Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-08-27
. KICKER TARIFF THEIR REMEDY.

The claim of Senator Sherman
and other Republican speakers and
writer's that all the financial diff
culties Of the country are due to
Democratic tariff legislation and
can be remedied only by a return
to high protective duties, will not
bear investigation.
The new tariff did not go into
operation until at least Is months
of President Cleveland's present
term had expired, and before that
time under the Mckinley tariff,
the revenue was falling short of
the expenditures of the govern
ment and the large expectation of
gold from the country was pro
crossing. 1t was, indeed, openly
admitted by the Republicans that
the design of the Mckinley tariff
was to restrict instead of increas-
ing the importation of foreign
goods, and this restriction neces-
sarily operated to the cutting off
of revenue. 1t is as dishonest as it
is paradoxical for the Republicans
to insist on the need of a tariff
for protection when they have
the framing and passing of it, and
a tariff for revenue when the Dem
ocrats undertake it!
1t was plainly apparent before
President Harrison's term had ex-
pired that a new issue of bonds to
replenish the treasury with gold
would shortly have to be resortod
to. Indeed, it has been affirmed
without any authoritive denial that
we are aware of, hat the Harrison
administration had under consid-
Grafton, three months before the
expiration of his term, the ques-
ton of a new bond ISSUE, but it
was considered good party policy
to devolve that necessity upon the
incoming Democratic administra-
ton.
The lively discussion of the
currency question should not di-
vert attention from the fact that
the only remedy which the Re-
pub1icans are proposing for its
solution is higher taxation of the
people by an increase of duties
under a tariff primarily for pro-
lection.
The Kew York Press, a ram
pant Republican paper, is SO So.
licious for a restoration of high
protective duties as the paramount
consideration, that it appears dis
trustful of the cooperation of the
E'sound-money'' Democrats who
refuse to accept Bryan and Sewall.
1t says:
"We must rely upon ourselves
in this campaign. 1t is our party
that the country looks for relief
from the free trade plague which
has afflicted the nation and for Sc
curity from the new dangers which
menace it. We must not depend
upon Democrats, Mugwumps, or
anyone else for success. We well
come the aid of patriots like Mr..
Cochran, who rise above party
servitude, but it must bee remem
bered that if the Republican party
should neglect to make good its
pledges to the people the blame
would fall upon Republicans, and
only upon Republican, -where, in
truth, it would belong"
Read between the lines, this
mean that the votes and speeches
of the gold standard Democrats
for Mckinley, or against Bryan
are acceptable, but it will not do to
divide political power with them,
for fear that they might use it be-
fore the darling Republican object
and panacea-a higher protective
tariff.
Democrats who contemplate
aiding the Republicans in this
fight should bear in mind that
they propose no other remedy
than a higher tariff for all the
financial trouhles Of the country