The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-10-09
W A S H L G I O N.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, ocT'R Q, 1874.
THE GLOBE AND MR.. WEBSTER-LO-
.tfti COFOCO INCONSISTENCY.

The GLOBE AND MIX. WEBSTER-LO-
~. COFOCO INCONSISTENCY.
Mr.. Webster. in his recent speech at Philadel-
phia, dwell much upon the Importance Of the
mineral wealth OF Pennsylvania, and the neces-
sity of the Protective policy TO the development
of that wealth. In alluson TO the boosted free
trade principles Of the Locofocos, and to their Oft
repeated declarations that the duties on foreign
importations should be reduced to uniform rate
oftwenty per cent, he said (" Now what has been
proposed BY the opposite [party] on this important
subject? To bring down the duties on iron to
twenty per cent. ad valorem.'
The Globe makes this remark of Mr.. Webster
the occasion of charging him with falsehood, and,
to sustain the charge, quotes from Mr.. McKay's
bill, which was before the House of Representa-
tives at its late session, to show that the Loco
focos proposed to levy duties upon iron ranging
from 30 to 81 per cent. We have not examined
correct And what does it prove! Does it not
show gross departure from the Locofoco doc
trine of free trade! A shameful inconsistency
with the avowed principles of Mr.. Polk, the Null
l6ers, and the Globe! Mr. Webster had refer
ence, in his remark, doubtless, to the avowed and
boosted general principle of the Locofoce party
to their uniform rate of 20 per cent. !; and per-
haps never thought at the moment, of Mr.. Mckay
or his bill He contended against the general
principles of Locofocoism, and overlooked the ex-
ception, which had been made in despair of car
rying out those principles. The Locofocos were
aware, that with Wing Senate they could not
carry out the 20 per cent. principle; but let them
get the power in their own hands-let Mr.. Polk,
pledged as he is to the ~ per cent. principle, be
elected, and Locofoco majority in both branches
of Congress, and who doubts that the Locofocos
would reduce their free trade doctrines to prac.
tce! Does the Globe doubt it! Dare he saw
SO. tf a M s.s3.,.
grosser case Of Inconsistency has not fallen
in odr knowledge, than is presented in the col
umns of the Globe Of Monday In one part o.
the paper is long article from the London
League" in which the protective policy is de.
nounced in the roundsst terms, as system Of
fraud and extortion, the Globe ratifying and ap-
proving every sentence, and along side of it is
the following sentiment, in which not only the
protective policy is defended but a aystem Of
bounties to infant arts and occupations justified
This is a leap beyond Mr.. Websters doctrine Of
protection, and taken in connection with the
Globes never-ending cant about free trade, can
not fail to make the Southern Locofocos stare -
But when it is remembered that the editor of the
Globe issues two prospectuses, one to be sent TO
the South denouncing the tariff as system of
fraud and extortion, and one for the North, omit.
ting all mention Of that question, no one can feel
surprise that the columns Of that paper should
exhibit corresponding inconsistency. The Globe
says:
1.-The Democratic party, from the knowledge
that this branch of American labor was less able
than any other to bear foreign competition, and
was more exclusively and uscfully associated
with agriculture, which is made to bear the bur.
dens of all the bounties to the manufactures
which have reached maturity, proposed, in their
tarln OF the last session, TO make iron an excep-
lion from the mass OF protected articles, and i'm
pose higher duties bounty to it,"
This is another step OF the Progressive De.
mocracy," which can be maintained if Pennsyl-
vania goes for Skunk, or otherwise receded from.
The Globe attempts to convict Mr.. Webster
of purpose to msrepresent, in second place.
Mr. W. stated that an average Of f43, or f42
los. 3D., is the lowesl average duties the whole
mass OF foreign importation taken into England
The Globe presumes that Mr.. Webster restricted
his remark to the importation of manufactures in
TO England, because he was discussing the policy
of protecting our manufactures No such infer
ence is admissible. Mr.. Webster int aided to
show that England was averse to mutual free
trade, and now levies much higher average Of
duties upon all foreign articles than we do.
34TH Gomez EssIoSAL ashington
Hunt, Of Lockport. N. Y, was rsnomnated, by