The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-07

nous Losses % we otv ~ ~ - 80 ns 1919 v,fS
lavish hand. and yet hes saved half e much
q al the rest Of the world. with sixty thou
sand millions OF capital, and developed ca
billions 8 year, its political mission il. as far
40 possible, to monopolize it, home market IN
the materials IL possesses or can manufacture,
to cross tho seas. to enter all ports and ex-
plore new countries, and TO compete with the
most advanced nations In all the markets OF
the Garth.
THE BIRTH OF THE TARIFF SYSTEM.
Ninety nine years ago, on the zth day OF July.
1888. George Washington signed the first tariff
act passed by the young Republic. Political in
dependence had been proclaimed by the i'm
mortal Declaration of 1776. but the country was
still dependent upon Great Britain for every ar
ticle of manufacture In metals or fabrics. With
more gloomy forebodings than those caused by
the separation OF the empire was this news re-
ceived in England. 1t was the emancipation Of
and the birth Of In
lie had no manifest destiny" At the close Of
an exhausting war, with an unpaid, haif-olothed,
ana riotous army, worthless currency shat
tered credit, and an empty treasury. Alexander
Hamilton. great In every department. OF
mental activity, but the greatest of Finance
ministers. was called upon to provide the
ing its obligations, and restoring its credit.
In report, whose arguments have never been
an or equaied. he gave as the solution OF
the present problem and of future prosperity,
protection to homo industries as q continuous
policy, and, when necessary, bounties and
the CENTURY Of SeS nds
States grown to thirty-eight, four millions of
people increased to sixty, and nominal national
plant not worth halt = ,ni,,ion Of dollars has
expanded until its annual product Is six
Thousand millions, and the consumption per
year by our own people OF the output OF our
farms and our factories is not less than five
times the consolidated capital OF 1889. From
an increasing indebtedness to foreign nations.
which drained all our resources, the returning
& n
riching currents through every artery Of our
industrial life. Upon this golden monument.
with hundred millions Of surplus in the Ma
tional Treasury, and proud and prosperous
populations all around, the eliminating century
finds President Cleveland proclaiming with
equal boldness, If less originality, the new de-
parture
The celebration of the birthday of the Father
OF His Country recalls at this juncture the
peculiar significance of the language Of the
law which received his first signature az Presi-
dent, and which had his heartiest approval !:
Whereas, 1t is necessary for the support OF the
Government, for the discharge of the debts OF
the United States. and the encouragement and
protection of manufacturers, that duties be
levied on goods, wares, and merchandise i'm
ported" Since that most fruitful legislation,
whenever theory has overcom the plain teach
ings Of practice, the penalty has been panics
and Distress "The friend of the many against
the profits of the few" is the seductive role which
captivates the free trader, and its glittering al
lurements on a subject new to his thought and
studios has led out to sea the strong common
II.
policy upon which he has staked his own for
tunes and those of his party "The tariff raises
the price to consumers, he says, "of all arti-
cIes imported and subject to duty, by precisely
sumers are enormously in excess of the labor
ers upon purely protected articles he PUSHES
naturally and triumphantly to the conclusion
that tariff laws are the vicious, inequitable,
and illogical source Of unnecessary taxation"
In 1916, 1882, 1916 the weapons which the
President found in 1883 won great victories,
I'm a So n nrIt fha Will onf
the temple, the result involved all in common
ruin. The mill closed, the furnace fires out,
the farmer bankrupt and the laborer tramp,
are the lurid lessons OF these well-meant ex-
periments upon delusive theory Of the rela-
tions Of the factory to the farm.
PROTECTION THE coUNTRy's BEST INVESTMENT.
The genius OF our scheme Of general govern
ment and the spirit OF our people are hostile to
direct taxation for national affairs. The Fed
eral tax gatherer has always provoked friction
and lawlessness, even under the necessities Of
war. and his presence at every door to levy and
take three times the amount required by the
state for home and local wants would peril
both prosperity and loyalty. Two hundred and
fifty millions Of dollars flow into the National
Treasury annually and under the customs
system of collection we are unconscious OF our
burdens 1t is only the necessities of war
which justify internal revenue taxes and only
| concession to the moral sentiment of the
country which permits the continuance OF any
permanent, but in modifying them to meet
the changing conditions of the country the
principle OF ample protection for severything
which can not be successfully produced or
manufactured on American soil must be main
| tanned
The factory doubles the value of the adjoin-
| ing farms for the farmers, whose tariff exac-
| tions are too small to be calculated. Beside
| the mill grows the village. and the resistless
| village bounds and build the Western city To
| this new mart the railroad is constructed al
| most with the speed Of it's moving trains. and
| the quick and cheap communication between
mt md m Ia nay mi fAr n
| safety in the prosperity Of the country. Pro-
| tected opportunity has deye loped our incalcu-
liable natural resources and enabled us to man
ufacture In iron. glass, cotton. and wool as we'll
as any nation in the world, and more cheaply,
| save only In wages. If the duty on importa-
tions is the bounty to labor which lifts it above
| the degrading and dangerous conditions of
Europe, md enables our artisans to retain
their self-respect and Independence. it is the
| republics best investment.
Celebrating here to day the 156th anniversary
| Of Washington birth, and recalling the in
| huence of his victories in war. his counsels in
convention his acts as President Of the Repub-
! lie, and his matchless character, the visible
results Of the policy naugurated by the first
| exercise Of his executive approval are the
most marvelSus The purely agrScultunFal
| come the foremost region OF the world in the
| variety. the usefulness and the volume of ito
manufactures and tho fertility OF its inventive
| than the rest of the world. 1t produces the
| food, the clothing. and the household effects
| Wn1cn the laDOfor uses, cheaper tnan the
| older nations and the surplus of wages flow
| ing into the savings banks is finally Invested
| in homes, and in the multitude of homes teads
| is the greatest safety of society and the state.
| WEAPONS NEEDED TO RECoNQUER THE SEAS
! The United States is the granary the work.
| shop the political hope OF the world. 1t can
| largely feed, and in the interchanges of trade
supply many other material wants Of tho peo-
| pies who are inspired by it's successful liberty
| to strive for better government and nobler
| lives It's vast network Of railways. it's lakes,
rivers, md canals carry a commerce of meal
| culable value, and its surplus above our home
| consumption is 10 be the growing element OF
| our national wealth. This grand product is
| freighted in foreign ships. and it's carriers de-
pend for tleir profits upon the enemies OF the
| expansion of our commerce. 1 said to a repre-
| sentative of the new steamship line which ID
| to make the link across the Pacific Of the route
| from the East over the American continent and
| to Europe-a route whose possibilities tax the
| Enthusiastically, instead Of connecting with
| the Canadian Pacific and running through
Canada, do you not peet our transcontinental
! system, making Chicago your entrepot and dis.