National Republican., 1880-11-03
PROTECTION our poLInY ALWAYS.


TIL traitors learn what home aud counirys
worth.
PROTECTION OUR Policy ALWAYS.
1t is noteworthy that the creation and
execution Of n sufficient scheme Of national
revenue and protection, which was the
main object Of the cons,itu ion. invoked
the earliest attention of the first congress
| On the Sth Of April, 1889. four days after
the organization Of the house Of representa-.
tives, and before the organization Of the
senate, the house resolved itself into II COM
mittec of the whole on the state of the
union and took into consideration the tariff,
| Indeed, so great was the necessity for revc-
nue. and protection TO home industry that
many of tho representatives favored tenn
| porary system OF tariff. Mr.. MADISON adj
vocated the temporary scheme "for the
sake Of that expedition which is necessary
in order to embrace the spring importa-
| tiOns." On the 9th the subject was re-
sumed. The lengthy discussion which took
| place was mainly as to the application of
the nd yalorem principle TO all articles as u
temporary measure, because m attempt to
specify articles would lead to pcrplexity
and delay, or that Of n system of specific
| duties rs permanent measure. Those for
the latter measure desired one "some way
adequate to our present situation as re-
spects our agriculture our manufactures
and our commerce" They desired TO add
TO the enumeration of articles some cal
culated to encourage the productions of our
country and TO protect our infant manulac-
lures, beside others tending 10 operate rs
sumptuary restrictions upon articles which
are often termed those Of luxury.'- See
Lioyds Con. Reg, rol /, p. II, ct seq
On the 1lth of April, 1880, only seven
days after the organization of the house,
the first petition for a protective tariff was
| presented by Mr.. SMITH of Maryland. 1t
was from tho tradesmen, manufacturers
and Others of the town of Baltimore, which
was read, setting forth:
That since the close ofthe late war and tho
completion Of the revolution, they have OBJ
| served with serious regret the manufacturing
| and trading interests Of the count ~ rapidly dc.
| clinng, aud tho attempts OF the state egisla.
| lures to remedy the evil falling in their oh.
| jcct; that in the melancholy state of our coun.
| try, the number of poor increasing for want
Of omployment; foreign debts accumuiating,
| houses and lands depreCiqting i'm value, and
| trade and manufactures angui,hiug and eN-
| pirng: they look up to the supreme legislature
OF the United States rs the guardians Of the
| whole empire, and from their united wisdom
| and patriotism and ardent love of their couu-
| try, expect to derive that aid and assistance
| which alone can dissipatc their Just apprchCn.
| sons and animate them with hopes Of success
| in future, by imposing on all foreign articles
| which can be made in America such duties as
| will give II just and decided preference to
their labors dscountenancing that trade
which tends so materially to uiuro them and
| impoverish their country; measures which,
| in their consequences, may also contribute to
tho discharge of tho national debt and the
due support OF the governments; that they
have annexed list OF such articles as are OF
can be manufactured amongst them, In com.
| mon with all tho other mechanics and manu-
facturcrs Of the United States, that relicl
which may appear proper See Lioyi's Con-
| Reg, rOl. !, PIP. $3.50
On the other hand, who ever heard of n
suggestion much less petition coming
| from tIadesmen, mechanics and lahOrcrs for
II iTee-tradc tariff? Even the people most
| ignorant on question of such magnitude
| as that of the tariff seem to have IN in
stinctiye knowledge that free trade but
leads the wolf to the door of labor.
During the first quarter Of the present
century free trade had not been Il party
measure. Protection had been, until after
his election, Il fuvorite measure of General
JACKSON, as is shown by his votes in the
senate, some of his earlier messages. his
letter to Governor RAY Of Indiana, and his
celebrated letter to Dr. COLEMAN of War
renton, N. c., in 1924, of which the follow
ing is an extract (The Dem. Jack. Ass.
should notice and drop both claim and
name):
l will ask what is the real situation of the
agriculturist2 Where has the American farmer
n market for his surplus produce? Except
for cotton, he has neither n foreign nor a
,1,lsn N. N1.F
when there is no market either at homo or
abroad, that there is too much labor employed
| in agrculture2 Common sense at once points
out the remedy. Take from agriculture in
the United States 100000 men, women
aud children, and you will ut once give Il
market for more breadsiuils than all Europe
now furnishes us. In short, sir, we hevo been
too long subject to the policy of British mcr-
chants. 1t is time we should become little
more Americamizel, and, instead OF feeding
| paupers and labOrGrs in England, feed our
own; OF else in short time, by continuing
our present policy, we shall be rendered pau
pers ourselves. 1t Is, therefore, my opinion
that careful and judicious tariff is much
wanted to pay our national debt and TO afford
us tho means of defense within ourselves on
which the safety of our country and liberty
depends; and last though not least, give a
proper distribution TO our labor, which must
prove beneficial to the happiness, indepond.
ence and wealth of the community.
The pernicious doctrine OF free trade Is
the bastard offspring of slavery and state
rights. In the days of human bondage the
south had little or no paid labor to protect
manufactures could not be carried on in
that section without free and intelligent
labor; freedom and intelligence in close
: proximity to slavery would be death TO the
latter; therefore they were prescribed. The
slave-holding oligarchy were ever jealous
of the oyershadowing progress of the free
north and west, aud free trade was used as
q choeh to block the wheels of progress
As in the ease of slavery, the fortunes of
the democratic party, ever waning in pro.