The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-04-11
pENNsyLvANIA DEMOCRACY.

slant. Nhe convention was entirely mar
monious and ON all points OF principal IT,
,eroat was unanimous. The HERALD yet-
terday morning published the platform oil
principles and the resolutions adopted by
the convention But we will this moruin,
notice one plank OF the platform OF prinol'
pies and one resolution on which We pre-
pose TO base very briefly ihi' or,iSls. Tho
plank In The platform alluded to, Il az fol-
lows;
"Fourlh-We favor tariff for revenue lin.
tied to the necessities OF the govern ment,
economically collected and 20 adjusted as
to present equal burdens and TO encourage
active Industries ct home and s1ord just
compensation TO labor, but M, 10 create or
foster monopolics, aud TO this end we favor
the abolition OF the internal revenue and
taxes aud favor such adjustment Of the sI-
isling tarlff du les as will be consistent with
these principles"
This tariff resolution, or plank, Is without
fault, We may say. 1t Ia Just exactly what
the HERALD has advocated al. the
time what II has conceived TO be ilst aud
ludlcious. This plank does not mean thst
there shall be a sudden reduction OF the
,srlf schedule, for II that We're done the In
dusres Of the country would be psr,l, I'D.
Hundreds and hundreds OF manufacturing
establishments would have to be closed and
thousnnds ard Thousands Of peopls now
living comfortably wi h their families Oh
tho wages they receive from these menu
factories would be thrown out of mploy.
ment AID would per consequence suffer for
the bare lecsisit es OF life. by a sudden
reduction Of tho tariff schedule to n ire.
trade basis or TO basis OF
tariff for revenue only, as the
phrase Is generally understood, would
create q commercial panic and general
slsgnalion OF trade, the same as was the
case eleven years ego. The country would
b, oveuun with tramps, men would be dix
charged from the various industries of the
lani; there would be hopeless, hungry,
wsn-eyed women by the thousands seeking
in vain for labor, even for n pit'ar CO 10
k sep soul and body together; there would
b. vast multitude OF little children in
every part Of the Union holloS.cheel ed
and starving, and want and misery in !t,ir
gauntes. forms would stalk from north o
south, from east 10 west OF all our
fair .laud. Crime, created by poverty and
suffering, would be everywhere, and even
around the sltirs OF G1D tners would
bs means from pent up hearts OF anguish.
While the HERALD hss always been In
favor of a reduction OF the import tariff
L.. t,n eli 81 ffxt To
one OF actual need and no more, IL has at
the same time constantly advocated that
this reduction should be gradual and never
so low as TO endanger our home manuiac' !
tories nor the wages Of American labor. !
TIE principle OF the MoRnI;oS bill 10 good |
enough, perhaps but its details ara weak !
and deficient. II provides for 20 per cent. |
reduction OF the tariff rev
enuo. While 20 per cent. may no. be too
much on the reduction OF
som, imports, 1t may after all,
be great deal toe much
at ono swoop on q great many other lro-
tee led articles, so much so indeed ~ to
amount to no sort OF protection. 7 o
IL ER.LD IL proud OF its tariff record. 1t as
always counseled for moderation, conser-
ys,isna and time in tho reduction OF the |
tariff rates, still 1t has always advocated n |
reduction. To illustrate for instance. and |
IL is only given as. an illustration, We're not
the negroes of tho south freed too sud- |
dsnly2 II was right euough to free them |
an d 10 give them citizenship, .bu. would |
not the whole country have been better off
IL 1, had been done gradually 80 that $780,
900 people would not have been impover-
ished and helpless left starving at one
stroke Of the pen?
Tho resolution we refer to Is as follows:
Resolved, That SAMUEL j. RANDALL, who
Il tho choice Of the democracy Of Pennsyl-
va,ia 10 the candidate OF tn, party for
president. BY long, faithful public service
h. has illustrated unfaltering devotion to
his high political principles and his fealty |
to the democratic party. His honesty and
honor, his capacity and courage, his faith
ful labors and signal abilities have merited
ond won for him the confidence and sup
BORT OF the people OF the United States.
II will be remembered by our readers
that we advocated the claims OF SAMUEL j..
RANDALL for speaker until II became evil
dent he could not defeat Mr.. CARL,sLE, the
OF the other wing OF the
democracy, and then, TO prevent the evil Of
Ma. CARLIsLE's election, We urged that a
compromise be made on Mr.. Cox, Of New
Y TX. To ell thinking men, to ali
,!ate ,men It must have been APP
pa .snt that CARLISLE, with his
.hsn extreme antipro.e ction views,
Y tn Mr.. HENRY WArrERsoH, editor
,f the Louisville Courier.Journal at his
back with his free trade ureiDgs In season
md out, that it was Questionable policy to
.lect Mr.. CARLISLE. The idea was, or
Ihould have been, to elect o democratic
and having democratic house,
We would also have democratic senate,
hen the house having been captured,
democratic president and congress would
AVE by degrees brought the tariff down to
fair, living, honest, equitable basis. NJ
would havesbeen destroyed, no
a orers wages cut of. no prosperity OF the
ountry in any sense interferred with.
This country and the democracy will
ever regret the day whom SAMUEL J. RAN
ALL, OF Pennsylvania, Is inaugurated iis
resident. He is democrat IN the fuliess
urest sense OF the word. Are not thssa
lords from BIZ, lips m sde to the Pennsyl
snia democratic convention, when tn,
esolution endorsing him for the presi-