The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-10-30

We might remark says the New York Her.
ald that the surplus which Mr.. Cleveland wants
TO get rid of is large enough to pay the interest
at five per cent. on more than two thousand mill
lion dollars. That money should not have been
taken out of the channels of circulation, where
it belongs, and locked up in vault where it is of
no use to any one. The country will never be
satisfied until that system of taxation departs to
the region where " the whangdoodle mourneth
for her first born"
The Minnesota Republicans refuse to accept
the high tariff platform of their party. They are
mostly farmers, you see, and they don't propose
to be taxed for the protection of flew monopo-
lists while they are themselves left without any
protection at all. This tax, tax, tax on every
thing they use and wear is no more agreeable
thar trying to drive nail and hitting your
thumb at every blow. 1t is about as prof table,
too-Nec York Herald
"A Democrat of Wisconsin offers to deposit
with Governor Rusk, of that State, $4,000,
which he will pay over to ex-union soldiers
if committee of three, composed of two Re
publican Circuit Judges and one Republican
Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, will
say, after mature consideration, that Mr.. Cleve-
lands tariff message is free trade document
The citizens name is Cars )n and he is in earn
est He is Democrat and millionaire
-Four years ago, says the New York Wcrl1,
when the Republicans carried Maine by plu
rality Of 19, 100, the Tribune cried in big type
Well DONE Maine The defeat of Cleveland is
writ large n:what she accomplished on Mon
~ Loot g.;
cate her plurality, and the Tribune sees in it ga
certain harbnger o! victory all along the line in
November" Yet Mr.. Cleveland got there in
1884, and there is nothing in the Maine election
to indicate that he will not repeat the triumph.
-" A tariff on raw materials is protection to
the foreign manufacturer" Thus said President
Grant And it is true Every cent of enhanced
cost given to the Americ an manuacturer's raw
material by the duty is just SO much advantage
given to his foreign competitor who gels mate
rial free-or at its natural cost.-N Y. World
The Republican pretense is, says the New
York World, that the war tariff must be retained
intact "n the interest OF Labor" The average
labor cost in manufactured articles in 1890 was
Is per cent The average duty is AZ per cent.
Hence there is tariff for bounties OF 80 per cent
The Mills bill cuts off the odd 9 per cent. And
the bouny-g;abbers call This Free Trade"
What fools they lake the people to be
Levi =. Morton, when in Congress in 1880,
voted for tree salt and free paper materials. He
explained in 1886 that he did so because he
believed that 1.-The farmers Of the State of New
New York and the country were entitled to the
kind Of foreign salt which they required in the
manufacture of butter free of duty" S, the
Democrats believe to-day, and therefore place
salt on the free list Mr.. Blaine voted for free
coal and free lumber What a lot of Free.
Traders they were !-NeD York World
-Murat Halslead remarks, during an interval
between his vituperation of Thurman and his
abuse OF Clevel md, that the Republicans will
carry Indiana ifa few little matters can be
adjusted" Gen. Arthur called these little mat
ters,' as " i'll be remembers |, "soap and tracts"
Others, with a contempt for metaphor, called
them blu1tly crisp twO.dollar bills" We
doubt ii Dorseyism and Dudleyism combined
can carry Indiana fer Harrison this year, saws
the World
While SO much is being said about educing
the surplus of $132 600 900 in the national treas
ury, the surplu, of $77S 600 900, annually accu.
muiated by the monopoliss and manufacturers
from the same source, the exhorbilant war tariff
seems to be overlooked or forgotten by many
But PERHAPS this is one of Mr. Blaines private
matters with which the government has no
right to interfere"