Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-13
TIE TARIFF BILL.

mouse Tor agreement TO the senate
| amendments added, raises the present
tariff rates on every important manu-
| facture in wool, cotton. iron, tin, end
! in a great many other things besides. It
viii probably meet with the approval Of
/ the house in Its present shape and be-
come a law. At least it can be said thai
no important changes will be made in it
as it now stands, and the huge job as
bargained for two years ago between the
factory magnates and the fat-frying
managers OF the g. o. p. will be con-
summated, and the load OF tax
alton now reluctantly borne by
the masses will be increased, espec-
tally in thatsection, the West, where
the prohibitory tariff policy received its
heaviest vote and strongest Endorsement.
The Increased burden thus imposed should
be borne in that section uncomplaining-
ly. 1t gets precisely what it voted for!
The Chicago platform declared explicitly
for higher tariff rates. Kansas jay
hawkers applauded the declaration to
the echo and emphasized its hearty ap-
prevail of it by rolling up the enormous
majority of 80 GOO for it. Nebraska,
iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan
and Illinois all gave good majorities for
it. They had no factories, any of them.
worthy of mention, to profit by the in
creased tariff, but they could not have
been more enthusiastic in favor OF
It had they been purely manufGc-
turing states. They were actuated by
spirit of generous friendliness towards
the manufacturing barons of the East
who, their orators told them, would
shell out freely to elect Harrison and in
sure service pensions to every patriot who
jumped bounty or buckled on q car
fridge box. But things have not pros
pered under Harrison g administration
as had been hoped for and promised.
Agriculture is in an especially uafortu-
nate condition, and the farmers who for
twenty-five years have been looking anx-
iously for that tariff millennium promised
them, when all would be prosperous and
happy, have grown weary of waiting,
and murmur audibly against what they
conceive to be the inequalities of the
tariff burdens imposed upon them.
Their uneasiness and dissatisfaction
with the tariff has been reflected in the
conduct and speech of few Western
senators, whose half-hearted and hypo-
crital protests against increased taxa
ton indicated the change in popu-
lar sentiment, but nothing more.
To curry favor with their constituents
they entered protests and made feeble
objections TO several provisions of the bill.
But when put upon its passage they voted
for it to q man, as though it had been
expressly designed for the relief of their
impoverished constituents, instead of be-
ing what it is, a powerful stimulus to
the powerful aud swollen manufacturing
interests, trusts and combines of the
East. They have only done their duty
under the declaration of the Chicago
platform.
They can point their constituents to
that pronun cia mento which they them
selves applauded and voted for, as th~ir
authority for voting an increase of tariff
rates. There is, in the vernacular of the
day, no kick coming to them from their
constituents. The latter will have to
grin and bear it, to lie in the beds they
made for themselves. They forgot when
they voted more protection for the East
that charity should begin at home.
They will now pay the penalty of that
oversight, or lapse of memory, by kick
ing themselves and living the lives of
beggars, as many of them do.