Montgomery County sentinel., 1888-06-22
OF WASHINGTON COUNTY.
REPUBLICAN, ORGANS.

Protectionist pets have plenty OF money
and their money enables them to have
plenty ol.organs. Conspicuous among the
many is one published in Philadelphia un-
der the direction of the Manufacturers
Club. This mouth piece of class interests
calls tariff reform "a monumental outrage
wicked conspiracy, and stabbing the bust
ness OF the country" 1t says there is de-
preston in trade which is the beginning OF
disaster and that it is caused by talk Of
changing the tariff.
The Republican party in Congress up
holds the bold Justification of every organ
of such utterances. The declarations of the
party of 1884 are too recent for an out and Out
statement that the present tariff is sacred
and must never be touched except to In
crease duties, and the reasoning of this
mouth piece leads straight to no other prop
osition, and the Republicans endorse such
declarations.
Tariff reform will not disturb the business
of the country. Some losses will occur, but
they will be enormously overbalanced by
the gains. No improvement ever quickened
the march of the race without a loss. When
the English repealed the corn laws, some ol
the land owners began to accumulate wealth
more rapidly than before. When the shoe
shoemukers were affected. When land is
brought under cultivation trappers and
hunters are displaced. When railroads are
built stage coaches are thrown aside. When
a man finds his shoe is producing corn, he
gets another and has TO stand the loss. When
the Mexican adopts wheel with spokes foi
his cart, he throws aside the old round
block. When the Indian learns to plow
his pointed stick is useful no more and is O
loss.
These organs, big and little, as a general
thing, assume that tariff reform is a con
spiracy because some manufacturers may
have to do with diminished profits for d
time. Tariff reform is really a blessing to
business, for it is concerned with revival
of trade, an increase of consuming power, d
more equal distribution of wealth, greater
rapidity OF circulation and progress in all
national improvements.
The argument OF these organs is the ar
gument of the Swiss watch maker who in
sanely fights against the American system
of cheap and good watches. 1t is the re.
fusal of the farmer TO rotate his crops and
buy labor saving machines. 1t is protest
against knowledge. 1t comes from the spirit
which cited Galileo and tore Hypatia's fair
flesh from her bones. The Cheyenne has il
when he rowns upon the customs OF civili-
zation. The Chinese have it when they lay
embargoes upon foreign trade. White ply
sicians cannot carry the knowledge OF heal
ing To the Cheyenne, because the medicine
man puts in his plea for industrial protec
ton. The Chinese population are slave.
as.becapse they are kept in Ignorance OF bette
institutions by the protective policy of thu
mandarins.
The organ uf the Manufacturers Club a
Philadelphia tells the American people tina
the protective tariff features must not b,
changed-neither this year nor next year
The Democratic party has with remarkabl,
moderation presented u measure which i,
the most generous of compromises. Thi'
club organ and Republican Congressmer
meet it with epithets which could not b,
worse il the bill proposed sweeping ava,
the whole tariff.
The pets are in their last ditch and can
only snarl, like Diogenes, against the aspi
rations of mankind.