Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-12-13
ESTABLISHED 1910
Grave AND cowAnDLYDEnocRATs.


nize the anomalous position of the South |
in the Democratic party, and to insist |
upon the naturalization of that organi-
zation by the recognition of Southern
statesmen in the making of national
Presidential ticket. and it has for some
years persistently plead for the consid-
Grafton of policies pertinent to the in
dustries Of the country and the exclu- |
sion of sectionalism from the halls of |
Congress. To-day, as for months past
1t is Urging the cause Of tariff revision
and reform as the question Of greatest mo-
.ment to the country, the one upon which
the Presidential election is 10 turn and
which already felt by leading Demo-
Gratis in the House compelled them
20 turn from the debasing policy of per-
sonal consideration and elect Carlisle
Speaker, because he is for the greatest
good of the greatest number, is opposed
to monopolies and menopolists, and de-
sires above all things q reduction of the
burdens put upon labor by the Repub-
hcan party in 1862 and increased every
year since until this of 1888 The Herald,
in pursuit of really national purpose
an behalf Of the people, and win a view
to inject some real Democratic blood into
the veins of the cowardly leaders who
have lead the party almost to the brink
of ruin, has been interviewing some of
Lhc old-tlme statesmen whose names are
yet talismanic and potent with the party,
and the result il delightful to the ear of
every studeu.'y of the glorious history of
that party, under whose guidance
an empire was won and the country en-
tered upon its wonderful career of pros
pef'.ty and progress. Horatio Seymour
ard Gen. Mcclellan insist that tariff
revision and the lessening of the burdens
of the people shall be the issue in 1884,
and in a manful way they covet defeat at
the polls rather than the degradation of
cowardice. So also says Ex-senator
Mcdonald, of Indiana, himself candi-
date for the Presidency; Abram S. Hew-
ltt, Of New York, large and wealthy
manufacturer; Gov. Cleveland of New
York, and others equally influential.
These are manly men, who have at heart
the interests Of the people as above all
party or personal considerations. They
know, too, that the people always respect
courage of conviction, especially when it
is supported and sustained by right rea-
sons that can neither be successfully con-
tradicted nor denied They know that
when the tariff was reduced by the
Democratic party before the war to an
absolute revenue basis manufacturing
enterprises, between 1850 and 1860, in
creased fourteen per cent and the capital
invested in them increased ninety per
cent, while from 1870 to 1880, under Re
publican high tariff pressure the increase
OF manufactures was less than one per
cent. and the increase of car:al invested
IN manufactures was hat thirty-two per
cent. They know that these figures speak
cloquently for the tariff revision and tariff
reform policies of the Democratic party,
and condemn the high protective tariff
policy of the Republicans that has built
up vast monopolics, made the rich richer
and the poor poorer, induced snobbish-
ness and aristocratic pretension, and on
couraged and perpetuated class tlegislo.-
tion. But We have more of the same sort
The increase in the total an. cunt IF vogos
paid for labor between 1880 and 1880
under Democratic r'.Ia. wns sixtv Nor
cent whereas u'1dGr Republican high
protec'iVe-tarl'.> : rule, from 1870 to 1880,
II was onV .@enty-two per cent The in
crease ~ the value of materials used in
manu- .aetureS between 1880 and 1860 under
D .mocratic rule was eighty-six per cent,
oetweon 1870 and 1880, under Republi-
tan monopoly rule, it was only thirty
seven per cent. The increased value of
manufactured products between 1850 and
1850, during Democratic tariff-for-reve-
nue. rule, was oighty-fve per cent, and
between 1870 and 1880, under the Repub-
ieaus, it was less than twenty y-seren per
cent. The Democrats were opposed to a
surplus revenue, and were anxious that
the people should be absolutely free and
untrammeled in their exertions for the
profitable employment of their brains
and muscle aud capital, and the result
was our clipper ships swept the seas
made the fastest time on record, were
doing nearly one-half the carrying trade
of the world, and were rapidly gaining on
Englaud's monopoly of the seas. Ameri-
gon sbi,,s yoiloI -, ,v,ry. so, ,nI ,,,,.
flag was the symbol of liberty, of fra
teruity with the down -trodden, and of
human progress at its best, untram-
melcd by laws or hindered by hoary
customs or the brutal prejudiees T., n
still linger with the most favorod
nations of Europe. The A,pEAL re-
joiccs that the earne & words il
gave out last summer, especially for the
adoption and pro.mulgation of brave
policy by the d emocratic party and the
total and utter abolition of sectional lines,
have had Come effect, and that men are
coming II the front bold enough and hon
est e,dough to have faith in the well tried
Doctrines of the party, and to enunciate
and declare for them. Men like Hoadly,
OF Ohio, and Pattisou of Pennsylvania,
are curse to the Democratic party, to
any party. To be so ignorant as to be in
capable of expressing view as to tariff
reform, or having an opinion, to be so
cowardly as to refuse to give it utterance,
Is little less than crime with men who
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statesmen must so to the rear. Cowards
and trimmers must be driven into retire
nent and brave men, well informed as to
the tariff and its growth must be called
20 the front to lead the Democratic
party in 1881. The country is aroused
upon this question, and the people
will not be led by men who own
mines or manufactures, who are
railroad monopolists, who would perpetu-
ate the iuiquitous burdens now resting
upon the farmer, the laborer and the me-
chauic, nor will they listen for moment
to demagogucS like Butler, who would
carry water on both shoulders; who are
monopolists themselves, and yet howl
over the sorrows of the people, dropping
crocodile tears. Carlisle's election was
the first step gained in this movement for
the relief of the people, and the election
of Democratic President on a tariff-re-
form platform must be the next. Trim
mers and towards and monopolists will
take notice, and govern themselves ac-
cordingly.
THE STORM
Which prevailed throughout Great Brit
ain on Tuesday night and yesterday play
ed havoc on sea as well as land. The