The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-04-16

- " ''' institutions are adopted.
ID An analysis Of the phrase-"To =
j, lor revenue only'-will show it to |
III equally impracticable, and (not to speo
n contemptuously) shallow nonsense. m
T. essential idea in tariff 50 desc ribed !,
'e '''at II" rate in is schedules shall cor
4" '"'i' Trace Of that porteutous bug.bea
l. 10 It's projectors that is called Pro,c,,;,,
L N"w' If Mr. Morrison were given
C c@''c 0|o"che to-day to frame II tariff -,
> Ter mat ideal, toyield sufficient reycpu,
), for the Government, even with ,be a.,
= " Tue Excise tax On spirits and tobacco
G nc could not do SO without fixing rate.
b '''' WOULD protect some articles of do
! nestle produce or manufacture un,os.
he fixed them SO high ON MANY f,re;yn
nccessares Us well rs luxuri. ,
as to practically prohibit their use
and among the former would he coffee
and tea. A tariff which in any of its
provisions enables the owner of homo
production to sell it at higher price
Than he could if there were no tariff.
though it be levied for revenue "a y
tariff which protects, and if ever the
advocates of this Revenue-only theory
attempt to reduce it TO practice. thew
VIII find it impossible. 1t is Aimsy
c"'ch'phrase unworthy party pro.
tossing craftsmanship, and it was only
III the hnrly'burly Of a political convcn.
tlon after the candidates had been named
When the reading of the platform had
about as much significance as the benc.
d'cllon or doxology has at the close of
"revlval meeting, that it could have
escaped censure or elimination.
The tariff bill reported by Mr.. Nor.
rison, now under debate in the House
Of Representatives, and support of
which is sought to be made the test of
party iealiy, as measure of tariff re-
form, is Il crude and ill-digested scheme
md at varance with the leading prnci-
pie its authors advocate. 1t is full of {
very feature abhorrent .
o them. Intended, in its horizontal
dea, to curtail the amount of revenue
it is just US probable it will +
Increase importations aud lead to aug. t
nenlaIion of the revenue. 1t is blind
md stupid brandishing of the hatchet =
t revision in the face of the country to I
nable the Democratic party to make a e
iliful politicians record. 1t is any. ?
hing hut II statesmanlike appeal to the : ).
'und business sense of the country, and g
lille it will deceive no intelligent man Il
farmer, merchant, manufacturer, b
'nsumer, producer, or what not, i
i'll tend to engcndcr among prudent g g
nd conservative classes in all sections II
distrust in the lawmaking capacity of b
party which drives rccklessly on n p
easurc whose orr ginators confess its y
n2criections, and which foolishly tam "
,rs with the business of the country
r the avowed purpose of attaining Il
lrcly party object. =.
The claim of these prurient tariff ag. til
ltors that the st. Louis platform of e''
'1G on which Mr.. Tilden was elected, re-
I'd also that Of 1880, was an embodi. al
ent and demand for the enforcement ~
their peculiar views, and that there
now. or was when the present House
Representatives was chosen, n great
,pular movement in the West and
'uth for immediate and sweeping tariff NJ
form, is as unfoundcd as the PROPOSE. co
m that they carry the Ark of the Cow t N
ant of sound Democratic opinion on ed
e tariff question. Whatever the pr
ance phraseology of the St. Louis
atform may have been, everybody
lows the tariff was a subordinate and
considerable issue and scarcely men
med in 1876. Such was the case in -,
m ''' M
80 until the last week of the cam, In,
ign, when the candidate, Gen. Han. CT
TX, onl y saved the electoral vote of "a
w Jersey by virtually repudiating D'
"Tarii.for-revenue.only" plank in tio
platform. Despite the claim to the
,trary, it is equally true that the mass TIN
the Democratic majority in the pres. pal
House were not elected on the tariff Wv.
tation issue as interpreted by Messrs. INF
rlisle and Morrison. and those that tin
re, as in the case of the Ohio delega- the
q, were elected to repress in its pres. ing
form and in accord with the old a ~"
"" sue
d marks, and not to follow the doc ner
laires whose loud proclamation have ben
rorized majority of the Democrats for
that body into temporary acquies- :; IT. !
&C. These are facts which seem to ,ho '
lost sight Of in the hubbub. !
The Democratic opinion of the coun. Fra
favors prudent and judicious re- Dle'
on Of the war tariff, gradually &C. o"''