Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-03-14
lRIloNi WEEKLY JouRNAL-MINER.
MARCH IA, 1888
The Birth of the TarIfT System.

The Birth of the TarIfT System.
 The views of Chauncy NJ. Depew, a possible republican candidate for presi- dent as expressed m his Chicago speech, on the tariff will be found below. and will be found very interesting.
 "Ninty-nine years ago, on the fourth day of July, I7S9. George Washington signed the first tariff act passed by the young republic. Political independence had been proclaimed by the immortal declaration of 1776, but the country was still dependent upon Great Britain for every article of manufacture in metal or fabrics. With more gloomy forebod- ings than those caused by the separation of the empire was this news received in England. It was the emancipation Of raw materials and the birth of manufsc ture in the United States, and without them the republic had no manifest des tiny At the close of an exhaustlng war, with an unpaid, half-clothed and rio,ous army a worthless currency, shat tered credit and empty treasury, Alex ander Hamilton, m every department oi mental activity, but the greatest of finance ministers, was called on to pro vide the moneys for carrying on the government. meeting Its obligations and restoring its credit. In report, whose arguments have never been answered or equailed, he gave us the solution of the present problem and future prosper ity. protection to home industries as 6 continuous policy. and when necessary bounties and premiums besides. The closing year of the century of Hamil tons finds thirteen states grown to thlr- ty-eigh,. four million people increased tc sixty, and nominal national wealth to sixty billions. A manufacturing plant not worth half million dollars has ex- banded until it's annual product IS si, thousand millions, and the consumption per year by our own people of the out. put of our farms and factories, Is not less than five times the consolidated capital of I789. From an increasing indebted ness b foreign nations, which drained ha fsdo n the balance of trade IS flowing m CT riching currents through every artery oI our industrial life Upon this golden monument with a hundred millions O. surplus in the national treasury and proud and prosperous populations all around, the eliminating century finds President Cleveland proclalming with equal boldness, If less originality, the new departure.
 "rhe celebration of the birthday of the Father of the Country recalls at this juncture the peculiar significance of th, language of the law which received his first signature as president, and which had his heartiest approval: Whereas, Ii is necessary for the support of the gov ernment, for the discharge of the debts of the United States and the encourage ment and protection of manufactures. that duties be levied on goods, wares ard merchandise imported Since that most fruitful legislation, whenever theory has overcome the plain teachings of practice, the penalty has been panlcs and dlstress. The friend of the many against the prof ;.- ~'.|" 'aw is the seductive role which cap,iyaes tsC iree-trader, and Its glitter cr alluremen on a subject new to his haUsh. anG pAies have led out to sea the strong CoInmon sense of MT. Cleve- land. l, IS the basis of the policy upon which he has staked his own fortunes and those of his party. The tariff raises the price to consumers. he says, of all arti- Cles imported and subject to duty, by pr, : cisely the sum paid for such duties, and, as the customers are enormously Tn ex- cess of the laborers upon purely pre- tected articles, he rushes naturally and triumphantly to the conclusion that tariff laws are the vicious, iuequitable and H. logical source of unnecessary taxation.
 "In ISI6, 1923, IS46, the weapors which the president found in 1888 won great victories, but like Samson'S arms about the pillars of the temple, the re- suit involved all in common ruin. The mill closed, the furnace fires out, the farmer bankrupt and the laborer a tramp are the lurid lessons of these well-meant experiments upon a delusive theory of the relations ot the factory 10 the farm. :"
 A California Opinion,
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