Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-18

1.-THE Democratic candidate for Con-
gress, VIM. Lawrence, Jr.," handbills
announce will make will speeches in
this county.
Andrew Jackson, who was somewhat
of Democrat, proclaimed that the first
duty of a Democrat was to uphold
American institutions, and among other
things maintained that such Protection
bv tariff duties as would enable citizens
of this country to successfully compete
with the Old World were essential to our
prosperity and independence. james
Buchanan, the last President elected by
the Democratic party, was a Protection
ist, and in his first message to Congress,
in December, 1857, forcibly reminded
that body that the distress then pre-
vailing in the country was wholly
owing to the purely revenue du-
ties collected off importations, which
had suspended manufactures" that
''every public work is retarded, and pri-
vate enterprises are abandoned, and
thousands of useful laborers are thrown
out of employment and reduced to want.
But new light has dawned upon the
o-called Democracy. An obscure man
was put forward four years ago for the
chief executive Office, and with the aid
of crowd of dudes in the East was
chosen by slender margin. He and
his friends, the dudes, are essentially
English. In their wisdom they have
determined that Jackson and Buchanan,
and Samuel J. Randall knew nothing of
the science of government, and they
proclaim a new creed, to which all Dem
ocrats must subscribe upon peril OF ex-
communication. That new creed pro-
vides for the abandonment of all pre-
tense of Protection, which was first in
augurated during the administration of
President Washington, and was held by
Jackson, and at the demand of the
South and of an inexperienced executive
put the industries of the North under
the feet of Great Britain. Protest as
stoutly as they may when addressing
Northern people that they do not mean
to injure Northern interests, all men
who know the history of such legisla-
ton as is proposed know that that is the
inevitable result. Two terrible exam
pies are furnished in the commercial
crises following the repeal of Protective
Tariffs in 1888 and 1876, and which cul-
minated in the crashes of 1887 and 1857,
the darkest years this country ever ex-
perienced.
Not one hairs breadth will the South,
which is responsible for this proposed
devilment, yield in the duties levied
upon sugars and rice, and in a wanton
and dogged spirit they insist that the
internal revenue laws must not be dis
turbed. Why? All men agree that the
redundant revenues of the country
ought to be reduced $70,000,000. In
spirit of hate they would hold on to the
hateful internal revenue system, simply
that the industries of the North may be
broken down and its prosperity checked
by a reduction of the revenues from i'm
ports of articles manufactured or grown
in the North.
This is the position William Law
renee has deliberately taken. He is
a candidate for election to the United
States Congress, and if chosen (of which
there is no more probability than of his
being chosen King of Great Britain }
would represent the interests, not of the
XVIIth Congress District of Ohio, but
of the sugar and rice planters of the
South and of the manufacturers of Eu-
rope and wool growers of South America
and Australia.