The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-12

carried Pennsylvania by 60,000 majority
over Henry Clay-claiming as he did, that
he was greater protectionist than Clay and
advocating the establishments of the fac
tory side by side with the farms-one Gre
ating home market for the products of
the other. Jackson likewise pointed to his
votes in the United States Senate IN favor
OF this old patriotic doctrine, which has
made our country what it is today.
1t was due to the advocacy of Jackson
that the tariff of 1928 was the highest ever
enacted by our government. Its enact
ment brought great prosperity. On the
retirement of Jackson from the leadership
of the Democratic party the Calhoun
British school Of political economy dom
mated the Democratic party from 1S45 up
to the war, and, except in one presidential
campaign. has controlled the platform
making in every Democratic National
Convention since the war.
These statements of Mr.. Grace are his
torical facts. A Democratic protectionist
of the school of Jefferson. Jackson and
Tilden, Mr.. Grace closes his letter with
the following defense of the principle of
protection and protests against the nom
patriotic doctrine of 'ifree trade:'
More than seven-eighths of all the people OF
our Northern, Middle and Western states are
heartily in favor OF not only an ordinary pro-
tectiyc tariff, but OF an absolute strong pro-
tective tariff on all goods that we produce or can
produce in this country, as in that case it makes
no difference IL the duty was q million dollars q
yard or million dollars pound on goods COM
ing here in competition with u.s. The price OF
our own goods would be the price of producing
them with q reasonable margin of profit, and if
more money could be made in one line OF manu-
facture this year than in other lines, more men
would so into that which yields most next year,
30 that there would be q practical equilibrium
in the whole system OF our production in factory
and in field. In this country We have had trial
enough of our American system of protection to
know that 1t is our only safe and true guide;
that 1t is no tax at all where it falls on goods
or material brought into competition with
our own; that 1t begets competition, Gre
ates cheapness and homo markets, and is
the lifeblood of our domestic commerce, which
10 the largest and greatest in volume and
value of any country in all the world. We must
have two parties but why don't the patriotic
men OF the Democracy put their feet down and
say to the Golden Club, of England, to the
Shearmans, Georges, Wattersons and Millses OF
America: Gentlemen, we will take no more OF
your medicine; we know our interests and how
to protect them here in the North, and there
are certain principles which we desire to gov
ern our fiscal affairs that we want placed in
the organic law as an amendment to our con-
stitution beyond and above all parties as the
grand, noble, American doctrine of Washington,
Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Henry Clay, Hamil-
ton, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, and all our national
statesmen and patriots of the past and present,
and that 10 high duty on all goods brought here
to compete with our own goods or materials, raw
or manufactured"