Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-11-27
PROTECTION vs. FREE TRADE.

Hduo ny lion. w III. -. htllcY OF
Pa, Hon. Justin Morrcll, the Oldest
Senator in the L. S. States, and
and others from different sections
of the country. The address of
Senator Morrill, is short, and
abounds with so much that is log
zeal and comprehensive that we
transfer it to our columns in full:
Mr.. Morrills Address.
81 came here to listen to my old
friend from Pennsylvania of thirty
years standing, and after his III.
structlve speech | think that you
must all be full and running over.
have been long suspected of being
somewhat in favor of a Protective
tariff and OF being a pretty staunch
Republican, and while it has been
my eiiJrt heretofore to always speak
what | believed, if it should run
contrary to some Of your views it
may be useful in creating "A little
eileIvescence IN your stOmachs not
to be regretted. | ought, perhaps,
to say that | feel almost as much
love and admiration Tor Massachu-
sctts rs one to the manor born. for
near here | found my wife, and she
claims Massachusetts as the State
OF her birth, aud here from 1924 to
1870 | found the great tariff au.
thority was Daniel Webster. the
authority not only in Massachu-
sets, where his name ought to be
immortal, but throughout the coun-
try. 1t may have been my misfor.
tune that ! have not had the later
guides and philosophers of some OF
your learned institutions, but
must frankly confess that while
have some respect for standard
English literature | have none
at all for the standard Eng
llsh political economy. Let
me say that Free Trade economy
may be good enough for Great
Britain, To- England, b, it don't
do anywhere else. 1t won't do
even for Ireland, and certainly not
for America. 1t may be that some
OF year learned professors, who are
sometimes politicians, are greater
men then were W ebster and Choate
or than are our HOar and Dawes,
but, beg your pardon, up in Yer.
mont we don't think so. They say,
however, that we must have reve.
nue. reform. Cui bOnOY For whose
benefit For they assert that il we
should reduce the tariff a good deal
lower we might collect the same
amount OF revenue. Suppose that
that were to be admitted, it is evi.
dent then that we should have to
import a much larger amount of
foreign merchandise and also
should have to furnish market
Tor a much less, cOrrespondlngly
less, amount Of American pro-
auctions. 1t strikes me that
the craftsmanship that only
seeks to create a market for
foreign productions is un. American
and IN my judgment the advocates
of that policy have a legitimate
claim upon the British Parliament
for their services. The Lowells,
the Appletons, the Lawrences, the
Lomans, and the BigelOws by plant.
ing manufactures on the sterile soil
Of Massachusetts-and they were
the contemporaries of such men as
Webster and ChOate and of honest
John Davis and OF Winthrop and
thus developing and multiplying
the employment OF your people,
giving every man of your State an
opportunity to do his best, have
secured its growth, Its prosperity
and its reputation the world over.
Without this policy the farms Of
Massachusetts today would not
bring onc-half of their present
valuation. 1t is through this policy
that the rich endOwmeuts OF your
colleges have taken place. 1t is by
this policy that you have estab.
llshed broadcast your common
schools. Without it One-half, more
than one.half, of the pulpits Of
your churches, and the church-gO-
ing bells would today be silent
Without this policy your State to-
day would not have One-fOurth Of
the present magnitude of its popu-
lation. And yet some of these
men, if they could carry out their
policy, if they could be successful,
IN my judgment, in a very short
time would be nothing but tramps
in the streets. The Protective
tariff is not a local question. Its
benelicencc touches the foot as well
as the hand, the heart as well as
the head Its example, the exam.
pie Of Massachusetts, may be as
safely folio yed in the Sou Jas in the
North, in Virginia and Georgia as
in Pennsylvania and New York, in
the States beyond the Mississippi
as well as in Illinois and Ohio. In
fact, our great wheat fields of the
West, unless they can find great
and steadfast home market, will
soon find that they have no attrac-
ton to emigrants for their magnf-
cent productions. a foreign mark.
ct is a will O the wisp. The only
sure props of our great Western
wheat and corn growing territories
are tariff and cheap transporta.
ton. Butitis said that we must have
revenue reform. And what is that
Why, it is a Mugwump grayitatiOn
downward toward Free Trade. The
effect of it will be, whether design
ed or not, to cheaper labor and TO
deprive labor of some of its present
comforts and ornaments. Its elect
will be to send more of our chill
drcn barefoot into the fields and in
to the workshops and fewer to the
common schools. may say that
the Free Traders would emasculate
the Declaration of Independence
they would not leave us enOgh
manhood to support anything
more than a government of the
police, not enough to enable us to
choose our own .ayOcatiOns."
A Terrible Death.