The Whisky Tax

New York Star. The doings of Senator Allisoa and his co-workers in attempted tariff revisión are very significant and very instructiva. Under the plea that tliey are giving tbg first interpretatiou to the republican platform, these gentlemen are proceedinjj in direct cootradiction to that document - doing "yes" when it say "no," and arranging to increase the f ree-list and lower rates of duty, when their platform calU for taxation of a larger number of imponed articles and for Increase of duty on tbose already taxed. The Republicau tariff plank explicitly declares that tba domestic spirit tax must be entirely abolished before any tariff duty is di.turbed. but these Iiepublicau Senators propose to revise the tariff flrst and consider as a secomiary questiou whether any part of the whisky tax can beinterfered with. But in oo event do they intend to periuit the enlire abolition of the spirit tax as the Chicago platform deuiands. That these Republican Senators are right and their platform wrong does not alter tbe fact of their absolute oppositioo to the duly promulgated creed of their party - nonsensical, reactiunary. impracticable, and altogether atrocious as it is. To cali such direct hostilitv and flat denial "iuterpretation" is ridiculous. Black can not be interpreted by calling it white. The negation of a doctrine can never be the interpretaron of that doctrine. The plain fact of the situation is tbat Intelligent and common sense on the Republican side of the Senatc, as among iutelligence and patriotic Kepublicans everywhere, has risen in iudign an t revolt against the Bceotian dogma enunciated as an aiticle of faith at Chicago. It was designed to captivate the ignoraut. It has repelled and disgusted the enlighteoed. The gentlemen who constitute thu flower of the Iiepublican side of tbe Senate are in open revolt. There is no qtiestion about that. The only questioa is whether their manhood will resist the threats and blandishments of the monopoly agents who are swarming to Washington, and who ask the Senators to prostrate their intelliiience, patriotism, and honor before t'io niouopoly Juifgeruaut.