Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-08-17
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

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fifteen years. Is the tariff charge
able with this trusti
A pOOrly-clad little girl came in
TO the store of one of our station
ers recently. She wished to buy
some writing paper, and finally
was shown some for ) cents qnire.
"How much will half quire be ?"
she inquired in halffed, plaintive
little voice. "Three cents replied
the clerk. "If you please, III take
the other half" was the quick re-
spOnse.-AugWsta (Me.) Journal.
II Mr.. Blaine had not returned
to take part in the campaign, how
his enemies would have sneered
and rallied at him as a sore head.
Now that he has come back, how
they still sneer and rail at him for
attempting to "overshadow" tne
man in whose interest he is about
to begin work. Well, well, let them
rail on. Extract their sheer and
the Distinguishing Mugwump fea'
ture is gone,
Several of our exchanges are
pounding and scrubbing themselves
into an artificial glow over the tact
that the republicans in Congress,
in voting against the Mills bill,
voted against the removal of the
tobacco tax, in part. True. But
this line of reasoning proves TOO
much. Do these democratic edit
tors love sweet milk? If so would
they take their milk mixed with
prussic acid Shall we be compell-
ed by them to take free tobacco
mixed with free wool, free lumber,
etc.i Again, these Virginia demo
cratic editors profess to love the
Blair bill and to hate internal rev.
enue. Then why do you not vote
for Harrison and the republicans
and thus get the Blair bill aud re-
peal of internal revenue? If we
are to take custard with distaste-
full mixtures, Why not they ?-Bris-
toll NeIcs.
Following close upon the British
made bandannas and Brittish-made
campaign buttons comes food OF
British.written and Britlsh-printed
free trade tracts, which the Cleve-
land and Thurman managers are
spreading far and wide through
the Northwest. Thus campaign
documents are not only English IN
ideas. Their spelling shows Eng
hsh characteristics, and their typo
graphy is recognized as that OF
Paternoster Row. Why doesn't
the Democratic National Commit
tee move over and establish it's
headquarters in London at once
1t might be able to hire room
from the Golden club, at 6 Upper
Park Road, n. w. As for Repub-
licans, we are quite resigned to
pIod along with American ideas,
expressed on American paper and
With American type. They're good
enough for US.
The democrats seriously object
to being called free traders The
tariff, they say, within certain lin
its, operates to the advantage of
the country, and they have no de-
sire to do away with it entirely.
They do not want to abolish It,
They only want to reform 1t. Odr
people ought to be protected, they
say, bat the present tariff is over
doing the thing and giving them
more protection than they are en-
titled to. They don't deserve more
than half or a third of the prOtec'
ton which they are getting. There
fore. the tariff needs reforming,
and the democrats claim that they
are the boys to DO the job With
neatness and dispatch. Now we
presume that ITO republican will
contend that the tariff is not open
TO some Improvement. 1t would
10 strange indeed if such a far
reaching and eOmpleX system had
been brought to absolute perfec-
ton. That it is subject to defects
which need to be corrected, no ole
will dispute. We will even accept
the language of the democracy and
confess that it needs reforming,
But to whom should be delegated
tha n0wer To make this reform
Should it be the democracy which
has always been unfriendly to our
protective policy. and habitually
opposed every step which has been
made In that direction by the re-
publicsns
It's the usual custom to trust
the decision Of important matters
to our enemies. The republican
party is responsible for our tariff
system as 1t exists to-day. If it
has been and is a means o. good to
the country, to it belongs the cred,
it; and If there is aught about ii
which needs to be altered and i'm
proved. it can be safely trusted to
snake the change. The republican
party 10 the party to reform the
seria, and it is doing that very
shing as fast as the changing con-
ditions make It appear necessary
or expedienE The only genuine
reform OF the tariff must come
through this party. The demo.
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