The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-07-07

makes protection the object, and revenue
the mere incident. This has been illus
trated by the tariff adopted and advocated
by the present republican party in con
gress, producing annually from one hun
dred to one hundred and fifty million dol
lars more than was required for the expen
ditures of the government, thus showing
protection to be the mere object and rev.
enue to be Incidental merely.
2. A tariff for revenue with incidental
protection, is that which makes revenue
the object, but in which protecting home
industries is made merely resulting Incl
dent. This, limited to the necessities OF
the government, and adjusted in its details
with reference to equality IN the public
burdens and also with view TO foster
and protect American industries and labor
by proper Determinations, Is, and has
ever been the Democratic revenue system
Tor the support of the federal government
3. "A tariff for revenue only" Is u new
phrase, introduced clandestineIy, and
adopted by inadvertence IN the Democratic
platform of 1880. The special signiti
canoe Of this form of expression was to
exclude or preclude the idea of, or atten
ton to incidental encouragement to home
productive industry. And the most pal.
pable objection to il has been found in the
fact that 1t afforded the Republican leaders
an opportunity OF perverting and misre-
presenting the true and actual position of
the Democracy on the tariff question.
4. Free trade. This, if IL means what
it says, would require the support of the
federal government by direct taxation,
which the people are opposed TO. The
foreign productions, including the impor.
tiers and vendors Of articles of foreign pro.
duction, would favor direct taxation. But
the great body of the people are against it,
II free trade as revenue policy does not
mean this, then it Is al equlvocsl and
cabalistic phrase, calculated to deceive and
mislcad, and is especially Objectionable as
giving to political opponents an Opportu.
NIFTY Of disappearing the position of the
Democracy on the tariff question.
These distinctions seem 10 be essential
to a correct understanding of the subject
The protective tariff, or as 1t is sometimes
called, the high protective tariff, is unde
niably the system of the Republican party.
Protection being the object and not the IN
Cident the amount OF revenue is not pro.
portioned or limited to the wants, or
amount, needed for the expenditures of
the government Here is the distinction
between the present Republican party and
that of the Democratic party. That IL, the
tariff system of the former is high pro-
tective tariff, making protection Its object,
and revenue the simple incident, and
sometimes the mere casual incident. For
as to some articles the duty they levy Is so
great as to be prohlbltory; that is, to ex.
Clude the foreign articles from all chance
of competition in our own markets Aud
it is matter Of public notoriety that the
leaders of the opposition to the Democracy
have, for over fifty years past, labored TO
enlarge the expenditures Of the federal
government as much as possible for the
purpose of furnishing occasion tor high
protective tariff, thereby creating monopo-
lies and giving unjust advantages to the
few over the many. On the contrary the
tariff system of the Democracy has differed
from that of the opposing party IN the fol.
lowing particulars, to.wlt:
/. Revenue is its object, as so far as
protection is afforded 1t is simply an Incl.
dent to determinations made from consd.
of import upon which the duty Is laid.
2. The revenue is limited to the ncces.
sary wants of the government economical
ly administered.
3, The duties imposed with reference
to equality in the public burdens, and the
encouragement OF productive industry in
all its branches 20 far rs can be done with.
out creating monop0lies.
These differences between the protective
tariff OF the Republican party, are funda-
mental, and clearly marked IN the legIsla
ton OF congress Tor many years. .imeri-
can Register.
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