St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-27
Showing How the Blaineites
Have Gone Back on the
Old Leaders.
Then They Preached Tariff
Reduction, While Now
They Oppose It.
A Party Flop Without a'Par-
allel in the History Of
American Politics.

BY way of showing the contrast between
the tariff doctrines now advocated by the
leaders of the Republican party. and the
views held by the leaders of the same party
in the earlier days OF tariff reform agitation,
the GLOBE commends the following extracts
to the careful consideration of all thought
full readers. 1t should be borne in mind that
these are not the utterances of irresponsible
persons, but of the acknowledged leaders
and spokesman of the Republican party.
Listen to what they had to say
JOHN SHERMAN IN 1872
1t must be remembered that the present
duties, taken together, are far in excess OF
what they were before the war, and that
they have been three times largely increased
since the passage of the Morrill, tariff act Of
1861. Such an excessive protection
not only ceases to diversity production, but
forces labor into protected emplOymen;s.
If the present rates of duty were high enough
| during and since the war. when home in
| dustry was burdened with heavy internal
taxes-wiih stamp duties, income taxes, and
| high rates on raw mateTials-then surely
they are now too high when all these taxes
are removed.
l have listened with patience day by day,
| to the statements of gentlemen who are in
| terested in our domestic productions. l am
! Il firm believer in the general idea OF pro-
tecting their industries but assure them, as
l assure their representatives here, that if the
| present high rates of duty. uneXampled in
our country, and higher by nearly 80 per
cent than they were i'll 1861. are maintained
on metallic and textile fabrics after we have
repealed the very internal taxes which gave
rise to them, and after we have substantially
given them their raw materials free of duties,
we shall have a feeling of dissatisfaction
among other interests in the country that
VIII overthrow the whole system and do
greater harm than can possibly be done by
moderate reduction of the present rates of
duty.
SENATOR MORRILL, IN 1870.
1t is mistake of the friends of sound
tariff to insist upon the extreme rates i'm
posed during the war.
SENATOR ALLISON IN 1870.
But l may be asked how this reduction
shall be made 1 think it should be made
upon all leading articles, or nearly all, and
for that purpose, when l can get an oppor-
tuni;y in the honse, if no gentleman does
before me, shall move that the pending bill
be recommitted to the committee on ways
and means with instructions to report re-
duction upon existing rates of duty equiva-
lent TO 20 per cent upon existing rates. or
One7ffth reduction. 1.-THE Mills bill proposes
a reduction of s per cent?
EUGENE HALE on FREE SALT.
The duty upon salt is now IS cents per
100 pounds in bulk and 81 cents in sacks.
The best Turks Island salt can be purchased
at the place where it isproduced for from 8
to 10 cents per bushel. Any gentleman here
can compute for himself the percentage of
duty resting upon this article. l believe
there is no one question about which the re-
Election of millions of people day 10y day is so
decided as it is in declaring that there should
be no tax upon this article Of salt. l believe
this article should go upon the free list.
SENATOR OLIVER p. MORTON SAID:
Now wish to say to the senate that am
strongly convinced that we should go further
and reduce the tariff in material respects
upon many other articles SO The
country expects Il large reduction, the conn
try knows that it can be made, the country
has been promised this reduction, and the
dominant party here is responsible to the
country for this reduction, and will be held
responsible if it is not made.
HENRY WILSON SAID:
/ think that American labor will be best
protected by taxing all the necessaries of
lllG lightly putting law l44dtCl4HAo hAliNA
enter into our manufactures on the free list;
raising revenue TO support the government
upon articles that come in competition with
our manufactures and upon the luxuries of
life, which are consumed by the more
wealthy classes of society.
SENATOR HENRY L. DAWES SAID:
The duty must be levied On the raw mate
rial or on the manufactured article. If you
levy it on the raw material you discriminate
against American labor, and il you levy 1t on
the manufactured article you discriminate in
favor of American labor. You must have
either protective tariff or a tariff which dis
eliminates against American labor.
GARFIELD IN 1870.
Duties should be so high that our manu-
facturers can fairly compete with the foreign
product, but not so high as to enable them to
drive out the foreign article, enjoy monop-
oily of the trade. and regulate the prices as
they please. This is my doctrine of protec-
ton. If congress pursues this line of policy
steadily we shall, year by year, approach
more nearly to the basis of free trade be-
cause we shall be more nearly able to COM
pete with other nations on equal terms.
am for protection which leads to ultimate
free trade.
GARFIELD IN 1872.
And know. moreover, that for nearly two
wears the wholesale price of American salt in
Toronto, Canada, was 81 lower per barrel
than the same salt was selling for on the
New York side of the lake. That is, we pro-
duced it, shipped it across. paying whatever
portage. freights and transportation were re-
quired, and then sold it TO our Canadian
neighbOrs at 81 per barrel less than it was
sold to the people on our shores. Certainly,
gentlemen will not want duty continued
that enables that thing TO be done.
GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN SAID IN 1870:
Now, when the gentleman, who seems to
be the protector in an especial manner of the
great labor interests of this country, speaks
of this protection being the protection of the
labor of this country, 1 ask him: Does not
every farmer and mechanic in this broad
land make use of iron in all kinds of labor?
The 100000 men that have been freed re-
Gently are laborers, are producers, not manu-
facturers. They are not men of skilled labor;
they evidently are not men who are pro-
tected. And then there are the men in the
Northwest who produce corn, wheat, oats,
pork and beans, ETC.; they are producers and
consumers, and are not protected; and it is
they who pay this large amount of money
into the pockets of the manufacturers of this
article And when gentleman stands upon
this floor and tells me that this high, this ex-
traordinaIily high tariff is for the protection
of the laboring men, tell him that do not
understand how he can possibly substantiate
such theory.
PRESIDENT GRANTS MESSAGE, 1874.
Those articles which enter into our manu-
features and are not produced at home, it
seems to me, should be entered free. Those
articles ot manufacture which we Droduce n
constituent part of, but do not produce the
whole, that part which we do not prodcce
should be entered free also. l will instance
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