The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-05-31
SHALL WE TRUST HIM.
TErom the Rostnn AlyprfiSar

From the Boston Advertiser
Who would confide the interests of tenn
perance to the hands of confirmed drunk
ard? No one who valued them. Who
would contide the task of tariff revision
and judicious protection for our manufac-
turing industries to declared enemy of
the very principle of protection? No one
who valued it. Therefore it is, if for no
other reason, that we denounce the cloak
of tariff reform as the thinest veil that
was ever thrown over hostile movement
The pretence that the scheme confided to
and engineered by Hon. Roger @. Mills
of Texas is not free trade wedge driven
by imported free trade mallets is too lame
to stand for moment. Judge had re-
Gently clever cartoon illustrating the
Mills bill in the form of the camel which
was suffered by an unwary man to put its
head in through the door of his house and
soon marches off with the house on it's
back. There is more truth than fiction in
this version of the old apologize.
Who is driving the free trade camel
with its tariff reform packard? Mr.. Mills
of Texas. And who is Mr.. Mills of
Texas? The man who rose in the house
to say as legislator in Congress:
'It(protection)i s worse in its influence
than the depreciation of the currency and
perhaps all other vicious agencies COM
bined. . >. In 1861, after other CONNER
cial people had renowned it, the congress
of the United States opened its arms and
took to it's bosom this impersonation of
all political heresies -. If today we
could sweep away all restrictions from
our commerce and make it as free as the
air, in one year our trade with foreign
countries would amount to two billions
instead of one, and in 10 years we would
have the largest commerce and the most
prosperous people in the world"
1t is the same man who now pretends
such anxiety to see raw materials on the
free list in the interest of American man
ufacturers, and yet is ON record as advo-
eating uniform advalorem duty of 25 per
centum ON all imports, raw materials and
finished products alike, with direct tax
of $10,0O0,0O0 on manufactures. That
proposal illustrated his care for American
manufacturing interests, taxing the raw
material as high as the finished product
and loading the American manufacturers
with discriminating tax of ten millions
in favor of foreign competitors.
1t is the same man who said in the house
during the discussion of the Wood tariff
bill =
eve should not strive to find out the
lowest duty that will bring the highest
revenue, but fall as far below that as pos
sible, and in doing so, whatever loss to
the revenue may occur should be supplied
from some other source. We should re-
member that the lower the duties the
greater will be the imports. Our policy
should be to take the smallest amount of
taxes that we can by customs, and we
should gradually decrease the amount I'M
til our customs taxes come alone from
non-competing articles entering our Gus
tom houses"
| 1t is the same man who delivered eu-
logy in Congress on April IA, 1884, of
the British system of free trade and call
ed upon his fellow legislators to unite with
him in securing this important boon to
the United States. For if this was gran
ted, "then,' he said, "every industry will
spring forward at bound, and wealth,
and power will bless the land that is ded-
icated to free men, free labor and free
| trade"
The cry in his district used to be, ''slave
labor and free trade" Now it is modified
by the new Southern leaven and reads,
''black blood and fibre and free trade" a.
gainst the world, and especially our own
countrymen in the North. Reduce enough
ito close Northern furnasses,' in the
words of Henry Waterson, and boom the
South on Northern ruins. This is the
improved Southern programme in MIR.
Mills breast pocket and nearest his heart.
win the North follow like an infatuated
child this piper from Texas, and his adj
vertising agents? We think not.
Something entirely new in bracelets,