The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-08-21
PROTECTION OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY
PRESIDENTS AND PRECEDENTS.

following language:
"The safety and interest OF the people require
that they shall promote such manufactures as tend
to render them independent for essentials ~ &c.
$40 cultivate peace and maintain commerce
and navigation in all their lawful enterprises ; to
| favor our fisheries as nurseries of navigation ;
| and to protect the manufactures adapted to our
circumstances" Again
"When nation imposes high duties on our
productions, or prohibits them altogether, it may
be proper for us to do the same by theirs !; first
burdening or excluding their productions, which
they bring here in competition with our own OF
the same Kind"
Mr.. Jefferson said in his report to Congress, as
Secretary of State, in 1893:
Free commerce and navigation are not to be
given in exchange for restrictions and vexations.
1t behooves us to protect our citizens, their COM
MERGE and navigation, by counter prohibitions,
duties, and regulations.
And in letter to Mr.. Benjamin Austin, in
1916, he said
ITO be independent for the comforts of life,
we must fabrcate them ourselves. We must
now place the manufacturer by the side of the
agricultural. Experience has taught me, that
manufactures are now as necessary to our nde-
pendence as to our comfort, and if they who quote
me, referring to his notes on Virginia written in
1885, as of different opinion will keep pace
with me in purchasing nothing foreign when an
equivalent of domestic fabric can be obtained
without any regard to difference of price, it will
not be our fault, if we do not have supply equal
to our demand and wrest that weapon of distress
from the hand that has so often violated it."
Mr.. Madison was Qiterally) the father of our
Constitution. In his message of May, 1909, he
recommends to Congress:
"To make such further alterations in the laws
as will more especially protect and foster the sew
| eral branches of manufacture"
Six years after, viz: 1915, he goes still further
into the subject Hear him:
There is no subject which can enter with
greater force into the deliberations of Congress
promote manufactures, which have sprung into
existence and attained an unparalleled maturity
throughout the United States during the period Of
the European wars This source of national in
dependence and wealth | anxiously recommend,
therefore, to the prompt and constant guardian
ship of Congress"
Mr.. Monroe, another Virginia President, in his
Inaugural Address, held the following language
"Our manufactures will likewise require the
systematic and fostering care of Government
fruit of our own skill and industry we ought not
to depend in the degree we have done, on the
supplies from other countries" &c.
In allusion to the same subject, he afterwards
says:
1t is important that the capital which nour-
ishes our manufactures should be domestic, and
its influence, in that case, instead of exhaustng,
as it may do in foreign lands would be felt adj
vantageously agriculture and every other
branch of industry equally important is it to pro-
Vide home market for our raw materials, as by
extending the competition it will enhance the
price and protect the cultva,or against the casu-
alties incident to foreign markets"
Now hear Jackson. In his celebrated letter
to DR.. Coleman in 1924 he thus expressed his
opinion upon that important subject:
will ask what is the real situation of the agr-
culturist? Where has the American farmer
market for his surplus produce Except for cot
ton he has neither foreign nor home market.
Does not this clearly prove, then, when there is
no market at home or abroad, that there is too
much labor employed in agriculture! Common
sense at once pon;s out the remedy. Take from
agriculture in the United States six hundred
thousand men, women, and children, and you will
at once give market for more bread stutfs than
all Europe furnishes us. In short, sir, we
have been too long subject to the policy of British
merchants. 1t is time we should become a lille
more Americanized, and instead of feeding The pau
pers and laborers of England, feed our own; or
else, in short time, by continuing our present
policy, we shall be rendered paupers ourselves
1t is therefore my opinion that careful and judi
cious tariff ismuch ,Oanted to pay our national debt
and to afford us the means of that defence within
ourselves on which the safety of our country de-
ponds, and last, though not least, TO glue proper
distribution 10 our labor, which must prove bene-
fetal to The happiness, independence, and wealth
of the community.
am, sir, very respectfully your most obedent
servant, ANDREW JACKSON.
We would like to know how any party can
hope to be successful which treats the tarest part
of creation with marked contumely, as, according
to the Natchez Courier, speaker at Locoioco