Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1889 — WANTS A CHANGE OF BASE. [ARTICLE]

WANTS A CHANGE OF BASE.

Mrs. J. Ellen Foster led a small bolt from the AV. C. T. U., because that organization would <.enounce vice-president Morton’s saloon.— Mr. J. EPen Foster holds a pcsitiou under the present administration, which accounts for the ...ilk in the coconut. Uro. Marshall is in sympathy with the bolt. The Democratic State Central Committee met at Indian polis on last Wednesday and directed that headquarters be immediately established n tnat city. Reports from all parts of the State were very encouraging.

General Baldwin, of Logansport, in. a recent inteiview was asked what h * thought the Fifty-first Congress should do in regard to the tariff, if anything. “Well, my opinion is that the present excessive war tariff should tie cut down one-half at least, with, of course, the proper discriminato i; against old and enormously profitable, and in favor of new an i modentdy paying industries, he replied. “If we don’t do. this Grover Cleveland and a Democratic Congress will do it for us in 1893. Reform is in the air, and the simpl question is, shall we Republ.cans do it ourselves, or wait for th » Democrats to do it 9 We have a most instructive precedent in recent English politics. About a dozen years ago Gladstone and the Liberals were attacking Disraeli upon manhood suffrage. The Liberals were carrjing everything before th:in, when one fine morning Disraeli came in with a suffrage bid that quite took the Liberals’ breath My recollection is that tfie Tones stayed in a half years longer. ” '‘But Judge, don’t you put. your reform motives rather low—a question of staying in oowerj” “No. I put the necessity of cutting down *he present excessive war tariff upon the broad ground that it is wrong, and that U is working untold harm to the Jte publican party.” ‘ But is not this contrary to what you have been advoca' ing for y.ars?” * “No. Since the tariff became a controlling issue, I have never made a speech in which 1 did not insist that our present tariff was too high and $Ht it should he cut down. I have always insisted, however, that it should b? revised upon the protective principle. I am in of a moderate protectivi) ; sufficient, to use the current phrase, to meet the expenses of the government economically administered.” “Then you loakaMhe e ections last week yj Qhio and lowa as meaning something more than local issues/ “1 certainly do. Ido not believe that th > farmers of the United States will ever again I e in favor of the present war tariff. My notion is thtf, without a radical change, the taQners, in 1890-92, will go us The inequalities of the present tariff are very hard on the agricul sural interests The farmer is provided with a S PQ?D, while the manufacturers repgfyethe piojtect.on by the shovelfull. Why should the farmer be compelled to sell his wheat at the price fixed in Liverpool, in the market of the world, and to buy all his necessities from manufacturers protected from 30 to 75 per While the latter is becoming enormously wealthy, the former are pulling the devil around bv |h| tail and just making a living. The tariff should treat all classes as n?ar alike as possible.” “This sounds very jtunch like Demote talk?” “ “Well, if it does, I can’t help jt. J 1 don’t want Republican party go

down upon the tariff abuses when | they hold z.ll the cards in their own bands.” “But is it not believed that the new States and the proposed Federal election supervision have made everything solid?” “Don’t you believe it. There are twenty thousand Republicans in the State and a million in the United States who think as I do about tariff eform, and if the pres nf| ibuses are not eliminated will rebel. If Congress dodges and shuffl' s and cuts off the tobacc > tax a .d tinkers a litlle here and ther j, but mak.-.s no radical tariff reform, we shall certainly go to the wall. We can’t afford to be defeated in 1890 so as to commen e the revis.on in 1891. It must begin at once, and with malice toward none and with charity for all, with a careful tariff revision and reduct.on all along die line ” In spite of the declaration of Mr. Baldwin that he always insisted “that our present tariff was too high and that it should be cut down, ’ and that he u as “in favor of a moderate protective tariff, sufficient, to .use the current phrase, to meet the expenses of the government economiccally administered,” the line of argument employed by him in the 1 st camp?ign was radically different from the views expressed above.