The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-16
The Woods Full of Them.

The free whisky plank in the Chicago
platform threatens to be more damaging to
the Harrison ticket than Burchard's three
RS was to the Blaine ticket. The republi-
can organs are daily asserting that the
republican party is not in favor of free
whisky, and the republican leaders and
stump speakers ara trying to show that
their party, so far from favorlng free
whisky, is the party of temperance and
morality Nevertheless the declaration in the
republican platform that 1--WE favor the en-
tire repeal of the internal taxes rather than
surrender any part of the protective system
is so clearly in favor of free whisky that no
one can misunderstood it, 1t is folly, there
fore, for the republicans to say that they
are not in favor Of free whisky. They GER
tainly say that the revenues must be re-
duced and that they must be reduced by
taking the tariff off whisky rather than the
necessaries of life. They simply insult the
intelligence of the people when they deny
that they favor free whisky.
The Rev. Dr. Theodore l.. Cuyler, of
Brooklyn, president of the American tenn
! perance association, is certainly an intell
gent man He would not be likely to give
| a false Interpretation TO the republican
| platform, not only because he is an honest
man, but, also, because he has been life
| long republican. In Il letter recently pub
| lished in the New York EUangcLiSt he said !:
| In 1884 the republican convention wisely
declared III favor of the revision Of the
| tariff and the reduction of the enormous
| and dangerous surplus But this year 5
| convention has strangely declared in favor
! OF the practical maintenance of the present
| eXorbitant and oppressive war tariff, and
| in order TO provide against the accumula-
/ ton of surplus it suggests a repeal of the
| taxes on whisky and tobacco! Instead of
taking off the burden from many necessa
ries of life it would give US free pipes and
! free whisky
am not the only discomfort against the
| extreme high tariff heresieS of the late con
vention. Many Of the most powerful re-
| publican journals are protesting against
| them, and such stanch and thoughtful re-
| publicans as ex Mayor Seth Low and the
! Rev. DR. Storrs, and many other Of our
Brooklyn citizens, are in open revolt against
| them. DR.. Storrs said to me yesterday that
as he could not turn democrat he could
initiate SambO in the story and take 10
| the woods If all of us republicans who
are opposed to free trade and free whisky,
| ana yet are strenuOuSly IN favor or reduc-
ing the present outrageously oppressive
| tariff, should follow the example of DR..
Stoors, the woods" will be pretty full by
next November. The immense surplus in
the national treasury is fraught with in
creasing evils and dangers. There is n
| growing discomfort among the intelligent
working classes with high taxes on the
necessaries of life The many are now
burdened for the benefit of the few
The blunder the republicans made at
Chicago in declaring for free whisky can
not be corrected. As the campaign pro
crosses its demoralizing effect upon the re-
publicans will steadily increase. Teachers
of morality and religion and advocates of
the cause of temperance cannot consistently
support a party which favors making
whisky free before making the necessaries
of life cheaper.