The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-09-13
APPROACHING A COMPROMISE.

That the Democratic House Of Rep |
resentaiives, next winter, will address
itself to the subject OF tariff reform, is |
now pretty generally a foregone con-
clusion. Standing pledged to the
country to correct the inlqaities and
many unjust Determinations of the
present schedule, 1t will bs impossible
for the party to ignore the matter of
revenue reform. What the Senate
may do does not matter. The House
will place itself on record.
Recognizing this fact, many of tho
more intelligent protactionisia arc be-
ginning 70 argue that il would be
wiser to join heartily in a movement
of revision and scaling of tho tariff
duties, and no, for q time, put an end
TO the agitation, than TO continue OBJ
slinsteiy to disregard oil Democratic
aud popular demands In that di-
rection and cause prolonged unoasi-
ness in all business and manufacture
inc circles.
Pennsylvania is, perhaps, more
strongly welded 10 protection, and
more uureasonsbly opposed TO any
Interference or revision In tho
premises, than any other State in the
Union. Its press and people, Doth
Democratic and Republican, are about
together In these vlews, aud any con
cessiDn, therefore, TO tho Democratic
idea of tariff reform may bo regarded
as q consid erablo Democratic victory.
Tho Times, of Philadelphia, has
stepped to the front, aud concludes an
article as follows:
"This journal has earnestly urged
judlcious tariff revision over since IL
was possible to make such revision
without shock to tho business inter-
ests OF tho country; and ono of tho
grandest evidences OF our c0untry's
progress is in tho fact thes We can, To-
| day, reduce our tariff, enlarge our FREQ
list and cheaper and multiply homo
| products to an extent that would have
boon convulsive 10 years ago."
1t is impossibl9for the Democrats, at
this juncture, to establish anything
like free trade, OF even accomplish any
heavy reduction in tho duties. Not
only Republican Senate, but Demo
cratic members OF tho House, from
both tho South aud North, stand In
the way of this. 1t Is, on tho other
hand, impossible for the Republicans
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form in Congress, or long rosist tho
popular sentiment on that question.
Both must, therefore, approach mid
die ground. 10 either, half Loaf il
undoubtedly better than mono.
Just what the basis OF compromise
will be it Is now impossible TO toll, but
1t will most probably tond strongly
and directly not at present to tariff
for rovonus ouly, but II rev.
enue tariff. The trouble will
rise from the clamorous Appeals of
each of tho thousand of interests 10
saddle the weight OF the revision aud
reforms on some othor. How much
the reduction shall DO, and on what
articles and by what rule, will be tho
questions that will mako tho work a
tedious aud delicate Que, bu, that it
will be done Is now almost an assured
fact. The times arc ripe for IL. Pros
perity universal, the political waters
placid, tho country at large impressed
with the conviction that too many
legislative restrictions upon trade
oxist, q revision now would not DO
hurtful to any class or individual,
which, rs the Times remarks, might,
nyoars ago, have been convulsive. 1t
is most hopeful sign OF progress that
II Philadelphia paper will join the
movement for n revision, and that
paper not Democratic one, either,