Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-12-12


campaign than in an: presidential contest
since 1915, when the protective svs EN- was
first repudiaed by the American people.
While the agricultural States did no. i:lan-
ifest their chatting Impotence under the
heavy burdens of this onerous and oppres-
sive policy by any such overt act as null
LITIGATION resolution, such as one OF them
attempted in the ante bellum days, yet the
feeling of hostility to the great wrong was
quite as deep and strong. Secession and
notification as agencies of combating the
wrongful and Cypress We exercise OF Fed
eral power has been eliminated from the
compensatory theories of this government,
and the ballot box and general elections
will be henceforth regarded as the on'y
safety valve Of popular Giscen ent saw
ing on Y the reserved right of revolution
Most happily has The efficacy of this paci
fc agency been vindicated in the recent
election. The Republican party though
led by its "magnetic' man and with its
tanks covered and its ii rs closed 10y the
great monopolics and money powers which
The protective system has proluc d, has
been unable to save tina wrongful policy
from The grave to wLicA it Wa first con
signed in 1916 and from which it was re
surrected 10y the necessities OF the civi,
war.
There was little need of the Democratic
speakers and press emphasizing the 'arif
issue in The recent campaign, because the
party bad already p aced itself so Thor
oughly on record by the defeat of Mr.. RtH
daIl, the advocate Of pro ection, tor the
Speakership, and the election st Mr. Car
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which side of the tariff question the Dem
ocratlc party would be found on.
1t is a significant fact, going to show
the importan; part the tariff played in the
campaign, that Mr Carlisle and Mr. Nor
rison and al the other advocates of tariff
reform Legislation in the last Congress
with the single exception of Mr. Hurd.
who was defeated by bare majority were
returned to their seats with increased ma
jorities while Mr. Converse and Mr. Ran
dal's other chief lieutenan's were left at
home.
Another significant fact in the same di-
ection is the attitude assumed since the
election ny the New York World. During
the Speakership contest the World was a
blatant supporter of Mr. Randall, and, al
ter his defeat and the election of Mr.. Car
Isle, 1t lost no opportunity 10 abuse and
misrepresent that gentlemen and Mr. Nor
rison in the most extravagant way, or to
heap adulation on Mr. Randall Now,
however, since tie election, it is a little
amusing to hear the H0rN vehemently de-
nounclng the New York Sun for mi dly adj
vocating MIR. Randall's exact policy and
sustaining it by Mr.. Randal's identical
reasoning. The World now thinks that it
is monstrous to talk of "abo ishng the
taxes on whiskey and tobacco in order to
increase the tariff for the extreme protec-
ton of monopolies; and yet this was Mr..
Randall's policy, which Mr.. Carlisle oppos-
ed. The World resents with great vigor
the idea that an excise tax is "irquisi'o
riaF' in lis nature, and yet this was the
idea originated and advocated 10y Mr..
Randall, whom the World so warmly in
dorsed. But it is not our purpose to com
ment on the inconsistencies of the mercur-
ial World we only refer to its Topping over
to show that all the weather cocks still in
cate the direction taken 10y the recent
storm of popular discomfort.
We believe that the protection failacy
has been second time repudiated in the
recent election ID there can be but little
doubt that the Democratic party, SO soon
as it shall have full control of the govern
ment, will proceed gradually, methodically
and steadily to reduce Tariff taxation until
the onerous protection system shall be en-
tirely swept away and tariff taxation re-
duced to strictly revenue basis. Whether
the Democratic Congress, will proceed, like
other artisans, by first cleaning "horizon-
tal' scores from the crude timber. until it
is reduced to the proper dimensions to
shape the outlines of the complete struc-
ture; or whether it will pursue the more
tedious course Of shaping the GU lines from
the start, the future will decide but those
mercurial newspapers who are wont to rave
about the 'horizontal idiocy" are seen by
calm and considerate observers to be them
selves too hare Drained to discern their own
idiocy,