The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-28
gE1TTLE, rUEsDAY. july rs.
rHE rAHrrr AND ITS RECORD.

THE TARIFF AND ITS RECORD.
Chsuncy Depew makes the sound propn-
coy that the Republican party will win
1882 ON the Mckinley tariff and the silver
oct Of July 1880. The Mckinley tariff, in
our judgment, viii easily carry itself on
tile record 1t IL making. Today it gives us
cheap sugar. reciprocity IN trade with Gen.
trai and South America and the West In
dies, the establishment of tin plate fac
! tories at dozen places in the country, the
decrease Of imports and an increasing en-
pioyment for home labor and capital In the
production Of goods hitherto secured from
abroad. Our consumers of sugar and mo-
lasses alone viii save $50, 00o, 900 . year by
The operation Of the law. Under this tariff
there viii be IN end put to the useless
and senseless waste in the cost of
transportation borne by the producer OF
wheat and the manufacturer of tin plate.
We shall not send Western wheat to Wales
5000 miles TO exchange for tin plate, nor
bring Welsh tin plate 1900 miles across
ths Atlantic when tin plate manufacturers
and their workmen at st. Louis, Cleye-
land and Chicago furnish Us with home
market, nearer, surer and safer, and the
Welsh tin plate factories viii either have
70 drop prices or 60 out of business as they
ere now doing.
We shall win on the tariff policy of pro-
lection, because whenever an extensive re-
duction Of the tariff has been proposed in
the United States the party which has
brought 1t forward has been soundly
beaten. No free trade party exists in the
United States outside the lunatic asylum
and few theoretical college professors.
The Democratic party today dare not, were
they In full power, abolish duties on for
sign goods and adopt the English system
81 fires imports and direct taxation. Cleve-
land was beaten in 1883 because he advo-
Gated sectional tariff reform in shape of
sectional protection measure contrived by
Mills, Of Texas, for the benefit Of the I'M
dustriss Of the South and the WOODEN man.
ufsctursrs and importers of the East. The
American farmer and artisan voted
against the Mills bill for the reason that 1t
was . sectional, one-sided tariff under the
name Of reform. and they win repeat this
action in 1892. because they earnestly favor
ths principle Of the Mckinley act, pro-
lection which steadily enlarges the home
market for farm products and insures
American labor against European pauper
wages.
The policy Of protection IL the historic
policy Of the country; 1t seeks to encour-
ass and protect our own industries to the
point Of making them seEsustaining on
basis Of higher wages than those paid in
Europe, and its advocates deem it indis-
pensabls TO national progress on q large
scale that the fabrics Of wooden, cotton,
linen, iron. steel, glass, wood, tin and clay
which are needed here in common use.
shall be produced on our shores and not
imported generally from abroad. There
never was any other policy but protection
sustained by the leaders Of either party
until the growth Of slavery and
jealousy Of the North made Calhoun. who
voted and spoke for the protective tariff of
lsl6, an enemy of protection ten years
later. Every President from Washington
down to William III. Harrison was n pro-
tectionist, but from the day Of the ..nul-
iitication" compromise tariff of 1888
slavery and free trade were sworn allies.
The industrial disasters of 1910 were dua
to this compromise tariff of 1888; the Whir
victory Of 1870 gave us the protective tariff
net of 1872, which revived our trade and
restored our prosperity. The pro-slaverv
tariff of 1915 caused greater ruin than that
of 1888. and finally we had the armed
rebellion OF the free trade and pro-slayerv
states in 1861, when the Morrill, tariff act
restored protection &c free industries and
free labor.
The war for the Union should have
brought us the triumph of the American
idea of protective tariff whose chief
object is the building up of American
manufactures and the protection of the
free workingman in the essential matters
Of education, food, clothing. rents, wages
and work. 1t is perfectly clear that every
agitation for free trade was made by the
Bouth and its allies of the Northern Dem.
ooracy for the successful purpose OF
weakening the resources and industries
pf the North preparatory to rebellion.
md it is perfectly clear that the free
trade" agitation of today il conducted hv
The heirs, assigns and residuary legatees
pf that infamous party which under the
banner of free trade. slavery and secession
Ior forty years fomented and finally forced
IN armed rebellion against the Union.
40 General Logan always
argued, Is as much part of the legitimate
dividend OF the national war for the
Union a. emancipation. national integrity
md Federal supremacy.
The Democracy ccept their tariff policy
oday a. they always have since 1883, a.
he dictation of the South. In iSSS the
,outh, with sugar. rice and cotton cheaply
,roduced because the negro Is a cheaper
ahcrer at average daily wages of 81 cents
han when he was . slave, Of course
wanted to force the Mills sectional tariff
cheme upon the country. and destroy the
Industries of the North by opening the
,ates to the foreign manufacturers. and
hat Is exactly what Mills and Breckin-
'idge want today when they say they
rant absolute free trade with tie tariff
AIKEN from WOODEN goods aud iron. and
he Democracy outside of the demoraiIEed
Democratic protectionlsts of the Randall