The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-01-26

t0l1R 1OI the CITY.
TarlR OF 1894.
On the assembling of congress De-
cembef, 1928, the absorbing topic OF /
the DAY in congress and out was the |
disastrous result to the business inter- |
ests of the country following the low
tariff of 1916. That act had protected |
few important manufacturers and af- |
forded but insignificant encourage |
ment to domestic industries. 1t had |
left the supplying of American mar |
ketS TO foreign merchants, resulting in |
the most widespread and biightlng
financial disaster encountered by any
nation of modern times. The foreign |
demand for agricultural products. ex-
cept for cotton, rice and tobacco. had
ceased. The destruction OF home |
manufactures had destroyed home
market for agricultural products, and
paralyZed labor. Public meetings were
held everywhere and petitions by the
people and legislatures were addressed
TO congress demanding relief from the
universal stagnation.
The farmers of that day were wise
enough to see that the only sure road
to prosperity was in widening the
scope and multiplying the number and
variety of home Industries, furnishing
employment for the largest possible
number of the people at fair wages
who should become food consumers in
stead of food producers.
Actual experience had demonstrated
that under no condition would foreign
nations receive American food products
in exchange for their manufactured
goods to any greater extent than nee
essary to supply the deficiency in their
home supply.
Foreign nations would receive in ex-
change nothing beyond the actual
wants, except the raw material, es-
sential to their manufacture. And
these they purchased at their own
prices, and returned in manufactured
goods with the added costs of costly
transportation, the capital and labor OF
their own people expended, and the ad-
ditional costs of grasping greed OF mer-
chants selling in a field without COM
petition.
The American farmers reasoned that
home manufacturers would insure
home markets both for food products
and raw material.
The grain producing states de-
manded such change in the tariff as
should furnish protection to home en-
| terprises and the employment OF labor
and capital in the widest possible di-
yersifed industries. They argued that
while a foreign market was desirable a
| home market would be more stable
and of vastly more Importance
| to the nations prosperity. They had
| found thatif there were no markets
| for their own products they could not
buy foreign goods at any price; but
| with home industries developed and
labor employed a market was sure, and
| that it were better to buy domestic IA
| brics at a nominally higher price than
to buy the foreign at a lower price, Tor
which they had no means OF paying;
The cotton states opposed any radical
measures. They had q foreign market
for their products apparently, an I'M
limited area of lands suited to thelI
productions. with slave labor to clear
away the forests and till the soil.
They had no sympathy with the suffer
ing Of free labor in the northern states.
| The friends Of protection triumphed,
and the tariff Of 1924, avowedly pro
tectiye in its character, was passed.
The effect of this act was general
prosperity, and every material interest
Of the country began Immediately to
improve Calhoun views had under
gone radical change, and on this dl-
Viding line and the slavery question
grew up the notification acts OF the
south, and the origin and birth of the
democratic party, which, from its birth
was opposed to the protection OF Amerl
can industries, the advocate OF slavery
1
as defined by Calhoun. AS General
Jackson was candidate for the Pres
idency against John Quincy Adams
at this period, and as the free trade
democracy claim him as its great apos
tie it will be well to insert extract:
from his letter to DR.. Coleman O.
, April 18th 1924. Says Jackson. OF
ask my opinion Of the tariff. l am II
favor of judiciou5 examination ane
Il 3 tn Fsl1 &C "a
before us has the design of fostering
protecting, and preserving within our
, selves the means of national defens'
/. and Independence. The experience o.
the late war ought to teach us a les
, SON, and one never to be forgotten
If our liberties and republican form
of government procured forus by oul
; revolutionary fathers are worth TIT
blood and treasure at which they Wert
obtained it is surely our duty to pro
tect and defend them. HEAVIER
/, smiled upon us and gave us Hbert,
and independence. The same proyl
depce has blessed us with the mean
of national defense. He has file,
. our mountains and plains with miner
als-with lead, iron and cope
and given US climate an.
: soil for the growing of hemp and wool
!. | These being the grand materials o
? our national defense they ought e
, have extended to these adequate an
fair protection, that our own manufaC
tories and laborers may be placed on
fair competition with those of Europe
and that we may have within GU
3 country supply OF those leading an
. important articles so essential IN wal
: Where has the American farmer mai
2 ket for his surplus products? Exeep
for cotton be has neither foreign @
y home market. Common sense at ono
S points out the remedy. Draw froH
Q agriculture the superintendent labor
: employ IT in mechanism and manufae
lures thereby creating home marke
o for your bread stuffs, and benefits t
a the country viii result. Take froI
Y agriculture in the United States 500
o eco men, women and children and yo
s will give better home mai
= ket for our breadStuf1s tina
all Europe now furnishes.
{ short. sir. We have been too lon
T subject to the policy OF British mel
I chants. It is time We should becom
a little Amerieanized and instead Q
5 feeding the pauper labor OF Europ
3 feed our own, or else IN q short tim
: by Continuing our present policy "
0 shall all be rendered paupers oul
selves.
: Democrats constantly talk Of JeffeI
: sonian and Jaeksonian principles.
o They both advocated broad principle
of liberty, and were apostles OF pro
tectiye tariff, advocating the br0ades
protection TO American Industries. ]
Is about time that the true name G
the Democratic party were written /
plain letters. so that the %OEI
, may read-sThe English party 9
: America. UNCLE NED
January. ., 1883.
OuR WARRINGTON LETTER
| 10 the Editor Of TINS NEWS: