Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-07-23
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Petersburg Index Appeal Democratic.
It's a great pity that Secretary
Manning could not 90 through the
form Of rendering his resignation to
the President without a labOred and
unfortunate disQuisition ON politics.
| His argument Tor free trade is
gross tlunder, unless it was meant
to help the administration, even
when retiring from it, to kin the
Democratic party.
"All our needtul customs reve-
nue. says he, "might be collected
0y strictly revenue duties upon a
few score of articles" This is going
back to "tarifl for revenue only Of
1880, which the Democratic party
itself did not dare to in the platform
of 1881 upon which it nominated
Cleveland and Hendricks. "Strict-
lv revenue duties and "tari1' for
revenue only are identical PROPOSE
lions. and Mr. Manning goes be-
yond the charter of the administia-
ton of which he is "a member when
'he declares for either Of these. And
WIZ should he qualify our "need-'
ful revenue" by inserting the word
"customs" ! "All our ncedful Gus
toms revenue" means that the Dem
ocratic party, as far as Mr.. Manning
can, commit it and the present adj
ministration, has departed finally
from thcpolicy ola federal revenue
exclusively desired from customs.
It means that, IN Mr.. Manning's
view, the Democratic party is
henceforth TO deal largely and pro-
gressively in internal taxation; and
10 further means that m his opinion
the ueedful customs revenue should
be reduced PARI PAssU with the
imposition Of "needful internal rev
cnue."
Perhaps Secretary Manning
speaks for this administration. At
all events, the President says moth
ing to the contrary in his response
to the Secretary's letter Of resigna-
ton. He speaks, too, no boubt, for
Messrs. Carlisle and Morrison and
the Democrats who follow the lead
of those two free trade apostles.
But he is hardly the true exponent
Of the democratic party, as that
party has been vouched for m tins
Latitude for some years past; and
he certainly does not voice the Opin-
I ion of the Democratic people, par
ticularly of Virginia and the south.
/ Every breeze that sweeps from this
section of the land should bear to
/ his ear the resembling cry for "pro-
tectionn and that other 10 less
yociferous cry for the abolition Of
| the internal revenue system. Upon
! these two things the people Of the
south are "Solid,' without regard TO
race, color or party; and as the
Democratic party is so dependent
ON the south, it BODIES 10 good for
the national Democracy when a
member Of the Presidents Cabinet,
without rebuke from the President,
/ join Carlisle and Morrison in the
old Henri Watterson demand for a
"tann' for revenue only" further
/ limited to "ncedful customs reve-
nue.
It would have been better, too,
/ i'm consideration Of the course pur-
sued by the President and his See
rotary Of the Treasury in regard TO
/ silver. for Mr.. Manning to have
been utterly quiet on that score.
In this region the doctrines ofWall
street are notpopular, and the gold
bug is not regarded as a desirable
specimen.
But Mr. Manning has been III,
and he is yet far from being well.
The Democratic party itself is also
sick. Neither Clevcland's bitters
nor Morrisou's pills have couduccd
10 its health. Yet We trust that the
Secretary may soon regain his
healtl and we should have a like
faith in Democratic recuperation,
| if only the quacks would lett alone
/ for awhile. The natural yigor Of
/ the Democratic constitution is
great ; but the most robust organ
ization must sGccomb to mere en-
piracal treatment, if it be not re.
lieyed in time from the infection.