The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-07-15
THE UNION.

taken in this country The troubles which the tariff of
1898 produced cannot be forgotten Under the baneiu
o. thal msehlesoas measure Peace hung for
and shattered wing and ghled from The crowded 10
The fruitful plain, the sunny hill. and verdant vale told
her sorrows TO the needless gloom; while Freedom, in
her mourning veslmens, hid her repudaied vsage from
The dislressu scene The hercest elements oil civil
ragged around us, and threatened the Unon with deuge
OF blood Ii was, indeed. sorry sight; and never may
we look upon the like again But the people
coaxed TO believe that II they woHd endure that tariff for
certain period OF years they would be asked
endure II Anxious TO settle The seIve stnfe and
to bind up the demon OF dscord in the chains OF peace
Congress passed the act OF the 81 March, 1885, imposing
duties on imports and gradually reducing those duties
thai after The 30h June 1912 they should not exceed
twenty per cent That called The compromise act
and those who framed IT, who urged the nation 10 ap-
prove H. and who gathered riches and influence from It's
long duration, styled bond OF CONCORD and any, oil
friendship and motherhood which they said none the
falhess and miscbevous would venture 10 disturb The
great fathers OF The advised the aclulng
classes TO support II, and told them that unless they did
so their system OF protective duties would perish under
The dspeasure oil the people The manufacturers. there
fore promised 10 support and after The compromise
fully discussed among the people who was MOI
unequvocay pledged 10 maintain ii could have reached
the presidential office. When in the canvass of $40 il
was changed that General Harrison hostile 10 mat
foRsse ms greatest snppoes ds"ea ss essg
dent Harrson's Secretary OF the Navy. made pub
lie, speech, to the people of North Carolina, and
asked, = why Is the subject OF the tafiH brought
forward at all It settled years ago by the com
promise act Who proposes TO disturb it! Who de.
sres TO increase the duties Certainly neither General
Harrison any of his friends" One hundred thousand
copies OF that speech printed and circulated through
out the Union the farest exponent of wing doctrines
and intentions. Tha, the people might believe General
Harrison to be really compromise tariff man. the wings
brought forward and published his Zanesvi e letter,
which we here present, that you may contrast the prom
OF the General with the performance of those friends
to whom he confded the cares Of government:
EVANSVILLE, Nov. 2, 1896
" GENTLEMEN: had the honor this moment o receive
communication of yesterday, regret that my
tar sys stem What meant to convey was that had
warm advocate Of tha system upon It's first adoption
country But certainly never had, would have
any idea Of revving H. What ! said was, that would
not agree % the repeal as II stands In other words,
am for supporting the compromse act and will
agree to us being altered or repealed
. In relation TO the nterpal-impovement SYSTEM
Williams WIN. H. HARRISON.
Under this compromise act" the profits which pro-
tectve duties gave native manufacturers were enor
NOUS But the burdens which those duties imposed upon
the other classes OF the people were generally borne
under the solemn and general belief that those
burdens would cease after The 3oh June, 1872 The
whole country then rloced the settlement OF national
troubles, and in The delightful prospect OF future
mony throughout The land. But after the election Gen
Harrison graspins Avarce boldly refused release Der
satisfied lien upon the labor and capital of The country,
and broke the solemn covenant Of concord and
amity cord Of fragile straw. On the 3Oh OF
jane. 1912. tie wings mot mindful Of their fath)
passed another iarH act, wrongful and oppressive
lis hateful predecessor OF 1923 To show what little
reliance can be placed opoliss when they burn
enjoy what they agreed TO renAunre. the mann acurerS
reed all whom they could control 10 vote for the tariff
OF ls42 Even democrats expressly Instructed 10
-uplplt II, AGAINST their Judgment an ,nclinalions
The preiext tor this was that the public debt had in
creased and required the duties 10 be KEPT up very high
The wings, inse I'd OF Keeping the public expenditures
within the limit, OF a wholesome policy wasted the pub
nc resources, increased the pubic debt and boldly relied
on Their own pFodigalty valid for breaking
The compromise. Had continuance OF protective duties
been really necessary 10 lqudale the public debit that
increase would have been effected by placing 30 per
upon protected articles. as the letter and amendment OF
the compromise provide Instead OF that, the wings
placed prohhtory duties the coasest articles of daily
and the highest duties finer articles bu
seldom required among usthus rather
than revenue, leading Involvement, to destroy the
promise which they covenaned 10 support
But the advocates of the protective system, who turned
the compromise into monstrous perhdy and hagran
wrong, forced abandon their rapacious
In 1874 the people rebuked the tariff of lS42 and brought
into power the proper characters to repeal IT In May
s44, the Baltimore convention pledged the efforts OF the
demf cratic party oppose the protective system, and
il clothed with power, adjust the duties the revenue
standard That convention nominated Mr., Polk a
steady advocate OF the revenue Standard and the people
raised him TO the presidency, Mr. Polk and his party
redeemed their pledges. and passed the tariff OF the
3oth July, isi6-a purely revenue measure TO support
government and 10 afford the greatest benefits 10 the great
est number Of our fellow. citizens The leaders Of wing
gerry then daily said that under the tariff OF is46 prices
would fa; tnat LABOR would peTisn mat public revenue
would decline; and that whole foreign and domestic
commerce would suffer from the ee-trade tariff of 1916
But evil orebodngs are common and stale They come
too often TO deceive the wisdom 10 shake the rmness
Of democratic rulers In despite of every opposition and
anticipated disaster the anh OF 1916 has fully equalled
utmost hopes, and may safely challenge lis bodest
opponents 10 the fullest scrutiny
The following public records show that the monthly
receipts into the treasury under the tariff Of 1916
have been $500 900 than the monthly receipts under
The protective tariff of 1912:
Co ne of