Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1884-02-20
Trials and TribuIatiOns.

Mr.. Morrisons tariff bill is reported as
likely to pass the house of representatives,
some one who has made canvass report
ing that half dozen republicans will vote
for it and only thirty democrats. against it
The bill is in substance twenty per cent
reduction of the present tariff but in no
case to 60 below what the tariff was in
1861.
The bill is supposed to be one to give a
tariff for revenue only" The country is
collecting more taxes than itneeds'and the
surplus must be gotten rid of by not
having surplus instead Of applying it to
further reduction of the debt. But the
New York Sun in little shining article
entitled Suppose" makes most horrible
supposilion. 1t says suppose the reduction
should MOI. have The effect of lessening the
revenue and cites the article of steel rails
that now bear so high a tariff that they
are made here and not mporled-suppose
the reduction should be such that it would
pay to import them then the revenue il
increased instead of diminished in thai
item as we'll as the manufacture in thi.
country disturbed.
And besides printing such things in biz
Sun Charles A. Dana has gone to Wash
ineton. And it is alleged that he is there
with his ideas about the tariff. Further.
more The wool growers and manufactur
ers of wooden goods are reported 10 bt
unhappy about Mr.. Morrison $ panacea.
The Louisiana sugar planters are Ger
tainly that unhappy that some of them
have gone to Washington. The Loui'ians
sugar planters are most of them demo.
Gratis and the democrats have had a way o
carving louisiana since the Plaquemines
frauds of 1874. Horace Greeley and Gen
Sherman and Eliza Pinkston have a
various times objected to Louisiana dem
ocrats and their ways sometimes will
success and sometimes not. But of lnt
years nobody has had any success again'l
them. These sugar planters and their
crowd know how to carry Louisiana. An
they say sugar is king in Louisiana auG
that if they can't have protective tariff
in their preserves why it is of no use to g
democratic any more and they are not
going to do it. The wicked democra ic
sugar planter vexes the soul of Morrison
and worries his presidential bee.
All the same Louisiana will 90 demo
cratic next fall. for it is 10 be solid sout
unless something breaks that the mos
stupendous democratic blunderer canuo
now see to get bis bands on. The Dan
vile whites show that they were yer,
innocent in the riot last fall bvt sucl,
Innocent episodes have an fleet; and tn.
Copiah county performances in Mississippi
have their effect too. The south will b,
solid if it knows how to be and it does
know.
Nevertheless the sugar planters worry
the sanity reiormers just as the republican
in the house now worry their opponent.
about the Mexican war pension bill. Th,
bill is called that, but it brings in those
who served in some Indian wars in the
south and the republicans want to confn,
it to the Mexican war. So last night ther,
was night powwow; Call Of the hous'
and quarrels and all that sort of thing
If the session is only long enough tn,
democratic statesmen can be relied on /,
do much for the success of the republican,,
next fall-raher more in fact than tn,
republicans themselves, more's the pity.