The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-04-26
PEOPLES PRESS.
Tuesday Morning, April &c, 1912
LOCO PROTECTION.

Although some OF the Simon Pure loco leaders in YER
mont are now beginning make professions oil friend
ship for protective tariff varieut Fl ON their iorm-
or course their reluctance disobise their Southern
allies, with whom they have long acted, by the adop-
ton of this political heresy, is daily manifested by the
narrow platform which they lay for its support, and
their proneness slide off from it, whenever it be
done consistent with appearances. They generally
commence tn ir hesitang advocacy by summonins up
the tariff Of 1925 and kissing it odious and
ve Oh no; they of your hot-headed. humbug,
high protective tarmen and they are at oppres-
sed with awful forebodings that the people would get
rich too fast, if full scope shonld be given all the
great interests Of the country which the tariff of 1928
would have certainly ensured.
The next symptom Of their secret repugnancei their
holy adherence 10 tariff for protection merely. The
arthest advance in this direction which they
urc to take is the incidental protection which may be
extended in aisng revenue, by discriminating in ia
of articles manufactured in the country That the
mechanic farmer and manufacturer, should be ruined
outright, and subjected the avarce and rapacy of all
other nations. would furnish then with no argumen,
for protection, unless money wanted in the Treas
NY. single dollar Of overpus revenue would be a
signal to blow up any system Of protective policy how
beneficial to the nation and again subject every
thing to the mercy Of foreign competition.
We next find these coy eleventh hour tnrifites, at:r
bung all the sad revcrses OF the country to the inf alton
of the currency. which their rty certainly
produced. The agency of the reduction of duties isa
mere bagatele in comparison with the crash of the
banks while every sensible knows that even this
latter calamity would have been very transient had il
not been for the occurrence of the former.
Then the speeches of those distinguished cham
pions of protestion, Calhoun, Benton Wright. Rhe,t
Anterior, Eastman, the writings Of the Globe and Am
os Kendall, filed with anathemas against nabob farm
ers srstocratic manufacturers. naughty eorporators
proud merchants and every other class Of citizen
who by their energy, enterprise and capital, stimulate
and reward the industry Of the country the only ert
mate wealth, and of moral and intellectual nd
vancenent.
To make their consistency still conspicuous, w
occasionally find them lest in delightful revert $, il
contemplating the beauties of free trade, from which
they naturally slide into enconiums upon ect taxation
as constituting the inst, equal and economics
method Of raising revenue and finally end in cursnt
the distribution BILL the Importance Of which in su
tanning permanent system of protection every bod,
understands.
Avant upon these slippery elm advocates for protec-
hon. whose exceptions, salvos, and prov:sos, would
fritter 1t down to nero mockery Of the wants and
disresses Of the country Constant experience of the
and relances of the loco party for ten years past
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will adpot the measures which the south shall dictate
As additional evidence of tbs slavish subservrency
was but last week, Mr.Wse declared his confident re
lance upon this northern kind of democracy to carr,
through Congress the annexation of Texas to the Unior
the same dOughsaeed democracy which Clement Ga,
in letter, assumed to be the natural ally the south
and the same democracy which has asksd all its power
of invention to stave off svery effort to approach tn
great question of protection during the present session
of Congress.