Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-10-29


the needed revenue would necessarily pro
> tect American industries. Further he says
The tariff question is Il local question
Laughter and applause. lie says: ''Th,
same question was brought up in my native
place in Pennsylvania" lie is evidently :
native of all parts OF Pennsylvania. Laugh
ter. 1T is matter that the general GOV
crnment seldom cares to interfere with,
and nothing is likely ever TO he done that
will interfere with the industries of the coun.
try Now, evidently, he agrees with
Robert Walpole, who said he was willing tC
believe anything but history. That eNtraor-
dinary eifusOn was tclcgraphed over the
country three days before Ohio and Indiana
voted.
Immediately afterward, after a ripple of
laughter had rolled over the whole country,
after not only in the East but in the West
men had read with asonishment, that a
Presidential candidate should show such a
total Ignorance of subject so important,
Mr.. Randolph of NewJerscy, an active Demo
cratic politician, thought he would take up
the stitch or two which had been dropped,
aud accordingly he addressed General Han
cock letter, in which find these words,
IF Misrepresentation of your tariff views
continue would it not be wise and Just to
take some occasion to put yourself right"
The General took very early occasion.
He took an occasion Immediately if not
sooner, and on the very next lay he wrote
anl published a letter, in which we find
these sayings First he nowhere intimates
that this interview which had been published
was incorrect or had been misrepresented
but he says: Il thought spoke plainly, TO
satisfy our Jersey friends, regarding my
tariff views. | am too sound an American To
advocate any departure from the general
features Of policy that has been largely in
strumenta in building up our industries and
| keeping Americans from the competition of
the underpaid labor of Europe" | thank
thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. There
is the visible head of the Democratic church,
the man who stands to-day as the incarna-
ton of the Democratic organization, in Il
deliberate letter, written 10 a Democrat uni Il
| Democratic member of the [ nited States Sen
ate, throwing up the sponge, giving up the
argument which they have held for fifty years,
scouting the idea Of free trade, and record
ing that the industries. the wealth, the Ma
tiunal advancement and primacy Of this
great Nation have been built up by the
American system-the system of Il prOtec-
tive tariff.
/ General Hancock never wrote, nor did the
pen Of soldier or civilian ever trace truer
words than these. Again he says 'All parties
agree tlitt the best way for us to raise the
revenue is largely by tariff SO far as we
are concerned, Therefore, all talk about free
trade is folly" Again stop to make Obei-
sance to Gen Hancock Here has been the
| Democratic press, the New York World,
with its correspondent, Mr.. Moore. the ati
thor of the so-calcd Wool Tariff bill the
man who for years, has been picking stones
| for the New York World to throw, and the
whole Democratic press, Tray, Blanche and
Sweetheart, have been barking il one free
trade chorus during all the years that most
Of us have lived. Here comes the Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency, and in
| the stress and pressure of an occasion badly
in need Of votes, he says to Ohio and says TO
Indiana, by telegraph, on the very day of
of their election. all free trade is Il folly and
a chimera [applausel and then he says, but
what we want is '.iudicious" tariff. That
is the word that James Buchanan employed
"a iudicious tariff. They had one but
during Buchanan's administration it fell short
! fifty million dollars year of raising revenue
enough for the Government. ApplaiIse.
] They sail it was a judicious tariff and
| Gen. Hancock, with singular felicity in
misfortune, has produce resurrection of that
hateful phrase.
TIE SOUTH OPPOSED To PROTECTION.
| What next? This second letter produces
| trouble The Democratic papers say tia,
| will not do; ana various men have been set
| to interpret what Gen. Hancock means.
/ What does he mean? What was he think
ing of when he accepted that nomination and
said that platform that denounced the idea
/ of protection, which denounced the present
/ tariff, which siigmaiized it us fraud ms a
wrong, as a cheat, as an injury, what did he
mean when, accepting that nomination deli
/ bcratclv, he said that IT," i-l'tfoim expressed
/ his yic,v1, enumerated the principles upon
I which he hal always stood and ON which
he intended In sand for the future. But the
/ tariff question is a party question. and will
he decided i'll Il party caucus of the Demo
cratic party, il the Democratic party hns II
majority in the next Congress.
1t is also Il sectional question. and the
/ South is opposed To it. Why: Because the
South is purely agricultural region. They
! grow cotton and rice. Cotton is the medium
with which they pay for foreign products.
! They have no rolling mills, M blast furnaces,
no shoe factories, no diversified industries,
fabric mills, and So IN, as we have, 10 protect;
and. therefore Tie South is, as the South has
been, from time immemorial, opposed 10 II
protective tariff, in favor of free trade, be
cause they say. no matter what ruin it may
b
among the manufactures of the North, il
would bring foreign products cheaper to
them; yet Gen. Hancock says it is II local
question and one with which the general
Government seldom cares to Interfere.
The Southern Democrats have told us cX-
actly what they believed about il. They
have put into the only constitution in this
country the Democrats were ever privileged
10 make just as they wanted-there has never
been since the foundation of the government
but one cons tuition, even IN State, So far
as ever heard-Certainly hnt one cOnstltu-
I iion called Nationai-made by Democrats
alone and made exactly as they wanted il.
! Here it is it is the Constitution of the Con
( icd,iatc States of America. Applause and
laughter Dnrs ANYBODY suppose that
( Republican or any kind oi political animal
/ besides Democrat had To do with the Con
. sii;ution of the Confederate States: Here
/ is what they said No bounty shouli be
granted from the Treasury That WAS aim
/ ed at the fisheries of New England; that WAS
! because or arrangement Years ago certain
/ bauntics were paid to the fisheries of New
England to foster them when il was deemed
/ very important they should he fuStcrcd; mo
bouniics shall be- granted from the treasury,
| nor shall any duties or taxes on imporiatlonS
from foreign countries he laid To promote or
foster anv branch OF ministry How like a
plank in Democratic platform that solndS
| Put there by the same men who govern and
/ make up two thirds Of the Democratic mem
! bcrs in Congress- Both Houses of Congress
/ are Democratic and in both HOUSES far,
J far more than half th" Democrats are the
I leaders. nav the rnsltai,rs # the recent re-
/ cent rebellion the very men who led that
mishtieSt murder. without prnvoca,ion,
al, Ia. N mud
sanized procession ii gr.,ii,!r> and mourn
crs which no nal can nu MIR. This con
! eliluton WAS made hv tLs, men and they
4 sit now in the halls Of Congress in absolute
majority of every Democratic caucus, whcth-
er ii he of either llouse separately or of the
/ two Houses meeting together
/ BRIEF HISTORY Of AMERICAN rAEIFF
/ said thlt would speak of the attitude
| of the Democratic party as 1t had been III
/ Congress The first act ever laSScd by the
American Congress, the first act George
| Washington ever signed was Tariff act and
a Protective Tariff. Applause. ltcoitcd
ON It's face that it was Protective, not mere
/ " Protective in fact but they wrote On its
. iron,cts. they put on the very bosses ot
/ their bucklrr That thcy were for protecting
American inIustry The war of 1872 came
ON and left n debt. In l~2l another Prntcc
tive Tariff was passed. In lS2S il was made
stronger AMI more protective. In lS53
rebellion arosc against the tarlil That pep
I per-box. South Carolina, that State which
seems the theatre Of every especial dcvcltrv
laughter /, n STATE tn Whose people | wish
nuihin.. hut good, hut Il State dominated and
! governed hy the descendants al men who IN
the American Revolution which our fathers
fought proposed 10 put South Carolina up in
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