The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-01-19
grease spot on the robes Of the present

,lso the washington correspondent OF
the Boston PosT. and was the author OF
the statement in that paper last week
that Mr.. Randall and his Pennsylvania
colleagues had agreed with the Republi.
can minority to aid in the defeat of any
reduction Of the present tariff. The ar.
fcIe WAS q eanard on it's face. and Mr..
Randall called upon Speaker Carlisle to
know whether his secretary had official
permission TO engage in the maligning oi
members Of the House. Mr.. Carlisl,
reprimanded his secretary, and in tbs
future the Boston paper will have tC
look elsewhere for its sensational cores
pondence But this tariff question prom
,es to be
DANGEROUS ROCK
upon which the Democrats in the House
are in peril of dividing; large number
of the leaders faver the springing of the
issue at this session in order that the
Democratic party may go before the
country during the Presidential cam.
paign upon its true tariff principles.
talked on the subject with Hon. Benton
McMillin, of Tennessee, prominent
leader ON the Democratic side, and true
representative of his party. Mr. McMil-
lin said to me:
''That the present tariff needs modif-
cation and reduction every man who is
not prolectionist for projections sake
must admit know it is said the in
dustTies of the country will be frighten.
ed Will they be less subject to fright
one or two years hencep We should at
tempt nothing but what is just; and no
Individual or corporation has right to
take fright at justice. We should deal
with the question from patriotic, rather
than a political standpoint, if the time
comes when the two do not coincide
But even from political point of view
the Democracy has more to fear from in
action and covering, than from taking
and maintaining judicious but firm
stand In favor of reforming the outrage
ous enormities and deformities of the
present tariff. Ii we do this we clearly
define our policy ourselves and go TO the
contest on our own grounds. II we do
nothing our opponents define it for us
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complish in the way of ultra legislation.
1t is vain to try to smother out the tariff
issue. The Democratic majority of the
45th and 46th Congresses declined to act
and the people sent them to the minori-
ty. The Republicans of the 47th Con-
gress improved some things a LITTLE,
but the people became disguised with
their dallying and have sent to this Con-
gress about seventy Democratic majori-
ty. We now know what the people ex.
pect of us, and if we do not place the
failure to accomplish a revision of the
tariff upon the Republican Senate our
present majority will drop to minority
when people again go to the ballot box.
II We leave the tariff and taxes as they
now are we will have a surplus in the
Treasury in January, 1891. of $500, 900. =
0 DO, after paying all bonds due up to that
date. That will pake 50 for every man
woman and child in the United State g
locked up in the vaults. What will be
the resultp
PR DIoAL APPROPRIATIONS
q lobby that will liDger around it as vul.
Sures around carcass, devising every
means from larceny to legislative rob-
berry to get tfeir hands into it. b, sides
so much money would be diverted iro III
the legislative channels of trade that
stringency, penics and ruin would follow.
Fnis must be averted and it can only be
done by reducing taxes"
What are some of the unjust dis
ordinations of the present tariff, Mr.
MeAIillin2"
Why sir, the more luxuriant and
non-essential the article the lower the
duty in most instances. To illustrate:
On cut diamonds the duty is only 10 pei
cent. while upon mechanics tools and
agricultural implements it is from so t.
80 per cent. Uncut diam onds are free,
b 1t the raw materials entering into arti
cle' Of every day use are taxed from Al
o 100 per cent. Fine laces com 6 in a
20 per cen while the coarse cotton good
used by the poor are subject to from sc
TO 100 per ceOt duty. Silk velvet is dut
ed 25 FER cent. but on coarse wooler
knit goods the poor have to pay from G.
o S5 per cent. The last Congress re
duced tue tax on playing cards to 10 pei
cent.