Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-08-11
Tariff Opinions.

certain ultimate triumph of tariff re-
form along the lines of free raw
materials for manufacturers and re-
duction on the common necessaries of
life. As such its announcement will
meet with hearty response through
out the country.
Mobile Register: No one can say
with any degree Of truth that the
Mills bill is a free trade measure.
The free list is enlarged, it is true,
but it is done carefully and with due
regard to our industrial interests. 1t
is to the interest of the manufacturer
or producer of articles needing protec-
ton, and those that can get along
without protection, or that do not
need it so badly, should be put on the
free list.
Augusta, Ga, Evening News: Woe
to the Republican Senators if they do
not accept this bill, for, it will then
make an issue which the progress and
intelligence ofthe people can and will
decide in only one way. 1t will COM
pei the reelection of Mr.. Cleveland,
and it will also compel the introduce
ton and adoption of a stronger and
more popular bill, calling for more
reduction of revenue, at the next ses-
sion of Congress by an overwhelming
Democratic House, and very proba-
bly, by a Democratic Senate
Providence Telegram The result
will be, if the bill passes the Senate,
to give the manufacturers larger
market for their goods, and give the
people cheaper and better wooens.
At the same time, with business bet
ter, the operatives will get steadier
work and higher wages. The Demo-
cratic policy improves the home mar
ket, gives the American buyer better
goods, and the American worker bet
ter wages. And its policy Injuries no
one but the foreign manufacturers
and the Republican politicians.
Philadelphia Times: 1t is announc-
ed in the Chicago and New York pa
pers as an important political fact
that Mr.. DreXel, the great banker of
the city, has declared that wool, iron
ore, and other raw materials needed
by our manufacturing industries
should be admitted free of duty. 1t
is assured by some political writers
that because Mr.. DreXel believes in
raw materials he is not a protection
list. In point of fact, Mr.. DreXel SIM
ply shares the sincere belief of a very
large majority of the manufacturers
and business men of this city who are
positive protectionists to the extent Of
the generous protection of the wages
of workingmen and who demand free
raw materials to aid our varied mills
and factories and increase home la
Dor.
Boston Post: Legislation follows
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public opinion sometimes at a great
distance, but never quite out of sight.
That the prevailing sentiment of the
country is getting more and more
hostile to the Republican doctrine Of
perpetual protection for every inter-
est which begs for it is plain enough.
That theory of taxation held quite
general sway for the twenty years
following 1861, but the people at large
are returning to the ground occupied
by Henry Clay, who said that "no
one in the commencement of the pro-
tective policy ever supposed that it
was to be perpetual" The Mills bill
comes nearer to the views of the early
protectionists than any other tariff
act since 1857, but it is not revolution-
airy.
Detroit Free Press: The country is
to be heartily congratulated on this
result. The action of the House may
not be Endorsed by the Senate. The
chances are that it will not be. The
upper house is welded to party and
to conservatism, and can aff0rd-or
thinks it can-to defy the popular
will. But there is a vast amount of
satisfaction in having a definite
settlement of what the popular will
is, and nothing certainly can be more
definite on that point than the action
of the House of Representatives.
When respectable majority in that
body, coming fresh from the people,
declares so emphatically in favor of a
measure it is conclusive evidence that
the measure embOdies the popular
will.
Galveston News: The protectionists
sail out against English free trade as