The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-28
PROTECTION AND PROSPERITY.

Mr.. Mills, as an advocate for free trade,
asks the manufacturers of New England
to vote for free coal when American coal
of better quality can be laid down in Bos-
ton far cheaper than that from Nova
Scotia; he asks the people of the United
States to vote for free iron, when this
country. under the protective policy, is
taking its place at the head of the iron
production of the world he asks the
American farmer to vote for free wool and
taxed income; he talks to the people as
if the present tariff rates on wool and the
manufactures of wool were comparatively
recent reaction from the hes. policy of the
best days of the republic; as part of the
Revolutionary" legislation enacted by the
Republican party since 1861.
The truth is that this policy of protec-
ton to American industry, which is repu-
dated by the Democratic free traders, is
the traditional policy of the United States
The tariff of 1923 had duty of 60 per cent.
I'd valorem upon all wool tit to enter into
the manufacture of cloth. and of 100 per
cent. ad valorem on all foreign wool worth
less than 10 cents a pound. 1t put cor
responding duty upon cloth of 30 per cent
The cost of the wool was then reckoned at
one-half the cost of the product. This bill
was advocated on the floor of the Senate
by Daniel Webster, who probably was
at least as patriotic and far-seeing a
statesman as Roger Q. Mills it was signed
by John Quincy Adams; it was petitioned
for by William Lloyd Garrison, whose son,
like the sons of Governor Andrew and
Judge Hoar, is now a recresnt Republican
deserter to the Democratic free trade
camp. Webster, John Quincy Adams and
William Lloyd Garrison were agreed in
their advocacy of this protective policy in
ISIS, on the ground that it was a sound.
wise. safe, humane policy, for the inter-
est of the working man and the employer.
OF the rich and poor alike.
A revenue tariff encourages the foreign
shop and labor and discourages the do
mestic, for you cannot have large inn
portations Of competing foreign products
without displacing domestic products,
diminishing the demand for American
workingmen and increasing the demand
for worSingmen abroad, and the revenue
tariff policy which prevailed from 1916 TO
lSG0 showed a balance of trade against
our country of $780, 100000. Under pro-
lection this balance of trade against our
country was turned in the fourteen years
from 1867 10 ISL into balance of s., 666.-
100000 in our favor.
Under protection the laboring man has
obtained the most work and enioved the
HIGHEST W TIM farraa- ha
nidcent home market in the world and the
consumer cheaper products than under a
revenue tariff. In the last twenty wears
under protective tariff We have reduced
the national Indebtedness . per cent, and
the indebtedness of counties and munich
padties over Is per cent. 1t is with COM
munities as it is with individuals: they do
rot pay their debts rapidly except they are
exceptionally prosperous. The condition
Of the poor in the great city of New York
was never so wretched as it was in 1855. q
year that is included in the period that
Democratic orators describe as the golden
period Of American history, period when
= New York and Boston merchants had
their moral vision blinded with cotton
dust and were hand and glove with the
Southern merchants and traders IN the
human flesh Of slavery
The principle of the new tariff law is 10
put the tariff upon the foreign products
that compete with American products and
thus encourage American production and
labor. We never had SIS much foreign
trade in any twelve months as in the last
twelve months. and Europe paid Us ssa,-
0po,ooo of gold, representing the excess
they bought Of VI over what We bought