New-York tribune., 1869-01-21
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY

Industry. Pupils of Alexander Hamilton, OF
Henry Clay, of Hezekiah Miles, Mathew Carey,
Rollin C. Mallary, and of our earlier Republi-
can Presidents, they had listened to the argu-
ments of Calhoun, McDuifie, r. j. Walker, &C.,
in favor OF what they called Free Trade,
without being convinced by them. Bull
lied out Of the Tariff of 1928 by Notification,
and cheated out of that of i642 by the palter-
ing in n double sense of the Kane letter. their
convictions remained unchanged but had de-
rived additional force from the disastrous ex-
periences ofi1S37-4O and of 1871. Hence, when
they found themselves once more in majority
in Congress upon the Secession of the Rebel
Chiefs, they proceeded at once, early in 1861,
to restore those Protective features of tho
Tariff which the ascendcncy of their enemies
and those of Human Liberty had eilaced and
subverted They did this in defiance OF abuse
and Misrepresentation from open foes and
from few who professed to be friends. They
were told that they were destroying our Com
merce, surrounding our country by Chinese
wall, denying to our people the right to choose
their own vocations, &c, &C.; but they had
heard all this Mt least twice before, and had
seen it proved fallacious by results that con-
founded their adyeTsaries. Commerce, as well
as Industry had in either case increased under
the sway of Protection; and so they have done
again. That our country has triumphed over
gigantic Rebellion, powerfully abetted by
Foreign jealousy and hate, is largely due to
the Protection afforded to her Industry by the
Tariff OF 1861 and its amendments, now in
force.
But Free Traders also united in the Repub-
lican movement, as it was their perfect right
to do. They were welcomed as allies in our
warfare against part of the Calhoun theory
of government, though they did not, like most
of us, reject and contemn it as a whole. Their
right TO be Free Traders at the same time that
they were Republicans was not denied ali we
asked was, all we now ask is. that the settled
convictions of q great majority Of the Repub
leans shall be treated with that respect which
an honorable disputant accords to the views of
a sincere though mistaken adversary.
The EueniHg Post has refused, and still re-
fuses, TO treat the Republican masses thus
civilly. Processing still to be Republican, after
having unsparingly DETAINED and tried TO de-
feat us in 1865, when it told its readers that
there could be no sound policy or honest rule
till the Republican ascendency was oycrthrown,
it devotes its energies mainly TO tho fabIica-
ton of poisoned arrows to be sped by our adj
gersaries at the heart Of the Republican party.
Thus. in its issue of Tuesday, its leading ar
ticle assails and maligns the great body of the
supporters of Grant and Collax in this charac-
teristc fashion,:
"As for fair play and equal taxation. the report OF
Commissioner Wells Is terrible Indictment HFdlRst the
party OF which he Is Jealous but wise and farseeing
nrtpf Mr. Mell Y NEUTg4
that under the present tax and tariff ystem-for which,
DO 1t remembered the Republican party Is alone relon
than before the compared with tho prices OF necos
sares OF life and OF course 1--we less comfortably win
arranged that while the great mass OF the people, who
work for wages are thus absolutely worse on than
the special favor OF Congress are at the same time max
ing large fortunes, by that KIND Of monopoly wch Is
iron double their capital annually I'm some instances
though at the same time their workmen I've more poorly
obtained monopoly Of salt has, on capital Of 100000
divided &OOooC IN cas9 @ amS9g @ & s sa a
value Of It's property on hand not less than 100000
more all within years and all tins has been
extored from the OF the people by this odous salt
duty Not content with these enormous profits these
monopolsts having persuaded Cohgress 70 aA9 on ino
1t to still further increase the import dues-Qr In other
Titus again, the lumber companies composed Of few
great capitalists by persnadng Congress 10 lay heavy
the expense OF tho working people the farmers and
cbanic for il Is these who chiefly live wooden houses
donS G the II ss psop S T Il h d % sho1 desoyed
our commerce. so that II we had ships we should have
nothing 70 carry In them II has destroyed OF tho
most important markets for the products OF skilled
labor BY protecting the capitalists who make pig iron,
American Tnachinsts havo been disabled aud can no
| longer eel machinery abroad In competition with
English and French shops by protecting the capital
sts who own the great lumber tracts the furniture
makers and other artisans been disabled from
| pefing IN foreign markets with other countries.
| "To such condition aro mauy Of ourleadlng Indus
s that as Mr. Wells shows we can now send only gold
where formerly wo sent goods, TO buy suoh things
hides which wo must have 10 feed some Of our most
Important Industries Thus we are drained OF gold, not
because we overtradng but because We are crippled
Just as sick man. unable to work. must pay out bis
NOV this ia an inolerable condition Of things. The
American people not 30 foolish TO suffer to con-
tnue long. They not without resentment and they
and from tho discussions In the press what ia the cause
OF their EueTiDgs suppose the republican party goes
on a. bas nat Of fnSyey and which
has made tax system to tinker at II and make t u
uossIble yet worso1 What thenl Does any Republican
pooiau ina zinc the people 20 be foolish "a not 10 do
nand a change, and to sock u IN the only way u which
people = no sSasn a in'RSS Gs attempts OF the
nopOsts TO increase the burdens they lay or inc people
sa@ ?: dsaiea IL .s tSTSssS w 1tS night and main
legislation reducing tho odious Proteeuye taIes. re-
eynE The PEOPLE OF the Oppression Hhu9r % yns dear
aud the ab0rer's aud mechanics life ha7d; ahd ue-
h0s1RS a. IRE S the H Of 1.-THE the
Republican party every Que who PTings forwhT9 OF
6ucl scheme. That is the way to the Republican
| party. Who viii doitp
Comments By The Tribune
We Republicans who are also Protectionsts
are willing TO hive With those Republicans who
are Free Traders on the basis Of mutual toler-
alton; but this The Post rejects. We pave
most cordially supported Free Traders who
were Republican candidates; but The Post stig-
matizes all Protectionists as mOnopoliSts, op-
presSOrS, and robbers of the poor, and calls