Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-01-13
TILE TARIFF BuGREAR.


The first reason we have always the
poor with rs is because of the perpet-
ual overhauling of the tariff question,
or, as shall call it, the tariffic contro-
versy. There is need for such word,
and so take tho responsibility Of mari
people VINO are expecting tnaI de pfesS:
ent congress of the United States willy
do something one way or the other to
end this discussion. But it will never
end. When l was years of age, re-
member hearing my father and his
neighbors in vehement discussion Of
this very question. 1t was high tariff
or low tariff or no tariff at all. When
your great-grandchild dies at 90 years
of age, 1t will probably be from over
exertion in discussing the tariff. On
the day the world is destroyed, there
will be three men standing on the post
Office steps-one high tariff man,
another low tariff man, and the other
free trade nan-each one red In the
face from excited argument on this sub
ject. Other questions may get quoted,
the Mormon question, the silver ques-
ton, the pension question, the civil serv-
ice question. All questions of annex
alton may come to peaceful settlement
by the annexation of islands two weeks
voyage away and the heat Of their vol
canoes conveyed through pipes under
the sea made useful in warming our
continent, or annexation of the moon,
dethroning the queen of night, who is
said to be dissolute, and bringing the
lunar poppla tions under the influence
of our free institutions; yea, all other
questions, aational and international,
may be settled. but this tarific ques-
ton never. 1t will nc; only never be
settled, but It can never be moderately
quiet for more than rssSee years at
time, each party getting eSo power
taking one OF the four yearsaa;sSx it
up, and then the next party Will |saSss.
dow, Our finances cannot get well 6esa
cause OF to>>-.apy doctors. 1t is with
lex nations as wre--aick individuals.
Iere is a man terribly G1sv-dered as to
his body. A doctor is called in, and no
administers febrifuge, spoonful ev-
cry hour. But recovery is postponed,
and the anxious friends call in another
doctor, and he says: What this pa
tient needs is blood letting; now roll
ap your sleevel" and the lancet flashes.
But still recovery is postponed, and
homeopathic doctor Is called in, and he
administers some small pellets and
saws, "All the patient wants is rest. "
Recovery still postponed, the family
say that such small pellets cannot
amount to much anyhow, and an allo-
pathic doctor is called in, and he says,
What this patient wants is calomel
and ialap. Recovery still postponed,
hydropathic Doctor is called in, and
he says: What this patinet wants is
hot and cold baths, and he must have
them right away. Turn on the faucet
and get ready the shower baths. " Re-
covcry still postponed IN eclectic doc
tor is called III. and he brings all the
schools to bear upon the poor sufferer,
and TIE ta;iciit. after brave struggle
for life. rziilcs What killed hllnf
Too many .!oc:ors. And that il what is
killing on .:aiional finances. My per-
sonal frier,is. Cleveland and HARRISON
and Carlisle and Mckinley and Sher-
man. as talented and lovely and splen-
did men as walk the earth, all gooo
doctors, but their treatment of our IAN
gushing finances is so different that
neither treatment has full opportu'
alsy. snu under the constant changes II
is sill. p!y wonderful that the nation slii
lives. The tariff question will never o.
settled sb;canse of the fact-whlch
have never heard any one recognize
but nevertheless the fact-that hlgf
tariff is lest for some people and tre'
trade is best for others. This tarltn.
controversy keeps business strucl
through with uncertainty, and that IN
certainty results in poverty and wretch
rdness for vast multitude OF people
If the eternal CAB on this subject coul'
have beer fashioned into loaves Q