The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-04-18
CANTON OHIO WEDNESDAY, APRIL H. 1883


mill owners and manufacturers Of the
country, whose large interests have
grown mp since 1851, fancy that they
cannot live without protection, and will
doubtless, therefore, fight desperately to
maintain IL. This difficulty must not
be underrsted, nor must what we call
the vested rights" Of these mill own
era and manufacturers with reasonable
limits be disregarded. But in the first
place, these vested rights" are In no
immediate danger Of Injury. Suppose
we adopt the Democratic tariff Of 1846;
1t cannot we'll go into effect before 1885,
and In those three years all needed
changes can easily be made by these ves-
ted Interests. In the next place any
tariff levied for revenue only, which
must provide and put into the Treasury
q sum Of money sufficient to meet the
legitimate expenditures Of our Federal
Government, must afford for a long time
to come ample incidental protection to
all fair and honest vested interests.
Mr.. John Sherman Is thought, believe,
at all events by prOtectiOnists in Illi-
nois, q good authority on tariff ques-
ti0ns. Anybody who will turn to q
speech made by John Sherman In the
Senate on January %, 1857, will see that
after admitting that the first tariff bill
adopted by Congress only levied an av-
erage duty Of 10 per cent. and that un-
der the Democratic free trade tariff of
ds40 over an T'rSge SsE sSs{ seS{ Tas S sSSd sSS
man went on to say: "EVery
duty on imported merchandise
gives to the domestic manufacturer an
advantage equal to the duty, and to that
extent every tariff Is q protective tariff.
When the duty is so high as to prevent
importation Il ceases to be tariff and
becomes Commercial regulation. 1t Is
therefore simply absurd to talk about
free. trade tariff, and to talk about pro-
tective tsriffi Is unnecessary, because the
wit Of man could not possibly frame a
a tariff which would produce $40, 900, 600
In gold without amply protecting our
This was said BY John Sherman in 1857,
when the receipts from our customs
were over one hundred and seVenty-six
million dollars, so the people OF this
country then gave $50, ,000, 600 year of
their money to manufacturers and mill.
owners beyond what Mr.. John Sherman
himself admitted to be an ample pFOtec-
tion. In 1873 our customs revenue
to over $188, 100000 and in
1882 1t amounted to over $198, 100000.
II the Democratic Congress next winter
remits all taxation on all domestic
as tobacco and spirits, back
to the several States, we must still raise
through the custom houses In 1886 mil
lions Of dollars more than the amount
which Mr.. Sherman tells us would give
ample protection to our domestic in
dustry and to all vested interests.
Let the Democratic press, then, deal
with this great question Of Revenue Re-
form as a question Of the news of the
day. Grapple with 1t, pour all possible
light upon, give It the fullest and freest
IN all its bearings. From
this discussion no honest interest
In the United States has anything to
fear; from this discussion the Demo-
cratic press and the Democratic party
have everything to hope.
LETTER FROM Mr.. JEFFERSON.
Mr.. Hurlbut presented the club the
subiOined autograph letter Of Thomas
Jefferson, never before published:
PHILADELPHIA, March "a, 1888.
DEAR SIR: The delegates are sending
an express to Virginia with intelligence
know whether they will have leisure to
drop line to you, will undertake to
to you the general tenor.
A vessel arrived here this morning,
express from CadiE, with dispatches
from Count de Estaing and the Marquis
Lafayette, announcing that the prelimi-
naries Of peace were settled between all
the belligerent powers In January. Not
having their extracts from the articles
before me, cannot give you a minute
detail OF them. Their general effect,
however. as to territorial changes pro-
dueed by the war, Is that the thirteen
nHaok nrit tnI
the ,Floridas and Minorca ceded to
Spain, TObago and AiguelOn to France,
and the French part Of the NewfOund-
land coast to Great Britain. There may
be some changes In the East Indies
which my recollection does not suggest,
but they are trifing; IL any. This Ves-
sci was sent on the rare possibility that
she might arrive sooner than the one
from Brest, which we may hourly ex-
peet with the authenticate instruments.
Peace being made, there Is no further
occasion for Deacemakers. l shall, there
fore, leave the city In few days, but am
not certain whether may not pay q
visit tOI Gen. Washington at headQuRr-
ters before set my face southwardly.
beg leave TO present my respects to
Mrs. Pendleton, and to assure you Of the
/ am, dear sir, your friend and servant.
TH. JEFFERSON.
The letter is addressed to the Hon.
Edmund Pendleton, to be left at the
Bow ling Green, Caroline.
COL. BRBcKINRIDGE ON MANIFEST
DESTINY"
Col. W. G. P. Breekinridge, Kentucky,
to the toast, manifest Des-
tiny" and gave the following glowing
peToration:
We celebrate the natal day of one who
was neither soldier, orator, poet, artist
nor divine. No sect Is called by his
name; no graves or blood stains sanctify
his triumphs; no listening crowds were
driven into acts Of heroism by the won
drous power Of his speech; no songs of
his cheer thS cottage Of the humble, or
illuminate The closet Of culture; nor did
he add picture or bust or monumental
pile to the treasures OF mankind. Yet
he wears q deathless name. In the
presence Of orators whose eloquence was
never surpassed, BY the very side Of the
matchless Patrick Henry, the freeman
Of orators and the orator Of freemen,
this silent man stands conspicuous. In
an era which gave Washington to free
dom and Bonaparte to glory, this sword
less man achieved Immortality. For a
hundred years songs Of the free have
been sweeter and happier because of
him, and at the symposium Of the gifted
he would sit an equal and hOnOred guest
u5hn Lava raIf.fono do In uof