The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-03-24
WHAT the PAPERS SAY

The tariff was partly responsible for
Phipps's crime. The tariff makes copper
most uneOnsciOnablYfhighp priced. Who
can say whether theYery highpTice WAS
not the deciding element in the tempta-
tiOn which OYercame Phipps when he /
removed the copper roof from the aims
house ?-GalYestOn News (Dem.)
The Pennsylvania protection barOns
are introducing ''pauper labor" from
Hungary into their works in order to |
cheaper wages. To the protests of the |
American labOTers they declare that 1t |
is none of their business" Working
men should remember that these are the |
fellows who claim that they have in- |
vested their money in manufactures ex-
elusively for the benefit of american |
labOr,"-LOuisyille COurier-JOurnal.
We observe that few Democratic
newspapers are already cringing be-
meath the crack of the old pro-
lectionist slave whip. and are shrek
ing to the party: Don't agitate the
tariff question any mOrep' This pitiful,
bOOt-licking business is fortunately con
| fined to very small segment of the
party. Democrats who like TO get under
the bounty sharks lash should crawl into
the Republican party.-LOuisville COu-
rier Journal.
Some New York papers arise in their
State at Albany the other day decided
contested election case on a partisan
vote. Not one of these virtuOus purists
has had a word to remark about the
COOk-Cuts contested seat in the late
Congress. A Republican majority kept
/ Democrat out of his place until the
last day of the session, and then declar-
| ed that a Republican, whose voting
| qualities they had until that moment
retained, was never entitled to his seat.
Chicago Times (Dem.), March IA. .uI
| 1t Is pleasant to observe that the U. s,
1 Government Is to make repris8ls upon
l Germany for the exclusion Of the Ameri-
| can hog. q With our protective tariff we
have practically excluded about all that
Germany cares TO import into this
country. Bismarck may relate to the
American Minister, in connecting with
the American policy" which we began
and he is carrying out for Germany, the
story of the small boy who was pursued
by the goat. Being many times chased
about huge stump, finally the boy
gained on the goat and secured hrm
and very painful hold on that animal,
| so that he bleated out with pain, to
which the boy replied: 20, yes, you may
baa and baa, but I'd like 10 know who
began this business. Gin, News Dem.)
Those whom the madness of ignorance
1
Weigh against the civil service reform
forget that the only national election
the democratic party has carried since
| the war was by reform candidate, up
on platform which in terms demanded
Just such law as the PendletOn act has
furnished. His own letter of accep-
tance was clear upon that point, for a
systematic reform by law, when Hayes
| proposed to be an executive retOrmer,
and to make reform depend on the will
Of the president. The leading and only
issue In that canvass was reform. Fin
ance had dropped out. Parties were al
most as one as to resumption. The
tariff was not discussed. Democracy In
its platform, Mr.. Tilden in his letter, had
proposed such system and legal reform
as Is embodied In the PendletOn act.
Upon that, our only national victory for
u quarter of a century was wOn.-Cin-
News. . n... ...
If the iron mOnOpOlists who are not
satisfied with the protection" afforded
them in the new Tariff bill carry out
their threat of attacking its cOnstitu-
tiOnslity they may get more than they
bargained for. The time is coming,
sooner or later, when there must be Il
new adjudication or the question of the
} cOnstructiOnal right of Congress to i'm
pose taxes that are plainly a bounty
paid to favored manufacturers The
validity ofs.theHnew Tariff abill would
probably be sustained on another ground
that the Supreme Court has not the
power to go back of the certificate of the
two houses and the signature OF the
President. The House, by sitting in
conference upon the bill:and passing the
I measure reported from that body, waived
2 or cOndoned any irregular action of the
7 part of the Senate. The Supreme Court
i has never undertaken to dispute the
: records of Congress, nor to protect the
9 privileges Of either house. If the tariff
Q law is successfully attacked, 1t must be
upon higher grOunds.-BostOn Herald
Qnd.) d
The division in Congress was suflci'
7 emily marked to show three well-de6ned
= opinions which are more strongly held
! | without than they were within Congress
= The division between the House and
Senate Republicans was due TO 4 deter
. mined high protective Fparty In the
House and perception in the Senate OF
. the necessity for reduction of b0untieE
! as well as revenues. Apart from this
= there were In both houses a few who
: favored the Democratic idea Of cOnser
!, Vative but a real revision upon revenue
principles. This last Idea has a much
. larger Republican following than leader.
= ship OF representation. Here, then, were
three distinct opinions, zOnej. j.dectdediJ
. and rigidly prOtectiVe; another still
adhering to protection, but willing tt
make some real reductions on both rev
enues and bounties; the other real rev.
. enue tariff opinion. 1t was far easier
q for politicians and members Of Congress
Z to compose their diverse views than t.
induce those who have more interest in
their opinion than In politics to bt
equally faeile. No Conference Com,
mite can bring them together. As fOI
Democracy, leaving out Pennsylvania
no great trouble will be found in dealing