Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-09-14

our markets in a perfect deluge. Our
manufactures went down like grass be-
fore the mower, and our agriculture and
the wages of labor speedily followed.
FINANCIAL prostration was general, and
the presence of debt was universal. In
New England, fully one-fourth of the
property went through the sheriffs mill,
ana the prostration was scarcely less
general elsewhere. In Kentucky the
presence of debt was simply intolerable.
In New York the leading merchants, in
1917, united in a memorial to Congress to
save our commerce as well as our manu-
factures from utter ruin by increasing
the tariff duties.'
This disastrous state of affairs contin-
ued for several years until our people
resolved to endure it no longer, and in
1924 Congress gave us the first really
protective tariff we ever had. Its adop-
ton was followed by an era of great
financial prosperity, which was so
marked that in 1928 the duties were raised
still higher. Then came a great i'm
provement in business and prosperity.
10 prove this | extract from the annual
message of Andrew Jackson, sent to
Congress in December, 1882. He said,
after we had been for four years with the
highest protective tariff the country ever
had: "Our country presents on every
side, marks of prosperity and happiness,
unequaled perhaps in any other portion
of the world"
! call the attention of our Democratic
friends to this opinion of the patron
saint of Democracy upon the effects of a
protective tariff upon the prosperity of
our country.
Notwithstanding this gratifying result
of the benefits of protection, the Demo-
cratic party, with their Southern allies,
under the name of nullifiers, repealed the
protective tariff of 1928 and substituted
a tariff for revenue This move brought
on the financial crisis of 1887 and a gen.
eral depression of all home industries
until 1912, when another highly protec-
tive tariff was enacted. So very positive
and decided was the improvement in the
prosperity of Jul country that our Dem
ocratic President Polk was constrained
to say in his annual message of Deem
Der, 1916: Labor in all its branches is
receiving an ample reward while educa-
ton, science and the arts are rapidly EN-
larging the means of social happiness.
The progress of our country in her
career of greatness, not only in the vast
extension of her territorial limits, and in
the rapid increase of our population, cut
in resources and wealth, and in the hap
py condition of people is without an TX
ample in the history of nations"
The Democratic party carried the cleo
ton of James X. Polk and George NJ.
Dallas of Pennsylvania in 1914 by the
cry of "Polk, Dallas and the Tariff of
'42". aided by fraudulent returns from
Louisiana.
In 1916 they went back upon their
ptoinises anu alueu ny 'ue 0ouIn, lmey
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