St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1886-10-02
A TARIFF FOR REVENUE
ONLY.

A TARIFF FOR REVENUE
ONLY.
We extract the following from an
editorial in the Lake Charles Com
mercial:
One of the main issues of the
coming political campaign is that Of
protection against free trade. or,
more properly speaking, Of q high
tariff against a tariff for revenue
only. Tie Democracy of Calcasieu
have never wavered from the true
Democratic doctrine on this issue.
and ore in perfect accord with the
great majority of the party in Con-
gress, as represented by Speaker
Carlisle and Mr.. Morrison. in favor
OF reform and reduction of the
present exorbitant war tariff, to a
ratio more in'conformity with the
needs Of the government We sim
cerely believe that o reduction of
the tariff on imported goods will
have the effect of reviving our ship
ping interests. and of giving new
life to our export trade, which have
been well nigh annihilated by the
present so-callsd protective tariff"
We believe that Ligt tariff, if it
does protect anything. protects the
manufacturer alone. lat the expense
of everybody else. We believe tina
a protective tariff is. no protection
to labor. and We give, as an in.
stance, the fact that labor in the
protected sugar parishes il. paid IS
cents q day. whilst labor in the un-
protected industries of Calcasieu
is paid 81 SO a day. We believe
that "a tariff for any other purpose
than revenue is robbery" and we
object to being robbed any longer.
We believe that the so-called great
American industries that clamor for
protection are counted by hun
dreds. andithe number 5of our I'M
protected industries. which are tax
ed to support these few protected
industries, may be counted By mil
lions.
We call upon our statesmen to
look at England. which has grown
rich, commanded the worlds trade,
excelled all other nations in her
many diversified industries, and
now carries in her bottoms nine
tenths of the commerce of the
world. by her system of free trade.
as an example more worthy Of i,ni-
tation than that of the other nations
of Europe, whose people have be-
come impoverished. and whoee in
dustries and commerce have be-
come stinted aud reduced by =
miserable and narrow-minded sys-
tenn Of protection. We believe that
sugar can be better protected by
tariff for revenue only. than by a
tariff for protection, for the sake Of
projection. which carries with it I'M
holy combinations and alliances
with all sorts of interests demand
ing protection. however undeserv-
ing of protection. or however una
ble to add to the common revenue.
These principles. which have ac-
tuated tho Democratic party Of the
from its origin. and are the
same which now control the ma
jority Of the party. t. the exclusion
of Mr.. Randall, of Pennsylvania.
and . few followers of doubtful po-
litical cast, should be incorporated
in q resolution to be adopted BY
the parish convention; and our
to the Congressional Con-
should be instructed to
vote for no candidate for Congress
who will not consent to support
them. If this much cannot b. OBJ
tanned, however, in view OF the
clamor of opposition that will GER
tainly arise from the sugar parish
es, this much, at least. should be
exacted from the nominee: it is
that he ehall pledge himself to
abide by the decision Of the Demo-
cratic caucus in Congress upoL all
political questions.
AN EXCELLENT WHITEWASH