Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-09
HARR1soN,s TARIFF VIEWS.

When Editor MEDIIL, Of the Chicago
Tribune (slleged HARRISON organ, read
HARRIsoN's recent Indianapolis speech
declaring that all this country had to do to
get rich was to let nothing come into 1t
from abroad, he took up his paper-weight
and Bit it in two. Then he PIT on bis
hard gloves and produced the following
brSech loaded, rim-fre editorial. 1t will
be observed that it is characterized by q
vicious gentleness that is highly interest
ing and very suggestive. Says the Tn
bHRe,
Gen. HARRIsoN's repeated declsra-
tons that he stands with his party on the
tariff question makes it a matter Of inter
est iust what he understands Republican
policy to be, and" continues Editor ME-
DILL, with a dangerous cslmness, flor
tunately, his opinions on these points are
within reach, for in recent campaigns 10
Indisna he has discussed the tariff ques-
ton quite fully and defined Republican
policy as favoring reduction and revision
of the tariff" Then, reaching down to
see if his knife is all right in his boot,
the editor of the great Republican
organ of the West continues, after
drawing Mr.. HARRIsON's "free trade"
record on him: Beyond doubt, General
HARRISON still holds to the doctrine then
stated by him and approved by the Repub-
licaus of Indiana. It was the same doc
trine urged by the last Republican Admin
istration and heartily approved by the Re-
publican National platform Of 1884. Since
Gen. HARRISON now declares himself in
harmony with Republican doctrine, and as
he has already placed on record full and
explicit statements ~ to what he under
stands such doctrine to be, there can be no
doubt that he indorses the position taken
by the Republican Senators, and has no
sympathy with the dogma Of ultra-tarifl
infatuation foisted on the Chicago Conyen-
ton by MCKINLEY and KELLEY"
'If," continues Editor MEDILL, vicious
ly, ''in 1886 Gen. HARRISON could declare
himself not committed to specific rates OF
to the existing law in all its Details he
certainly cannot now feel absorbed in ad-
grafton of the Morrill, tariff In 1886 only
three years had passed since the tariff had
| been revised. Government bonds subject
to call were still outstanding, and all the
tariff revenues that poured into the Treas
ury could be proftaOly employed in the
reduction of the public debt. If, under
such circumstances, Gen. HARRISON
favored necessary changes and reforms
in the tariff and held that there vas a call
for changes in the administrative feature;
OF the law, and in some particulars es tc
rates. he certainly cannot oppose such
policy now when the collection of surplus
revenues threatens congestion in the
Treasury and q severe practical contraction
of the currency. II, in 1886, Gen. HARRI
SON thought revision and reduction o
the tariff advisable he must now consider
such action imperative"
at is incredible" continues Editor
MEDILL, getting ma1der, the more h
thinks about il, 'that Gen. HARRISON
would accept the repeal of the whisky ta'
as satisfactory method of getting rid o
surplus reveuu,J and making impossible
any change or reduction of the teriff HI
never suggested or advocated anything o
the sort. Before the existing emergency
arose Gen. HARRISON advocated reVi
sion of the tariff with a view to correct in
CAPABILITIES and crudities-to change rat I
ss we'll as the administrative features o
the law-and he must surely feel now tina
such action is urgently needed and in fac
made imperative by the congested condi
ton of the Treasury"
Then poor Editor MEDILL, wiping tn
perspiration from his aching brow, tries :
reason the thing with HARRISON ant
points out to him that not only he (HAR
RIsoN) himself u ID to be but many OF tn
Republican Senators are now in favor
tariff revision and repudists the Chicag
platform. ''Gen. HARRISON" continue
the wretched editor, Cannot Go bette
than to take his stand with the Republi
! can Senators and adhere to the position h
has occupied consistently heretofore. lie
him declare in his LETT + Of acceptance, ?
DR.. STORES says the Chicago Convention
. shor)d have done in the platform, in favo
of the principles of a protective tariff, ant
also in favor of careful revision OF tn
one now establilhed.'"
But, alas! the Tribune only wastes it
valuable tariff reform breath.
81 don't know enough about this tariff
question to discu7s it," gays HARRISON
"but the platform says shove her up to tn
last notch, let us get rich by paying eacl
other the highest prices, taxing ourselve
to death, and letting nothing come to n
from abroc 1; and give us free whisky t
drown our sorrow in. Aud So" say
HARRISON, swapping his fingers in tn
face of his wretched Chicago organ, Guy
she 90 and ifee whisky it is"