News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-01-08
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Dec. "a, 1854. }
| hev list returned from Albany
whittier I went fur the purpus NV con
sultin with President Cleveland ant
the leadin Dimocrisy NV the kentry
on the question Nv the tariff, witch Il
takin the life out Nv the Dimocrisy.
President Cleveland wuz terribly
deprest, fur he he'd bin pulled and
hauled about by diverse fackshens till
he coodn't rest. He hailed my appeer-
ance with delite, and to-wunst begged
me to help him out.
s'Nothin is easier" sed l. "The
Dimocrisy is pledged to the reduck-
shen NV the infamus tariff wich is
eetin the life out NV the people fur the
benefit NV a few bloatid monopolists. ="
'sTroo !" said he, "troo!''
every good. All there is to do is
to assertane the views Nv the leadin
Dimecrats NV different seckshuns NV
the kentry, especially Dimecratic
members of Congris, and formoolate
some specific policy, so thet we ken
do ez we agreed, redoose the tariff
without injerin any interest. Shell l
rite these letters ?"
His Excellency very grashusly
signiied his assent, and | writ per-
haps twenty letters to different parts
Nv the kentry, and lay bak calmly
swaitin the ansers, feelin shoor that
he'd struk the rite thing.
I wuz pleased with the biznis, fur
doorin the time 1 wuz writin the let
tiers and awatid the ansers l okepied
elegant apartments at the Delevan
House, at the expense Nv the Nash
mel Centred Committy, (Which is in
seshin here dividin up the offisis, }
wich is better than bed at Deekin
Pograms and lcker on tic at Bascom's.
The questions l put wuz all on the
tariff ishoo, and these is the ansers /
reseeved:-
From a leedin Dimecrat NV Loose
amer:
1.-THE present tariff is inikitus, and
shood be gone thro unsparinly. The
tariff shood be taken OFF everything,
that the sufferin people be not taxed
ondooly. Their should be, however.
one excepshun made, and that is on
shugar. This industry RELY needs
pertekshun, and must hev it. The
Dimocrisy NV LooseaEner will never
submit to tetchin the tariff on shugar."
From leedin Dimecrat of Pennsil-
vany:
"Ther amt no question ez to the
necessity Nv a keerfal rev ision Nv the
tariff, fur the relief Nv the people.
The dooties shood be taken OFF every
thing ceptin iron and SIGH. The DIM
ocrisy NV Pennsilvany insists onto free
trade in everything ceptin iron. 1t
will resist any reduckshen on that.a
From leedin Dimecrat Of Massey
choosits:
"Ever troc to its pledges, the Dim
ocrisy the Dimocrisy must apply the
knife to all dooties, for the relief Nv
the people. Excepsha1s must NV
course be made on certain interests.
The Dimocrisy Nv Noe England Will
insist upon free trade in everything
ceptin cotton goods, wooden goods,
Yankee noshuns. and such other arti-
cles ez may be manufactured in Moo
England. On these articles, sked-
DOL NV witch I will send 700, the Dim
ocrisy NV Moo England will insist the
dooties shell be increest, eff ther is any
change made"
From Dimocratic wool grower Nv
Ohio:
1.-The tariff is inikitus on everything
ceptin wool. Eff Their be any change
in tibet, the dooty must be increest."
From a wine grower NV Ohio and
another NV Californy:
"1Vhile the tariff is inikitus on gen.
eral principles, the dooty on wines
shood be histed higher. Our indus
tries demand this"
From a lumberman NV Mishigan:
s'The Dimocrisy NV Northern Mish-
igan loathe the present tariff system.
The dooty shood be removed from
but lumber. On lumber
we need perteckshun from Canady."
From a copper miner in Mishigan
"We demand keerful revishvn Nv
the tariff, witch must be sweepin, and
mcleod a reduckshin on everything
but copper. That must be left ez it
is, or, if any change, slitely in
From shugar refner, New York:
'tThere amt no question ez to the
inikity Nv the present tariff system.
The dooty is too high upon everything
exceps refined shugarl Eff that is
fetched at all, it shood be increest."
From a Dimecratic brewer, Mil
waukee:
"The tariff is Discriminate and I'M
just to the people, and the Dimocrisy
demand in thunder tones a complete
and keerful revishun. Everything
shood be slashed onmercitully, except
beer. The brewers of Germany have
got beer down to SIGH fine pint
that they kin undersell us, and it
would never do to let the pisenin Nv
the people be done to the profit of
Germany. The tariff on beer shood
not be fetched, unles. it mite be Site
" increest. This shood be looked
into"
There wuz suthin like dozen more,
but these wuz specimen brix, and
quite enuff to show the drift no things.
The President wuz terribly put out
when l red EN-. He simply remarkt,
''H-l" and then continered:
"Wat kin do when every man NV
EN- stands on the Republican platform
on everything that his constitooence
happens to be interested in? Ines
much ez the Dimocrisy happen to be
interested in everything that anybody
else is, and ez every one Nv EN- ap-
peers to be determined not to redoose
the dooties ON his own espeshl pro-
duck, l don't see how we are goin to
do anything about itp'
"Yoor Excellency," 1 replied,
''yoor he'd is level. Tariff reduckshen
is an excellent thing jist before an
eleckshun, but it is an ugly thing to
tackle after the battle. humbly sug-
gest that we let it severely alone"
"But must make my administra-
shen conspicuous for suthin," was the
reply.
"Troo, and we will do it. We shell
depend for success in satisfyin the
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