Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-03-14
THE OLD TIME DEMOCRACY.

1t should make very little difference to
is in 1884 what tariff principles the old
lime Democracy of 1880 held. unless the
railroads, telegraphs, steamships, machi-
merry for mining engineering. and improved
agricultural implements were wiped out
and the co untry was put back where it
was fifty years ago. Every party must
move along with The times. 1t must either
acquire new principles or enlarge the old,
to keep pace with the growth of the coun
Try. Still, there are a good many Demo
Gratis who think they have ma lie an argu-
nent when at this day they say that tn
old Democratic Free trade and sailors
lights" Is good enough for them. They
substitute Hong past campaign cry for
he history of the party which at one time
used it. Here is some of the "old time''
D.mocratic doctrine for their perusal:
inaugural address OF Thomas Jefferson, Deem
d l bar, 1861
THE suppression of unnecessary offices,
If useless establishments and eXpens, s.
enables US to discontinue our internal
taxes. These covering our land with off
,ions, had already beg I'm that process IF
iomlcillary vtXatIon, which. once entered,
IS scarcely to be restrained from reaching
Excessively every article of produce and
property. The remaining revenue, On the
consumption of foreign articles, is paid
chiefly by those who can afford to add
foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, be-
ing collected on our seaboard and frontiers
only, and incorporated with the transac-
tions of our mercantile citlZens, it may b-
the pleasure and the pride of an American
to ask, what farmer, what mechanic, what
iabDrer ever sees a taXgatherer of the
United States These contributions ena
ole us TO support the current expenses OF
the Govern nent, to fu fill contracts with
foreign nations, to extinguish the native
right of soil within our limits, to extend
those limits, and to apply such surplus
to our public debts as places at a short day
their final redemption, aud that Iedemp-
tion once effected the revenue thereby
liberated may, by a just repartitIon among
the States. and by corresponding amend
mept of the Constitution, be applied to
rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures,
education aud other great objects within
each State"
message of Andrew Jackson to Congress,
r,r December. 1901 N7s "a
L H0 power TO impose duties on imports
originally belonged to the several States.
The right to adjust those duties, with
view to the encouragement of domestic
branches of industry, is SO Completely IN
cidental to that power that it is difficult
to suppose the existence of the one with
but the other. The States have dele ated
their whole authority over imports to the
general Government without limitation
or Iestrlction. This authority having thus
entirely passed from the States. the right
to exercise it TO. the purpose of protection
does not exist in them, and, consequently
# it be not possessed by the gener Gov
eminent it must be extinct. Our political
system would thus present the anomaly of
people stripped of The right to foster
their own industry, and to counterfeit the
most selfish and destructive policy which
might be adop. ed by foreign nations
This, surely, cannot be the case This
indispensable power, thus surrendered by
the States, must be within the scope of the
authority expressly delegated tn Congress
I'm this conclusion ] am confirmed as
we'll by the opinions of Presidents Wash
lngton, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe,
who have each repeatedly recommended
the exercise of this right under the Con
stitution, as by the uniform practice of
Congress, the continued acqulescence of
the StatpS and the ppnpra1 updprsfan5ino