Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-10-30
FATHER OF ENORMOUS EVILS.

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afforded much amusement to
theorists and scientific economists.
They exclaim, "as ifanything could
be all right in theory and and wrong
in practice" and make merry over
the ignorance of unstudied practical
men. Thus do our wise men often
make themselves ridiculous, as did
the Greek astronomer who tumbled
in the ditch at his door-side while
gazing at the stars, regardless Of his
footsteps.
The very nations that now insist
on our attempting free trade
are the very ones that forced us into
common sense protection. France
and England in their wars of 1895
1915 when our nation began her
splendid career and was offering
free trade to all the world, yes, when
we were the first nation that had
ever adopted free trade and were
extending our hands in the
spirit of amicable commerce see
messages of Monroe and John
Quincy Adams to congress to all
the states of the world, those two
nations closed our ports, blockaded
them and destroyed our trade and
held us under embargo by their
Milan Decree and Orders in Council
for years, and England later forced
us into war and into continued
blockades of our own ports. This
was a protective tariff with a ven
geance, and we were forced during
many long years to manufacture or
do without commodities save of our
own production. Our manufactures
originated under stern necessity and !
they flourished as never before or
since, under this entire protection. |
Our whole agriculture and manu-
featuring system was perfectly adj
justed to the conditions thus inn
posed upon us by ravening, cruel
war. But, bless you, no sooner had
these two tigerish nations ceased
at each others throats and
made peace, when they Leyan
to pour out the products of their
long glutted markets upon us. They
had such vast quantities of clothing,
arms, furniture, every
thing made in cities, and such a
plentiful lack" of country products
that they loaded ships with their
stuhs and set off for America for
wool, grain, tobacco and other
necessities of life. Our manufactures
were closed as by the fiat of fate.
Thousands of men who had patri-
Dtically risked their all in doubtful,
difficult new enterprises here to
supply the needs Of their suffering
fellows were ruined. Down
we must go. At the same
line those foreigners put n big tax
on our products sent to their ports.
Finally John Quincy Adams,
IA most ultra free trader in
theory, 0ust read his messages TO
after eXpostulating and
every effort to have fair
rade at least, came out i'm message
md said, it would not do. Here are
ais words, in his fourth annual
message, speaking of Great Britain
le said: "She excludes all inn
of the great staple
products of our Western states, pro
.cribes bulkier lumber and live
,tock of the East and North-refuses
wen the rice of the South =
But the cotton, indispensable for
heir looms, they receive almost
iuty free, to weave It for our own
wear to the destruction Of our man
lfactures, which they are thus en-
,bled to under sell. Is the self
protecting energy of this nation SO
helpless that there exists no power
O counteract this? Growers ofgrain
Excluded from their ports, our ship
lers dismantle their ships, the trade
4 the North stagnatesa at its wharves
starve at their looms
while people pay tribute TO foreign
Industry to be clad in foreign garb,"
Here then is a free trader of free
raiders who had been eXerting all
lis very great power to introduce
oee trade with all nations, and
tho boasts In that very message
hat we have free trade with very
lany states Of the world yet finally,
A utter disgust, abandoning II in
lew of the enormous evils il was
ON the North, the East
nd the West,
HnCkienn Arniea salv.