Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-08-10
THE PRESENT CONGRESS AND EXECu
TIVE

TIVE.
III the peopls of this country do not a, the
ensuing elections, utter such determined de-
nuncia,ions OF the party ia power as shall for.
ever blast It's hopes OF again reaching the sccp.
tire, we may well despair Of the republic. The
present executive aud Congress seem to have
done their best to bring a blight, a lasting
blight, upon all the interests OF the codntsy,
and to prove false 10 their professions be forc
the election.
IL As useless for them to deny tina, in lSii,
Mr.. Polk (f his letter meant anyihinp) pro-
fessed himself in favor Of the protection of
domestic manufactures In PENNSYLVANIA the
party succeeded solely upon the strength Of
the declarations of the leaders, that they were
for protection aad for the tariff OF 1912. Even
here. in Virginia, the leaders of the party de
clarcd that Mr.. Polk was a tariff man, and
there Is nota man of ordinary intelligence who
did not profess to be All out and out tarin
man. Some Of them still hold 10 their faith
but the greater number are still in party tram
meis, and declare that Congress was right and
the Executive right in the repeal Of protective
duties.
We need not go TO Pennsylvania for proofs
that the party, in 1874, professed to be tariff
men. When Morgan and Brown were in
Brooke county they publicly declared that the
tariff would not be changed il MIR. Polk was
elected. We heard MIR. Brown, now member
oil Congress, and who voted for the Mckay
bill, say, on the day of the convention in Nor
Gantown, and we challenge him TO disprove
or deny il, that he was ia favor of the tariff
OF 1912. We then read TO him the following
extract from the address of the Virginia loco
foco Convention of 1913, 10 which his signs.
ture was attached, aud he distinctly asserted
that he was opposed TO that part of the adj
dress and so stated In the convention. He
has now voted for the very bill that c~onven-
tion proposed.
THE interests and convictions of the Re.
publican party OF thus State have long made
them the advocates of Free Trade. not. how
ever, oi mat visionary and impraciicable free
trade, win which we are charged BY our OPP
poncnts. which would admit all foreign i'm.
ports free from duty aud leave the Government
90 be supported by direct taxation, but of that
system OF free trade inculcated by political
economists, and generally, il not universally.
iauSht IN the institutions of learning through |
out christendom TO Wing and Tory, Liberal
anu Conservative Democrat and Foderalist.
aud thus sanctioned by the general assent of
the learned, the practical and the experienced.
whenever p%ecuniaay interest has not con,roll- !
Ell Tue expression of opinion. Such free trade
teaehes thai u IS the true interest of eueIyl
people TO admit the products of other aafioRs
fTEC from NIL = 20 r.uappa hi.
what restrictions or prohibitions on inpor-
'auons may be imposed by others, unless tenn
porary retaliation is likely 10 induce the re
moyai oil those restrictions or prohibitions.
Niul we are the advocates Of free trade. thus
understood, and hope for It's future attain
nent, we arc content, under The present erf-
geneies Of the nation, to acquiesce in tohat in
eUtfabiy entails protection, TO some ertent. by
agreeing 10 a moderate "horizontal scale Of
duties, admitting all imports, ehethcr in com
petttI0n tDuh domestic products or not. ON the
same terms. or Discriminating FOR REEVE
NUE. ONLY. This alternative is assented 10
in order that there may be no room for the
imputation oil interfering with or violating
established interests. AT the same time il is
certain that duties, intended as a mere tax TO
support Government, and TO be levied fairly
* equally on all property, interests, x occu
pstions, MUST DISCRIMINATE AGAINST.
PROTECTION, and be laid chiefly on those
imports which do not come into competition
Win domestic PRODUCTS Argumenisin sun
port oi this view then follow, among which
Is this; THAT the largest and most permanent
revenue may be raised by taxing most heavily
ARTICLES produced solely abroad. because such
TAXATION CANNOT STIMULATE anita.
gonislic DOMESTIC PRODUCTIONS and
thus end in Prohibition"
We produced from time ia time the most
irrelragable evidence that the loco loco party
was the anti-tanG party. aud that was stoudy
denied by all. Now the proof come, ,hst
they are the most determined opponents Of
all protection. They have shown ibat they
were only IN favor Of projecting foreign man.
uiacturcrs by taxing the raw material higher
than the manufactures article. We charged
M 1911 that they eleciioncered o. Bdtish gold.
We ask now, II the expenditure OF the three
millions OF dollars. by British manufacturers.
To secure the election Of james X. Polk
was not the best investment thcy have
ever nader 1t will yield them five hundred
per cent, in their control Of The American
market.
TIE RIGHT SPIRIT Til. I,..u a.