Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-03-15
Andrew jackson On The Tariff.


Again, We are not in favor OF a
tariff for revenue only. We do not
follow the new school of politicians
We adhere to the teachings of such
statesmen as Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, jackson Polk, who desired
protection to American industries
/ We could quote hundred passage.
IlfrOm their messages and other
State papers laying down their
views, but the following extract
from letter of jackson, April 26,
1924, while in the United States
Senate, where he voted against the
reduction of the duty On Iron, Cot
ton and Wooden Goods, very well
represents his and their views on
the subject of protection. Says Gen.
jackson:
"Heaven smiled upon us and
gave US liberty and independence.
That same Providence has blessed
us with the means of national indie
peudance and national defense. II
we omit or, refuse to use the gifts
which He has extended to US, we
deserve not the continuation of his
blessings. He has filled our noun
tains and our plains with minerals,
with lead, IRON, and copper-given
us climate and soil for the grow
ing of hemp and wool. These being
the grand materials of our national
defense, they ought to have extend
ed to them adequate and fair pro-
lection, that our manufactures and
laborers may be placed on fair
competition with those of Europe,
and that we may have within our
country supply Of those leading
and importantarticles so essential
to war. Beyond this [ look at the
tariff with an eye to the proper dis
tribution of labor and revenue, and
with view to discharge our nation
al debt. am one of those who do
not believe that a national debt is
national blessing, but rather curse
to a republic, inasmuch as it is
calculated to raise around the Ad-
ministrrtion a moneyed aristocracy
dangerous to the liberties of the
country. This tariff, / mean ju-
dicious one, possesses more fanciful
than real dangers. Where has
THE AMERICAN FARMER
a market for his surplus? Except
for cotton, he has neither a foreign
nor home market. Does not this
clearly prove that when there is no
market either at home or abroad
that there is too much labor en-
pIoyed in agriculture, and that the
channels of labor should be multi
piled 2, Common sense points out
at once the remedy. Draw from ag-
riculture the supera bundant labor,
employ it in mechanism and manu-
factures, thereby creating home
market for your breadstuff5 and dis
tributing labor to a most profitable
account, and benefits to the country
will result. Take from your agricult-
ure in the United States six hundred
thousand men, women and children
and you at once give home mar
ket for more breadstuff5 than all
Europe now furnishes us. In short,
sir, we have been too long subject
to the policy of the British mer-
chants. 1t is time we should be-
come little more Americanized,
and instead of feeding the paupers
and iaborers of Europe, feed our own;
or else In a short time, by continu-
ing our present policy, we shall all
be paupers ourselves. 1t is there
fore my opinion that careful tariff
is much wanted 10 pay our national
debt. and afford US the means of
that defense within ourselves on
which the safety and liberty of our
country depend; and last, though
not least, give proper distribution
to our labor, which must prove
beneficial to the happiness, inde-
pendence and wealth OF the commu-
nity." ~