The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-07-05
From tina Vermont Waterman
LOCOFOCO DOCTRINES ON PRO
lection

He expressed his great qualification at tle
evidence seen in the public documents, aud
in report from the other House, that there
was no disposition to impose duties except
for the purpose of revenue, and not to i'm
pose duties for protection -Wright's speech
March 2, 1912.
In regard to the (Mr. Clay's) second reg
Olution relating to an Increase of duty t's
yond 20 per cent. as necessary for an eco.
nomlcal administration Of government. NJ.
Wright said he yIs not sure that The 20 pr
cent. with the land revenue. voHd not bs
sufficient for the expenditures of the Gov
ernment He could admit no such princi-
pie, increasing duties beyond 90 per cent
Same SPEECH.
Mr.. Calhoun occupied the floor on the r..
irenchmrrt and tariff resolutions until urar
4 o'clock, P. NJ, coutending for the b"urfit
Of Free Trade, and maintaining tint all
branches of Industry were infinitely bsiter
off at the present time than they we're during
the high tariff OF 1928 -Proce6dings Y.
s. Senate, March 18th, 1912, in The MT
inteiGgencer.
II then the manufacturers of ,cool, iron.
and leather [uIl three Vermont interests,
mind ye,] are really in the distressed cou-
dition in which they ate rppres .nted TO b..
we may, without destroying tho factories.
give them essential relief. BY reducing the
duty on The ra,o material. Minority Report
on the Tariff, May $. ls42, pog' %.
Speaking of cotton manufactures pariic-
ulary: a. The other mode which presents IL
self is. By The reduction Of the price of Ia.
Dor. The necessity for this VIC leave entire
lY 10 the decision Of the ma uErcturers
themselves, md thosc whom th~v employ
They know best what rate OF wages they con
afford TO pay out of their prof 5; and We,
the consumers, only ask, iha, ifrhey pay
wages three times as high as are paid IN
England or on the continent TOR the samo
services, i!,cy will pay out Of their own poe
kos, and not abstract il from us BY high
protection. Same Report, p1ge 90.
So these !ocofocos in Congrc.s-ihe flu
lca@ers-are now, as in 1910 70 reducing
the price oflabor 10 the European standard,
which is but about one ihIrl tint now paid
bv our manufacturers To .cImplish this
they go against protective duties. and for
more revenue duties. We fancy the peo-
pie Of Vermont can now sec VIVA the South
considers to be The distinction between that
Protective Tariff which thu Why's support.
and that Revenue tariff which our northern
Iocos sustain. But we quote again. Fear
ing that European WAGES will ha dybe sub
mitted, they insist al least, gpon a reduction
10 the standard in the slav= Sta;es-thus
CAT least, we may ask that they will not,
at our e&pense,pay the laborer wi digs the
ore or the coal twenty or twenty-f We dollars
per month, when in N. Carolina and Geo.
the same services precisely are r. ndered BY
tho free While man for fifteen do lars as i,
the case both in The iron and gold mines of
those States. We say. then. the reduction
of wages is matter which We neither ask
for nor insist upon; Though this, with re-
duction of duties on the raw materiuI is III"
only mode of Protection which they sug-
pestll we only ask, that if the manufacturer
IS DISPOSED 10 be liberal in such matters.
hat he will not do it at the expense of him
IN the South West, who only receives his 10
dollars per month, and finds himself AMI
amily out Of that sum,"--Sdme Report
,age 90.
In the progress Of the bin Of the majority
Trough the House. it is our intention 10 o.
err either an entire substitute, or such ~
nendInents as will make the bill,whcn fna'
y passed. as nearly comfortable to ,h-
,reat principles of the compromise act as
Practicable. The compromise act. as they
understand it, limits duties TO 20 per cent.
nd permits no protective duties. Same
Report, page 38.
|, will be perceived that one argument
MY Pervades the minority report against
protection. and that is that all the benefit