Show NO N JO HOPE FOR REFORM i John Bigelow author editor states statesman man diplomat at the great age of n 9 his intellect unclouded by the weight of I years does not expect the country to toJ J Ii derive any benefit from the revision of I 1 the tariff tullY at the hands of 0 the Republicans lI lII I onus cans The chairman of a committee of the Tariff Reform club of New York z recently addressed a letter to Mr Bige Bigelow I low tew referring to the task undertaken by bythe bythe 1 1 the Ute committee and asking for fez fo financial I support Mr Bigelow replied to UM tM letter leder with great vigor in part as aa tot tel 4 lows leus Your hope hop of a revision downward is fa an idle dream as idle as cc baying the 4 moon for rain To expect a reduction of the tariff in tide this Uti country is ill to expect a dipsomaniac to clamor f for r water in instead Instead Instead stead of af whisky The protectionist al at always als 2 ways rys s wants wanto for protection Hamilton felt it necessary to apologize to the na nIt nation tion Uon for proposing a tariff of 7 per percent ie cent on a few articles a Met flat of which which did not occupy the whole of one side of a letter sheet sheeL That was In IT 1 I G More than a century has elapsed and aad q every excuse cuse originally orI presented pre for a ol 1 tariff has hu long been outlawed and yet yetI j I our tariff has baa constantly increased until i ROW now of our revenue is in collected i from our out Imports alone and upon no nother nother 1 1 11 ther pretext but simply protection for forthe forT I 1 T 11 j the sake of protection pro That half is 1 taken for the most part directly trot from the producing class cia which it impoverishes i 4 lobes to enrich the protected who may properly be called our slave owners i I 1 I Your hope from the tile division of the I administration party part over the Payne Pa r Aldrich tariff bill blU is I I think largely a af at f t t I delusion OD No N one ran can count the num number I J 4 ber her of people that are willing to steal I or go to the highway for fOT a living Jiving when whenever ever eer public pu lIc sentiment or the law will willI UJ n I l i i say or even countenance the Implication S tion that these twe modes of or living are not 1 disreputable We e have before us Uti in the I 1 tariff precisely the same came me issue I sut that con confronted on n 1 1 fronted MB us IS in the rebellion of 1861 The Thet southern planter wanted stave slave labor for j t I its cheapness and the southern luthern 8 1 I fl I for tor the of having every ev ry I I three negroes the planter owned count J I ed Id at the polls as equivalent to one white man When hen the censes ee eus of 18 IS 0 O revealed the fact that the political supremacy in inthis inthis this country had been transplanted planted by Providence to the north side of the Po Potomac Potomac Potomac tomac that thet the privileges s which the constitution had h d previously guaranteed the south were not nM only not to be ex cx extended extended tended into the free territories but that the supply of at unrequited labor was be besides sides aWes exposed expo cI to additional peril in the states slates where it was protected by the constitution the south with singular unanimity proclaimed that slave labor was of more importance to her than the Union The result was vas that we had then and not oot till then thea got rid of the unrighteous protection which the constitution CO e tu on had bad given to the planters by b a long and Moody bloody war Born flora during the administration of President Monroe John Bigelow is bet better better ter toT qualified to speak sneak with authority on political questions que tlona than any other man mannow mannow mannow now living It is his opinion that pro protection protection is mute more firmly fixed in the saddle than titan ever eer slavery was and that the country is Ie rapidly rapid drifting toward in insolvency solvency The position of the consumer today Is la analogous to that of the poor white of the south seuth in antebellum days das He is the chief sufferer under the system and hunt sense enough to perceive that the proceeds of or his toll are being taken from him in various and devious ways It is Ic I doubtful however if It he be Is fool enough to go forth fortt gun in hand to fight for the system of protection as the poor white trash of the south did for forthe forthe the Ute system of slavery And it may come cometo cometo to that |