Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-02-02
OPINIONS OF THE COUNTRY
PRESS.

Dresden Enterprise: WAETED-Some
able editor to explain TO us the exact posi-
ton Of the Democratic party on the tariff
question.
Pulaski Citizen: When Germany insults
the American hog and our congress squeals
what is the inference7 We pause for
grunt.
Milan Exchange: Tennessee needs more
home enterprise and hard work and less
politics. If all hands will go to work to dew
Ell up her wonderful resources, we will pros
per as we have never done before.
Pulaski Citizen: If Mr. Thieving Tariff
Watterson is to dangle as the tail of the
Mcdonald ticket, the more the boom is
boosted, and the quicker it peters out, the
better.
Tribune & Snn: Colyar is a'tariff robber,"
-CouT-ieT-Journdt.
Watterson is "a free trader"-Anericaa
You are both mistaken. Your tails are
tied together over the Ohio plank and you
ought to have more sense than cats.
The Brownsville Democrat comes out
strongly for Randall for President. He is
regarded too much in the light of an ex-
tremist and won't do for the Democratic
| candidate any more than Watterson would.
Dresden Enterprise (sky Blue): The state
debt is settled. Nobody but John Beasley
wants to disturb it, and he is not strong
enough to make much of a racket this year.
Therefore there is no rock on which Democ-
rafy can split.
| Murfreesboro News: Tammany Hall, it
is said, will support platform of gradual
tariff reform, "as opposed to high protection
pm the the one hand, or a sudden and disas-
ous reduction on the other.D We suppose
- will settle it, for when Tammany says
len it's when.''
Nton Globe: People who are anxious
to carry on a warfare of words on paper
should ABANDON the discussion of the tariff
and take Up some other question, some
thing like woman's Suffrage 1t would be
more interesting to the public and equally
as profitable to the press.
| Union City Our Country: Agitation for
| the sake of agitation is not wise, and the
Democratic leaders in Congress, who are
| endeavoring to force tariff reform at this
time do not manifest the highest wisdom
| The tariff is as much business as politi-
cal question and it ought not to be made the
| sport of partisan endeavor. 1t will be time
enough to revise the tariff when the party
comes into power, and any agitation now
| is useless and foolish.
Galatin Examiner: We hang on to the
Jacksonian tariff, and don't take a cent of
stock in latter day Free trade heresies.
|
We belong to the progressive. We have
put behind us many old Southern notions
about internal improvements,b banks, schools
etc. We want to build up our slow old
| country, by developing its treasures of
earth and forest, We hope to live to see the
| day when the South will be the seat of man
ufacturing industry and ahead o. Yankee
land.
Athens Post: The New York Sun thinks
the "tariff controversy is a kind of nuis-
anee." Newspaper readers generally reach
ed that conclusion some time ago. Not "a
kind of nuisance" but a nuisance of the
most stalwart proportions and gross a
mOuntain-made so by the damnal,e itera-
ton of controversialists VINO seem to know
no more of the merits and bearings of the
subject-their scope and verge, depth
breadth and immensity-than the great
American hog does of the Holy Land.
Meals Gazette: The U. S. Treasury
though there are amoung us thousands of
idle and hungry men who are anxious To
work for their daily bread-has in it sur
plus of $3.50, 100000 for which no place can be
found, though its disbursement is subject
of much vexatious discussion in Congress.
Gentlemen. allow a country Editor to IN Ike
a suggestion: Every county-seat in this
great and glorious country of ours should
have a handsome post-office building cree
ted and owned by the government. instead,
as now, the office being dependent upon
the charity of some enterprising business
man who gives it little corner in his store
for the trade it is supposed to bring to his
establishment.