The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-07-05
W ASHIN GTON N.
FRIDAY EVENING, JULY S. 1874
THE TARIFF.

THE TARIFF.
Great pains are taken at the South to bring obi
um upon the Wings by misrepresenting the tariff,
which they declare to be exclusively Wing
measure But every body knows, who has given
particular attention to the subject, that no mea-
sure of protection has ever been adopted without
the essential aid Of Locofoco votes. The present
tariff law, adopted in 1912, could not have passed
the Senate without the aid Of Locofoco votes
and at the recent session, the Locofocos having
in the House of Representatives a majority OF
two-thirds, refused by majority of ten to repeal
or alter it in any manner, The following from
red hot Locofoco paper in Maine, The Age"
put the case in its true light. The Age admits
all that we have asserted above, and more-it ad-
mits that the protective policy is not party
question, which is perfectly true north of the Po-
tomac How, then, can the South be benefited
by the election of free trader! What good
will his theories do them, when the practice of
the party with which he is leagued has uniformly
been, and will continue to be, the contrary? We
have already had two Locofoco Presidents, jack
son and Van Buren,, and have they introduced
free trade, or have they ever taken step to-
wards it? On the contrary, Van Buren, voted
for the tariff of 49, which the South has always
held to be the most oppressive which we have
ever had. -
No other use has been made or will be made of
this question but to operate Southern prejudice.
No sincere purpose is entertained by the Northern
Locofocos to interfere with the tariff. The rab-
BILE in the commercial cities may chime in with
the South in the chorus of free trade, but all
those interested in manufactures, mines, and the
growth of wool, will support the protective policy
in spite of party politics.
We repeat that the paper from which we ex-
tract the following paragraph is rabid Locofoco
organ "down East" and supports Polk and Dali |
las with the greatest ardor We trust, therefore,
that it's admissions will be seized upon by South
ern Wings, though what it admits is what no
honest man can deny:
From the Augusta (Me.) Age
THE TARIFF.
The tariff question is question which can only
be discussed properly by discussing it in detail,
and when that is done, it will easily be seen that
it is sectional question, and not party question.
Take, for example, the article of iron. Maine
buys iron, and wants to get it cheap. Pennsyl.
Maine wants low duties, and foreign competition
in that article. Pennsylvania wants prohibitory
duties, and the entire possession of the market.
If any one will look over the past votes in Con-
gress, he will see that they have been controlled
BY State interests and not by political sympathes.
Virginia and Pennsy vania, for example, have
almost always gone together in the election of
Presidents, but have always separated when they
came TO vote upon tariffs.
Pennsylvania is Democratic, bat always votes
for high tariff, because she has important inte-
rests connected with it.
New Jersey is nearly balanced State politi-
cally, but it is always high tariff State, let
whichever party be in the ascendent.
Louisiana always goes for high duty on sugar
and molasses, and New York always goes for
high duty on salt Interest controls them, and
not party politics.
The truth of the matter is that the tariff ques-
ton s not, never has been, and never can be,
party question 1t is question of sectional inte-
rests, which override everything else
1t is in this, the plain and obviously correct
view of the matter, that we mean to discuss it.
We 60 for our opn Slate first. We hope to
keep in view those general principles of Justice
which should govern everywhere, but it is not 10
be forgotten that charity begin, al home, and we
have been plundered enough to justify little re-
talation. We have been pundered by Demo.
Gratis" as well as by" Wings" We do not find
that politics make much difference in question
Of money. The Democratic Pennsyvanians 60 for
monopoly in iron quite as readily as the Federal
nabobs Of Ma sachuse,ts do for the Lowell facto-
res. Even Mr.. Van Buren,, when Senator from
on salk
SAMUEL WHITE, Esq, has been nominated,
and will be elected, by the Wings of the Tenth