The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-08-30
A SECTIONAL TARIFF.
An Administration That Has Done Noth-
ing but Truckle to the South-The Mile
Bill Sectional Measure.

tnR Dut VfuCHie 10 tue SOutu-Ino hAAHu
Bill Sectional Measure.
Another Southern Tariff bill has been
passed by tho House. II Is tho direst fruit
Of that great crime against free govern
ment by which freedom Of voting In South
ern States was prevented and President
Cleveland was elected. Including men
paired, G3 Northern members voted for tho
measure and 14l against It, With tho
Northern States more than two to ono
against the bill 1t nevertheless passed, be-
cause 105 Southern votes were for II, OF
which at least 20 had been secured by
fraud. Sectional in its origin and spirit,
peculiarly sectional In its provisions and in
the theory which shaped IL, this bill can not
carry single Northern State, and yet II Is
to be imposed upon tho industries Of the
North--unless the Senate defeats it-by
votes obtained in Southern States through
fragrant defiance Of the constitution aud tho
laws.
II, says the New York Tribune, the North
ern people wish to be ruled in that way, II
they are willing to have their industries
Frustrated and their prosperity arrested by
o sectional measure passed by Southern
crimes, they will continue to sneer at tho
"bloody shirt" and to permit the Democratic
party to govern the country. This great city
and the crowded adjacent population from
which the Democratic party draws oil It's
hopes Of success have deep Interest in the
result, and yet car not defend their indus
tries against the foreign influence hero pro
vailing. But for the population within ten
miles Of the city hall New Jersey would not
be doubtful, and New York would give over
fifty thousand majority against free trado
and the sectional policy Of the Democratic
party. Bnt here the foreign agents and
those identified in interest with them have
something to gain by free trade. Outslte
Of this little circle the great Northern States
have every thing to lose by breaking down
homo industries, and 1t Is for the people OF
those States to say whether sectional South
orn policy shall prevail They can out-vcte
this city and Its environs II they choose.
Even after q Democratic Congress- had
been elected by Southern crimes this or
any similar measure would still have been
beaten but for the patronage and ire
sistible power OF q President who had de-
hberately chosen to serve the South and to
botray the North. More than twenty DEM
ocratic members were pledged to their con-
stituents to support the policy outlined by
Mr.. Randall, OF pennsylvania, but have
been bullied or bribed into betraying the
interests Of constituents. To some, sham
reiorm has proulseu piuce5 III noVy-yarus,
custom-houses and post-offices; to some 1t
has promised jobs and contracts; and some
1t has brought to their knees by the threat
that the paid hirelings Of tho Administra-
tion would pack conventions to defeat them
uhless they yielded.
1t is good thing for the country that the
Irresistible momentum toward Southern
policy within the Democratic party has
been thus plainly shown before the Presi.
dental election. But for the threats and
the bribes of the Administration, 1t may be
said, there would still have been substan.
tial Democratic opposition to such policy;
Mr.. Randall would not have been left with
only four supporters in the House. Yet the
threats and bribes Of an Administration
controlled by the South constitute the
force with which Northern industries have
to reckon, II the election Of another Demo
cratic President and Congress Is permit