Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-09-22
Sound Views.

Ii must be removed, not only by
needless extravagant expenditures.
not by abollshing the proper taxing
of.whlsky and tobacco, nos by a
stupid horizontal reduction for poI..
itics only; but by plain business
methods, by freeing entirely those
great neceSsaries of life that enter
into the daily consumptionof every
household. and by wise and dis.
eliminating reductions, which will
not only relieve the tax payers,,bub.
will ialso:enconrage labor, and all:
land ls siren industry, aid ex-s
s;tend 5ourc CONNER sc " s.
Tliese care fio Il tss u o|rTfIszo tue
President, nor.any one Of athat Ell
ement which soughtto destroy tllis
nation" They are the words Of
MIR. Henry Cabot Lodge. chairman
of the Republican Committee of
Massachusetts in 1854, and they
were spoken in calling the State
Convention to order.
"There are only two ways to re-
dnce the surplus revenue: one by
raising the tariff to a prohibitory
height, which nobody advocates;
the other the free list. The free
list is the honest reformer's hope.D
These, again, are not the words
of President Cleveland, but Of ex-
Governor Long, of Massachusetts,
a Republican leader in that Stats.
"Any tax or import duty which
increases the price OF these raw
materials is a burden upon these
skilled artisans and mechanics, or
else burden upon the consumers
of their products"
1t is not Mr.. Mills, OF Texas, who
says this, but Mr.. Allison, of Iowa,
in 1870, advocating a general re-
duction of twenty per sent, which
he declared would not be ga full
equivalent for the rem oval Of all
internal taxes on manufactures"
1--WE want all those articles that
enter as raw material into the man.
ufactures Of the country free Of
duty, so that the country CAN stand
on an equality in the markets of
thn world with the othar nations of
the world"
No, this is not Speaker Carlisle,
but Seuator Henry Wilson ,aad tho
same views were so universally ac-
cepted by the Republicans party up
to it's convention in 1854 that the
Chicago Tribune, which supports
the Republican nominations, "spits
UPON the platform" OF this year as
abandoning in it's tariff plank the
Republican doctrine That plat
form declares that the party ,raJller
than yield a single protective tax,
would abandon what Mr. Lalge
approved-tIle proper taxing Of
whisky and tobacco. 1t would en-
gage in what he calls needless and
extravaganza expenditures. Itwould
refuse to free the great necessaries
of life that enter into the daily ool-.
OF every household. 1t
would refuse wise and discriminate
ing reductions which would not
only relieve the tax payers, but en-.
courage labor, aid and. strengthen
industry, and extend our commerce;
aud Mr.. Lodge, despite his words
in 1854, would now help to do it.
But if his words and those of the
other Republican leaders were true
when they were spoken, they are
true now. They declare principles
Of taxation and economy, and those
have not changed. I'm
less Mr.. Lodge and Governor Long
and Mr.. Allison and President
Garfield and Vice President Will
SON and other Republican leaders
were freetraders, Mr.. Cleveland is
not a freetrader. Unless Mr. Lodge
and his friends demanded free
trade in 1851, the friends of Mr..
do not demand free trade
in 1883. Unless the Republican
leaders we1e wiling in 1854 to ruin
American industry for the benefit
Of British free trade, the President
and his supporters are not willing
to effect that ruin in 1883. 1t is
plain that if the Presidents mes.
sage and the Mills bill are the be-
offree trade, the stilunchest
began it before them.
1t is Republicans who expose the
folly OF their own Cry Of free trade
against the Democrats in che pres
emit campaign. In speaking OF. the
meetingin Boston some
time ago, the Springfield Republf.
can put the situation tersely when
it said:
cit was lidtle more than thirty
years ago that Henry Wtlson,Chas
and the other Represen.
5atives OF massachusetts in Con-
yress spoke aud voted in favor Of
reducing an average twenty-five
DER cent. tariffto one of eighteen
md twenty per cent. Their polit-
cal descendants at Boston de.
lounced the proposed reduction of
! forty seven per cent. tariff to one
If forty two per cent. rs meaning
rec trade.n