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The Tariff:

Washington, March 10, 1912.
JAMES E WHARTON, ESQ.
My Dear Sir-I
thank you for your address to the
"Home League" 1t contains much
valuable matter, for which | am indebt.
ed 10 you. The subject Of prote ction is
now occupying the attention OF Congress
and Of the country. Every press and
every patriot should speak out on this,
which alone can restore US 10 safety End
independence, and prevent US, like
Spain and Portugal, from becoming
mere British Provinces ! maintain,
that if we are 10 look 10 Europe, for
those every day articles that are essen.
tial 10 our comfort, defence and enjoy
ment, our state is as bad as ii was in
that Of our colonial dependence. And
verse, for we are inviting, AMI putting
ON tha. bondage, and these serVle
chains ourselves, which she shook in
our fathers faces il rs Why did the
shout from the "Hall OF Independence, :"
find an echo in every valley through
out our country, and a response in sye'
ry operative Of the country, "no mat.
ter in what obscure corner Of it, he wi.
ped the sweat from his brow?" Be.
cause industry and enterprise, skill and
capital, found encouragement, employ.
ment and investment! Why did our
"people form Constitution for common
defence ?"-uot against the fleets and
armies Of Europe, but against her arts,
her income and the proceeds Of her
pauper labor-no matter how the re
suit is produced-if by degradation
oppression, abundant population. ot any
other causes, If a protection is not affor
ded 10 any and every branch Of indus
try and labor in our country, from the
proceeds OF foreign capital, labor and
art; & the latter thrusts the shoemaker,
the halter, and the blacksmith from his
shop, government ceases TO answer the
object Of lis creation, as effectualIy as il
it stood by with folded arms, and per
mitted it to be done by the bayonet; anC
the loss is irreparabIe. Fleets and ar
mics may be repuIsed, their rOvaget
repaired, and peace proclaim the evils o
:, war at an end! But the experienced ar
}, tisan and mechanic, and manufacture
y when driven to the fields, to try anc
= gain a subsistence BY competition wit
the able farmer, il he succeeds; neve
- again is he able to manufacture the ele
Is CANT article he once delighted TO tabr
u" cate, He has growO dull and inCompC
tent from inexperience to the task, an
G besides he will not trust himself aga
s. to the uncertain policy of your vascIlIC
, jag laws. Your opinion, that the nS
~ lon Ina. manufactures Tor another,
1I always enriched al the expense Of III
- o,her, is proved by all history and OF
N servation. But it also has its populalio
10 increased. Does any one believe the
er the extraordinary emigration this cour
10 try has received, would have been adde
d TO our population, il every emIgral
&c supposed he would have TO abandon th
r. species Of labor, and kind Of business, h
~ had followed all his active life in h
nd native country, and seek a new oil
% here? Certainly not. The numeroI
ng artisans who are now able to furni'
or every article of luxury and convenient
oi elegance and use in our country, tn
ey any man ought TO want, were many
o. them induced to come here, in the b
ot lief and confident expectation that The
'or would, after quick passage, set doV
at to the same kind of work they had Il
on in the old country, with much superi
gal advantages as TO all these comfo
a and conveniences of subsisenc
The education and independence which
bound in our country. 10 all the joys
au. the present, "the buoyant hopes Of
OF. future" that attend freemun; eeva
,er above all taxes, lilhes and exactlC
rty that oppressed him in Europe. a
OF shall this present fruiion, and the Iut'
ro- hope be taken from theml Shall
his shop be deserted, "the loom be siler
of and The steam be let off in useless OBJ
vor toni That question must be anSwe
in by the present CongressG This gr
,aid interest has arrived at that point, t
zed adventiious aid presents itself on
son sides, to lift it from depression. l
wants and distresses OF the manu(aC
bou rers, are only equaled by the exig
H. H. Ces of the Treasury, and the necet
ME to ries of the Government Il ali The
hat superadded to the petitions of the
oa. pie pouring in from all quarters, are
,aIo sufficient to move the Wing Congr
,"'o ~ to action Yes, determined, decided
.oa gislative action on this subject, ne
90 80. again will a coincidence OF circums
,ho M ces concur, so powerfully TO that po
'"' Adventtious aid may now be called
and lawful means used, to bring abo
. ~ " result 80 desirable. had thought
'"o o a conviction of this kind seemed to
""'' universally made manifest through
the Union; and that, from 1t had ar