National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-24

tOni Tor, Without that ali the Other con- |
curing factors would have awaited little.
The people know this; they feel It and APP
preciate Il. Even the Bourbon at home, no
matter how he may talk here in Washing |
ton, finds IL prudent to support or disguise |
his OLD free trade and slave-labor doctrines. |
Eveu the Lexington Gd=cttc, the Democratic |
organ at fuckers own residence, Is en-
phatic for protection; and while Daniel, In
the House Of Representatives, was lately
denouncing what he styled "the robbery OF
protection" his own constituents atLynch.
burg, Salem, and throughout his district,
were not only assembling in public meet
ings to protest against the Morrison Hewitt
"reform," but to ask for higher protective
duties on iron ores, sc. There is no more
manifest fact than that the Virginia people
should be solid for protection, and there is
no more manifest truth than that they are
so. They require no further argument to
convince them. They have experienced the
evils Of dnti-protection, and they have en-
ioyed the blessings Of protection. They
are fixed.
How, then, does II happen that Virginia
casts her vote for the Democratic party and
it's Morrison tariff reform9 Why was II she
sent a Bourbon delegation OF ak 10 Con-
gress, Of whom FIVE voted for Mouison's
horizontal abominatIon in 1884, How is II
that she has returned four out OF these i've
to the present Congressl How Is II that Of
the three new Bourbons she has seated In
the House here, all Including Danlel) are
understood to be free traders, in the sense
Of dnti-protectionlsts2 II ia a curious con.
ditlon OF things which has results so con-
Trajectory; but we have 80 frequently OK
| planned the mystery involved that we shall
here content ourselves by reminding our
readers OF the Danville "lncidentn and its
Bourbon complement, the legislative net
known in Virginia as "the Ballot-Killer and
Ballot-Box Suffer Bill" Yet even such
incidents and such bills will be as chat In
a whirlwind when Vlrginians become fully
aroused las they are now likely to bel TO
the dangers they incur by quietly sub
hitting TO the audacious and porfidious
usurpation which sits upon them. Many
| good and patient men In the state have
borne and forborne with the Bourbons in
hopo that they would at least extenuate
and pnlllate the offenses, through which
they grasped power, by wise and faith
full exercise of 1t. Some have piously
waited on time, chance, and Providence.
| Others have trusted to other states and PEG.
| Pile to keep the federal course Alright All
OF these, however, can now see that their
sure safety from fatal mischief in the tariff,
as well as In other great concerns, can only
be achieved by. the resolute will Of the
people In every state-in Virginia as well as
elsewhere. This will must be asserted and
represented at all costs and hazards, or Vir-
ginia will be principal victim OF the con-
spring wickedness and folly that are now
busily and eagerly seeking TO prove their
conversion to English ideas and their de-
votion TO British interests by betrayal of
the only American policy which can de-
fend us from becoming mere tributary of
England In all industrial, financial, and
commercial things.
What boots 1t that, on the cutlery from
Virginia, Mr.. Morrison graciously removes
from his free list Goals and iron ores9 The
fate of these is only deferred, II the Democ-
racy and its reform prevail. The principle
which dooms them is there In this bill, as 1t
was in that of 1884, from which Virginia
and all of us were saved, not by her Bour-
bons flor they voted for that billy, but by
Republicans and handful Of Independent
Democrats, whom our neighbor, the Post,
black-listed as "assistant Republicans -
Besides, sheep, wool, salt, timber, lumber,
&C., in which Virginia is hardly less inter
ested than In Goals and ores, are left naked
to all their foreign foes by Morrison. And
this is but the beginning Of the end, which
is free trade. II the thin edge of the wedge
be now admitted, or ever, we shall soon be
treated to the rest Of 1t, though 1t rive our
vitals. Be sure of that.
Meanwhile the internal revenue taxes are
retained on Virginia tobacco, fruit-brandy,
&C., for the avowed reason that thereby the
reduction of protection on other products
Of Virginia may be possible merely from q
revenue point Of view; but the underlying
principle upon which the reductionis falsely
defended, II logically carried out, will In.
crease the federal tax ON tobacco, while II
will admit foreign tobacco free. 1t is Ger.
tain that no intelligent man In Virginia now
looks to the Democratic party to abolish the
internal revenue system, or to even reduce
the tax on tobacco. No man In Virginia car
have any rational hope for any new oil
higher protection for any Virginia interest
Verify, the only comfort still remaining t
Virginians in all these related matters Il
that there is still Senate which is both pro
tectionist and Republican, or that, at any
rate, few independent Democrats II
either the House or Senate, or in both
will combine with the Republican,
in any dangerous crisis TO aver
, evil. But that is not faitl
according TO works. Virginia can, must
and. will be properly represented. Her In
terests, her opinions, and her ballots mus
now rally in oyerawipg and overwhelming
force to send TO Congress men In whom
and whose party they can wholly confide
men like Malone, who secured the increas
OF protection on iron ores to SO per cent.
and the decrease Of the tobacco tax to II
present rate; or men like Libbey, VIII,
remembered the despised Virginia suma
and made it a profitable resource to hi
state. These men are Republicans, and tn
Republican party to which they belong pro
, fesses and practices that federal polio
which alone makes the Union desirable Il
l peace or possible in war.
GOrham- Blaine.