The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-20

Democrats in tho House friendly TO thi
n bill. Cleveland's message against pro
lection advocating the retention OF in
+, ternal taxes and that raw materials b'
:. placed on the free list, and declaring
8 that "our present tariff laws, the vicious
n ineqHitabIe and illogical source OF un
= Just taxation, should be 2t once revised
e fand amended" and the Mills bill which
places on the free list one.sixth Of the
J, present dutiAble articles, constitute
briefly the record OF the Democratic
a party on protection and the tariff qUes'
ton since 1878. This record covers q
, period OF forty years and speaks for it.
self. In its face, the President declares
: he and his party are not engaged in any
: free trade crusade and many Democrats
deny they favor free trade, attempting
, to justify 4.
THEIR ATTACK on PROTECTION
J by saying it is only slight reduction in
the rate OF duty. No other President OF
the United States ever pronounced so
boldly against Protection and in favor OF
Free Trade as Cleveland. A party must
be judged hy its public acts and the
declarations OF its leaders. In the light
OF these, ior forty years the Democratic
party must be set down US opposed to
Protection and favoring Free Trade. 1t
is not claimed that all Democrats arc
opposed TO Protection and favor Free
Trade. There were many Democrats
during the war loyal to the Union. They
served their country well in the army
and in Congress. Wherever these
patriots, heroes and statesmen survive
they are now for protection, and, with
many other Democrats, though in the
minority, are found fighting against Free
Trade and in favor OF American indus.
tries and interests everywhere.
1t is sufficient to say the Republican
party has been the party OF protection.
Our ability as nation to raise means to
carry on the war, arm and equip our
soldiers, build iron ships, and fight the
war to successful conclusion aud save
the Union, was due almost entirely to
our protective tariff acts before and dur
ing the war. All owe
DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO PROTECTION
for these results, Democrats as well as
Republicans. Listen to the words Of
Jackson, one OF the great fathers OF pure
Democracy, on the subject OF Protection |
as n means OF national defence. In 1924,
he said:
you ask me my opinion on the tariff.
answer that lam in favor OF judicious
examination aud revision OF it; and so
far rs the tariff before us embraces the
design OF fostering, protecting and pre-
serving within ourselves the means OF
national defence and independence,
particularly y in state OF war, would
advocate and support it. The expert
ence OF the late war ought to teach us 4
lesson, and one never 10 be forgotten.
"Takc from agriculture in the United
States 100000 men, women and children
and you ate once give home mar
ket for more breadstuils than all Europe
now furnishes us. In short, sir, We
have been too long subject to the policy
OF British merchants. 1t is time We
should become little more American
lied and, instead of feeding the paupers
and laborers OF Europe feed our own, or
else, in short time, by continuing our
present policy, we shall all be paupers
ourselves"
at is therefore 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, independcnceand wealth
OF the community"
Hear the testimony OF another Demo.
crat, General Richard Taylor, on Free
Trade and what it might have accom-
plishcd:
ave (the South made two great mis-.
takes. Had we avoided them, we would
have conquered you (the North. The
first was that we did not substantially
destroy the Protective features OF the
tariff in the winter of 1857 and 1853, by
an act which provided by rapid sliding
scale to Free Trade. AS Democratic
measure, We could have passed such
law and held it tight on You till it closed
the furnaces and workshops, WOODEN and
cotton mills, and steel and bar iron
works OF the whole Northand West, and
scattered your wor&men over the prair-
les and Territories. When the war was
ready for you, you would not have been
ready for the war. You could not hnve
been armed and equipped, nor have put
in the field large army, nor built
navy. You womb have been without
supplies, machinery and workmen and
YOU would have been without money
and credit. Our second mistake was in
withdrawing our Senators and Repre-
sentatives from your Congress"
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS CONSTANTLY
FAVORED REDUCTION OF TAXES WHEN
NECESSARY.
While the Republican party has been
the party OF Protection, and stood for +
American industries and American in
terests, yet it has constantly, when in
power and whenever consistent with the
needs sof the Government, reduced taxes.
Since the war the Republicans, when
in control OF both Houses OF Congress
and the Executive, passed Twelve acts,
reducing the duties on foreign goods
and products, and three reducing the in
ternal taxes. In 1865 duties amounting |
to Sl04,3l0,G0G were repealed. Since
1866, during the eleven years they have
had control OF the House, taxes have
been reduced SSS9, 100000, S7S,0O0,000 OF
which came from putting coffee aud tea
on the free list, and other notifications
of the tariff, and S204.000,000 from re-
ducing the internal taxes. During the
eleven years the Democrats had control
they reduced taxes hout$G, 100000. The
policy OF the Republican party has al'
ways been to reduce taxes whenever it
could be done and maintain protection
to place on the free list from time to
time such articles and products as could
not be or are not produced in the United
States-tbe Don.competing articles-and
| levy taxes on competing articles, or
such articles and products us arc made
in the United States, and also made in
foreign countries and brought here TO
be sold in competition with home pro-
ducts. This broad principle has been
adhered to in the recent Senate tarltf
bill, brought forward by Republicans,
as substitute for the Mills bill.
The Democratic party, led by the rresi'
dent, seeks to reduce taxes by maintain
;n1 intnrnOl tnxnq ADMITTING raw mate.