Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-11
Interview with MIR. Carlisle.


The New York World of yesterday pub
fishes a three-column interview which its
Washington correspondent had few days
ago with Senator CARLISLE. in which this
distinguished Democrat gives a calm re-
view of the atrocities of recent Republican
legislation.
As to the leading issues of this campaign
he says:
In my Judgment there are three great
questions that will be more prominent
than any other. although there are many
which will DO discussed incidentally.
There is-frst, the tariff question; next.
the Federal elections, or force bill and,
third. the question of the extravagant APP
preparations made by Congress at its last
session. The question of extravagant APP
preparations necessarily includes PEN
SONS, subsidies. public buildings, DC.
But | think that the tariff will be
the most prominent and import
ant question for the consideration
OF tho people, as it affects the inter
ests of all In every part of the country,
and will greatly increase the cost of living.
The tariff bill which has Just become law
affects iniurlously not only the interests of
the consumer. but the interests of great
many manufacturers. because many of the
increased rates of duty are on articles
which our manufacturers are compelled
to use in their industries. What
is one mans finished product ia
in great number OF cases another
mans material. and therefore what
ever increases the cost (whlle 1t may help
the man who produces it, increases the cost
of the product in which it is used and in
creases the price of that product to the
consumer. For instance. the increase of
duty on wool made it necessary in order
TO preserve what was called the sym
metry of the bill, =" to increase largely the
duties ON woollen goods. And so of the
increase i'll the duties on flax, which re-
suited necessarily con the same principle)
in making large increases III the
duties on linen cloths and cloth
ing and other articles manufac-
tured from that material. The same may
be said of the increase of duty on TIM
plates aud Of the imposition of duty on
block-tin camers hair. and other materials
that have been heretofore free. Cancels
hair YOU are aware, ~ used In the manu-
facture of underwear and of "A great many
necessary articles.
The Correspondent: Have you any idea
rs TO the effect OF the new tariff law on
importations!
Mr.. Carlisle; 10 is impossible to say pre-
tlNtlN WHAT tHttl IL VIII HhNt w lluDOiN III
tions. Some articles. such as Sumatra to-
bacco, on which the duties were very
largely increased will continue TO be inn
ported in large quantities, no matter what
the rates of duty are, because the pecessi-
ties or tastes Of the people demand them.
But there are many other articles
that will be substantially prohibited
and Ia the mean time, the do
nestle products of the same kind
will he greatly increased in price. Of
course, If the domestic producer under
takes TO put prices up so high that the
foreign article can be imported and sold.
duty paid. in competition with the domes-
TIC article. impoTtatiOns of such article
will be continued, but the home manu-
facturer can eifectually exclude all impor-
tation by raising his prices TO point that
will add TO the cost nearly the whole
amount of the duty. still leaving such a
margin as would prevent the importer
from paying the duty and selling in COM
petition with him. and this ~ what they
are now beginning TO do.
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The Correspondent Will you please
explain why YOU think il important that
the Democrats should control the next
House of Representatives.!
MIR. Carlisle: regard the control of the
next House of Representatives as OF very
great importance TO the Democratic party
and TO the country. The Republicans
will still have the President and the Sem
ate, and the House will be the only
possible check on the extreme radl-
cal and extravaganza policy which
the Republicans have inaugurated.
and which they seem determined to per-
slst in. Our people attached too little i'm
portance at the last election TO the posses
SION Of the House and. in my opinion,
failed TO make proper efforts to secure it.
Our candidates for Congress were de-
feated in several districts which Mr..
Cleveland carried. and in some others
which he did not carry they we're de-
feated by majorities OF less than q
hundred votes. II we had carried
the present House none of the OBJ
already and which will be yet pat upon
the statute books could have been enacted.
The tariff bill-which. as | said, will
greatly increase the cost of living of every
man, woman, and child in the country
would uot have been heard of. The force
bill and the bull 10 subsidise ships out of
the public treasury, the extrayagant
appropriations and other Objectionable
measures that have been passed. or
that are now pending on the calen-
dar, would never have been intro
duced il the House had been Democratic.
The members of the House are the only
officials connected with the Federal Gov
eminent who are elected by direct vote
OF the people. and that body ought TO re-
present the real sentiment OF the people,
which / am satisfied the present House
does not. The majority in the present
House before Democratic members were
elected from their seats represented the
votes of a minority Of the people OF the