Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-14
PRESIDENT GRANT.


p Bi:sHf Gran, Annual Message, De-
cfm5aT, 1874 Those articles which eate!
into oHT nRGufGctIreS, sad S.e not o.
du2ad 81 home, i. seems to ms, should be
ehTered free. These articles Of m2nufAc
lure which We produce constituent
psrt Of, bHt DO no! produce the Wh?le,
that pSrt which we do n0tproduce should
De entered free also. l VIII iEerarce fle
woods, d7es, etc. These articles mus. be
imported TO form part e fIe mauUfIc-
ture OF the higher grade of WOODEN goods
Chemicals Esed as dyes, compounded in
medicines and used ia various wsys IN
manufactures, coma under this class.
Tia Introduction, free of duty, OF such
Hools as We do not produce would stimu
late tbs manufacture CT goods requiring
the Use Of those we do pro-
duCe, and therefore would be e
oenei. % home production, There ara
mcby articles tering into "home manu-
isct1resm for which we do not produce
oRIselves, the tariff upon which increases
tbs cost Of producing the manufactured
article. AL the corrections in thse regard
are in the direction Of bringing lsoor sad
capital il hErnony With esCh other, snd
Of supplying one OF the elements Of Pros
perity go much needed.
President Grant, am ual message, De-
oamosr. ls75-MgnY duties now col
iected, sad WSich giv5 but 81 insignificant
return Tor the cost OF collection, might be
RENTED, and TO the direct sdvsntsge of
consumers at'hoRe. l would mention
those articles which enter into msuutac-
lures Of all sGfts. All drty oGid upon
such Grticleg goes directly to the cost OF
the article When manufactured here, and
must ba paid TOR by the consumers. The
duties not only core from. the consumers,
At hcns, bat ss& SO proPe!icn to foreign
nanufsctures OF tbs same com !eted fy-
ticles in cur cwn sDd distspt markets.
=. PREsIDErn GARFIELp. -,
James 4. g. risld, Msy is, IS72-And
know, Moreover, that for nearly two
years the Wholesale price OF American
salts in Toronto, CsnGds, wss 3 dollsr
lover per barrel Than the same salt WAS
selling for on The Nsw YORK
side OF the lake. That is,
We produced it, shipped It across, paying
whatever pOrtsge, freight GEd transpor.
sstion were required, and tnen sold 1t to
our Canadian neiglbors at a doIlsr ger
barrel less than II vas sold 10 people on
our shores Certainly gentlemen will not
want s duty continued that ensbies that
thing TO be dore.
James A Garfield, July IS, s1s68-Un-
less tbs tArif men take hEed, unless they
consent 10 8 rational and Coas!derats cd
Iusiment Of the tariff such ss only can be
made bT the full light that careful sts-
ust,cal udY Ct the subjalt will hrIpg, l
fear from them more than from any other
source, sreactiop which vii bring US By
and By into free trsde Snd sll It's couse-
quaGces OF EVIL 10 the manufacturing in
.eres.s OF She country.
desire to say thai, in nv Judgment, it
IS not the best mode OF defending tariff
to denounCe every man who does not
pronounce tie snib3oleth after our
issdion IS sn enemy CT the tariff
Jzmes A. GaTf5ld, April I, I870-Duties
should be 80 high th2y cur manufacturers
can iSirly compete with the foreign pro.
duct, bat rot so high IS 10 enable shem
20 drive cut the foreign article, erioy
monopoly ot the trade ard resullse tie
prices IS they please. This is my doc
trine OF protection. II Congress pursued
this line Of policy steadily we shall, yeSr
0y year, spprsach more nearly to the
basis OF free trade, because We shall be
more nearly able to egmpste Wi!9 other