Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-09-28
REPUBLICANS AND THE TARIFF.
SENATOR HIsCoCK's VIEW OF
WHAT CONSTITUTES A SOUND
AND PATRIOTIC POLICY.

'A<HhACh hiSCDSh - VIEW VI
WHAT CONSTITUTES A SOUND
AND PATRIOTIC POLICY.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. - Free
traders have expressed cOnsidera-
BILE solicitude about the Senate
Tariff bill. They may perhaps gain
some light on the subject from
Sen atOr HiscOck's speech IN the
Senate on Friday. The SentOr
said that as a member OF the sub.
committee he represented a great
manufacturing state, and he supros.
ed he might say also the Republi-
can party, He insisted that the
party was committed to a revision
of the tariff, but to "A revision that
would see to it that ample protec-
tion was continued and extended
If necessary to every American in
dustry that can be successfully
prosecuted upon American soil.
They bad been working, be said,
about forty working days on this
general REVISION OF the tariff. Such
a revision had meyer been accom-.
pllshed by any party in two, three,
four, or five months. 1t was too
vast labor, and when REVISION
was TO be attempted in the direc.
ton of protection the labor was
m uch increased above what it was
when the revision was in the direc-
tion Of free trade and opening our
markets to the commerce of the
world. The Senator said that,
speaking for himself and tor him
self alone, he did not propose to
join in the report of a bill as po-
litical exigency. There was some
thing above party exigencles-the
good OF the country, that must be
first looked to. \ bill revising the
tariff should not be presented to
the Senate or the country without
being well considered and perfectly
prepared, and before the people in
terested have had abundant OppOr-
tunity to submit their views aud
necessities. For himself, he was
willing to stay until December in
the preparation of a substitute, but
he was entirely unwilling to be
crowded into incautious speed, into
a hasty consideration which might
force upon the country an ill-con'
sidered measure.
The Senator added:
"Who are they here, in private
consultation by themselves, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, or ten gen
tlemen in the interest Of the indus
tries of our country, who Will IN
dertake, within forty days, or lOC
days, TO present a scheme to the
count ~ which will preserve its IN
dustries according to the policy Of
the Republican party and make
the required reductions?
1--WE will reduce the revenue
Mr.. Preslden', 'and insure protec
ton. 1t is not difficult task, bu
it must be a painstaking and some
what tedious one. We agree will
the gentlemen on the other sid'
that the revenues should be re
duced. More than that; the bill
which will be reported to the Sen
ate will, in my opinion, carry man.
millions of reduction more than i
carried by the Mills bill, and it cal
he accomplished without disturbin!
the industries OF the country
More than that, it will be accom-
plished in many instances-l speal
for myself only-by increasing th
protection to the industries of th
country that require it, increasing
it when adequate and diversified
capacity for national production
equal to the national demand exist
and foreign commerce seems to JUS
tify it,