhts vi the most oppressive
and ntoerahle description ON the faith In the rail-
way company's implied contract to run trains o
niybt proper.v nm tbe unnsr .rd ,f tho s,,n, h,,
| - il Wv " Wv ~ ~
oeeh improved ana occupied, us Vauatioh mas been
determined and assessments have been based that
valuation, This arbitrary and unouestIonably awess
,o,ormin,t,on of tho r,,I,,,, IN M, nm, ,,i,s ,,,
~ ~ W e ''' w NV '"" "''''' "i'e'
an early hourG) OF the evening means not only a
violation of public faith, but the violent upsetting
households the stopping of development, the ami
hu,,,on -, a,as IA sho r,,, -, ,o,,an.,, ra,,",
'''' " o' ~ ' '"' vi Poiei'! n'''eiS
whose assessments were based upon n different order
OF things.' This Is from paper which was the frs,
10 denouuce the elevated system as an pto,eroe mi
, o mn, ,,,a, a., ~ .a 49,. 49, 49, I -, , . y, :,
Sah'e' ihe language is severe ohl we al KNOW IL
simply characteristic New York ''kick.' The
real estate assessments 1883 lust prepared show