The Portland daily press., 1883-08-03
II FL Il p r e 8 8.
FRIDAY MORNING, AUG. 8.
Some Tariff Points.

[From Professor Denslow's speech in debate with
Professor Summer in Chieago.l
Professor Sumner says the tariff can pro-
tect us because it is collected at the sea-board.
As well say forts at the sea-board can't protect
us, but that to equalize military protection we
must have as big fort at every country seat as
we have at New York Harbor. 'Tisn't true.
America has 81, 100000 of customers 1t is the
most valuable single market the world has
ever known, because, under protection, the ac-
tivity Of production has blessed us with greater
means to buy with. We are the best-housed,
best-dressed, best-fed, best-educated, best-man-
nered and best-looking race of men and women
on earth. AffordDg, therefore, the worlds
best market to the extent of 100000 of PEG
pie, we say give this market to our producers
and they can produce cheapy But let in for
eigners to supply half of this market and ev-
erything will be dear. 1t is the extent OF our
home production that will bring cheapness.
Foreign production never will. Professor Sum
ner proposes that we steal from each other all
night, and asks how much more wealth we
should have in this room tomorrow morning.
answer, we should have just as much to
cent as If we traded with each other freely all
night. Mr.. Sumner claims that Congressman
don't understand usiness very well, and that
we wouldn't take many shares of stock in a
company in which Congressman were directors.
think company OF that kind would continue
to flicker long time after stock company
got up by college professors had gone ont. He
says he is taxed TO sustain the Wilimantic
Thread Company. That depends on whether
cotton thread is dearer since it comes to be
made III the United States. The fact is it is
cents cheaper on every SPOOL Hence he is not
taxed. But Yale College has large property
exempt under the laws of Connecticut from
State taxation. To make up for this exemp-
ton the Willimantic Thread Company is taxed
I-fx~1 IS DAT ..wtc .fxn.
died college steal.
From article by Judge West in the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazettel
II have my individual convictions as regards
protective policy. We have over $4,000 900
OF population, and the last census showed that
OF these less than 100000 were employed in
industrial pursuits A little over 100000
were engaged in manufacturing and mechani-
Cal pursuits. These people must be fed and
clothed, educated, given the comforts of life If
possible, but fed and clothed they must be.
There are but three sources by which to accom-
plish this-by their own labor, by the contribu-
tons Of charity, and by the poor rates. The
latter two methods are repugnant TO American
manhood and individual independence, but
they can only be fed when employment is fur
nished them. 1t is impossible for the Govern
ment to directly furnish such employment
but it can so far adjust and regulate its COM
mercial intercourse with foreign countries and
its own industrial policies as to encourage indi-
vidual enterprise and capital TO furnish this
employment by relieving 1t from international
competition. Our industrial classes cannot
look to foreign nations for aid or employment.
They are forced tolook exclusively to their own
country for that. Adopting such commercial
r.rlio will ra1iava lQh0rinU rlaSSQc from
international competition, they will have moth
ing to contend with but domestic competition.
have said that these classes are with as, and
they must be fed aud clothed. 1t is thous-
and times better that they be encouraged by
employment than that they be sustained by
charities 1t is thousand times better that /,
a consumer, should pay little more for the
commodities buy that these classes be main
tanned in independence, than that buy where
cheapest aud sell where dearest, thus placing
my countrymen in humiliating condition of
dependence and poverty. On this issue regard
the platform and policy of the Democratic
party as destructive OF the common welfare.
1t proposes to favor tariff adequate TO the
necessities Of Government economically adj
ministered, without encouraging monopoly.
What the meaning of this iugglery may be is
impossible to say. A monopoly of the Ameri-
Can market, so far as it consumes the product
of American industry, is demanded by our la
boring classes, for whose welfare, if the govern
ment has any regard for them, it should be Sc
cured. The monopoly of the American mar
ket for the American laborer is the broad plat
form on which the Republican party stands.