New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-07
TALK WITH THE OLD ROMAN
rr noFs NOT LIKE THE SENATE TARIFF BILL.
AND DIsAGREES WITH MR. BLAINES
STATEMENTS.


STATEMENTS.
Pittsburg Penn Oct. c." Tho Dispatch pub
fishes the following interview with Judge thurman
The Dispatch. representative boarded Judge Ihur-
mans Washington, Penn and during inc Journey
to Pttsburg had pleasant chat with the ola ROMAN"
Just he left Washington. Judge Thurman said:
81 am sorry could not sec this town By daylight
In my earlier da-s often passed through washington
on stage coaches II pretty town then, ana
suppose It has improved very much in the lapse OF
years"
What do you think of the Senate Tariff DILL"
at is badly planned measure and only aggrava'es
the evil. / notice they copy after the NILS bill very
largely. I haven't read It in its entirety, Dut
know enough about say that 1T is not nearly as
good measure as the Mills bill. 1t is nothing more
than bid for votes. They keep up the tar1h
on manufactured articles to capture the
vote of the manufacturer, and likewise the duty IS
preserved raw material to please the Iar"ors' ~
IS a badly mixed affair somewhere that Ueherai
Harrison said, either in his letter or III one vi HIS
speeches, / am not sure which, that thcre was ~
necessity to bother about the surplus; but see the
Rennblcan Senators differ with him. They claim
that their bill will reduce the surplus about S'o'ooo
OOO You see they are not consistent. why shouiu
the poor man pay heavy tax ON MS cio'hins HIS
blankets and what he eats? There Is no sense IN ~
much taxation. The principle Is wrong, anu 'hen
10 deceive the people they state that the duty Is
levied at so much per square yard, and so much ao
valorem. How many people are there who understand
that
"What do you think of Mr.. Blaine's statement MADE
at Detroit, about President Clevelands use OF the
veto power?"
"Well, don't think anything about 1t, have heard
what Mr. Blaine asserted, Of course but what does ne
mean Mr. Cleveland has signed more pension bills than
sny other President in Office and what II he has
vetoed 200 or 800 or whatever Mr.. Blaine said
Granted that be has signed more in proportion than
all the other Presidents together, haven't counted
up the number vetoed signed, and don't care
straw about 1t but why didn't the Senate pass those
bills over his veto II they wanted them TO pass they
had the power to do IT, and yet they ala nothing N.
at all The law requires that the Senate shall con
slider all such bills, and If they don't do 1t, who Is
TO bame?" o,. MI,
Speaking of trusts, Mr.. Thurman said: I" MI Blaine
says that trusts private affairs and neither the
President nor the people has anything to 90 with
them. but John Sherman doesn't think so. lie In
troduccd bill in the Senate to have them sup,
pressed. In England the common law would wipe
them out. Here they have grown up through the
ava1lciousness Of man, aud the protective policy does
much to foster them do not say that they arc
the direct OutgrOwth of the system OF protection,
but the plan OF evyng excessive duties has helped
them Trusts made for the purpose OF putting
up prices. They have become grinding monopo1es,
and the laws Of the land should bc enforced against
fhemn