The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-10-25
PEOPLES PRESS.
MiddIebury, Oct. IS, 1912.


| narty in Congress and out, norm, south,
east and ives, with their presses are and ev.
er have been opposed to the principle of
protecting domestic industry. In spme
portions of the country where popular con-
v%iciions imperiously demand protection,
they profess an attachment In a tariff but
when tested, their creed is found so equivo-
cal, and their views so qualified with limit.
a ions restrictions& p~rovisos as cvince their
utter insInceriiy: They are for ajudicious
tariff, incidental protection, rerenuc tariff,
but never pretend 10 any conception OF a
tariff which at all hazards and under all cir.
cumstances shall protect equally every ram
ifcaIion of domestic industry. TLey pos
fcss an attachment 10 protection in the
main, but condemn it in detail. They char.
a%cierize protection as looking to the inter.
esis of the few at the expense Of tie many.
The farmer must not be taxed 10 aid the
manufacturer. The laborer and mechanic
must not be taxed TO favor the farmer. No
tariff for The sake Of protection. Inciden,
tai protection if lhe raising of revenue ad.
miiS 1t, but no adj usting The tariff upon ar
ticles offorcign production which come in
competition with our own for the sake Of
protection itself. The distribution is an ut.
Ter abOmination TO them, because it increa-
ses protection. The present tariff, than
which in The main no better could be pass
&c, after having been secuted and resisted
IN every stePof its progress through con-
gress, but at last voted for by a few locos pro.
testing at the time against lis protective fea.
turcs' is the subject of their angry clamor
not a provision in il is right, although what
they decry most as wrong was male no bet.
ter because they were opposed to its being
made better. Repeal, repeal is virtually
shouted day after day through the columns
of almost every l~ocofoco paper in tie union.
They shift their ground of attack upon bro.
lection, and rai.e false issues as often as
'heiringenuity will enable them 10 give false
colorings for The purposes of deception
Today they use an argument which to-mor-
row a different combination of circumstan.
ces makes il conven lent 10 contradict. and
thus go on double dealing with a systematic
jugglery before the people to disguise their
Interior object Of at last betraying the in,
terests of the north for the purpose of
Strengthening the sympathies of the south.
ern slaveocracy for the pseudo democratic
party.
To show the truth of many Of our asser-
tions we present our reade,s with the follow
ing quotations from loco papers which have
met our eye.
Firsl-The Albany Argus, the leading
LOcofoco paper in The STATE of New York,
has The following avowal:
o. I'VE are not the advocates of a Ia.
riff for Protection"
The next is an extract from the New York
Evening Post, well known as the leading pa.
per Of The Locofoco party in The city ofNew
York:
~ln the first place it is a protective tariff.
Such a one will moi be endured in this coun.
try any longer time than is necessary to Sc.
cure lis REPEAL"
The cry of Repeal is here sounded BY
the Mobile Register "a paper of the same
class as the others;
"The bill is a si.ori lived one. Nothing
hnt an nvarnnwafnr p,ca~, 1911
enabled ii 10 pass at all. and the first dufp nf
erery REPUBLICAN wiU be made TO make its du.
ration as brief as possible"
The Norwich Journal tells The truth in
the following choice extract, which we conn.,.
mend TO lie careful thought of the reader:
I'VE are opposed to a Tariff in any shape.
or for any purpose" Ave are proud 10
befere that THE MASS OF OUR PARTY are anti.
tariff men. prepa ed 10 maintain and defend
the principle offree trade ;"
Bolder yet. if possible, comes ou, The
Orleans Republican:
1--WE are opposed TO ALL TARIFFS they
are and always mus, be unjust and mischie.
vous in their effects"
The New York Morning Post-ihe ad.
vocate of Mr.. Calhoun-distinctly a,ows
the doctrine Of free trade In the following
extracts:
w have arrived at another era of liber.
ty, and the battle of political opinion now
drawing out. it is for FREE TRADE AGAINST
A PROTECTIVE TARIFF. This issue absorbs s
all The rest (; and let ii be contested by none
but the champions themselves" ;
ain the Presidential contest which is an.
preaching, parties will divide on one great .
question. Other questions will be involved s
in the dispute, but the main struggle will be
10 the question. That question viii be. T