The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-29
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Especial toTHB HERA1D-Examtner Dispatch.

to reduce them instead of increasing them.n
If Secretary Biaine's suggestions are
needed and the duty on sugar restored until
reciprocitp relations can be secured with
the countries south of us. the absurd spec
tacle is presented of tariff bill quarter
of century after the close of the war
which increases the duty above the present
high rate. 1t is further stated that Mr.
Blaine's differences with his party are not
confined to the tariff. He has not hesitated
to express his dissatisfaction with the Nc
kinney bill in a number of important par
ticularS. But he is also vehemently op-
posed to the passage of the national election
bill He does not scruple to deDounce the
measure as one calculated to Africanize the
south and Indirectly react upon the north
The Republican party" he has recently
said, was not able TO pass force bill tif-
teen years ago, when it was much stronger
than it is now, and it is the height of folly
to attempt such legislation at this late
day."
1t is not my purpose to indulge in sensa
tlonal or exaggerated speculations regard
ing Mr.. Blaines future course, but | hear
1t both from gentlemen who are deep in
his confidence andafrom clever politicians
who are not often wrong in their deduction
that The secretary S stay in President Har-
rison's cabinet is not likely to continue
long. Mr.. Blaine is ambitious of represent
ing the conservative thought of the country
and of his own party in particular upon the
tariff and other matters of national inter
est. He cannot consistently do this
and remain member of an administration
which radically differs from him. and for
this reason the prediction is freely made
that he will within a brief period tender his
resignation as a member of the Presidents
political household
Another view of the situation taken by
very prominent Democratic Senator is the
following: 1.-THE Republican Senators find
themselves in very awkward plight.
They hesitate to. take up the tariff bill
until some sort of compromise or under
standing can be made with those kepubli-
can Senaturs who are inclined to support
Secretary Blaine's recommendations. They
realize that the position taken by MIR.
Blaine has made many converts, and these
Senators, acting with the Democrats, could
easily amend the bill by restoring sugar
TO the dutiable list. OF course the Demo
Gratis would be only too willing to avail
themselves of such an opportunity to di-
vide their opponents and make political
capital feeling as they do. The Repubi-
can majority are anxious for any excuse to
temporarily drop the tariff. They think
they have found what they need in the
national election bill. Once engaged in its
consideration they know the Democrats
will talk the session out, and as a result
the tariff bill will be Shut out The Re
publicans can then go to the country and
to the protected interest, say, we framed
bill giving you all you asked for, but the
Democrats filibustered so much in consid-
Grafton of the election bill that we were
unable to pass it. But stand by US, re-
elect a Republican Congress to keep up the
fight for your interests and we will pass
the bill at the coming session. -
1t has been matter of common report
about Washington for the past fifteen
months that MIR. Blaine, notwithstanding
his high sounding position as premier OF
the administration is in reality but little
more than chief clerk occupying confiden-
tial relations with the President of the
United States, though General Harrison
consults him as a rule in the matter of ap-
pointments in the consular and diplomatic
service, but he is only guided by the secre-
tary's suggestions when the latter coin
eide with his own, when they do not. the
President consults his own sweet pleasure
and his secretary of state may like it or not
as he pleases.
Ben Butterworth, of Ohio in an in interview
with the Herald correspondent is reported
to have said:
sit is not difficult to discover in the rest
less discomfort which has grown up under
the partial operation of our tariff a sure
harbinger of the overthrow of those who
defend and uphold the extravagant rates
of duty which are now imposed. The
country does not believe such high rates
are essential to adequate protection. There
is no nation in Europe where the govern
ment shows less inclination than our own
to mind its own business and let the
private concerns of the people alone.
What is our situation as party? The
tariff unreyised and no consoling prospect
that the Senate will do more than trans
pose the exorbitant rates that abound In
the present schedule. We make proffer of
plan to give The farmer sugar at reduced
rate, but we won't let him sell his corn or
his pork in order to pay for his sugar We
pacify him by pointing to his home market,
as if we had to stand guard over it to keep
hin from losing it. Yes, the farmer has a
home market and he holds it by title
above the power of Congress. He is shown
a tariff schedule which runs the whole
gamut from snap beans through peas,
onions, peanuts, squashes. cabbages, eggs,
| oranges, hops, corn, rye and wheat, all OF
which is as useful to him as duty on tin
whistles. EIe is consoled while he is fenced
| in his own market and out of all other
markets with the assurance that he BUYS
articles cheaper now than he did fifty
years ago True, but II he will reflect q
moment he will recall another TACT, and
that is for each article he bought to supply
his home fifty years ago he buys ten now
and finds i'll providing the comforts ant
convenlences the custom of to-day de
mands, he pays out much more, many
times more, than he did in the olden time
and of course has his comforts multiplied
'There is no more excuse for our failure
to extend our commerce over this contin
ent than there is for adiourning withou
making the needful appropriations to carry
on the government. The fear of Canadian
competition is so ridiculous that it is no
entitled to respectful consideration. Thos
who imagine we must erect tariff wal
along each boundary line without regard Il
considerations across the line, know littl
of the philosophy of our system or wilfull,
pervert it.''