The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-08
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
WHAT EDITORS WROTE YESTERDAY
Oy VARIOUS FACTS.

Thick and Thin Prohibitionists-kicking
Repubiicans-The Reading strike-Chi-
cago Beef-Mr. Loweil's Ideas-A Ken
tucky Statesman.
We do not point out this duty because
the wool schedule needs revision In no
o her part, but because the effect OF il
exhibits SO clearly certain defects that
can easily be removed and whose pres
ence the thick and thin protectionists
and partisan economists ignore
The carpet manufactures 81 this coun-
try imported last year more than sO,OOO.-
600 pounds OF coarse wool, out Of which
they made carpets. They paid on thi.
wool a duty ranging from - - 20 2169
per cent. Of lis value. This duty swelied
The surplus revenue bv S2.JjO.O0O. IL
he wool could have been found in the
/ United State. he prOtectiOnist might
say that the duty was not excessive and
wss required for the protection Of the
domestic wool grower. But it cannot be
found in this country. 1t Is not produced
here except IN very small quantities. The
duty Il wholly torrevenUe. The revenue
j. not needed, and the removal OF the tax
would help the manufacturers, the work
men whom they employ, the people who
buy homemade carpets, andthe nation
export trade.-N T. Time'.
Tie uttrranccs Of Senators Alison,
Aldrich and Sabin, and the known views
OF Other Republican Congressman show
the strength o. the public demand for a
relief from unjust and unnecessary tax
alton.
Senator Allison, who has just been 20
Iowa and is no doubt acquainted with
! the feelings Of bis constituents, says that
the party which fails tO do its share in
reducing the tariff taxes will lose in pub-
lic favor Senator Sabin. also from The
| Northwest, some DAYS ago expressed him
self in favor OF reducing the tariff ON
! sugar and steel rails and placing .um er
and salt on ihe tree ii-t
senator A!dricl of Rhode Island said
before the Providence Board ~ Trade
that the annual revenue ought 10 De IT,
dUc"d 500. 100000. and repudisted tAe
/ Blaine proposition 800 collect "a revenue
with "a view Of dividing il among The
/ States or distributing IL by extraordinary
expenditures a. wholly i~ndctensibie.
These views are sustained bysOme Of the
ablest Republican journal. in the coun-
try-notably the Chicago Irtbpne. Proyi-
deuce Journ1i. and -. Paul PDhecr
Pres. The splitting by the tariff reform
wedge will not be al ON one side. Drive
IL home, ltf the splintcrs ~ where they
will " J. E0yid.
This Reading strike seems 20 have an
ominus rumble in IL even now. The
miners. who are among the hardest
workers IN the country. are somewhat
Disconnected. or at any rate the bosses
who are handling them are trying their
best to make them so, and there are NUT
terings o. complaint al two or three
places along the road.
Well. he public have been reminded
again of this everlasting friction between
CAPITAL and labor. which, like BanquO's
ghost. will not down ar any ones bid
ding 1t is a grave problem, and one in
which everybody is interested. Like
slavery and prohibition and tariff reform,
it will Increasingly clamOr until it is set
tied, and settled right. That seems to be
the law Of progress.
Some Of our contemporaries are con
graduating their readers that the knights
Of Labor are at the end OF their tether
ami resemble the country road which
changed into a squirrel track and ran up
a tree. Exactly why this should be a
matter OF congratulation, if it is a fact, j.
not clear Y Heraid.
The proceeding begun by the Chicago
dressed beet and canning companies will
be watched with interest. They charge
the transportation companies with i'm
posing exorbitant rates the claims al
ready made amount 10 $9j0.000. Five
big petitions have been sent 10 The inter
State Commission "a a step preliminary
to the bringing o. suits in the United
STATE, Courts. which. among other things,
are intended 10 test the cOnstiiutiOnality
Of the Interstate commerce law. The
evil, complained @. are declared % De
due 10 that act. The railroads will
probably claim that there has been 20
eXtorti0n on their part, and that the
higher rates are the result Of the ab0li-
ton Of The pooling agreements.-Er-
ct7Hge.
The latest illustration Of this contemp
tible habit Is seen in the treatment ac-
corded Jane, Russell Lowell by the Re
publican press. NJ. Lowell Is a veteran
Republican. Although never an active
politician, his |sympathies and his vote
have been with that party since $50.
He was appointed as "a Republican 20 the
Madrid Mission, md, as a Republican,
was subsequently, a, pointed 10 the court
Of II. James. But his record counts for
nothing in view Of the fact that be is
opposed 10 wal taxes In time of peace
and agrees with President Cleveland in
The opinion hat the tariff needs revision
with a view 10 bringing the eyenues
down to the wants OF the Government.
The very head and front OF bis Offending
has that extent. no more. But that Is
quite enough 20 open the tioodgat,s OF
abuse and turn The whole tribe OF slang
whangers on 10 him. Columns of
calumny and RATS OF ridicule are being
! slung AT his head If, instead of being a
/ tistiuOuishpd sCho1ar and Effpratpur he