The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-09-17
WHEELING DAILY ITEILGENcER SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER II 1882
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have cheaper labor in this country.
coHsrIrUnoHAIITY OF TARIFF.
Isis strange that a great party in q
national convention should deliberately
declare that protection is unconstitu'
tioual. when the second act passed BY
anAmerican Congress, drafted by James
Madison and signed by George Wash.
ington July 4, 1850, contained this pre-
amble:
"WHEREAs, II is necessary for the sup.
port OF government, for the discharge oil
the debts OF the United States and the
encouragement and protection OF man.
ufactures, that duties be laid on goods,
wares, and merchandise imported.
It will also be remembered that one
OF the causes that led up to the strug'
gle for independence was a desire on
the part OF the colonists to manufacture
their own goods and not buy from Eng
land.
The Democratic platform adopted in
1882 uses this language:
THAT an adequate protection TO
American industry is indispensable to
the prosperity OF the country, and that
an abandonment OF the policy at this
period would be attended with conse.
quences ruinouS to the best interests OF
the nation"
On this platform Andrew Jackson was
elected President, and constantly favor
ed protection while in Office. The
Democratic platforms OF 1854 and 1885
clearly recognize protection.
Added to all this the supreme court
OF the United States has decided re-
Gently that the Mckinley bill is con-
stitutional, and all good citizens are
bound by it as the law Of the land.
1t is not wise, it is not sound policy,
it is not patriotic for a great party in a
national convention 10 declare and adj
wise the people that law OF Congress
decided by the supreme court OF the
United States to be constitutional is I'M
constitutional.
DECLARATIONS OF FREE TRADERS.
Henry Watterson, author of the tariff
plank in the Chicago convention, one
of the leading free traders Of this coun-
try, recently said in speaking Of protec-
ton:
1--WE mean to rip up, exterminate,
abolish. annihilate. and in the loulest
ignominy and disgrace, every vestige
of the fraud called protection, wherever
we can find it, and, as fast us the needs
OF the government, increased tenfold by
the Republican party, will permit. See
Because now, as evermore, until the
Robber Tariff is thing OF the past, and
Republican protectionism is as dead as
African slavery, the Democratic law
and gospel stands"
This wild and lurid language sounds
like the free-trade talk in the South in
the time OF Andrew Jackson and just
before the war.
This sentiment is concurred in by
Henry George and other leaders, and
shows the purposes OF the extreme
wing of the Democratic party. The eX-
tremists in party always lead.
CONFEDERATE CONSTITUTION AND CHICAGO
PLATFORM.
The Chicago platform goes further in
the direction of free trade than any
declaration of free trade principles, ex-
cept that contained in the Confederate
constitution, and in the notification or
dinance of South Carolina, passed No
vember "a, 1882.
The Confederate constitution has this
clause:
"The Congress shall have power to
lay and collect taxes, duties, and ex-
cises for revenue only; necessary to pay
the debts, provide for the common de-
fence, and carry on the government OF
the Confederate States; but no bounties
shall be granted from the treasury; nor
shall any duties or taxes on importa-
tions from foreign nations be laid to
promote or foster any branch OF indus.
try"
The notification ordinance, passed
November "a, 1882, is MS follows:
"Whereas the Congress OF the United
States by various acts, purporting to be
acts laying duties and imposts on for
eign imports, but in reality intended for
the protection Of domestic mauufac-
lures, and by wholly exempting from
taxation certain foreign commodities,
such as are produced in the United
States, hath exceeded it's just
power under the constitution"
And the Chicago platform reads:
1--WE declare it TO be a fundamental
principle OF the Democratic party that
the federal government has no constitu-
tional power to impose and collect tariff
duties, except for purposes OF revenue
only"
In principle and in language all three
are nearly alike. Andrew jackson an
swered the South Carolina ordinance by
preparing to send troopst there to enforce
the laws. Just sixty years after this
event Democratic national convention,
under the inspiration OF the only Dem
ocratic President the country has had
in thirty years, substantially declares
what South Carolina declared.
Past history in this country justifies
the statement that declaring laws to be
unconstitutional in convention is but
the first step, the next is to refuse to
obey them. Will the Democratic party
go this far in its opposition to protec-
ton, and in the interest OF free trade as
it did in South Carolina in 1882? One
thing is clear-under the confederate
constitution protection was unconstitu-
tionaL
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Two FREE TRADERS.
Edward Atkinson is a statisticinn
whose standing and ability is acknowl-
edged throughout the country. He has
made statistics and economic questions
the study Of lifetime. He is looked
upon as good authority, especially by
Democrats.
Mr.. Grover Cleveland is a politician,
and candidate for the Presidency.
Both are free traders. Mr.. Cleveland,
in his Madison squarespeeCh, accepting