Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-03-21
PROTEC TION
TO AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE. AND
MANUFACTURES.
SPEECH OF MIR. SLADE, OF VI,
IN FAVOR OF A PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
House OF REPRESENTATIVES, Dec. 20, le4l.
fConcIudedl

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HOUSE Of UNDERSTANDINGS Do'' ~ i0''
(Conciuded.)
pr, ,sLs some o,ponen, Of protec,ion. Does
no, ,ha presJen, saw I'm, the duiies must be laid
" ,.;,t dis,inct rafer,nce IN The nrotection Of
,,''c'.,mros No vo, M, m,te him ;ncons,st.
",', ,,;,h h;mself2 ~ Nv M means. The duties
- La l;J ~ , d;s,;,c, reC,ron,a IN bo, these
o,, i1 rafarenco r. The mere wants of the
,rJ' ;u ;nroI,o cons;darot;ons onIv as tn
'e"su.y w." 81 ,,,,;as ~ hs ,ey;sd and
s,,l as;r,na,ion ns shall have resnpct m the
to, ,,, r. ;s;,,r, ,ho, a,,onn, The Govern
non, n,n,, M, fnr ex.mnIo lew f,rtv millions
ha,, tLe wants the Treasury reuuire hut TWEEN.
10 r., in ievving these twenty millions. il may
loo ds,;nctlv nj the ofber obect and SO anporto
The amount among The various articles OF impor-
,a,;on os IN disconrngc the importation of some
n,tiot cow, in cn,rrett;on viii our own manu-
Gc,ures ,yhilp the imnortation of others is left
con,rara,;veiv free
| rims the leading purl,ose NAV be REVENUES
nurnose which exclusively controls MS TO The H.
| mount IN he rn;scd. while there NAV be another
nnrnoso--,ba, of discriminating for protection
,yh;ch cor,roIz No IN bo, ibot amount sh1U be nm
,or,;o,sJ Tho sepernI articles oT imDorfo,ion.
frh;s Il n,ainIv ihe sentiment Of the messape and
lis 10 Jcr;m;nn,;op FIR nroiecfion inyolyino the
rre,, nrncine far which The friends ofthe policy
| Hnve aver commended.
We have, MIR. Speaker, arrived at a momentous
crisis in reference to the protecting policy. The
great interests which that pocy has long cherish
ed have NOT as yet, felt the heaviest blows aimed
at them by the compromise net OF the 2,l OF March,
1888 Under that act, four-ienths only of the ex-
cess of duties over 20 per cent have hitherto been
abated, and that by thr gradual process of blenni
al reductions Of one-tenlh, running through pc
Rod o. eight years. One-half of the remaining
six-tenils is he taken off the LIST day of Jan
uary 1912, and the remaining three enths on The
| iSt of .iuV Tins within n lille than
six months from this time, reduction is to be
made greater by ono-half than the whole rcduc
ton which has taken place since the I'd OF March,
1888
And now, sir, when, under The operation OF this
experiment upon the power Of endurance of the
interests hitherto deemed worthy the guardian and
fostering cure of the Government, these irenIen-
dous turns of the screw are about TO he made,
| what is il proposed TO do ? Why, sir, to take a
way the whole subject from the Committee on
Manufactures. the natural guardian of these inter
esls, aud send it TO committee, The natural range
of whose inquiries involves no investigation into
the claims Of those interests, and which has been
constituted with no view whatever TO their pro-
lection To do this would he, in effect, to say that
we will have no such inv estigaton. Aud are we
prepared for this Shall The present session pass
without an examination of this subject: Are we
to ii, down and quietly submit to the operation OF
the act of the 23d Congress, which struck, in ad-
vance, the blow under which, without INC intor
posing arm of Congress, many OF the protected
interests will reel aud sagger the LIST of July
next? May not this Congress be supposed better
TO know with how heavy hand these interest:
will now bear TO be pressed, than the Congress
which sat here nine years ago? Did that Con
gress enjoy the exclusive privilege of lcgslatlne
in regard 10 these great and vital interests for al
future time? Was that one stroke of nullifica
lion 10 inflc, n perpetual paralysis upon The
6 American sys,ep, ~ No sir no There is n,
surb power in ,hnt "compromise." This 9Th
Conpress is 10 egisa,e with no such shack -
The peope hive sent us here TO consider the pres
emf condition Of the country TO inquire into III,
ouep,ion of existing laws ipon all great Interest,"
- AGRICULTURAL. commercial, and manufacturing
and to ndnpt our legislation TO the protection O
those interests To abandon my of them blindIy
10 The perpetual control of former legislation is IL
abnudon our duty--to beray the trusts which the