The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-03
Opinions of Eminent Mon.

The following are the opinions of some of
Americas most eminent men on the tariff
question. Strange that they failed to see
and appreciate the great beauties of free
trade, as preached by modern tariff for rev.
enue only politicians:
ITO cultivate peace and maintain COM
meroe and navigation in all their lawful en-
terprises, to foster our fisheries, as nurseries
of navigation, and for the nurture of man,
and to protect manufactures adapted to our
circumstances-these are the landmarks by
which we are 10 guide ourselves.
GEORGE WASHINGTON"
1T will be worthy of their just and prov-
dent care (alluding to the two houses of con-
gress) TO make such alteration In the laws as
viii especially protect and foster the several
branches of manufacture.
PRESIDENT MADISON"
Every manufacturer encouraged in our
country makes part of a market for provis-
ions within ourselves, and saves SO much
money to this country as must otherwise be
exported for the manufactures he supplies.
Ben. FRANKLIN
IF were to select any term of seven
years since the adoption of the present con.
stitution which exhibited scene of the most
widespread dismay and desolation, il would
be exactly that term of seven years which
Immediately preceded the adoption of the
tariff of 1924" x "If the term of
seven years were to be selected of the great
est prosperity which this people have en-
ioyed since the establishment of their pres
ent constitution, it would be exactly that pc
Rod of seven years which Immediately fol-
lowed the passage of the tariff of 1924.
HENRY CLAY
g. II We 20 back to the history of the con-
stitution, we shall find that everywhere the
idea was held up that mechanic arts could
not advance, the condition of the common
country could not be carried up to any con-
siderable elevation, unless there should be
one government, to lay one rate of duty up
on imports throughout the union regard to
be lad in laying this duty, to the protection
OF American labor and industry. Without
tina. provision in the constitution it never
could have been adopted.
DANIEL WEBSTER.
A protective duty prevents agriculture
from being so overdone as TO render raw
material the only article OF export, and to
depress the price so low that, though the
people have rude abundance of food and
other necessaries they are deprived of most
Of the abundance and elegances of life; the
cost of commodities will be less than If the
duty had not been imposed; its general eff
feet is to stimulate invention, to multiply
the productive arts, and TO enlarge the
sources of national opulence.
PROF. FRANCIS Brown,
Harvard College,
1.-The assertion of England that protective
doctrines are opposed to the philosophical
and practical judgment of the present pc
Rod, is not to be believed, because England
is deeply interested in making the world &C
cept this fallacy. With her teeming and
starving, and now restless and disconnected
population, her very existence depends upon
keeping open the foreign outlets for her
manufactures, and receiving, at cheap rates,
the raw material of other nations. England
stands forth, not 50 much as the great ex-
emplar, but as the great prODdgdndtJ of
free trade. John l.. HAYES,
Cambridge, Mass
When nation fosters and protects its
own resources and interests through its ma
tional laws, it prospers. Ii the laws are so
framed "a TO give other nations the advan-
tage either through their superior skill,
cheap labor. or cheap and abundant capital,
it suffers. +. b. WARD, Detroit"
Z" | am i'll favor of the internal improve
ment system, and high protective tariff.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
" There is no way in which an alien can
be compelled TO compensate our nationality
for the high privilege of admission to our
domestic markets, except through duties on
imports. Only by the imposition of such
charges, made adequate TO the purpose, can
the unequal conditions of competition be
equalzed between the alien and the citizen,
meeting as rivals in trade upon our soil.
DAv1D.H. MASON, Chicago