Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-02-10
THE PROTECTIVE VIEW.
Louisville Commercial.

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4 Mr.. Sherman, in reply to Senator
/ Vance and others, said ; I'VE have
no more desire to impose bur-
4 dens on the people of the United
States than have Others" Mr..
| Carlisle, i'm the debate IN the House
attacking the protective system,
I said that the people demanded
what he demanded, and that
if it was not granted the Ie3pe
would do some terrible thing. The
! gist of the free trade speeches on
this tariff debate is embraced in
! what Mr.. Carlisle said and in VIII It !.
Mr. Sherman wasreplying TO. The
free traders assume that they are
the only representatives of mys-
ferrous entity which they call 1.-THE
! people, which is distinct from the
farmers, the mechanics, the factory
hands, the laboring classes, manu-
facturers and business men gener,
ally. So far as these people, are
identified in debate they seem to be
importers of foreign goods.
The advocates of the projections of
American labor and of the devel-
opnient of American Industries are
williag to abide by the verdict of
the people, but by the people they
mean all the voters of the United
States.and not any particular, mar
/ row, selfish or unprOggresSive class.
The theory of the advocates of the
protective system goes thus far and
no further: They bellevewhere we
have in our own land the raw materi-
ais from which any particular class of
goods is made, and all the natural
facilities for making them because |
the low wages which foreign manu-
lecturers pay to their laborers ena-
BILE them to undersell those who |
attempt the manufacture in this |
country, that before the foreign pro-
duct of such underpaid labor shall |
be sold i'm our markets duty shall !
be laid on it which will be e9uivo-
lent to the difference between the |
price paid for labor by the Aneri-
can manufacturer of the article and |
that paid by the foreign manufact- |
urer.
AS to the advantage of varying |
the industries of the country, SO |
that, to use homely simile, all |
our eggs may not be in the same |
basket, and so that for all the essen |
tials of convenient living and self
defence we may be independent of
the rest of the world, they hold |
with the founders of the Govern
ment, who. in the first Congress
under the Constitution, passed laws |
to promote the growth of Ameri- |
can manufactures by protective du- |
ties expressly in order that we |
might not be dependent on foreign |
countries and that our industries |
might be diversified. They did |
not think it well that we should be |
simply an agricultural nation like |
Turkey or Mexico, and neither do |
the protectionists ofthis day. They |
did not believe in tariff for reve-
nue. only, and neither do the |
friends of American PROCESS and |
American labor to-day. 4
AS Senator Sherman said, the |
protectionists have no more desire |
to impose burdens on the people |
of the United States than have 9TH |
ers. If the picture of the condition
of the people as drawn by the free |
trade orators and the organs of the |
New York importers was Il true one
if the protective policy was the SIM
pie policy of robbery of the many |
for the benefit of few lordly man
ufacturers, that free-trade journals |
declare it to be, the policy of pro-
lection would be at once disregarded, |
and all of its defenders be covered
with Obloquy and sent disgraced
into obscurity. That the free ira
ders and their organs do not be-
lieve all they say is proved by the
fact that the Senators and Repre-
sentatives who talk their talk are
consenting that the protective sys-
tenn shall continue for years to
come. If they tell the truth about
it, if they believe what they say,
they are criminal to consent to its
continuance day.
The defenders of protection are
willing to rest their case on the con-
dition of the people and of the
country. They are willing to
stand or fall by a comparison be
tween England and the United
States. There is no country on the
globe where the condition of all
classes of people is so good as in the
United States /; there is not now
and there never was in history a
country where the laboring man
has or had so comfortable or hope
full life as in the United States.
The defenders of the protective pol
icy maintain that the progress and
prosperity Of the country and the
comfort of the people has been and is
largely sdue to that policy. They
defend and uphold it as causing the
greatest good to the greatest num-
Der, and they deny and challenge
the proof that it is in the interest
nf hn fntx hnE ha
rich richer and the poor poorer.
There is no country in which the
rich become richer and the poor poor
er so rapidly, or have been so cOntin-
uOusly, as in free-trad England.
There is no country i'm which the
extremes of wealth and poverty are
this country are not held by man
and were not made out {
of industries protected by the tariff. t
They are held by successful gam ,
blers in stocks and Wreckers of rail- ,
roads, and were made on the stock ,
boards of Wall street and in the !
of railroads. There is a ,
class of eight by ten politicians and !
journalists who are too small-mind- /
ed to comprehend the great forces
anu lnleT6SlS IndL InuSt WOTk 10" G
gether to producegeneral prosperity. i.
there is depression in bus q
mess this class will be found ex- q
tolling and urging some patent n
remedy or riding some hobby i'm a
Tilt against imaginary giants. AT
Dne time it is the bondholder and
who are the spoilers, and
they must be drowned in. green
backs; again, it is the railroads :
who Cypress the country, and the 3
would hand them u
over to the Government or regu. y
late the minutest detail of their :,
business now it is protective tar ~
if to which they pretend to attrib- y
ate all evils This class of politi- 81
,ians cannot comprehend the COM (:
Dlex and independent elements -
hat go to make up our great in u
lustrial State. Their cOunsels are =
oily, and their leadership would a. a.
mean disaster. t r
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