Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-10
TARIFF REFORM.
The First Great Party Debate Of the
Second Session Of the Forty
Ninth Congress is Had,
Morrill, OF Vermont and Beck OF Ken
tucky the PrincIpRls--MorrisOn
Horizontal Scheme Derldtd.
The Republicans Asked to Introduce u ISM
and Give the Democrats a chance
"a Cnticise,
A soENE ~ rnn SENATE.

Of the discussion In the senate to-day as
to the gdylsabllity Of further tatiIi re.
vision legislation by the present congress,
Mr.. Morrill, proceeded to address the
senate. lIe said It WAS clear that the
Democratic presidential candidate IN 1884
would have been defeated but for the
protective tariff backbone inserted In the
Democratic platform by the national con-
vention at Chicago, July 10, 1884. These
strong pledges, pregnant with fair
minded protection In every sen.
tence had been, he said, lIitro-
duced into the Democratic platform
through the inslstance of protective tar
IN Democrats who are now receiving
vitriolic denunclstions from their late
half-breed allies OF free trade, because Of
their honest Efforts 10 prevent their party
from the violation OF the pledges ON
which the party obtained It's victory by
majority OF only a fingers breadth Be
fore the election
The doyil was sick,
The devil monk would be,
but after the election
The devil was woll,
The deNii monk was he
II would seem that the party Of free
trade, under the alias OF "revenue re-
iorms,n has determined 10 run a muck
against nearly oil the Industries and pro-
ductlons OF America, aud such as escape
the first assault could not hope for Inn
munity from the neYt lie proceeded
TO mnICuLE MoRidsoN's SCHEMES
for horizontal reduction Of the tariff,
comparing them to DR.. Sangrad's spe-
cflei and said their effect could only be to
lot food Of foreign productions pour
in and overrun tho American market.
These measures, he said, not having in
splred love Rt lrst sight among the mem
bers ef the house anxious so escape
Waterloo on the ides Of November, the
juvenile play 81 ho.peep had commenced,
aud an amended hi had been hu riedly
brought TO the front whore horizontal
jumped TO perpendicular, and all legisla-
tion about Iron was dropped out OF sight
for safety. The authors ha seemed 10
realize "what ptfils do environ the man
that NEEDLES with cold iron" Finally
the farmers had been selected as
VICTIMS pF THE MKT EXPERIMENT,
and the vaA wool interests deeply identi-
fed with all portions OF the country were
to be exposed 10 absolute humiliation. II
might DO, however, TINT tho lamb-ilka
subnissvoness Of the wool-growers bad
been over-estimated. In number they
had giants strength, and they might not
consider II tyrranons 10 use 1t In self-de-
tense. The revision OF the tariff called
for much patient labor and should
be grounded upon established facts
instead OF upon theory, which makes
statistics and history and experience go
for nothing. In his career In relation to
the tariff he had found no commandment
10 love thy neighbor better than myself,
bat he had found promptings IN favor OF
thot policy which, while offering an
ample revenue for support OF the govern
ment, aimed also to advance the pros
perity, power and glory OF the whole
country, That policy held ont
no EXCLUSIVE FAyoRs
possible monopoly Of trade either TO
persons or places, It was continental
policy which embraced Augusta aud
Chattanooga as much as Lowell and
Pittsburg. All places aud all persons
were not only permitted, but invited TO
enter the race (forclgn lords and persons
alone excepted but yet the free trader
like Don Qulxote still waged windy
battle agai 81 the wholly imag nary foe
he called monopoly"
NEW GENERATION
had appeared ia the South. The fac
tories, foundries Ind machine shops ON
the James river and on the Tennessee
were as potential as those on the MeTri- |
mac and the Potomac, They were so
many batterlng-rgms before which alien |
theories and crooked distractions were |
tumbling down TO rise no more forever.
Hostility 10 and destruction OF these |
young but promising workshops |
lasU ~ Ia
Herodian guilt OF the slaughter OF |
the infants, but the time would come
when II would be said, ''They are dead
which sought the young child's life"
Rel, ring 10 the famous free-trade club /
of Chicago, he said IroquOis were still |
employed by the British 10 iomahawk
Americans. He admitted that the extra.
dition Of the public debi had proceeded
so rapidly that temporary surplus OF
revenue might become inevitable. The
question, "What should be doGe with
il2n was fair. The question Of
the proper revision Of the tariff at an
early day would be eminently desirable,
but the work ehould not be introsted to
those who are Tor blind and can see
nothing but reduction, or the abandon
ment u all duties. An excessive reduc-
tion Of duties one year forces their impo
sition the next year. This would be
NorHISoiLEss THAN A CALAMITY.
The removal OF the duty on wool to-day
and the imposing OF a duty on tea ana
coffee tomorrow would seem 70 be
part Of the tariff reform programme. In
conclusion, be said, the paramount
credit for the financial teas
ures which had been 30 long and so
closely identified with the growth and
Of the country uuquestionAbly
belonged TO the Republican psrty, and
there was no other party" whose yester-
duy looked back with smile" II the
Democratic party shall fully accept the
leadership Of The
sEroND-BASD RETAILERS
Of free trade, whose economic theories
almost throughout the universe bayc aud
shall ignore tbs inspiration and prestige
which protective tariff has afforded 70
our country, as illustrated by all OF the