The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1890-10-17

spNArOn CARLISLE IN that cool, stud'ousy
exact way of bis, makes u scathing arra'gh'
ment of the record of this congress IN point
lnv out the duty of winning the contro' Oh
the next house for the Democrats. lie says
To wo had carried the present house none
Of The obnoxious legislation which has Deeh
already and which will be vet put upo" rhe
statute books could have been enacteu. ill., ne
tariff bill which will increase tne Gos' y, ~ ,ho
Ing Of every man, woman and chi,u III .n''
conntrv-would not have been heard OF. Inc
force lin and the bill to substitute ships OUT
of the public treasury, the extrnVaeant aP'
pronriations and other Objectionable measures
that have been passed, or that are now pend.
ing on the calendar, would never nave peeh
introduced.
Reviewing the Greed rules" of legislation
he says:
Tho hin IN organize Territorial governments
In Oklahoma, which contained, ! ocieve, .T,y
eight sections, was taken OUT OF NY co,.n,u, S y
of the whole on the state OF the ,o.tom ordcrcd
upon IL. when only fourteen sectiohs nau ocv ,s
read and the tariff bill. when con,aipVu 80, 40
paragraphs In the schedules OF dutiaoie anu re 80
artic "a and forty eight or fOrty.nlne paScs VI
important lerisistion, was taken out of the com
mittee of the whole and me previous Inhs hsd
ordered upOn 1t WHOM only I4t parasraPne . u""
been read and when about aW a,'f hn nH red md
had been presented ana Wcrc w w o"'ie" ~
not been considered.
OF the effect Of the tariff bill
An tho products of labor, except such as we
produce In greater quantities than we neeu loI
domestic consumption, as ie inc case VIII ss FL
cultural products will thus rise In price, ~. 'nS
wages of the laborcrs anu the compensatory VI
persons with fixed salaries Will not RE. ihey
are always the last to feel the effect OF geher
nj Increase Of prices No tariff can possibly al
feet the wages OF labor In this country, UccaueG
wages al ways depend on tho law OF supp y anu
demand, and ny artic'a! t that snch ar
fragments can have is to increase the cost OF tne
thing which the laborer has to buy WIN ms VIZ
gesowhich is precisely the same thing 10 MIN
as If his wages were actually rcuuceo'
OF the sugar bounty:
The principle on which the sugar bounty Is to
be paid is purely paternal-thati Is, " Is paseu
on the ide that the government mas enU o pwnen
ever they think they need assistance IN tne III
purely private affairs and II that theory pc
correct the government has just as mucn rlgnt
to appropriate money to pay Inc ercant,c
or other business as 1t has 10 pay him money TO
make the business producing of sugar prohta-
BILE.
And of this reciprocity amendment:
TIE species ofcoercive reciprocity, PROVIDED
for in the new Tariff bill, is altogether new I'D
this country 1t is not TO be accomplished ny
either treaty or legislation, but by an executive
ukase. The President Is to cocrce foreign ma.
lions bv taxing our own citizens. AS MI. Evarts
said, 1t is an attempt to authorize inc fIesluene
10 make treaty without the Senate ana 10 mahe
a tariff without the House Of Representanves.
Even If Con gress could constitutionally delegate
such a mower to him, the proposed scheme ID
n most Transparent diyice to deceive the people,
for nothing will ever result from H.