New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-26
PRNNsYLyANIA AND THE TARIFF


PENNSYLVANIA AND THE TARIFF.
The people Of Pennsylvania, like those OF New
Jersey are nearly unanimous in favor OF Protec'
tive Tariff. Questions concerning Slavery, and all
other political topics hold subordinate place in
their regard to this one" By what action on our
part shall we secure the effective Protection OF
"Home Industry " They have immense beds of
Iron and other ores, which they know by efperl-
ence are transformed by a Protective Tariff into
sources Of individual employment and OF general
property; they are largely engaged III Manuiac-
tures and know that these thrive aud expand under
such Tariff as the Wings established in 1912, and
tae Democrats destroyed in 1876. They know
at least, The most of them dO-that the former
grew directly out of the Harrison triumph of l64O,
as did The latter out Of the defeat of Clay by Polk
in 1914. Swinded as they were in the latter year
by the CRY Of Polk, Dallas, and the Tariff OF
"42," they are not so easily duped as formerly
they do not 70 readily bite at any naked hook that
may be labeled Democracy-and it is found neces-
ssry TO resort to holder and broader lying to tempt
them to fresh suicide. Hence Mr. Douglass re-
cent advance upon even his own former flights of
",
speech at Harrisburg, and denouncing the Negro
question az the great obstacle to the enactment of
Protective Tariff; when he has, for the fifteen
yeSIs he la, been in Congress, voted or spoken for
every extreme Free-Trade measure or proposition,
never once faisiDg his voice or giving vote for
Protection, but sharing in the counsels and EMU
latrg the course of the EXTREMIST Fireeaters from
the first month of his service at Washington down
TO bis last when, on the plea of illness, he kept
out of his seat while the Tariff bill Of 1860 was
voted down by the party to which he has always
hitherto belonged
Pennsylvania has very generally voted as the
Slave Power would have her What has been her
reward She has asked votes of that Power in
return-pleaded for them-begged for them-when
did she ever get them What reason has she for
hoping that it will serve her better in the future
than it has served her in the Past7
At the late session of Congress, Protective Ia
riff bill was drafted by Republicsn-Mr. Morrill,
of YeImont-Ieferred to Republican Committee
that OF Ways and Means, John Sherman, Chair
man--reported by the Republican majority Of that
Committee, the Democratic minority dissenting
passed the House by the votes of every Republican
present but too, and one of these Mr.. Stanton Of
Ohio) is firm ProtectiOnist, but dissatisfied with
the proposed duty on Wool-not half dozen
Democrats from the whole Union voting for the
bill, while the great mass of them fought it from
first TO last. The bill then went to the Senate,
wherein every Republican supported it, yet it was
lost-not because (as Mr.. Douglas pretends) the
time was absorbed by Negro questions, but because
there was a Democratic majority in that branch,
and this majority was iInmoyably hostile to Pro-
lection. In vain did Mr.. Bigler plead with those
whose faithful sefvitor he so long had been-he
could not shake them, because they would just as
soon consent to vote for the Wilmot Proviso for
Protective TaiifI. To their apprehension, these
arc but two different ways Of attaining
the same end. In vain did the Democratic
magnaes and Oflice-eIpectants of Pennsylvania
make pigIimsges to Washington to set forth the
absolute ruin which Democratic hostility to Pro-
lection was iDhctDg on the party in their Statei
the Democratic majority could not, would not give
way. Douglas stsid away from the Senate the
rest persisted in fighting the bill until they killed
it. And now the labOrDg masses in Pennsylvania
are to be made to believe that the party which
gave lie every vote in the Senate and all but two
in the House for bill which gave them all they
could ask, is hostile to Protection, and that the
party which could not bs induced, even by the
imminent danger of losing the Presidential Election,
10 give half dozen votes in both Houses for this
or any other Protective Tariff, is yet the friend Of
Protection And the same men who boldly assert
cd and argued in "A that Polk was better Pro
teeth mist than Clay. are to day as impudently
proosimine that the way 10 Protection lies through