Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-10-23
Plumb and Paddock.

The fact that these two Senator's to-
gether with Pettigrew of South Dako-
ia, voted against the higher tariff bill q,
is not without significance. 1t has a
meaning in it, and that meaning will
grow deeper and wider in the very
! near future The bill was Republic
! can MEASURE; the authors of it called
! it u epublican measure. and claimed
| the support of every Republican in
! Congress on that ground. Senator 1n-
gals did not like it. for he recognized
! its sectional and unequal character
/ but, as he is said to have declared, he
voted for it because it had the party
stamp upon it. No doubt, Senator
Manderson voted for it for the same
reason; it Is party measure, and be
| felt bound TO support if, even at the
sacrifice of the constituents whom 1t is
certain to make victims of.
But Plumb of Kansas refused to fol-
low the example of bis colleague, and
Paddock of Nebraska refused to follow
the example of his. They were IN the
Senate to represent two young and
pr omising Western States, devoted al
most exclusively to agriculture, and
they spiritediy repudiated the pretence
that their obligation to the Republican
party is superior to their obligation to
tne people of Kansas anu Nebraska.
They saw clearly that, in this case, the
Republican party really meant the fa-
vored Northeast; that the bill was not
so much Republican measure as a
urtheastern measure - protected
manufacturers measure; and that
while it will certainly very greatly
benefit the industries of one small but
wealthy and powerful section of the
iTninn If will inst neFfainiy and
proportionately inJure all other Sec
tions, and its oppressive effects will be
felt most severely in those new States,
like Kansas and Nebraska, which
have no system of protected industries,
and are wholly occupied in farming.
Senator Plumb says: There has not
been an argument which was worth
the name, offered to show that higher
protection was needed: but with an in
science which i'll itself calls for rebuke,
the manufacturers and those who rep
resent them have simply said: I'VE
want it, and that is enough"
Senator Paddock said: 'I cannot see
the benefits that will accrue to the
people by the sweeping away of the
imports on sugar, when measured in
connection with the losses sustained
by them through the increases in du-
Ties OH iEaUy otIei aEtlCit eSSbblId 10
life. Desirable as free sugar is, when
secured at the expense of dearer cloth
ing, dearer tin plate, dearer earthen-
ware, dearer cutlery, and so on, it does |
not relieve the debit side of the poor.n
Kansas and Nebraska have been |
Republican States, and there are no
reasons for believing they are not Re- |
publican States still. But there are |
reasons for believing that Senator |
Plumb stated an interesting and inn
portant truth when he said IA very
large majority of the people of Kansas |
are with me. | get letters and tele-
egrams from there by hundreds indors-
ing my course, and all fro II Republi- |
cans" If the question were submit
ted to the people of Kansas and Ne
braska, to-morrow, they would ap-
prove the vote of these two Senators |
against the bill by an overwhelming
verdict. They are growing tired of the
servility of their other Senators and |
Representatives. to Northeastern dicta-
tors, who have SO long used the Re-
publican name TO mask their selfish !
and sordId schemes; and they are rap
idly nearing point where they viii
repudiate protection if they have to
repudiate Republicanism with it.
Plumb and Paddock have become |
the pioneers of a new movement in the
Republican party OF the West-a re-
volt against the domination of North-i