The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-18
PROTECTION REVENUE.


LIE HERALD has repeatedly shown that
the doctrine of protection for protection's
sake Is comparatively new one in the Re
| publican party. ALI the leading Republi,
can Senators except those from Pennsyl.
wanna and the northeastern states to.
gether with ali the Repub llcan Presidents,
nave declared that, unless as war meas
ure, or to produce revenues to meet ex-
traordinary expenditures, high tariff was
wrong. 1t was, indeed, not until President
CLEVELAND admonished the country that
oy the excessive duties on imports sur
Plus indicating tyrannous taxation of the
people was being accumulated in the treas
ury, that the Republican party was wheeled
into position OF advocating protection
with Incidental revenue, instead of revenue
with incidental protection. To Mr.. CLEyE-
LANDS special message, Mr.. BLAINE re-
sponded instantly in behalf of the north
eastern manufacturers, and thenceforth
the Republican battle-cry was protection
Tor protection's sake. The platform of the
party announced the new departure, the
party itself Endorsed it, President HARRI-
son reiterated the doctrine and policy in
MS inaugural, and the MCKINLEY act
placed IL on the statute books in the form
of law.
thls protection policy as formulated in
Ihe act OF Congress was before the country
Ia November of last year, and developed a
complete revolution of the people. More
than two-thirds majority in the House of
representatives was secured by the Demo
Gratis, but we find the President recon-
mendlng in his last message willful dis
ooedlence of the popular will on the sub
lect of the tariff, and the continued mas
terry of the power which has so long
crushed and oppressed the farmers
ana other producers of the west
and south. Such defiance must
Oh course be met and conquered,
but the battle will never be won
until the Democracy has secured the gov
eminent in all bsanches. 1t is not suf-
nclent that there is an overwhelming pre-
ponderence in the lower house to defeat
further encroschments, although that is a
'colgn of vantage not to be despised.
we must have the Senate and the Presi-
dency, and both are within our early grasp.
10 this end we must have the help of those
VINO, IN other times and upon other issues,
nave worked and voted with the Republi-
cans. Against a selfish sectonalism and
interests of locality, there should be op-
posed broad and patriotic nationalism. If
the western and southern and some of
the middle states protest against being
taXed.in the interest of the northeastern
states, they only ask that the burdens of
government should be uniformly borne. If
they ask that the policy of revenue protec-
ton be substituted for protective revenue,
1t is because they want no protection at all
1or themselves. This is a question of to-
day. living issue, affecting the economies
and the welfare OF the country, and pushes
to the rear the threadbare topics of slavery
IN the territories, the right of secession,
the conduct OF the war OF 1S61-5, and all the
controversies of the dead past. For those
who live upon memories and traditions, the
Republican party shibboleth may do. But
progressive, go-ahead people will, in their
politics, try to keep up with the times.