The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1889-09-27

rHnY Will NOT REDUCE.


The tax payers Of the country have not
forgotten the proposition laid down BY re.
publican organs and stump speakers dur
ing the campaign Il 1883 that while Il was
true lhatth tariff needed revision and re.
ductlon, yet this revision and reduction
must be made BY i,s friends, (republIcans,)
and that when they succeeded to power in
both branches Of congresslhey would pro-
coed with alacrity to do 50. The country
ls waiting with almost bated breath 10 see
what that party will DO thlrfall when con
gress meets. The DRMocRAr predicts
that nothing will be done. II they are
pledged to any reduction plainly Il Is that
Of putting sugar On the free lis, or making
at least So per cent reduction, But they
viii not evea DO this. II may be that a bin
win be introduced and discussed, but II Il
ever reaches the president Il win be In such
form as not to justify The name OF a saritI
revision measure. The republican noun.
tain may labor but the result WIN be tariff
mouse Only,if !. brings forth anything.
There is now an irreconcillable differ.
ence IN the republican ranks between GER
tain classes Of manufacturers and produe-
era. The woolen manufacturers are going
TO congress with an imperative deman d
for free wool or the change OF high specific
10 low ad valorem duties. There are no
polllica divisions involved In this. The
leaders In the movement are prominent
and answering republicans and claim TO be
prO.eetiOnists. Tney say they were CO.
eiced into union with the wool growers,b ,bu
now their necessities compel them 10 look
OFT for themselves, and nothing but free
wool will save the rest of them from the
bankruptcy Into which several manufae-
turers have already fallen. On the other
hand the wool growers association have
resolved to demand of eongressstill higher
duties on raw wool and such additional
safeguards as win sffectually prevent the
manufacturers evading payment of the
highest duties provided BY the law. Roth
sides are determined, for each side claims
II Is question Of sheer self-preservation.
The wool growers announce their program
o be rule or ruin. II the manufacturers deny
the wool growers the protection demanded.
the latter will give the manufacturers full
dose Of their own medicine. Free wool
win be accompanied by free woolens and
all the wool industries mus, flourish or per.
ish together.
The iron industry Is 10 the same per-
picking condition. The -New England
iron manufacturers. say they must have
free raw materials or go odt of business.
They want free soal. free iron ore and free
or low duty pig iron and say they will igh;
hard for them. Nearly all who have made
this declaration are republicans aAd prolee-
tionists. They assert that they are suffer
Ing from over protection and that their
demand for relief is In the interest Of pro
teetion. The eoal, iron, ore and pig iron
men of the center and west will stubbornly
resist this demand The great iron man.
uiacturing concerns Of eastern Pennsyl-
vania are against free coal and low duty on
pig iron. They are probably also against
free ore, but would favor treaty arrange
ment foi the free admission of the iron
ores Of southern Cuba which they have
been quietly buying up.
The largest interests and most active
workers on all sides of this Important con-
troversy are republicans, who also profess
TO he proteeiionists, and many of them
have strong claims on the republican party
for aid given In the election of republi.
can administration and congress. The
party majority in congress viii be small At
best and Il will be next to impossible to &C.
cure uianimity for change in the diree-
ton of either higher Or lower duties on
the raw materials Of woelen or iron man.
ufacture. The democrats cannot be held
responsible for anything done or left un-
done in the way OF tariff legislation. The
republicans have the numerical power bur
will not nave the courage to take positive
action on the raw materials question which
Is to be forced upon them. Therefore II
snv tariff legislation Is effected, which We
doubt, II will be at the best repetition of
the 1859 juggIe which cheated all sides and
left every one dissatisfied and irritated
The democratic opportunity will inevitably
follow.