Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-02-16
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PROTECTION OF AMERICAN IN.
DUSTRH.
A Notable Demonstration Against Free
Trade speeches by Mr.. EvRrts ana
President tsamlin.

Tuesday evening last, in the Cooper Union,
in New YORK, under the auspices of the
New York Association for the Protection OF
American Industry. The audience was
made up principally Of practical business
men and intelligent mechanics, while among
the distinguished citizens who are members
of the association, and who occupied seats on
the platform, were Peter Cooper, Gen. Grant,
VIM. f. Dodge, Gen James Watson Webb
Judge Noah Davis, Hon. William Walter
Phelps. Col lie Grand b. Cannon and many
others. The main speech of the evening was
by ex-Sccrciary VIM. NJ. Evarls. Among
other things be slid
VIZ. Evarts Speech.
Two things were determined by the late
election SO remarkable in their character, so
unmistakablc in their features -one was that
there was no longer Il subjugation of the sui
fragc to the management of the various par
ties, that if there was TO be any relation of
master and servant in those political meth
DDS, the people were to be the masters ard
the managers the servants. Applause. ]
Another was that cxactions were not TO be
made or persisted in at the expens. of the
people in the accumulation of revenue that
it might be expended in wasteful and profit
gate Jobs, and that lesson has been taught in
u way thai is not misunderstood.
Our people Lave not been satisfied with
knowing that there was to be reduction, as
it is called of taxation; they want to see
that that reduction is made in shape that
will benefit American labor, and not in one
that would help benefit British labor. No
doubt tn s. cunning masters OF the pu' lie IN
tcrcst who think they are 50 much wiser than
the laborinI men of this country, took it for
granted that the people, so long us taxes
were to lie reduced, would not mind much
how they were reduced, and they saw an OPP
poftunity to play Jungle with the foreign
duty system of this country undecided and
unresisted. But | have not observed that
anybody has been caught mapping, by this
expectation have not seen any enthusas-
tic meetings of American laboring men, under
the zeal Of reduced taxation, to encourage
our Congressman TO reduce American labor
to the level of British labor. do not see
why ANYBODY pretends that the American
laborers do not know on which side their
bread is bultered. This is not Il new
the acceptance by the people that
planted these colonies of the doc
doctrine that Il man is greater than his cir
cumstanccs-w what wonderful result from
the great Struggle for our independence, that
concluded that the people that lived over
here would rather work for their own advan.
tage, and in such ways as pleased them, than
to be rcgull,cd in their employment by the
revenue system of England, that made us
cOniinc Ourselves to catching fish ard tilling
land, and left them 10 do all the M chanlCa
and industrial labor for us and make us pay
our hardy toll at the tate of the product OF
, L.. nlgl, L.
went to war about that. and concluded that
we would have the making of ouI own rev.
enue system, and are we going to lay il
down now and have ii made for US by Eng.
land? | imagine not. Taxation without
representation is an old enemy of the Amcri
can people. and we mean that our foreign
revenue taxation shall be made by our Con
gressmen in the interests of the American
people aud not, either by blindness or ignor
ance or reckessucss set in current and d
rection that if persisted in would carry u!
back to the Old colonial condition. which We
have left behind us forever. Applause
From the very earliest times, continued
the speaker the sta csmen Of our country
recognized The fact that it was a hard strug
gle for US, though we had gained our polite
al independence and made our own laws Il
countcTact the laws which trade and capita
had been 50 tong building up against us il
the system OF taxation without representa-
ton OF the Il ili.h Empire AMI the Britist
people, chugriued, no doubt at tn. IS 81
their political control and of the LEGISLATION
that could shape our industries aid our Tor
eign commerce, determined that by the laws
of trade ii we were simple enough not t
exert the powers that we possessed to 70
shape and retrieve them, they would kccl
the same domination over our industries tina
tl,.,, hnl ,y g4l Inv 11 ipl
that was the beginning of the Ameiiaau s. S
tenn against the European. We went on st'u.
Cling along until the great connections in Eu
rope known as the Napoeonic wars led to a
attemptto sub)rdingte our remote aud peace
full condition 10 the cXigcncles OF the wa
taxes required by lhr nations in Europe. w
first took up to repel that coutiol of our rigl
to be nrutrals, the non-iutercoulse act, an
then our people by necessity were mad
manufacturers in humble way, but still i
way that threatened II persisted in, to TAX
from Great Britain her dominion over ou
industries What Unopened; Why, the
inundated this country with their manufat
lures quite reckless Of the question whctht
in the immediate Transaction they were t
reap point, but determined that they woul
nip in the bud these growing indcpendcI
interests of their best customer, the peop.e
the United States l nder this gigantic ehor
not by force but by trade, to sap our wealth
we were plunged in 1919 into the creates
bankruptcy that the union ever saw. The
we toilcd along and built up under the lea
ership OF Henry Clay and in the name Of Il
American system, an effort by the forclg
customs control u build up u system Of i
duslriCs protected against such foreign inv
sion and such spoliation-got our tariff
1924 aud 1928, and were getting along vel
nicely and came to 1889, and who 10 VI
suppose undertook to stop us them The i
terest Of slave labor, which actually ihrca
ened to rebel against the Government if Il
free laborcrs of the North were pro,ccte
while the slaves labor interest was restrict
in making the best bargain it could in t