The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-07-04
TIE ONO DEMOCRATIC PLAT
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TIE ONO DEMOCRATIC PLAT
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q NasAsiIk American.
The Democrats Of Ohio have sound
ell the KEY note en- the tariT. Nothing
could be more concise, no language
could be more explicit. There is moth
ing left in doubt The meaning is as
clear AID simple as the English Ian
guage can make it;f .L ~ al ~
a tariff Tor revenue, limited TO the
necessities OF the Government ecOnom-
icalIy administered. andsO adjusted IN
lis application as 10 prevent unequal
burdens, TO encourage productive IN
dustries al home, afford a just cSmpen-
satinn 20 labor, but not TO create or los
ter mouOpOlies. -...
Readers 81 the AmeFldER have seen
for a year and more the struggle the
free trad theories haYe made, and with
what per,Iuacity they have tried to
handicap tie Democratic party with
the issue Of tariff for revenue only"
So fierce have The few journals and
public men who claimed 10 lead the
Democracy been in their warfare on
any sort Of protection to home indus
tries, that many Democrats supposed
there had besn a bTeak somewhere IN
the lines, sudthat the National Demoe-
racy wcrc-a 5our to divide an the ,tariG
question.
The effort OF the American has been
y r. LOU
was not Democratic doctrine. We have
shown that &c meant one or two things
an r 2 rll0rcEa tariff, or IL il did not
mean Jais, that j., a duty on all import
cd goods alike, Il must mean that The
duty should be put On each article with
sole reference 70 revrnue, and that
what, yer tariff on tie article would
bring most revenue must be laid,
though il destroyed the home industry.
After iIe Keaiucky conventiou Tie
old music was Ne 40 new time, and
We have sdinethipg Ike The zeal Of new
converts crying for f'reform-T The
Little word 'ouly" seems % have gOt
misplaced in the excitement Of the blue
grass furry.
From the beginning OF this eOntrO-
vcrsy We have maintained that no more
revenue shsuld be collected-not one
doIlaT-than was sufficient 10 support
the Governmrnt economically adminis-
tsre !, but that "A levying this tariff,
cur home industries, as well rs Ameri-
can labcr, should be protected, and that
this should DC done b. SO adjusting the
tariff on the differeat articles imported
as 10 Afford this protecti0n.f frFf q
We have time and aEain asked the
tree trade or tarifT-fOr revenue only
Advocates Il. Lley- TecOgniked. or would
recognize Lie rfght to w. adjust the tar
in in levyiag il as 20 prOtsctshone in
dustries, and they have secuted all idea
of such discrimination or adjustment.
These gentlemen did not seem TO un-
derstand that the Democracy of Ohio,
Indiana, New Jersey, Connecticut, and
even New York, could not hope to carry
any Of those States on a platform that
made war ron the great multitude of
people engaged In The industrial pur-
suits which was to be destroyed BY
such a policy. Nor did they care to
know that the farmers in Ohio, Indi-
ana, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
would never submit to 4 policy which
destroyed their home market, for il IS a
fact, that, in all ne States where the
industries have been diversified, the
farmers are the most outspoken protec-
tiouists.
The Ohio platform ia a Settler"
The convention was the largest ever
known there. Every prominent Dem
ocrat in the State, If not. personally
present, was voiced by somebody, and
the result was The declaration, Let the
tariff be so ADJUSTED IN ms appiicatisn.
As to prevent suequal bnrders. eneonr-
age productive industries al h0ne and
afford a Just compensation 10 labor. }"
This Is all any reasonable Democrat
ought 10 want. 10 Is sound Democratic
doctrine the doctrine Of Washington,
Madison, Jefferson, Jackson and Polk )
il Is protection 10 American labor and
home industries and all this can be
done, as the platform indicates, without
creating unequal burdens.
The Ohio DeHlocracy are In dead
earnest. Theyfhave made 4 platform
that cannot ~ shaken. and tarifI
plank that wflIle specially hcceptable
TO the people Of Ohio. Some such
platform as this. Is the only one upon
which the National Democracy can
stand in 1884. IL wOaid he madness 20
hope for success otherwise. More than
this, this platform Is right right for
the Government right for the people
Of all classes right between man and
man. IL Is the policy which has made
us the greatest nation on earth, and 10
abandon IL now would be political sui
eide. In the name OF the Tennessee
Democracy, we thank the Ohio DemOc-