National Republican., 1883-05-19
Old Ksntuok and Revenue oniy.n

Old hontuok and "Hevenuc Only"
Those dear, delicious democrats of Ken
tuckyl How our republican heart goes out
to them in gratitude for their fervid denun-
citation Of the tariff. Says their platform:
The Kentucky democracy are unaltetably on.
|posed TO subsidies OF every description. They
believe that all taxation should be for the sup.
port oflhc government They denounce the tariff
|uct Of tho last republican congress as a monster
Ppieco Of inequality, injustice and wrong, and
tthcy demand OF the next democratic house OF
| Representatives n measure OF relief and reform
based upon the organic law OF the democratic
lparty declared at ST. Louis in 1876, and reafhrmed
ai Cincinnati In 1880, which requires that all Gus
| tom house tordtfon shdR be FOR REVENUE ONLY.
I Why certainly. Who says that the demo-
trratic Organic law" Is to be nulliaedP' What
f,roakers and outsiders aro those democratic
Icditors who are trying to hush up the cry for
n tariff reform measure in the next house of
representatives The state which is to fur
thish the next speaker has sounded forth the
trumpet that shall never call retreat Gal.
liant Henry Watterson--tcrrible infant of the
democracy. Who shall pronounce divorce be-
Tween you aud revenue only" tariff The
uno is pitched. The bow Is rosined. The
1lance goes on. To the devil with Pennsyl.
Fanial Kentucky knows by heart the his.
fory of the democratic party, and therefore
1Snows that the people of the Keystone state
qannot be bcguied into voting for free trade
by so small n bribo as the speakership for
fSam Randall, who is too much of a democrat
o be good protectionist in Pennsylvania,
hnd too much Of a protectionist to be good
democrat anywhere else. The Now. York
Irtn the Nashville american, and Ben Butler
fnay sing In unison, and never so loudly,
hat revenue only tariff unfortunately, but
fccessarily protects. They will not DO heard
IN the democratic house next winter, nor yet
tn the national convention Of their party.
Irhc state which gave Henry Clay to tho
country spurns his American system, and tho
slouthcrn democracy, which wanted free trade
IN slavery days in order that tho south
might deal in cotton with Old England to
ghe exclusion of New England, has not yet
iIDarned that slavery is dead, and that
SIouthern interests are no longer what they
Iioro whom tariff laws were defed by South
9arolina.
1t is to be regretted that tho Kentucky de-
1iocracy were not as explicit concerning tho
1biect Of the tax on whisky as they were on
'|he subject of custom house taxation. The
100000 Of gallons Of whisky in United
1'tates bonded warehouses in Kentucky, on
Which the tax Of over $GO00O,OOO has not
con paid, is now being exported to Bermuda
"fnd other foreign ports to escape taxation
for revenue only" Of course its absence is
y be but temporary. Charming inconss-
'fPncy! tariff for revenue only. A whisky
x for-what? Not for revenue only. II
v Iould seem to be a tax for evasion only. II
Vie export all our whisky to avoid
ifs taxation, won't the "rove nue. only" re-
qI hire an increase over tho amount received
ON present duties on foreign imports? Does
Q organic law of tho democracy demand a
CHER tariff than the present one? If we
$50 the whisky tax to tho extent OF
slb0,000,oO0 and reduce the tariff besides. will
v PATTERSON make up the deficit by advancing
ON his own means the amount that will be
~ cking for revenue only9' However this
inlay be, certain it is that the democratic
plhrty prefers revenue to protection as much
AL II prefers whisky to revenue. Such is its
oiEganic law and Old Kentuck does not pro,
piPse to be muzzled in order to allow Pennsyl
VI hnia democrats to play at protection with,
oYLt results.