Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-09-18

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Total =. 15e
every member of Congress was present
1t was one of the fullest party votes eveI
taken ON any measure. Both parties raj
lied their utmost strength All the alb
sentees from both parties were called to
Washington for this most important
contest of the entire session of Congress
1t was no child's play 1t was the most
serious business of the Nations Congress
watched alike by the American people
and by every civilized Government in the
world.
When the tariff bill of 1888, which re-
duced the wool tariff. was before the u
s. Senate, Senator Sherman offered an
amendment placing the wool tariff where
the Republicans put it in 1867; all the
Democratic Senators, except three, voted
against Sherman's amendment.
In August 1882, Senator Bayard, of
Delaware, one of the leading Democrats
of the country, offered 4 resolution redu
cling the wool tariff one-third less than it
is now, and in speech in support of the
resolution he declared that it was only a
step toward repeating the whole of the
wool tariff. Every Democratic Senator,
except one, voted for that resolution.
George II. Pendleton, Democratic Sena-
tor from Ohio, voted for Bryard's reso
luton.
George L. Converse. Democratic Rep
resentative from the Columbus, Ohio,
District, was staunch friend of the
wool tariff, but at the Convention few
weeks ago in his District. he was defeat
ed and free trader nominated in his
place.
| Likewise, Frank Hurd, of the Toledo
District, a pronounced free trader, who
declared in favor of repeating the whole
wool tariff. was nominated, few days
ago, for congress. by a Democratic con
ventiOn, by acclamation.
The spirit and tendency of the Demo
cratic party is toward free trade. Look
at the declarations of their platforms:
DEMOCRATIC TARIFF RESOLUTIONS.
In 184S, they Resolved, That the fruits
of the great triumph of 1874, which
elected James K. Polk President, have
fulfilled the hopes of the Democracy of
the Union in the noble impulse given to
the cause of free trade by the repeal of
the tariff of lS42."
In 1856, they "Resolved, Thatthere are
questions connected with the foreign pol
icy of this country which are inferior to
DO domestic questions. The time has
come for the people of the United States
to declare in favor of free seas. and pro-
gressive free trade throughout the
world"
In 1850. the above platform of 1856
was re-atfirmed.
In 1868 they said: I'VE denounce the
present tariff as masterpieces of iDjus-
tice. inequality and false pretense, and
we demand that all custom house taxa
ton shall be only for revenue"
In 1SS they demanded "a tariff for
revenue only"
In 1884 they demand that federal tax
alton shall be exclusively for public pur
poses"
On the other hand, read the declara-
tions of the Republican party, which
show thrt the party is in favor of pro-
lection to American industry.
REPUBLICAN TARIFF RESOLUTIONS.
In 1860 they said that while provid
ing revenue for the support of the gov
eminent by duties on imports, sound pol
icy requires SUCH IN adjustment as to en-
courage the developm Mt of the industri
al interests of the who.e country which
secures to the workiDgmen liberal wages,
10 agriculture remunarative prices, and
to the nation prosperity and independ-
ence"
In 1872 they said: The annual revenue,
except so much as may be derived from
tax on liquor and tobacco, should be
raised by duties on imports, which should
be SD adjusted as to secure remunerative
wages to labor and promote the indus
tries and prosperity of the whole cOun-
try"
ID 1876 they said: THE necessary rev.
enue must be largely derived from du-
ties on imports, which should be adjusted
to promote the industries of American
labor and the prosperity of the whole
country"
In 1880 they said: "We re-affirm the
belief avowed in 1876 that the duties
levied for the purpose of revenue should
so discriminate as To favor American Ia
bor."
Custom house taxation" and federal
taxation" and duties on imports. as
used in the Democratic platform all mean
the same thins,and they all mean simply
tariff.
The Democratic platform of this year
does not say word about the wool tar
if, but the Republican platform says:
1T is the first duty of good govern
ment to protect the rights and promote
the interests of its own people. The |
largest diversity of industry Is most pro-
ductive of general prosperity and of the |
comfort ard independence of the people. |
We therefore demand that the imposi-
ton of duties ON foreign imports |
shall be made, not "for revenue on
ly," but that in raising the requi- |
site revenues for the Government, such |
duties shall be so levied as to afford Sc
curity to our diversified industaies and
protection to the rights and wages of
the labOrer, to the end that active and |
intelligent labor, as well as capital, may |
have its Just reward, and the labOring |
man his full share in the National pros |
perity.
"Again>t n" -'rl,rd economic sys-
TEN of the DtnOcId.rc party, which |
would degrade our labor To the foreign |
standard. we enter our earnest protest |
The Democratic party have failed com
pletely to relieve the people of the burt
den of unnecessary taxation by wise
reduction of the surplus. The Republic
can party pledges itself to correct the
inequalities OF the tariff and to reduce
the surplus, not by the vicious and indis-
criminate process of horizontal reduc
ton, but by such methods rs will relieve
the taxpayer without ipinring the labor
or or the great productive interests Of
tee country.
I'VE recognize the Importance OF sheep
husbandry In the United States, the Sc
rious depression which is now expsrien