The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1895-11-28
POLITICS AT WASHINGTON.

utterances of Secretary Carlisle
leave no doubt that Mr.. Cleveland
will in his message to Congress
recommend the retirement of the
Treasury notes, populary known as
greebacks. Whether he will be
bold enough to recommend the
repeal of the ten per cent tax on
State bank currency at the same
time is as neat a question, but
enough has been said to democrats
from the South, where the only
sentiment in favor of restoration
of State bank currency has its
abiding place, to make it plain that
such is the ultimate object of both
the President and his Secretary of
the Treasury. 1t is wild hope
they are INDUCING in. No repub-
lican Congress will ever vote to
repeal the tax on State bank cur
rency. If there was only choice
between State bank currency and
free coinage of silver there isn't a
republican of prominence lin either
branch of Congress-, not excepting
Senator Sherman, who would not
choose the latter.
The greenbacks will doubtless in
the not distant future be retired,
but it will not be done until some
thing that is entirely safe has been
agreed upon to take their place,
and it is altogether probable that
something will be some form OF
national currency. Hearing for
more than thirty years, thanks to
republican legislation, enjoyed "a
paper currency that was worth its
face in every State IN the union,
the people will never be satisfied to
return to the old method Of in
creasing the discount on a note the
further away it gets from the bank
which issued it. 1t would be too
much like substituting stage coach
es for railway trains.to please the
most progressive people on earth.
Dollars provided by republican
legislation have always been and
always will be dollars; that can
absolutely be depended upon.
Those people who suppose that the
republicans of the great northwest
are less ardent in their support of
a protective tariff than their breth.
rem of the middle and eastern
States are badly mistaken. Repre-
sentative Tawney, of Minnesota,
who has just arrived in Washing
ton says the republicans of that
State believe the revenues for
maintaining the government
should be raised by tariff upon
imports rather than by an increase
of internal revenue taxes, and he
cites the following among other
reasons for that belief: The duty
upon barley, as fixed by the demo
cratic tariff law, works serious in
jury to the farmers of the west by
permitting the importation of can
adian and Russian grain and bring.
ing it into disastrous competition
with our own product. Just before
left home farmer gave me al
instance in his own experience. In
1894 he raised 33 bushels of barley
to the acre, which he sold for sc
cents a bushel. In 1895 he increased
his yeald to As bushels an acre, but
the price for which he could sell
the barley fell to 25 cents a bushel
So that, although the productive
ness of his farm increased largely
he lost $6.l5 an acre over the pre-.
vious year.
Representative Henderson, Of
lows, who arrived in Washington
this week, characterizes as non.
sense, originating from a demo.
cratic source, the story that he and
Senator Allison were in Chicago
several years age in the'interest OF
the latter's candidancy for the re-
publican Presidential nomination
Gen. Henderson is one of the repuh
licans who thinks that no tariff re.
vision could be Undertaken at this
session of Congress. lie says: awe
know in advance that the Congress
and the executive are at the anti.
podes and that no revision the re.
publicans could make would be
agreed to by the President. We
should be patriotic and think of the
needs of the country first of all, and
If 1t is possible to get the presiden,
to join us in this we should do so
do not think we can come to any
agreement to increase revenue by
internal taxation, but we shall
wait and see what the president
has to say. 1t is his right and duty