New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-23


by the and distributed at the public cost under
conditions which enable the most ignorant voter to
select his ticket without help ana deposit Win P Pc
lie grows In power and population, It's safety ana per,
geuy win be assured by sssRHs GnTs ''s
with majestic and impressive force express their WILL
MAGNITUDE OF THE ECONOMIC ISSUE
The political mission Of the United States Ia purely
Internal The wise policy and traditions OF washington
against enangline slianees with foreign nations have
happily strengthened by our geographical posiuon
peoples and governments has been greater than thao
OF all other combined In preserving In letleI
and spirit liberties In developing our resources am
adding the wealth. prosperity and power OF the i'-
public, in the adoption OF those measures which iavor
happiness and contentment within borders We are
Indirectly aiding the struggling masses and furnshs
the arguments for. and inspiring the hopes OF, tho
patriots of every country Of the world
1t is vital to the success OF our mission that al q
tons boldly met fearlcsy discussed, and promptly
acted upon. Tho Of arabic acres In the unitea
is twenty per cent larger than that of China when
supports population nearly hundred millions As
time is reckoned in the history OF nations in the near
future there hundred millions Of people In this
country All Of them VIII be dependent upon industrial
conditions and the larger part OF them VIII be wage
Gamers Our problem la not, how they can be con-
troled they the majority. and the majority Is
the Government but how are they to be satlsheui
Maeaulays prediction has been supported by the aoest
pol teal Economists Of the Old World. Thy calm that
with the conditions OF crowded populations always on inc
brink Of starvation, with hopeless poverty anu chronic
distress prevail under European Governments the
Republic will end In anarchy and anarchy In dcEpousm
Whether there be much or little in these gloomy fore.
bodings the least OF ernly mprcsses the lesson or
talnng and promoting. by which
pcrence has wisdom that policy
which will keep above the line OF mere subsistence
and general prosperity OF diversified industries
hold the opportunities for every man to rise This
Issue Is broadly National and Ia OF equal Interest to the
North and South the East and West Cheap transDorta-
ton has oberaed the lines which formerly divided the
planters aad the manufacturers and engendcrel and EN-
FILTERED the sectional controversies The new South
thrills with the movement OF mighty industries which arc
developing her mines utilizing her great forces and re-
and founding her cities. The flames Of busy
furnaces umine her wasted aelGs and near and quick
markets awaken to hitheo unknown activities her dor
agriculture The hum OF The spindes and the IN
spring music OF machinery sound the pralres and
along the lakes well among New England hills and
Pennsylvania mines.
A FORTUNATE CHALLENGE TO PROTECTION.
The OF wealth Of nations has been discussed
by the sbiest and competent OF philosophers and
statesmen from the time of Adam Smith. with tire demon
srsted result that principles OF political economy are not
OF universal application but be- modified by the con-
dition- and necessities Of different nators At the zenith
OF prosperity cmndcnce and credit projecting
enterprises which covered the continent and fraught
with untold wealth aud healthy expansion. or disaster and
collapse upon scale OF equal magnitude and commcnsu
distress PrcSdnt Cleveland has boldly and haDDlly
challenged he roiey upon which all these investments
based
IN" IIc>iden. says the carInel Il Capital
ana Labor, flushed wi.h pas s'''ces-e, a"' &C.
road" BUSINESS is built upon stability OF
Fluctuations in the law must not be factor In the caeu
the country thai the President has taken position SO
radical and defiant that discussion AMI decision I'm
perave. II the result IS think II viii and ought to
take his tho few eminent specialists and eN
periments.ts who have died IN demonstrating that the
gun not loaded.
During quarter OF a century Of passionate nationality.
Of free abor Of protected Industries the growth OF the
RepJ lie has teen without lent parallel in ancient
modern times. Its population has increased az the
rate Of million year. and thousand millions per
have been aided TO Ats accumulated wealth. 1t
has paid fvesxths Of the losses OF the Civil
War, It has the burden Of gigantic debt. n has
spent with lavish hand and has saved half much
III the Of the world With sixty thousand millions
of capital and developed capacity creating product
worth over bIion7 year us political mission Is as
far as possible to monopolze It's home market in the
erias IL possesses manufacture seas
TO enter all ports and explore new countries and to COM
pete win the most advanced nations In all the ratkets
Of the earth
THE BIRTH OF THE TARIFF SYSTEM.
Nmetynlne years ago, on the fourth day OF July. |
1883 George Washington signed the first tarT passed
by the Republic. Political independence had
proclaimed by the immortal Declaration Of 1870 but tho
country was still dependent Great Britain for
article OF manufacture in metal or fabrics With more
gloomy forebOdlngs than caused by separation
was he emancipation OF raw materials and the birth OF
manufactures In the United States and without them
Republic had manifest destiny" close OF
eNhausting war with an unpaid. hacothed and rotous
army worthless currency shattered credit and emntv
treasury Alexander Hamilton. great IN deparnent
OF mental activity but the greatest OF Finance Ministers
called TO provide the moneys for CARRYING on
the Government meeting lis obligations and restoring its
credit In report whose arguments have never been
answered equaled, he gave us the solution Of the
present problem and OF future prosperity protection to
home indust les as continuous policy. and when neceS
sary, bountos and premiums besides The closing year
Of the century Of Hamlton's idea finds thirteen States
grown thlrtyeight millions Of people increased
sixty, nominal National wealth to sixty billions
manufacturing plant not worth half million OF dollars
has expanded until It's annual product Is six thousand
millions. and the consumption by people
Of the output Of farms and factories is not less
than Ave times the consolidated capital OF 1889. From
an increasing Indebtedness to foreign nations which
drained all the returning tide OF the balance
OF trade Is flowing In enrchng currents through
artery Of industrial life Upon this golden monument
with hundred millions Of surplus in the National Treas
and proud and prosperous populations all around tho
century lnds President Cleveland Dioclamng
with equal bodness II less originality the new departure
The celebration OF the birthday Of the Father OF his
Country recalls at this iuncure the peculiar significance
OF the language Of the law which received his first sigma
President and which had his heartest approval
a Is S Ir e o the 81 TGe States
and the encouragement and protection Of manufactures
that duties be levied goods and merchandise
imported" Since that most fruitful legislation. when
theory has the plain teachings Of practice
the penalty has been panics and distress The friend
Of the many against the profits Of the few Is the Sc
ducve role which captiydtes the ffee-trader and It's
gterlnR aurements subject new to his thought and
studies have led out 70 sea the strong common sense Of
M Cleveland It is the basis Of the policy which
he has staked his fortunes and those OF his party
Tho tariff raises the price to consumers" he OF
all article imported AMI subject duy. by precisely the
sum paid for such duties and, as the consumers are
In excess OF the laboers upon purely
the conclusion that tariff laws the vicious. inequa
bic and Illogical source Of unnecessary taxation"
In 1916, 1892 1916 the weapons which the President
found In 1883 gieat victories but Ike Sanson's
about the pillars Of the temple the result involved all in
the farmer bankrupt and the laborer tramp the
lurId lessons OF these well meant experiments de-
lusNe theory Of the relations Of the factory to the farm
PROTECTION THE COUETRY's BEST INVESTMENT.
The genius Of scheme OF general Government and
the spirit " people hostile TO direct taxation for
National affairs The federal taXgathcrer has always
provoked friction and awlcssncss under the
sites OF and his presence at door levy and
take three the amount required by the State for
and would peril both prosperity and
loyalty hundred and fifty millions OF dollars flow
National Treasury annually. and under the Gus
toms system Of collection unconscious Of our |
burdens. IL is only the necessities Of which Justify
internal and OILY concessCn to the moral
country which permits the continuance OF
any part Of them No revenue laws perfect or
permanent but In modifying them 10 meet Je changing
conditions Of the country the principle Of ample protection
Tor everything which he successfully produced OF
manufactured on American soil must be maintained