Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-07-18
THE TARIFF QUESTION.

THE TARIFF QUESTION.
 Is 1t ''unwise and wrongful to the in- dI>tues and necessities of the people to levy.taxes ort importations irom abToao'' as the democratic platform, delivered by Cleveland in December last m effect declares.
 Let us hear feorn the Tammany or Columaia s7cilty in l8I9 "As to the inundalion i the country by foreign goods, that is a subject of vide magnitude and most radical interest to the Ameircan people. \ remedy for this evl. would be as precious as rub es. Better encourage q more limited com merce The remeoy against cur being surchar-ed wlth foreign goods, and the means "t inloducirg and maintaining manufactures Is to frrbid entirely the importation T any srt'1le which can be un anyt.lsr8ble terms manufac,ured by ourselves"
 Doubtless. many honest democrats would like 10 read what the great Thomas ,fieTscn had to say on he mater and to compare hiS position with tast Of Cleveland ani modern democ- cacy. Mr. ] f=rsou in a message to congress uscd ilis .anguage:
 "The manufacturing establishments formed and to,m:u- under 'he ausplces of cheaper mste'ial and ,u si>t'n he, the freedom of lahor from iaxation with u,, snd the p'otec,ps duties and prohibition w.n tocome permeneft"
 The gro~t inquiry no" r.: Shall 'e make our o~n comforts or go without them at the M ol foreign nation"
 He ;heretore vho Is ION asainst man ufaltutes must l. ether in favor oi re- ducins us ti.her to dePeodeoce On that nations or jo te cICt edake wiid heas,s ana live ia dcaa and c4vcrn.. am proud 10 say iha, an not one of these. Exycrierc- has t,u-ft me that manu- factures are now e necessary to our indepenCeuce as t. cur comforts.
 Andrew Jl-kson in 1924, tour yoHrs be ore Vau Beufen tegu'!ed him into the heresy of tariff for revenue only, nad View, very much | variance with Grover. Here ls what Oid HicAoy wrote in 1924
 eve have been to ions subjsct to the policy os Bnti>h uieG rsnt7. 1t l. tine thst we should become a Little mcle Amencanlzed, ana iastrad ct feed n paupets aad laao..,. frrm Engla'd, feed Cur WI of else in a short tune ny cCntIauiag our pr,sea. policy we siail be peuy,is co..eiy.s. Il Is ,trs,fo 6 ny o. i4lan ta1t eara'u. ani jldIt US te, fl b n,uoh wsn.sd to p-y our nat'"lei dr,t aad to flo as .he means Of c5- fen,e witu.a ouf>eiv~s O. which nr sai-.y 4nn iioer'y d d.pcnd."
 From ;bese ae,z ieam Wn1! | y have written ii cl.u ua, neither 'he old sachcfas os ;-o.n.sly. the lmmo tai au!lorcrtteaee.a .an oi 'ndep -adeuce nor, ho--.o-. Ne~ o,.~~..> ,n~..,t Il aroosui ,o tax at eve prohibit '"- porauans from foreign countries.
 Now is.en | the nobllst Romar oi them an, the author of of the Ameri an policy, the sage Of Ashland. h 1852 Mr Clay sais:
 If was to select ary term Of seven ye4rs since the adoption of the coustt H. uon which exbibited toe most widespf 7d d;smay and q solution it ~ould be K actly that 'erm of seven years that lm- mediately preceded the tnIff of 1924. Ard if the t.rm of seven years @are to be selected of the greatest prospe'ity which tris people has e"i,yed since the establishment oi theT Q sent const tu- ton. t would bc exactly that perio, oi seven years ~hica immediately followed tn passage of tbs tariff ln 1924
 Again n I642 Nj Chg spoke as follows:
 The tariff c; 1924 ressuscitated he wealth and power of he country until run down under the adm'tistraIons oi Jackson and VanBneren, but ;he tariff of IS42 IS again augmentng the wcath and reyi,ing the energies f the nation. The county has never been prosper us except by the effects of protective policy"