The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1844-10-28

this protective policy will ere long be of do
nestle wealth and even Of external commerce lie
sees It releasing his country from dependence On for
egn nations, for articles necessary for the public de-
fence, aud he behods it supplying the primary wants
ofndividuaIs, aud rescning the American poor from
the iron grasp Of monopoies, by making the manu-
incturers and ntzans ncgbbors of agricnlturss and
the loing poor-not dividing them by oceans.
The money proceeding from tariffs mny be put GU;
at the best possible interest for the people, and release
the nation rroHIoxlornaI danger and internal difficult
~. This the very object of the discriminating
tariff policy adapted by the Republican party of 1876
Of the North and the South. Whoever conrounls or
associates the 4@ericaa tariff policy with the tariff
policy Of European nations, has not gone deep O.
nough into the democratic creed, and has not caught
tho spirit which aotuatcd the democratic fathers who
established the American protective policy Instead
Of plotting systems for enslaying and depressing the
masses Of tho people, and of wringng from them, by
Trohibtory and severe restrictions, their last "copper"
TO Pampe bloatcd arstocracy, and TO build up
shndowing monopoies for the oppression of mankind
the Republican fathers with uncxnnplod Immunity,
set their heads together to devise a scheme by which
the money necessarily taken from the people to sup
port economical government shunld ''be put out
the hest possible interest for the beyft of tho pco-
pie in all time to come ia order TO make them COM
mercially as well as politically rree-to make Them
industrious by encouraging industry To make them
happy and Comfortable by didusing around the pro-
duets of mechanical and m inuiac,uring ingenuity
elevate the standard Of the wages of labor by
atng a demand for labor-io raise the many from
poverty Ignorance and vice, by taking the heavy hand
OF monopoes or Of Them, and thereby giving them
ti,Go and more money to improve their minds,
and cultivate the moral virtues That scheme was
the discriminating tariff policy OF the old Republican
Congress- James Mndson, its warm advocate, being
President Of these United States, and Henry Clay
another advocate Speaker of the House Of Repre-
sentativcs. From this Gibraltar position, built and
fortified by tho hands ofthe old democracy, let mod
democrats tempted by South Carolina decisions,
fly if they please; there is at least ole democrat who
will not leave its buttlcments or be tempted to 60
beyond its solid walls, for any time serving purpose
elecoueering expedient lrtho revenue protec-
tive tariff Of 1916, was MT democratic measure,
Thomus Jefferson and james Madison were no dem
ocrnts. The Tariff Of 1872 whatever may be lis do.
fects in matters of detail, rests upon precisely
the same principles the tariff of 1871 6, and long
as it brings in neither lutte nor too much revenue
for the government, it will require but little pruning
alteration. Eut however pruned or altered 10 suit
the circumstances Of the times, its Discriminating
principle ia aror Of The products Of american iaIor
cannot be departed from, without departing from the
lending principle in the democratic creed-thc prn-
cipe which aims at elevating the masses Of tho pco
pie, and Of making kind Of aristOcracy out Of the
toiling Millions instead oC debused populnnce. |
come to part Of my subject, wish could
omit. After the Republicans had built up the pro-
tectivs tariff of Is 6, the Fcderalsts seeing
ture arise, resembling in of its outer aspects,
those bulwnrks of European tyranny and oppression,
which had long ouabied the few tread down the
many, and the rich tread the necks OF the poor,
enormously supposed that this high tower Of dcinoc
racy for similar purpose and they forthwith set
to work pile upon il the materials which the Re-
publicans had rejected. In other words, they began
to demand Prohbitory instead Of protective tariff
The Northern States have followed JetIcrson's nd.
vice. They have placed the manufacturer by the
side of the farmer. Like and wife, Que helps
the other. The farmers portion of the
goods and wares Of the manufacturers and mechanics
and the manufacturers and mechanics afford our north
crn ugculurists market for greater part Of their
provisions The artizuns of Massachusetts alone
sumo 40 millions Of agricultural products, which, but
for them, would have sought market abroad, and
there paid duties to Great Britain, some other
try. The South Carolina politicians, in ohjecling to
the tariff on the ground that it dminishos exports,
should in all justice and honesty ado to tho exports
he agricultural products which the artizans consume
not only in Massachusetts, but in all America This
is an old Federal objection, and has been again and
again answered. by the republicans offormer times.
But is it true, that pay more for cotton goods
with a tariff than without one? In some instances,
and for short period, it may be That judicous,
discriminating tariff, viz, competition tariff, in its
general tendency, chenpons goods, is political para
dox very easily explained. The importers gnd spec
uOtors charged a larger on the goods imported
from abroad than the domestic tariff amounts to-
Thus Stephen Girard and other importing merchants
bringing goods for instance-from Europe and
the East udies were not ntcnt with profit OF four
cents per yard when they could extort ten To break
the hold which such monopolists had o The laboring
casses Of the country, Of the principal reo-
sons which induced the old republican Congress, act
ing under the advice of Jefferson and Madison, to
adopt the protective policy. That policy, by encon
aging manufactures and the various products ofAm-