Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-06-22
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The platform indOrses a protective
tariff. We have protected American
products and American labor. So
long as foreign products can be found
to tax which compete with our own
in our market we propose to tax them
rather than tax our own. The demo-
cratic party prefers to tax the domes-
tic product rather than the imported.
Their tariff legislation would benefit
every country but our own. We fol-
low in our tariff policy the teachings
of Washington and Hamilton, and
Clay, Webster, Lincoln and Garfield.
They pursue the fallacies of Golden,
Bright and Calhoun, and the state
men of the late southern confederacy.
They are pledged to impede, if they
can, the prosperity of the country un-
til after the next presidential election.
That is their mission now. Business
disaster and reverses are the ladder of
their hopes. Prosperity and content
ment among the people bring them
sure political defeat. Idle furnaces,
dismantled factories, silent mines, un-
employed workmen, general distress
are sure harbingers of democratic vic
tory. They are discouraging indus
trial activity through their press and
orators everywhere and every day,
and it breaks their hearts to see any
manifestation of industrial advance
ment in the United States. They sneer
at every attempt to establish new fac
tories and would gladly frown them
down. 1t is the same sneer and frown
which have been exhibited toward
our industrial enterprises since 1861.
But in spite of them we now lead the
world in manufactures, agriculture
and mining, and we will prosper un
der the new law in spite of their false
omens and discouraging prophesies.
They insist that we cannot make tin
pIate-so they said about steel rails,
so they said about plate glass and cut
lery and pottery, and when you take
them to the factories and show them
that we are making tin plate, they as
sert with intense pleasure that we
are only making "a little" That is
true-but how much should we be
making?-that are making any is the
surprise, for the protective duty on
tin has not gone into effect, and will
not until the 1st of July.
Reflect for a moment-there is no
section of the country north or south,
which is not seeking by every manner
of inducement to get etmanufactures es-
tablished in their midst. They are
giving donations, they are offering
| bounties, in some communities they
are taxing themselves and burdening
their property for sake of securing
/ industries which will employ labor
and enlarge their neighborhood mar
kets in the South, the great center of
free trade; they are offering freedom
from taxation for the next 20 years to
those who will bring their capital and
| invest in productive enterprises, and
this by authority of state law. And
while all this is going on, the leaders
of the democratic party are propos-
ing to tear down the protective tariff
and inundate this country with foreign
competing products to displace those
which these very manufactures pro-
pose to make, and which the people
are taxing themselves to establish
The people viii come to see and un-
derstand this, if they do not already.
and their votes will go where their
material interests lie. They will not
spend their money TO build up and
give their votes to pull down.