Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-17
THE ENLIGHTENED AND M0NEYED
EAST.

{. Our contemporary, the Lexingto
3 Register, says this week:-"The Int
, ligencer, last Saturday, contained tn
paragraph: Now, let US see to it ths
we have unity; that the minority Il
longer endeavors to control the major
ity.' Unity is impossible when th
; minority are to have no voice in tn
party. Mr.. Randall aud his easter
followers represent monied interest
while the Carlisle faction represen,
} only states rights aud violent hatre
Of everything that savors OF yanke
enlightment."
This is about as good an argument l
favor of protection as any we hav
seen. Certainly, minerities hav
rights. They have a right to be heard
they have q right to the protection
parliamentary rules to that end; the
have a right to record their votes, an
there, under II system Of govern
ment, their rights cease, and it become
their duty to submit to majorities. !
is natural for the republican party t,
make something more of the rights o
minorities since it seized the presiden
cy for Mr.. Hayes when he was in
minority in both the popular and cleo.
toral votes.
The second point as an argument. il
favor of a protective tariff is, that "Mr
Randall and his eastern followers rep
resent monied interests" 1t is safe t.
say that there are 80 who pay to 1 wht
receives, as the result of protection
The one is, naturally, the 'smonied'
man, but in a republic it is not un.
reasonable to ask that the so who hav,
the misfortune not to be "monied,
shall, nevertheless, be represented.
The third argument in favor of pro-
lection is, that while "Mr. Randall and
his eastern followers represent monied
interests" Mr.. Carlisle is the leader
of a faction which represents Estates
rights and violent hatred of every
thing that savors of yankee enlight-
enment," with a little "y." This is an
unique argument, and very convincing
still, with the obstinacy of an unen-
lightened westerner who knows no
better than to have opinions at variance
with the "monied' east, there occur to
us some objections to it. First, as Mr..
Carlisle received 1O7 votes for speaker,
and Mr.. Randall only As; and as in the
caucus ia democrats supported Mr..
Carlisle, and but 81 sustained Mr.. RAN
dali, it appears to us that Mr.. Randall
is the man who leads the faction, rath-
er that Mr.. Carlisle. The estates
rights" argument is of course unan-
sWerable, as is that on "Yankee en-
ligh'enment," but here our western
ignorance again obtrudes. Is it ssen-
lightenment" to build a Chinese wall
around American commerce., and to
practically indorse the expression that
we "don't a a d-n for abroad p,
Can the farmer, the price of whose
grain is absolutely and entirely regu-
lated at Liverpool, afford to join in
that cry +? Is it enlightenment to so
order our commerce that American
shipping shall be banished from the
high seas, and that the farmers bushel
Of wheat shall pay such vessels as do
he carrying for their trips both ways !?
And, finally, is it "enlightenment" to
lrgue for protection IN congress TO en-
lance the price of American wearing
apparel and other goods, so that Amer
can labor a be paid higher prices,
md then to argue in tie nezuspu-
'ers that the tariff does O inc rease
heir price to tile consumer?
We feel Inundated and sorry that
We are a wild and ~impecunious vest
rner, and not an "enlightened" and
'monied" %easterner, but someway we
ind consolation in the fact that the two
commercial countries in the
England and France, iudorse
'nr crude and illiterate ideas. Eng
Ind has almost absolute tree trade:
nd France has two tariffs, a high one
gainst countries that have high tar
is, and a merely nominal n for
that reciprocate with her.
iermany and Spain have high tariffs.
he first is losing the flower of her man.
God by emigration to all parts of the
arth, and the second has very little
manhood to lose.
As to Messrs. Carlisle and Randall
leaders of political policies: in our
'%estern, benighted condition it seems
} US, that the former advances a pro-
ressive idea, which is 80 strong that if
is own party does not take it up The .
pposition will be forced to do 80. ,
lille the latter is the advocate of an ,
'astern enlightenment'so thorough that 1
goes back to the days OF CHING
Yang in the Flowery Kingdom, when |
lie great wall was erected to protect
from the outside b%arbarians, and the
lbseqnent times there when the sys-
IN OF protection to the enlightened I
asst was encouraged by stoning ont |
he western "Christian dogs who had
le temerity to intrude within its e.- {
|usive boundaries. :
We do not wish to deal in epithets, :
at, seriously, it is easy to act the part I
+ an obstructionist. Much easier than
work up and secure improvements.
ct us hope that if there is any oppo.
ltion to the waterworks proposition il
ill not be tactious or unreasonable.
Public drinking fountains would be I
hloaSlnr IN mon onl ho,, Ny 800 !