The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-22

unaidsd by prohibitions unnatural restrictions.
Tia, country the haPpiss' which ,he sun shines on
sin some sorts Of fabrics we are already exporters,
and the products Of our manufact9fes are at this
moment in the South American market. We see,
then, what can be done without prohibition or ex-
raordnary protection, because We see what has been
done; and venture TO predict that In few years IL
will be thought wonderful that these branches OF
manufactures, at least should have been thoIght to
require additional aid from government"
Such being Mr.. Wsbsters opinions as delivered
in the House of Representatives in 1924, he very
naturally remarked, when he rose 10 advocate the
high protective tariff OF l626-ths first famous
"bill Of abominations' President, this sub
jet is surrounded with snsbarassnsnis on all sides
Among these "embanassments" doubtless stood the
following fact, stated also in the commencement
Of the same speech, in 1928;
"ls now nearly fifteen years since, among the first
| things which ever yentured to say here, was the
en- preston Of serious doubt whether this govern.
men was fitted by its construction TO administer aid
and protection TO particular pursuits; whether having
called such pursuits into being by indications Of ia
| favor, II would not Afterwards desert them when
troubles came upon them, and leave them to then
| fate"
Let us see now the explanation Of the vote given
by Mr.. Webster for the tariff of 1928, under These
same 'embanassments. The explanation occurs
in the speech delivered in the Senate in $780, in re-
ply to Mr.. Hayne, Of South Carolina:
"In 1916, had not acqueseed in the tariff, Their
supported by South Carolina. To some parts Of il
especially, felt and expressed great repugnanee
I held tho same opinions in 1921 at the meeting ia
Faneuil Hall, TO which the gentleman has alluded
said then, and say now, that as an original ques
ton, the authority Of Congress to exercise the rev
enue power, with direct reference the protection
Of manufactures, Is a Questionable authority-fal
more Questionable, in my judgment than the pow
| er Of internal improvements.
with great majority Of the representatives o.
Massachusetts, voted against the tariff of 1924
My reason. were then gwen and will not now re
The bill of 1897, limited, as have said, to IN,
single object in which the tariff Of 1924 had mani
feslly failed in its effect, passed the House Of Rep
resentatIyes, but was lost here. We had then tn,
act of 1928. | need not recur to the history of !
measure 30 recent. Its enemies spiced il with what
soever they thought would render It dstasleful; ID
friends took II, drugged as il was Vast amounts
| OF property, many millions, had been invested il
manufactures, under the inducements Of the act o
1924. Events called loudly, as thought, for fur
Their regulation 10 secure the degree Of protection
intended by that act | was disposed to vote fo
such regulation, and desired nothing more"
Mr. Webster here tells US that he desired nothing
more in the way Of protection than the act Of 1924
He voted for the tariff of 1923 to regulate" that o
1924, particularly with respect to the duties oil
woollens,) and not for larger measure of Protee
ton. The tariff Of 1924 was high tariff but
altogether moderate than the tariff Of 1923
and it moderation itself as compared with tn,
tariff of 1912. Now, if extraordinary protection Il
particular interests be, Mr.. Webster says abov,
that it is, unjust; il such protection be, as he al
leges, the exercise of very Questionable power
by our government if the protection Of 1924 wa,
sufficient, and than sufficient, in Mr. Webster
Judgment, to foster our manufactures then in com
parative infancy, into an unprecedented growth; il
these things be, as Mr.. Webster states them to be
then upon what grounds can he now sustain tn,
admitted and monstrous srtravagance and inequalit,
4 Of the az istinp tariff