The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1882-02-01

, from receiving it because he was la,
: in making his application TO I'll
5 payment of these pensions ever
: sentiment of honesty and gratitud
: should hold Us lismly committed.
My friend, the Senator from Kef
: lucky, [Mr. Beckl is very honest,
: generally very astute, and has grea
capacity as leader. Ny persons
! friendship makes me desire his SUI
cess, and as an individual ! wan
him to be the recipient of al tn
| honors his party can bestow upo
him, but / am very sure that he
now opposing . measure that is in
! tended TO promoteth welfare Of an
lis IN accord with the wishes of tn
people Of the, country. He is lead
ing his party astray, he is holding j
back, he is tying it to The carcass o
free trade. Politically am glat
that he is; on his own account re
gret i, lie is opposing the, princi
pal OF l,rotectiop, and, in my judg
ment, 40 man can do that andretai
the support Of the people. No par
lty can to-day proclaim the doctrin,
OF "a tariff for. revenue only" anG
survive. Opposition. 10 an earnes,
prosecution Of the war for the sup
preston Of the rebellion failed to de.
stroy the Democratic party be.
cause Of the recruits il received
from the South, but opposition te
the doctrine Of protection to Ameri'
can Productions; hostility to the
elevation of American labor. no par
lty in this enlightened day. can advo'
cate and live. | am astonished that
the Democratic party does not learn
by experience. The, "tariff-ior-
rcvcnpe-only" plank in, thr Cincin-
matt platform lost it Indiana, lost il
New York, and 1854 it will loose il
one half Of the Southern States.
The great question Of protection
to American labor win be the cues
ton which will obliterate old dis.
sensions and unite the States in one
common brotherhood. The Demo.
cratic party has made its last great
fight. 1t viii struggle hard, and in its
death throes will, with the aid of a
few unsuccessful and disappointed Re-
publicans, possibly have Temporary
losal success. but death has marked
ii for its victim, die it viii, and on
its tomb viii be inscaibed: "Died
because of opposition to the educa-
ton, the elevation, and the advance
ment Of the people. wt
The historic policy Of this govern
ment has been to raise its revenues
mainly from duties on imports and
from the sale of the public lands.
There are many reasons in favor Of
this policy. 1t is more just and
equal in its burdens upon the States
and on the people; it is less inquisi-
toriai, less expensive, less liable to
corruption it is free from many
vexatious questions which our expe-
rience of twenty years in collecting
internal revenue has developed. The
internal revenue brings the General
Government in contact with the peo.
pie in almost everything they eat.
wear or use. The collection of rev.
enue by duties on imports is so in
direct as to remove much of the
harshness felt when the citizen comes
in direct contact with the iron grip
of the law compelling him TO affix a
stamp to what he makes or uses.
No one will question the fact that
the collection Of internal duties un-I
favorably affected the general morals
of the nation.
The internal revenue laws were
adopted by the Government as war
as an extraordinary and
unusual means Of raising money for
an emergency, ard it is proper and
in accordance with public opinion
that with the end of the emergency
such policy should cease. l cannot
but think that every Senator will
agree with me that the end of the
has been reached. The
embraced not only the
time of the expenditures but their
until the debt incurred
during the emergency was so reduc-
cd ss to be readily NJ naged, If not
exclusives by the ordinary revenues
Of the Government. vet with !; great
" reduced ,,tem of internal reve-
nues and i3r a limited time. But in
determining wherein such reduction
shall be iuit,le, two great interests of
the country are 20 be considered
First. The system of duties on to.
eign goods, wares, etc. FL
Second, our national banking sys-
tenn. sa1s - e
Il has been proposed to meet this
question of reduction BY lowering
the rates OF duty and thus 10 con-
tinue in tLis country indefinitely
the use Of ,lit.ct and Indirect taxa
ton, suppesing that such reduction
would require the prolonged contin-
nation of internal taxation.
The first elect of this would be to
increase the revenues, as lower du-1
ties would lead fora while,to increas-
ed importations !; but ultimately
these Increased importations would
destroy our manufacturers and im-
poverish the people 10 the point Of
inability to buy largely abroad, and
when tha, point would be reached
We should have no other source of
revenue than internal taxes upon an
impoverished people. At first tw.'
should havc more revenue than NE
need, but il tile end mueh less.
This statement OF the effect Of low
or duties may at first seem anomal-
Gus and questionable, but that such
would beIthe result is proven by the
effect on the revenues Of the coun-
try of the reduction in duties in the
tariff OF 1S46 below that Of 1912.
This will be evident from the Treas
.urv statistics oftlle years fS44, 1845.
1915, 1917, ees Which will show for
the latter yfars a large increase Of
revenues. a reduction OF duties
which wonld affect the ahllity Of
our manufacturers to compete with
foreign makers would cause q large
importation ofgoods, with two OBJ
jects first, to find d market, tho Of