The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-10-04

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1912, and up to that time there was no
any difference in this country. Ok
Federalists, old Republicans, old Demo
crats-all were in favor of the tariff
Applause. Division came first unde
the act 1915, after the war. Then there
happened exactly what Mr.. Cleveland
threatens TINS country with-the lower
ing of the tariff and disaster 10 the
country, 1t came, and the disaster fol
lowed, and from that time to 1924 was
the worst period that the country has
ever seen, and in 1924 the first heavily
decided protective tariff was passed
and if there be any Democrats within
the sound of my voice. | beg them to
listen while l state who voted for that
bill.
In the first place the Senator for Ten.
nesee, named Andrew Jackson: in the
next place the Senator from New York,
named Martin Van Buren,; in the next
place the Senator from Pennsylvania,
named John BuChanan-three men who
were afterward Presidents of the Uni
ted States voted for that bill. APP
plause. Besides these, a Senator from
Kentucky, Richard NJ. johnson, after
ward vice President of the United States
with Martin Van Buren,. And besides
these the great members of the Democ-
racy of all shades supported that meas
ure; and four years later, when they
made the tariff still higher, the men
whom have mentioned, who were still
in the Senate and the House, repeated
that vote. And, in addition to those |
have named, Silas Wright, a Senator
fr Al. IL
that the Democrats of New York ever
sent to the national councils. That tar
IF brought unlimited prosperity to the
country, 1t was going on from good to
better, and from better to best, when
just at that time there came athwart
the national sky an influence that guides
the Democratic party to-day. MIR. Cal
houn, who had started as protection
list, had found his way to the Presidency
barred by his quarrel with Jackson and
by Jackson's favoritiSm t. Van Buren, :;
and just then and there began that in
t1uence which threw the mastery of the
Democratic party to the SNulh. as it
holds to day the mastery of that party.
And Mr.. Calhoun broke that protective
tariff He found that they could not
have free labor H. the South with slave
labor, and therefore they could not have
manufactures in the South, and there
fore they were not interested in the tar
if. And from that hour, dating from
1882 and 1888, the Democratic party in
this country was changed, and it had
then and there established Two corner
stones-lhe advocacy of the extension of
slavery and free trade. Those were the
two great leading inspirations that guild
ed il, and in breaking down the tariff of
1928 and 1929 they established the free
trade tariff of 1888
Then, again, just as it had been under
the low tariff of 1916, there again came
a financial crisis in 1887, and the coun-
try was again PROSTATE. How was it
relieved? By the protective tariff of
1912! 1t had been thrown into such a
desperate degree of. might almost say
ruin, but | will say of depression, that
every where men were out of work and
were glad to get work at 25 cents day,
under the Administration of Martin
Van Buren,, a Democrat from the State
of New York. That was relieved by the
election of William Henry Harrison ap-
plause and his election gave us the tar
if of 1912, Well, that lifted the coun-
Try as if by magic, and when the Demo
Gratis nominated Mr.. Polk against Henry
Clay in 1874. the Democratic candidate
was compelled to write in bad faith, and
with no intention of keeping it, that he
was in favOry of a certain degree OF
protection, and on that bad faith ex-
pressed in what was known as the Kane
letter, Mr.. Clay was defeated and Mr..
Polk was installed, and then despite the
pledge of the Democratic party they
broke down the protection tariff of 1912.
They broke it down by the casting vote
of George NJ. Dallas, who was elected as
a personal hostage to Vice President
Polk as personal hostage, say-that
protection should be maintained. They
broke it down without even 20 much as
one Democratic blush, and then follow
ed, not the same thing. There was no
immediate disaster, and you will hear
the Democrats all through this country,
in the tariff argument that is being
waged from the Lakes to the Gulf. cite
the tariff of 1916 as the proof that a low
revenue conserves the interests of the
country better than protective tariff.
Well, now, my friends, when the tar
i'll OF 1916 went into operation the Mex
lean war Immediately broke out and
disbursed fifteen millions of dollars.
The Irish famine occurred, and called
for enormous shipments of breadstuffs;
the revolutions of 1S4S IN Europe oc-
CURED, and made tremendous trouble
over the whole Continent, from Madrid
to st. Petersburgh. And the result was
that, by reverse action, prosperity was
made ia the United States. And before
those revolutions had quoted, we made
the discovery of gold in California: and
CALIFORNIA; rich streams of metal quick
ened all the channels of trade through
out the country. And by the time they
began to decrease England and France
and Russia fell into the Crimean Wat
and carried that on to 1856; and for ten
years from the time that tariff was
passed they had series of happy acct
dents. and at last these happy accidents
ceased, and the tariff of 1916 was thrown
back on its own merits, and the country
tell into a panic in LESS than one year
the panic OF 1857, panic that prostra-
ted all the great industries of the coun-
try, such one that Mr.. Buchanan was
compelled to say in his message to Con-
gress in December of that year that
with all the natural resources in our
hands, yet our manufactures were pros.
trate, enterprises were dead and the la
boring men OF the country we're without
work aud in great distress. That was
never cured until the protective tariff
came. into being again by reason of
Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860.
Applause. And from that time to
this we have had protective tariff. IA
voice: I'VE will have 1t always"
Since 1861 this country has had the
blessing of protective tariff and there
has never been in ancient or modern
history, on this hemisphere or the 9th
er, or on any continent or in the isles OF
the sea, a country that for twenty eight
years has been as prosperous as the Uni.
ted States of America. Applause
And now Mr.. Cleveland, following the
precedent Of the Democratic Presidents
that have broken down protective tariffs
before, demands that the voters Of the
| United States shall aid him in destroy.
| ing a protective tariff now, and the
question is submitted to yOu-to you
the voters Of the United States, to you
the voters Of New York, TO you in an
especial degree the voters of the city OF
New York, to say to Mr.. Cleveland that
with all his Administration he has moi
the power to destroy the protective tar
If in this country.
Now, my friends, am running very
hastily over century's history OF the
tariff, and | say, without fear Of contra
diction by any one, that these things
are deduced as indisputable conclusions
First, that there has never been a pro
lective tariff in this country that did moi
bring prosperity; second, that the pro.
tective tariff in this country has never