The Monmouth Inquirer

TARIFF TRIMMING.
Why the Work Should Be Intrusted to Republicans.

This is but an allusion to a phase of what the Republican party, as it exists, is doing and is going to do, a particular phase to which reference is made, casually, as to the regulation of the tariff in the future. Those who make things know best what to do with the things they have made. The Republican party having made the tariff, which has made this country the most prosperous of all the countries of all the world, is the only party which can readjust the tariff as occasion may demand.

Naturally, and very properly, from their point of view, the opponents of the Republican party concede nothing. As a preliminary, they claim the tariff is a monster of some sort; that it is bad and has been ever bad. Nevertheless, under certain existent circumstances it seems to have worked well, and our great trade adventurers and our manufacturers and our farmers and our workmen fatten under this same tariff.

So goes the present situation. Where has been exhibited intelligence should not intelligence be exhibited in the future? The party which has made the tariff is the party which will revise the tariff under the suggestions of common sense, as occasion may demand.

So potent have been the results of the tariff in the past that it appears almost impossible that its effects should be brought up as an issue in the present campaign, but yet the trimming of sails is always a vital issue in all sailing. The Republican party will trim its own sails, and it will be extraordinary should the American people delegate the task to any one else.