The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-05-07

The following very able article, which we copy from
the Boston Post, exposes, with much force, the natua
ton of the Federal leaders in their recent predictions
OF the runous effects upon the country Of the Democratic
policy, recommended by the Executive and adopted by
the late Democratic Congress- The present prosperity OF
all the great interests OF the country is an argument
against Federal craftsmanship which can neither be re-
sisted nor Stunned BY all manner OF secommittal in
Congress and out oil Congressby the speeches OF then
orators by the predictions of their presses by the very
principles OF their party creed and by the whole tenor OF
their loud-mouthed denunciaons--the Federalists are
tied down to the position that the Democratic measures
OF the last Congress must inevitably PROSTATE and para
yse the industry and The prosperity of the countru
Upon this issue Federal craftsmanship most distinctly and
most eagerly staked its whole claim to the confidence OF
the people 1t made its boast that its party policy was
Exactly the reusr@ of the policy embodied in the tariff
OF 1916. II denounced that measure as system fauch
with ruin; and claimed to present and embody in its
own party policy wholly opposite system, framed upon
wholly opposite principles, and SO destined to produce
national prosperity. Upon Federal showing there could
be no reconcilement OF these two lines of Tariff policy
They could not both be good They could not both be-
bad They in direct contradictions and the success
of the must be complete refuaton of the soundness
of the other.
Under these circumstances, and amid Federal impre-
cations OF "Ruin' and Repeal" the Democratic Tariff
system has gone into operation The result of it is be-
fore the country That result complete and triumphant
success. Prices are high labor is everywhere sought
for and well rewarded all branches of manufacturing
industry seem TO have received a new stimulus: the
navigating interest has entered absolutely upon a new
of prosperity; agriculture fndsa market almost with
precedent in its demand and finally both the revenue
and the credit Of the government, even in time OF war;
stand at this moment upon an elevation which has
hardly been reached before, even in time of peace
Such are the results undeniable and admitted, of the
system which Federalism has condemned. The people
can well Judge for themselves what would have been the
results of the mholy opposite system which Federalism
approved
In this view especially commend to our readers the
facts so clearly set forth by the Post
from the Boston Postl
BUSINESS AND PoLITICs-THE WINGS AND RUIN.--It
cannot be denied that the wings, since the latter part oil
Jacksons administration, have endeavored to b-
slness with politics. They have claimed for their polt-
cal measures the credit of causing existing seasons OF
prospery while they have attempted fasen upon the
democratic party the Odlum OF causing commercial re-
vulsons They affirmed that the latter brought on
by removal of the deposes, specie circular, or
destruction OF the national bank or the adoption OF the
while their panaceas have been the tariff Of lS42 the
election Of Harrison, or the land bill, or other
wing scheme. Heretofore. when trade mulshly re-
fused to work according to their predictions the wings
have managed with perfect GOODNESS, to bring up
element to meet the case and relieve them
from the odum OF being bad soothsayers Thus when
their predictions of 10 follow from Tylers veto OF
their bank bill completely bafed BY the turning
tide of 1872 they brought up their tariff the tariff of 1912
to forget that they had ever prophecied ruin Hence Hence
from thar time 10 the date OF the repeal of this act they
asserted that this measure had made the country
more prosperous. This, however has been repealed,
and in the face OF the positive predictions Of ruin
and yet the country is prosperous to unparalleled
tent What wing measure will be now brought forward
10 account for this state OF things?
This may be profitable time to recall some of the
whg prophecies, and how they come TO fulfil.
ment They cover long space of time, commencing
passage OF the tariff law OF 1916 One OF the oudest one
of the most demagosulsh croakers John NJ Clayton
to whom the credit belongs of discovering that the Dues
ton of 1914 zone of bread He was peculiarly anx-
ious about Pennsylvania. Should" he exclaimed at
Lancaster the struggle for national independence which
is raging throughout the length and breadth of the
land be decided against us by the vote of Pennsylvania
she will come out OF that contest, with her gorgeous ban
trailing in the DUST herself bleeding at every pore
The shouts of party triumph will be speedily succeeded
by the wall of her ruined poughmen and her beggared
mechanics The fires of her FORCES and the sound Of the
axe and hammer in her workshops will die away amidst
many among the thousands before me- who with sorrow
stricken, if not with broken hearts, may live to mourn
the loss OF that without which public liberty would
to be blessing The agents of this swift destruction
were to be democratic tariff law and repeal of the
tariff OF 1912. In process OF time this law proposed
when the rum notes became truly awful 1t is worth re-
memberng now, that no whg, at the time il passed,
doubted the destructive powers of the bll-doubted its
capacity to strike wide and deep short passage from
speech OF senator johnson embodies enough run for
purpose His conclusions wee that as he said ''if
this bill should become law, it will ruin not only the
hundreds of thousands engaged the labor of the land
but the value OF the land itself; that it will bring ruin to
the manuacurerruin 10 the agriculmrist-ruin to the
panerruln to public credit-run the peace comfort
and virtues OF the people We believe il will PROSTATE
nnetenths OF the labores OF the land that it will des-
troy those who assist us In paying taxes, building
school houses, in erecting churches and in sustaining
the flag and honor of the nation Plenty will, think
be succeeded by want industry and virtue give place TO
dehess and vice prosperous villages be made desoate
ourlshng establishments perish public and individual
debts increase"
Was there ever more comprehensive, a more COM
pete rnn" threatened TO people' And when the bill
passed. and the wing presses announced it to be law,
who can forget the language used! As sample, take
the words OF the Mexican National lntellgencer, July
3d. 1916: "The fatal measure, it sad "tcch strikes at
the root Of all the industry of the country, and at the Au
ing OF euerY 1t icho has bread by the sceat
of has broir-this msShapen and onsrols scheme" and
land" "Bitter the fruit now to be reaped by those wto
WOULD put their trust demdgogues." And, according
TO this wing prnt-and IT was also the chime of its
gaclous assocates-there hope for 'reaninated
the "benecent principles Of Is42" restored Col
umns OF such stuff might be extracted Who does not
remember how Pennsylvania tainted, nsuted H.
beed and this, too, by her degenerate Take
as sample, this month of Jdly, 1916, of the Phadel
phia North American:
Behold your handiwork! You affected favor the
if--a policy
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