Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-01-01
The Tariff to be the Issue.

s'The people demand lower taxes, and
refuse to have their attention Withdrawn |
from reforms in our fiscal policy which |
alone will make lower taxes possible. The
so-called Granville massacre" was failure |
the Northern heart could not be tired
with the old-time fctions of that class |
The ssSolid South cry, raised when Car
Isle was found to have been elected large
ly by Southern votes, had a brief existence
outside of the editorial sanctums of two or
three organs of the high-tariH interests.
At home there is no general social dlsqulei
of which the demagogue may take nosu'
and abroad there are no differences Wild
k-eign powers of a character to excite our
combative citizen. The quest lor an
sher than that of the tariff is there
md to fail. The nature of this issue |
\ptlv remarkable. 1t IS not
kissing more money, but
Hcovernment collected IRON
loooo,o 900 more IAN i need
S, 900 900; snexts year it ex-
u sfoge99s, ggl2 Beyond its
SACs'sS. DC.1s5 upPlitd tue
the public debt. is creating all
<0arrasments for the friends of
Nal bank system, and net q few
Ue<would wish taxes to be reduced
Inerely to save the banks. 1t tends alsDGto
promote the continuance of the vicious pol
icy of buying bullion to be coined into de-
based silver dollars. Worst of all, the
presence in the treasury of an enormous
surplus tempts Congressman into extrava-
CANT and improper appropriations, and the
departments into ambitious engagements
of their functions. It being cardinal prib
ciple of our government that no more mdn-
ey shall be raised than the public expenni-
tTe, economically directed, requires, the
very existence ola surplus of 100000
is contrary to the whole spirit of our polit
ical institutions. That there should beany
objection to SO desirable q thing as reluc-
ing taxes, in view, especially, of the dsad-
santages of the opposite course, may Feem
incredible. Nevertheless there are not
few prominent Republicans who prefer to
devise new methods for spending the sur
plus, instead of taking the short cut OF
abolishing it,
''What the Democratic majority in Con
gress aim to do, under the guidance OF
such experienced men as Carlisle, Hewitt,
Morrison, and others of that thoughtful
and conservative stamp, is to remedy the
inequalities of the present tariff in the in
terest 1t consumers, while allowing raw
material to come III duty free in the inter-
estS of the manufacturers and of American
labor To lower the tariff is not to destroy
the trade of the country, but to promote it,
and the yearly requirements of the govern
ment are SO large that the tariff cannot help
being kept high enough to afford incidental
protection to those industries that need it.
To many minds not tho least recommends.
ton of the tariff policy is the excellent
solution il supplies of the diificuIe p.oblsss.i
Of preserving the -, -, $500 800
wy e'',aie' ' atioIt ofsrnrs policy it will h
oe perceived that it is more favorable /,
.he banks than any of the plans elaborated
oy themselves, or by Comptroller Knox ane i
Inc secretary of the Treasury M. Car h
i,sie believes that the best way to protee "a
'he banks IN their circulation IS. not to Leo
isiaIe directly in their behalf but to reduct
Inc surplus revenue by means of which tb,
DoIos ca which the banks base their circu o.
is'''n are being SO rapidly redeemed We're 1i
,ue taxes collected by the government en-
io"a to the needs of an economical ADM. a
s'raSi'n' the national banks might posses, p
no'' SOULS IN peace for an indefinite leng /
. ''''e. The presence of Mr.. Buckner in :,
n' 'oininittec on banking and currency in e
iea'es' therefore, simply that nothing will ),
e "ohe III reference to the banks at the =
resent session, pro or con.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A Foorrsu ! th
IRI"--'liss Nellie West, the sixteen-year- th
III daughter of London banke,-.,rs.,ss,--- ~
tempt to take her own life at Rfown's &c"
o'e, Chicago, Monday week. She had put G
81 address on thehotel registrars from New viii
ok and was assigned to a room. She in
nc, the hotel clerk that she could see no. sl;r
'dS,sH any calls were Anade. Late SER
Loheiay afternoon a strong odor OK gas il +
'ming from her room induced the porter bee
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