Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-03-30
PROTECTION OF AMERICAN LsSSaaaERY

PROTECTION OF AMERICAN ERtehHhkkf.
The great questions which nGtated thee0nfe
from 1916 to 1923 are coming back upon us;
Shall ice be Independent Of foreign nations? Shall
american industry be sustained? On the one hand,
MIR. BENTON has boastingy said that he and his
friends have ruined the present tariff; and that If
no other man brings up that subject, TO put down
forever, he will do it at the present session. Mr.
CALHOUN AYERS that all protection by Day of impost
duties mu be done d,Ody, and the currency reduced
to hard money, in order 10 bring down the cost of
producing and manufacturing, by cutting down
the prices of labor. MIR. BUcHANAN the repre-
sentative Of tariff state has avowed kindred
doctrine and boldly and directly appealed TO the
manufacturers TO project themselves by reducing
the wages Of the thousands of aborers in their
employ. On The other hand, we find that DANIEL
WEBSTER, john DAVIS, IlENRY CLAY, and their
Wing compeers in the Senate, are mnnfulIy sus-
tanning the interest OF the manufacturer the farmer
and the Iahorer, aud warning the country that the
crisis is at hand. in which must decide whether
we will succumbto The pauper systems Of Europe,
or 20 on, in the old american ,Dap TO sill higher
prosperity. Concidcrt with these demonstra-
tons, we find that the revenue IS unenual to the
demand upon the treasury and yet the admins
trntion are for robbing the states Of the public
lands for issuing millions upon millions of treus
ury notes--in fine, for any means of raising mo
ney, except by the old and approved ,cay of FAR.
IFF.
These are the signs of the times; and il is for
these reasons we declare That we are thrown back
upon the ground on which the country Stood in
lSl6. 1t s lime, then, that the people take this
question in hand aud if they are for hchinc
themselves, with the pauper millions of other lands
TO the retinue of British manufacturers aud Brit.
ish spectators, let them sustain Van Buren, Cal
houn, Benton and Buchanan or if they aim at q
higher and more glorious destiny, then sustain the
Farmer Of North Bend, who is identified with the
best interests of the country, and who was in 1924,
us he is now, for the protection of domestic indus
try. This question should be speedily settled by
the people, and before The presidential elccton.-
The next President, whoever he is, cannot avoid
this subject; and it is of the utmost importance,
therefore, that the coalition be not permitted to
smuggle upon the nation one who is hostile to its
hest interests in this respect. We leave this mat
ter now with single extract from letter of Thorn
ns Jefferson, published in Niles Register, March
g. 1916. 1t is to the point ponder it. Mr.. JEFF
ferson said
Compare this state of things with that Of 95
and say whether an opinion founded in the cir
cumstances OF TINT day, can be fairly applied to
those ut the present We have experienced what
we did not then believe, that there crisis bIh prof
hgdcy and poioer enough 10 erciatde us from IN,
feid Of interchange cih other nations; that 10 b,
independent for The comforts Of life ac must FAB
RicATE THEM OURSELVES. We must no,c place
the manufacturer BY The side Of he agricultural
dst. l he former question is suppressed, or rathe
assumes new form. The grand inquiry now is
shall zoe make our otcn comforts, or go ,ciihou
them al the ,oW Of a foreign nation? He, there
fore, who is now against domestic manufactures
must he for reducing us either to n dependence o,
that ndiion, or he clothed in skins, and live ik
wild beasts in dens ard caverns. | nm proud 4
say, AM NOT ONE OF THESE"