The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-03
WHEAT AND CnAFY.

Considering the honors that the Repub-
Iican party has heaped upon him, the re.
marks made by ex-President Hayes in
New York last Sunday. and reported in
yesterdays dispatches, were, to say the
1sast, hasty and ill-advised. 1t was practi-
ealIy impossible that 20 soon after the final
adjustment and passage of the tariff bill he
could have formed an intelligent Judgment
ON the details Of . measure so complicated,
and involving 20 many adjustments of con-
ficting interests.
II IL improbable that even among Sena-
Tors and Representatives. except the linn
it'd number who have had this measure di-
ytctly in charge. there are dozen on either
side who have - yet fully comprehended
Ill Of the nice balancings of duties on raw
materials and finished products that we're
essential TO the composition of . tariff bill
that would bear equally and justly on all
the interests to be affected by such meas
ure. There are doubtless some duties
which. when standing alone. might seem
unjust and onerous, but which. when con-
sidered in connection with others that pro-
tect those who pay these, are at once REQ
OgniEed - eminently proper.
But in the adoption Of any great and
complicated measure Of this kind, from
which the suprsmely selfish have hoped to
derive undue advantages, it is inevitable
that here and there will be found those
who had none but selfish interest In the
question. and are incapable Of taking q
broad view Of 1t, who have been disap-
pointed and viii feel resentful. OF this
class was Mr.. Neidrlnghaus. the German
representative from Missouri. He is
largely engaged in line Of manufactures
that requires the use Of boracic acid. His
manufactures have been well protected
and he has accumulated hand some for
tune therefrom. But while asking an in
crease OF duty on his manufactures he
strenuously opposed Q compensatory duty
on the acid. and demanded that 1t be
placed on the free list. which was refused.
Moreover. because he Was engaged in one
line OF manufacture Mr.. Neidringhaus de.
manded special Difference as to the duties
on al manufactures, which was also re-
fused. What with this blow to hi. conceit,
and the fact that his Republicanism was
not Of the kind TO stand the acid test. he
rebslled and has turned Democrat.
Two Of the Senators-Paddock and
Pettigrew-who voted with the Democrats
against the adoption Of the conference re.
port represent farming constituencies,
some Of whom had been misied into an
opposition to the moderate duty of seven
tenths Of . cent pound on binding Irvine,
an amount of protection to which the man
ufacturers Of that article were considered to
be fairly entitled. These Senators and
their constituents had professed strong at
tachment to the principle of protection;
this was almost the only point at which
the tariff directly affected them, and this
could amount to but very tribe to any one
consumer Of that article, but they had been
cunningly persuaded that il Was their duty
% protect, and they protected.
That the Senators did not view the mat
Ter a. their constituents did. aud that they
were moro largely controlled BY policy than
BY principle, is evidenced by the fact while
they voted against the bill, they did not
apparently notify the Democfats--Can and
Eustis--with whom they were paired, OF
their intention to vote that way. and those
Senators did not vote. They thus merely
complied with what they considered the