San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-29
FREE TRADE, NO. 8.
For the LIGHT.

In their platform OF tnaC year 10 tHls
declaration, on the tariff issue:
mo more revenue ought to be
raised than Is required to defray the
expenses of the government"
On this platform the democrats
nominated Martin Van Buren, for re-
election. But the equivocal course of
Van Buren, had alarmed the protec-
tionists of the country, in fact he had
so far gone over to the revolutionists
of South Carolina, that, that state
which had refused her electoral vote,
in 1882, to Jackson, voted for him in
1886 and 1910.
In that year the wings and protec-
tionists ran William Henry Harrison
for president, on the following plat
form, tO-wit:
"a tariff for revenue to defray the
necessary expenses of the govern.
ment, and discriminating with special
reference to the protection of the
domestic labor of the country; in this
memorable contest Gen. Harrison
swept the Union like a cyclone, and
received 234 ELECTORAL votes against
so for Van Buren,; the following states
voting for him, viz: Maine, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con-
necticut New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,
North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Ohio, Indiana and Michigan; whilst
Van Buren, received the vote of, New
Hampshire, Virginia, South Carolina,
Alabama, Illinois, Missouri and
Arkansas.
o.. -. At. oo,toet oon,a tba bi0h
protective tariff of 1912; but the death
of General Harrison III one month
after Inauguration, and the succession
of John Tyler, Virginia free trade
democrat, in wing disguise, largely
deprived the prOtectionists OF the
fruits of their victory.
This brings us down to the cam
paign of 1914.
In this year the democrats adopted
this as their tariff issue:
mo more revenue ought to be raised
than is required to defray the neces-
sary expenses of the government"
Here the democrats again, as they
had done in 1910, failed to declare for
or against the doctrine of protection,
and on this blind platform they put
James X. Polk for president.
The wings and protectionists ran
Henry Clay in 1874 on the following
tariff platform:
"A tariff for revenue to defray the
necessary expenses of the government
and discriminating with special refer
ence TO the protection of the domestic
labor of the country"
In this campaign Polk and his
friends committed that stupendous
fraud that will stand as a dark and
damning blot upon the republic, to
the last hour Of Its existence, though
it live million years. In the Cal
hOun or free trade states Polk ran as
y free trader, aud in the protection
states he ran as a prOtectiOnist and
was elected.
Let the student of our political his
tory read the facts of this campaign.
When Polk was inaugurated he
threw off his protection cloak, and
doomed out a full-hedged Calhoun
notification free trader, the first one
ever elected, but the democrats were
far too smart to run him for u second
term-his fraudulent election was a
little too much for any party to carry,
and he was retired.
In 1915, the democrats proclaimed
the following platform, on the tariff
issue:
mo more revenue ought to be
raised than is required to defray the
necessary expenses Of the govern
ment."
This is the same old platitude,
evading the question OF protection,
aud on this platform they put Lewis
Cass, for president.
The pr0tectionists and wings nOmi-
mated Gen. Zach Taylor, for presi-
dent, on this platform, tO-wit;
He (TaylOr) says, that had he
voted in 1914, he would nave voted
the WING ticket"
In this race the wings and prOtec-
tiOnists won, Gen. Cass not being able
to repeat Folks tactics and fraud.
In 1852 the democrats put up Frank
lin Pierce for president on the follow
ing platform, tO-Wit:
mo more revenue ought to be raised
than is required to defray the neces-
sary expenses of the government"
The wings and prOtectiOnists an
nOunced their platform OH the tariff,
as follows:
Revenue sufficient for the expenses
| of the government in times of peace
ought to be derived mainly from a
duty on imports and
on laying such duties sound political
policy requires just discrimination
aud when practical by specific duties,
whereby suitable encouragement may
be afforded to American industry
equally to all classes and to all por-
tons of the country"
In this campaign Franklin Pierce
was elected. If free trader at all