Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-24
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We clip from the New York Sun. and
publish elsewhere, an answer to Wheeling
correspondent who wanted correct yer
sion of what Senator BAYARD did say at the
Brooklyn meeting, touching the tariff. By
comparison with the speech as published in
full in the Brooklyn Eagle we find that the
Suns quotation is correct A good deal o.
howEng has been done in the Republican
press about Mr. BAYARD's statement tina,
protection is legalized communism.
We ask any candid man to read the case
as presented by the distinguished Senator
and them say in the honesty of his heart, if
he can, that Mr. BAYARD used language that
the facts do not justify. The truth is, that
so far as his language can be applied to the
system Of which Mr. BLAINE is chief expo
nent-not protection for projections
sake merely, but protection for
subsidy's sake-it is milder than it ought to
have been. The case warrants the employ
ment of stronger language descriP
tive Of the BLAINE tariff theory thar legal
lied communism" 1t is communism
pure and simple without the forms Of legal
ity.
That tariff system, which Mr.. BLAINF
typ;6es discards the constitutional idea Of
being limited to the necessities of the General
Government, but as Mr.. BAYARD suggests
it goes further and covers the entire field OF
taxation, and through the agency Of the
Federal Government seeks to raise all the
money the States may need for their lOca
purposes. The FIRST infractiOu of the Con
stitution involved in the BLAINE theory is
that it goes beyond the organic law in the
scope of its power, and secondly in the man
ner Of discussing the revenues after they
have been raised by unconstitutional
methods. But it does not stop there, Mr..
BAYARD says: ut declares whether the
Federal Government needs it or not, or
whether theState Governments shall need it
or not, it shall be levied for the purpose Of
transferring the property Of the many into
the pockets Of the few" Isn't that COM
munism2 Could the French commune
have announced the fundamental principle
of its organization in. more appro-
patel language than Mr.. BArARD
has described the BLAINE theory
of protection? And yet that is what
BLAINE organs call Protection for Protee-
ton 5 sake Old fashioned English speak
ing people, who call a spade spade, would
denominate it Protection for Subsidy sake.
The Republican theory is not a protective
tariff looking to a legitimate protection of
deserving industries-it is nothing more
or less than subsidy, Followed to its
logical and legitimate conclusions il sub
sdizes interests that have already been fos-
tered into mOnOpohes. Under its opera
5non, as Mr.. BAYGRD states 50 clearly, the
hand of the Government is allowed TO ad.
just in the discretion Of majority of Con-
gress, the skill and means Of the various
citizens over which that Government may
rule.
Il is not surprising that 0'DoSOyAN
Rosa is.a supporter Of BLAINE. While APP
preaching from opposite directions they are
both heading for the same goal LabOring
in different fields each has the same result
in yew-"legalized communism" Not
localized either, SenatOr--it you viii pardon
the temnrily Of our critieism-tOr that
which is not warranted By the Constitution
is not legalized,. whatever It's forms may be.
The safety Of property lies in obedience TO
law"