San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-03-05
TARIFF PRINCIPLES SPREAD.


The LIGHT is 10 receipt OF very en-
couraging letter from @. l.. Edwards,
ESQ, of Ellis county, showing the hold
that the protection idea is taking upon
the mind OF the south. In the course OF
bis letter Mrs. Edwards speaks incident
ally concerning this journal as follows:
81 will avail myself OF this Opportuni-
ty to thank you for the humane review
OF my pamphlet on the protective tarih.
The compliments were appreciated
fully: and best Of all a great many orders
have been received from your part OF
the country. 1t has gained good foot
hold In the northwest, too. Within
month from the date OF its issuance
orders had been received from % states
and territories. Am safe already on my
printers bill, and there seems proba'
bility Of being reoompensed In degree
for the time and labor expended IN It's
preparation. Now, l am not fishing for
another notice; but thought perhaps you
would be interested In knowing that the
free trade brethren have not put me out
OF court. I send you paper now and
then to show you how and when II IS
going-that is all.
that Roger Q. and his associates have
had a safe deIiverance OF their tariff
baby. The after-birth Ia going 10 worry
those fellows"
The LIGHT accepts the compliment
rendered its influence and service In the
work Of spreading protection plaster
over this section of the democratic vine-
yard, and also congrstulates it's corre-
spondent upon the success attending the
publication OF his very able and common
sense review OF the tariff question now
at issue between the two great political
parties Of this country.
Special attention is called TO the clos
ing sentence OF Mr.. Edwards letter,
"Roger Q. and his associates have had a
safe delivery Of their tariff baby. The
sfter-birth is going to worry those fell
lows" The whole case could not have
been more succinctily stated. This bill
now presented by Mills and his sub
committee Is destined to prove verit-
able apple OF discord in this democratic
congress. The evidence multiplies every
day, from all sections Of the southern
country, that the placing of wool on the
free list and keeping mp the price OF du-
ties on wooden manufactures in order to
capture the New England vote, is going
to play smash with the votes Of the
southern democrats In the states Of
Louisiana, Mississippi. Alabama, Geor-
gia, Tennessee and Arkansas, il not In
Texas. It Is not so much the fact
that wool has been placed upon the free
list and wooden goods protected, as that
this wool is in the south, and that these
wooden goods are manufactured In New
England that is going to make all dem
ocratlc Rome howl. Roger q Mills
speech In New England, which his
friends were not willing TO believe cor
rectly reported, has been wonderfully
Illuminated by his tariff bill and the re-
suit is most satisfactory TO the protec-
tionists Of the country. Let the prOtec-
tive democracy take care Of the issue,
and widen the breach IN their own party
ranks, as they seem disposed to do, and
the republicans will find ample encOur-
agement In the work so necessary to
the defeat OF free trade principles. Like
the old preacher in his new parish, who,
uttering the prayer, Lord keep me
poor and humble" was astOnished to
hear an old deacon exclain, Keep him
humble Lord, and we'll keep him poor"
Let the democracy keep Mills in hot
water and the republicans will give him
an ice bath. With the aid OF the Kan
dali democracy the bill will have hard
time In bringing forth a healthy law.
Roger @ may consider himself lucky If
he does not die In the process. He would
anywhere outside of Texas, but this is
an awfully healthy state for consump-
tives ard democrats