Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-22
THURSDAY. MARCH %. 1888
A Compromise-Why Not2

A Compromise-Why Not?
Mr.. DoRsHEINER. of New York, has
often been supposed TO speak for the Adj
ADMINISTRATION in his paper, the New York
.sSydr. He is an anti-Protectionist. In
deed, we have all along regarded him as
9it 10 be classed with such extremists
as Mr.. WA1TERsoS. 1t seems, how
ever. that we have done injustice
to him for instead OF justifying
the Democrats who are on the Commit
tee Of Ways and Means, for wastingtime
in insisting upon features of the new
tariff bill which they know can never by
sny means be forced upon the country,
Mr.. DoRsHEDlEB complains of the I'M
compromising spirit manifested by the
majority OF that committee, and calls
upon them to be practical. He quotes
Mr.. J. s. MOORE as follows:
"Of course, if Mr.. Randall can com
mand twenty followers, and these unite
with the Republicans, the one hundred
and sixty Democrats anxious to reduce
the heavy burdens on the necessaries OF
life can easily be defeated. And Mr.
Randall alone can claim such victory.
The political solution OF this factional
Democratic question must necessarily
come when the Democratic Convention
meets on June 9Th, as the question be-
fore it viii be OF the simplest kind
namely, whether the 80 per cent. of the
representatives OF the Democratic party
in convention assembled will endorse
Mr.. Randall and the Republican party
be leads in this economic question or
whether they will stand by the regular
organized Democratic majority OF the
Ways and Means Committee.
Thus, instead of advising them to
sgree upon a compromise, Mr. MOORE
counsels the Democrats in Congress to
leave open the question of the tariff
AMI appeal TO the ST. Louis Convention.
Dir. DoRsHEMER cannot stand that sort
OF nonsense. On the contrary, he speaks
OF il as follows
THE Star goes along with Mr. Moore
In earnest preference for the Mills bill
over the Randall bill, although neither of
them goes far enough In reduction OF
taxes. But if twenty Democrats in the
House are in the state of mind which Mr
Moore describes they will have 10 be con-
sidered or there may be no surplus re-
duction"
They will share 10 be cOnsiderCd,"
SAYS this practical man. And why
shouldn't twenty Democrats in the House
OF Representatives be entitled to as much
consideration as a half dozen on com
mittee 3?
Mr.. DORsHRnRR continues:
Nor will it be good politics to abandon
or postpone surplus reduction by the
House in order to make tariff issue III
the coming presidential election.
The issue now is the surplus OF $780,
900. 600, because our fiscal condition re-
guires that surplus TO be destroyed inn
mediately The destruction is rapidly
coming to be more important in public
estimation than is the method of destTuc-
ton. and the country is drifting into a
temper OF mind which will not tolerate
use Of the microscope in the exaggera-
tion OF theoretical details. When all
the pending bills and schemes are really
before the House for debating and voting
the country will demand that their rep
resentatiyes pull themselves together and
accomplish destruction OF the surplus.
And tho bill ought to have been re-
ported TO the House two months ago. 1t
will not in the least matter what sort of
bill is reported ; for the Republicans and
the twenty RANDALL Democrats will
move to amend every section in the bill
that shall be found Objectionable by
them. Theirs is the indubitabe rightto
do 80. Why, then, did the committee
not report bill of some sort long ago,
aud let the House act upon it a? On the
9th of June the National Convention will
assemble-not three months from now
and Congress has been in session more
than three months. Mr.. DoRsHEIMER
continues:
ITO talk about taking sides, and
framing issues, over surplus reduction,
which are to 90 into the noise and con-
fusion OF presidential election, would
be as silly as TO submit to a presidential
scrimmsge an appropriation for courts OF
justice and jurymen. The business of
congressman is not to make faces at one
another. but 10 devise q plan 10 put an
end by their votes TO the surplus by
stopping taxes. Congressman must not
subordinate that business to making
presidential issues or candidates. Con-
gressmen were sent TO Washington to
reduce the sum of taxation, somehow or
other. and the country will not patiently
listen TO excuses or reasons for not doing
IT. Already too much has been frittered
away in details and ia marking time. The
marching should begin !"
So far We have quoted from the Star
Of one day. The next day Mr.. Doh
sHEiMrR was more hopeful. He said:
at is encouraging to see that the
Democratic leaders in the House are at
last showing sense aud bethinking them.
selves how 10 bring into line the twenty
Democrats, more or Less, who dislike
one or two features OF the Mills bill
II the Mills rate on sugar is unsa;is.
factory 20 twenty, or ten, or even four
Democrats, there should be Cancellation
and compromise in order to destroy the
horrible surplus OF sl55, 900, 900. Don't
stop TO inquire what Republicans in tho
Honse wish, but pay attention to Demo
cfaisl"
Why not heed this good advice ?
There are thousands of protectionisis In
tho Democratic party, and the fact
might as well be recognized. They are
opposed TO the centrslizing doctrines Of |
the Republican party. hostile TO all
bloody-shirt wayers, and devoted 10 the (