Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-05-08

Taking Up Its Load.

The tariff debate has opened in the
/ ouse and u to be closed this week, we
gIieve, under the Republican pro-
{EAmme. 1t has not filed the galleries
~ caused any excitement II Is under
stood that II Is booked to go through as
reported, and the excitement is to come
! hereafter, when the record Of the Con-
3gress is made up and the people are
scAlled upon to consider 1t. The new
sNgulations of the House place 1t 80 fully
under the control of the speaker and
the majority as to tend 70 strangle de-
bate there upon politica, questions and
transfer 1t to the country at large.
The majority party is left to make
mp its record and to be judged by
~ The Republican party has used
IL freedom to enact a law that trans
slem annually an immense sum of
money, that may be anywhere from
.lbrty to seventy millions, from the treas
l1ry into the pockets of the old soldiers !;
and It has made itself solder with them
than with the voters who get none of the
ehower but have to pay the bill. II has
made sxtravagant appropriations for
naval establishment, which also may be
oqpposed to invite objection among the
eaceful people. 1t will enact n tariff
'bln that raises instead of lowers the
hlarthen of tariff taxation and this
will also be disagreeable to those who
pay the taxes and this class includes
every consumer, which means every
man.
\ There Is no question but that the party
hAs taken up q heavy load aud there Is
little chance to doubt that 1t will be
more than it can carry. Revolutions do
not 60 backward and certainly this
conntry has been daily outgrowing its
tariff swaddling clothes, and II is con-
SANITY apparent that the need of tariff
protectioL is growing less and the need
spf = wider market IL increasing.
1t h undeiliable that the producing ca
lpacity Of tie country outruns its con-
suming capacity. The home competi-
tjOn has cheapened manufactures 30 that
there never was time In the country's
history when they were generally SO low
In price. Foreign competition Is no
longer factor In our most important
industries. We have our home market to
ourselves.
Under these circumstances II Is hard
- conceive how the people are TO be
persuaded that it is good public policy to
'keep up the tariff rates, which cause
our manufactures to be more costly and
eur market to be contracted within our
own boundaries. The advantage TO the
manufacturing industry Of cheap raw
1naterials Is so apparent that 1t Is in
conceivable that this great interest will
not break away from the party that
pretends to foster 1t by taxing them.
The old policy which did foster 1t has
lost its SAVIOR under the new conditions
The manufacturing industry having
reached the proportions of manhood
needs other treatment than that OF child
hood.
We can confidently assume that the
manufacturing interest will cease to
support with its old time unanimity the
party of high tariff. The Republican
leaders In still sticking to this poll :
|cy fall to note the plain signs
lof the times. They are destined
~ learn this when they come be-
lore the people to defend the McKin-
10y law, which Mr.. Mills has aptly
styled cabbage-head production. 1t is
20 plainly this that the Democrats in
Congress have no desire to prevent the
Republicans from taking their stand
upon it and they will not resist its pas
sage beyond the amount of debate that
the Republican majority is pleased to
Allow them aud the vote that they can
Dot deny them.
Wesse that NJ. Darlington, who repre-
aents the Chester district of this state,
has returned to Washington from inter-
viewing his constituents, persuaded that
there Is to be no fair sailing for the
republican party in this state in the
coming election. He finds that his
quaker constituents object to the ex-
travagance Of armed cruisers and yete-
ran pensions and have no stomach for
the Mckinley tariff.
Mr.. Darlington has an intelligent con-
etituency, and one which Is famous for
knowing on which side of its bread the
butter lies. When you get among the
onakers with deal you need TO be wide
awake lest you be left. The conditions
promise that the Republican party will
be badly left by this staunchest body of
its old constituents, in its present vent
The element of Quay in Pennsyl-
vania politics will help the hegira.
The Quaker can stand with stout
stomach rascality up to certain point
but there is line at which he stops.
There Is no doubt that Quay as now de.
vsioped to the disgusted eyes of re.
spectable Pennsylvanians is an ipe-
cacuanha dose and that there
y . cheering prospect for the vomit-
Ing out of this class of statesmen in
fennsylvania this year. The Repub.
lean national record with its state
Bocord run we'll together for the party
0yerthrow. Wanted Democratic wis.
dom and magnanimlty to embrace the
Gjtuation.