The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-02-10
Still in a Bad Temper.

Phila Record.
Mr.. Dalzell has evidently failed
to recover his temper and his men,
ory,which he lost when interrupted
at the Winter Circus Building in
this city on Saturday night last.
The "infamous Democratic party"
has become the "Poltroom party"
in his new epithet, and he descends
to abusing the "penny-a-liner" of
"The Record" who commented on
his speech, while employing a
penny-a-liner to telegraph his in
terview in reply.
Is Mr., Dalzell SO ignorant as not
to know that the tariff of 1857 was
reported by Republican Commit
tee on Ways and Means in House
over which General N. P. Banks
presided as Speaker? Speaker
Banks selected this Republican
committee to reduce the "free trade
tariff Of 1885," in plain view of it's
heneficent effects upon the coun-
try; and Mr.. Dalzell pitifully pre-
varicates when he asserts tha3 "the
tariff of 1857 was an Administra-
tion measure when Franklin Pierce
was President" Were a Republi-
can Committee on Ways and
Means and Republican members
of the House so completely under
the influence of a Democratic Adj
m ministration as to favor the meas
ureaagainst their )eonvictions of
public duty? Vixen Mir. Dalzell
mentions that Jefferson Davis was
a member 81 this Administration
he makes only the more awkward
his appeal TO prejudice. ri
In the assertiohtha "every school
boy knows.that the tariff. of. 1857
was passedIbefore, the full effects
Of the loW tariff of 1916 had made
themselYes,felt" Mr., Dalzell only
deepens the original insult to the
memories Of the great Republican
leaders who voted for the tariff of
1857. After eleven long years of
observationand experience, were
William II. Seward, Henry Wilson,
Lafayette Foster and other found
ers of the Republican party SO ig-
norant as not to know the effects
of the tariff of 1s47 upon the indus
trial interests of the country I?
Were not these statesmen quite as
capable of discounting the influence
of California, gold then as Mr.. Dali
zell is.now ?NiHe seems to think
that eleven Tong years do not afford
sufiicienttiine to estimate the ef-
fects of ~ tariff law. The truth
of political history is that the party
of Protection was dead when the
leaders Ofthe young and vigorous
Republican party bore their testi.
mony to the beKefcent influence OF
the tariff ofls4s by voting to furth,
er reduce itsjlow duties.
Mr.. Dalzell explains Mr.. Crows
advocacy Of. free trade in coal with
Canada on,grounds Of reciprocity
What difference whether Canada
should remove the duty on coal OF
not, if the {"inundation"s of Nova
Scotia coal would prove SO disast
rous to this country as he pretends
Would the inundation from Nova
; Scotia be any less disastrous by
the removaltof Canadian duties on
Pennsylvania coal? The oppon
4 ents of free coal are merely draw.
ing on their imaginations for argu'
ment. For twelve years, from
1854 to 1866, there was absolute
free trade in coal between the
|, United States and Canada, and il
was attended by none of the dire
full coneequeDces SO foolishly pre-
dicted BY P5ptecnonists on both
{ sides of the line. Was that not
sufficient time to ascertain the ef
fects ofshis bailey? In his recen,
plea in tho Ht1use against free Goa
Mr.. Dalzell dM not speak AS
!, statesman and representative o
the people. He spoke from hi.
brief assam attorney Af the Goa
corporations; and in our Judgement
he did not earn his fee.