The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-24
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
THOUGHTS on PERTH
NEWT QUESTIONS.

The Reform C1ub-English Ideas Of Pro.
| tection-The ''Tribune's" snarl-rhe Fair
olivia on Rum-Carpct Wool-Massa.
| chusetts Radicals-Mr. Sam Randall.
| The dinner OF the Reform Club on Sat
urday evening was remarkable demon
stration. 1t Is worth while to compare II
for moment with the recent experience
of the Union League Club in an attempt
TO Influence public opinion In the oppo-
site direction. The oldest, and far the
strongest, political club in the city, after
deliberation and no small amount OF
drumming by It's Committee of Political
Reform. was asked to make declaration
for protection as " cardinal" Republi-
posed. first by Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt
the leading young Republican of the club;
then by Mr.. Choate, a former president,
and the most eloquent and effective
speaker in the party in the city
then by Mr.. Bliss, the past master OF
practical politics, and was then laid on
the table tenderly, on the motion Of one
OF Its friends, to save it from a harsheT
fate. For the Republican party" said
Mr.. Roosevelt. ito announce that the in
CAPABILITIES and anomalies in the present
tariff must be touched, and for them to
hold up the high tariff as a fetch, as
something to which every other interest
must yield, and to which every other
issue must be subordinated. would be, In
| my opinion. serious mistake" And the
club, which certainly fairly represents
the more intelligent Republicans of New
York, thought so, TOO. Some OF thu
members also thought that to insist on
making protection the shibboleth of Re
publlcansm in the club would hopeless
y divide ii.--N y. Tines.
The Manchester (England) guardian
says that Il Is an open secret that the
policy of the Republican party in the
United States has been shaped in con.
formity with the wishes of protected
manufacturers solely because they fur
nish them money for election expenses"
Mr.. George W. Smalley says observe the
solely" which is the only word that saves
The sentence from being proof of igno-
\ rance.
The New York World goes for Smalley
thus: 1t will be necessary TO observe the
solely" closely and TO underline it
strongly; otherwise 1t will be impossible
10 discover anything out of the way In
tho utterance of the Manchester Gaard
ian If Mr. Smalley, in the innocence OF
his heart, should use the above quota
tation to show the ignorance Of English
newspapers with respect to our political
affairs, in a speech at dinner of Amer.
/ Nfae of Lao
Ished at the short duration and hollow
ness Of the laugh he might elicit. lie
would be very sure to throw momen.
tary damper on the festivities.
The Tribune was obliged to snarl even
when 1t only saw Democratic club hay
ing little fun at the wine table.
| 1t declares that "the Reform wine
and terrapin went well, no doubt. Mr.
Stokes was good enough to put on
record his belle that the tariff was the
controlling issue for the coming presi.
Dental election, which a good many PEG.
| pie will be vociferously denying next
October. Mr.. Breckenridge of Arkansas
thinks he knows more about the indus
tiles Of the great manufacturing States
than the manufacturers themselves, who
| protest with great unanmity against the
theories he advocates Then Mr. Wat
terson allows his rhetoric to boil over,
rejoicing that the President had pu, a
stop to 'cowardly vacillation other per
sons might have called it dishonest trick
cry. We shall see whether the same dis
honest pretensc that the Democratic
candidate is for protection in New Jersey
and for free trade In Kentucky will not
break out as an epidemic again when hot
weather comes Mr.. Harter was intro
duced as one of the largest manufactur.
ers in Ohio, being a producer of agricul-
tural implements"
A fair Olivia in the Washington critic
draws a blood curdling pen picture of
the drinking facilities of the "horrid
wretches," but the sweet Ollie adds that
where prohibition exists we make the
man who drinks commit two crimes
instead of one. The first is where he
wrongs himself, the next Is where he
breaks the law. II we have no place
now for our criminals what shall we do
when we find prohibition does not pro-
hibit and the drug store takes the place
of the saloon, whilst the quaint y pur-
chased works a longer drunk. Congress
is now called upon to strike the key
note, which will sound from Maine 10
california. No question of such vast
magnitude has come up in Congress
since the tocsin of war resounded
throughout the land. The foe is already
at the door clutching our burning
throats. Help. Help for Gods sake
help, or we perish.
| Last year there were imported into this
country s5,352 ,205 pounds of coarse car
pet wool. The carpetmakers are forced
to buy this wool-their raw MATERIAL
in foreign countries for the very good
reason that they cannot procure it In the
United States. Still they are required to
pay tariff tax of about 25 per cent. OF
its value. This absurd tax raises the cost
Of carpets to home buyers, prevents the
sale of our carpets abroad, and thus re.
duces the wages Of the workingmen, (for
over production has reduced the hours of
labor,) and protects no one except the
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