Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-27

taxation be as small as possible consistent
with the raising of the necessary amount of
revenue. but the burdens of taxation should
be distributed as equally as possible upon
the people according to their ability to
bear them. Our present system of taxation
violates both of these rules in the most
fragrant manner.
Popularity of the Mckinley Law.
f'The Republican party will find the Nc
Kinley law much more unpopular than they
suppose. The East is gradually coming to
tariff reform as embodied in the Democratic
idea New England is great commercial
as well as a great manufacturing country.
1t wants free raw material to work with.
and it wants fewer restrictions upon iss COM
merce. New York cannot be carrleS for the
Mckinley tariff, and the Northwest and the
great States of the West are not for it.
Ohio it is true, elected Mckinley Governor,
but in the Ohio campaign the silver question
lost US some of the conservative and espe-
cially some ofthe Germae Democratic votes.
Ohio is State that stands by herself, It
does not belong to the East nor to the West.
1t has become a great manufacturing State.
1t has mines and factories and glass and
pottery works scattered all over it, and it is
no criterion by which to judge the other
States of the union south of the Potomac
and east of the Alleghenies.
SIS not the tariff, after all, as General
Hancock said, local issue?"
Eyes, 1 suppose to a certain extent it is.
Nearly all political action is governed by
self-interest Patriotism is to q large ex-
tent selfish sentiment. If mans coun-
try protects his rights and promotes his
prosperity he loves it, but if it oppresses
him and robs him of his property, the case
is different" >"
Cleveland's Free Trade Message.
sSenstor Carlisle" said I, ssyou have
been called the author of e1-President
Cleveland's free trade message. Is that
SOP"
mo, that is mistake" replied Senator
Carlisle "Tbat message originated with
President Cleveland, and he wrote it HIM
self The credit for it is do to him alone.
1t is true he counselled with his political
friends, myself, among others. and made
some verbal changes in it upon their sug-
gestion. For some time the President was
in doubt as to the form the message should
take, and whether he should emphasize it
by confning it to the tariff question alone
or make some other recommendations at the
same time Mr.. Cleveland fully compre-
hended the Importance and significance of
the issue he was making and he gave the
subject the fullest consideration and acted
deliberately. The pressure against his lssu- |
ing his message was very great. Many of
his best friends and closest advisers were |
against it.
President Cleveland's education in the |
details of the tariff REFORM Senator Car !
Isle went on, was largely acquired after |
he became President. He once said to me |
that he had been so engrossed with other |
matters that he had not seriously studied |
the question before he came to Washing i
ton, and that he was for a low tariff because !
it was Democratic principle rather than |
as result of careful investigation and |
study.
studied After He Became President. |
AT Washington he took up the subject |
and by reading, and talking with the lead |
ing thinkers on both sides of the question. |
he became convinced that tariff reform was |
the most important Issue before the country. !
and, as was his nature, he at once went into |
the contest with all his might. His espousal |
of tariff reform was the result of conscien- |
tious conviction from the study of the ques-
tion and his message was the natural conse-
quence."
"How about candidates, Senator? Will /
Mr.. Cleveland be the Democratic nom.-
nee?"
81 think it is too early to make any pre-.