Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-07
THE DEMOCRATIC RECORD.

party shall abandon revenue reform
and taxa u tie wosds is one eg + hose
prepesterous suggestions that come
only from men who ara Ignorant ef his
tory or deNeid ef pelitieal prineiple.
ode. siIsp and Mr.. Springer could not.
if they would, and Wau'a not it they
could, abandon revapue reform, or
reverse the position ef the party.
Tr0m tie time eff Jefferson to Ceye-
land the party has been consistent in
it's opposition ta protective taxes.
The declaration OF independence was
this farmnlati ef d dsmand fer free
trade.
The first democratic platform adop-
ted gy the party called republican to
dItdnsUish it from tile rederalist,
c.me frsIa a congressional caucus at
philadelphia in 1se0, the year when
IeFalsan was FIST elected President.
liz seaana resolution g as fellows:
:.I'ree commerce Wish all natiens.
polilzeal CONNECTION with none, and
littsa sr na dip.apastie establishment
ia 1891 Jsffslssh. ia his siIst annual
message. asessarea: agriculture,
manufactures, danameroe and navIea-
tiaa. tie four rilla1s Of our prosperity,
are saas1 thriving when left free to
individual s,a.errDise." In cur early
aiisstery. NheE na ,saatian feared our
strength er regarded eur rights. every
reasonable effort was made TO develop
suk resources in order ts make us ia
dessndeates Sc az nations. TITS was done
81. sabae cases EN suaG isepert duties.
saea as uaw would lie considered fu-
i,iosts. Jefferson, Madison ana Mon
rec &ser Manifested disposition to
easaasgasss agIaen itsne, manufacture,
commerce ana nayiggattsen. as the
mGahs ef increasing eur wsr resources.
but Jefferson was particular ta say in
1875 that .stiie remaining revenue on
tbs consumption Of foreign articles is
nasa oheerfully by those who can afford
ts add foreign luxuries te domestic
cgmferts : In 1906, referring to GER
tain duties, be insisted they be retained
s'becausa they are leyie@ chiefly on
luXaries.''
The war ~ 1872 eaassl an increase
of duties. interrupted and destroyed
foreiga commerce and called for war
tariffs.
TIen. as n0W, tie beneiieiaries of
Che war tariff Ware reluctant to sorren-
iar t.leir ws,r privileges: but, Ia 1920
Grst consideration, ana AL interests
shs1ld b0 equally fovored. Ia hia inau-
gnral he said: with regard to a proper
selection of the subjects Of imnest witt
a vle@ p revenue it would seem De
me that the spirit of equity. caution
aBd oomersmise, in whieh lae oonsti-
tutiam was formed, requires that the
grsat interests of agricalture.a .aommerce
anH manufactures shsald be equally
favored. ana that perhaps the enly
exception to this rule shauld consist in
the peculiar encouragement Of any
preduos of either Of teena that may be
fonnd esseatial to cur national ia.
dependence.
La 1889, Jackson. ia bis veto of the
bank Sill, said that mest OF the diGkS1l-
ties surrounding the government ana
nost of the danger threatening the,
unian eama from the abandonment Of
the legitimate objects ef government
''ssIahy of eur rich mes, . hssaid. "have
netbeen cantent wits e9aal protection
but have beaought us to make them
riSh by acts OF Congress.
In 1885, in his annual message, he in
slstsd that Americans might be willing
for willis to pay higher prices,in order
Is encourage the establishment Of
factories. but, at the same time. be
emphatically repudiated the idea that
such policy was to be permanent,
''But, he said. ssfor this tariff of
high daties, designed for perpetual
protection, has entered into Che minds
of but few of our statesmen. The
most they have anticipated is a
temporary and generally in
cidental protection, which they main
tain has the effect to reduce the price,
by domestic competition, below that Of
the foreign article"
jackson. in his other state papers,
was consistent in his opposition to all
class legislation. denouncing every
attempt to build up one interest at the
expense of another, insisted on relief
of such necessaries of life as salt and
coal from tariff taxation, and in his
farewell address said: 1.-The govern
ment has only power to raise a revenue
or impose taxes for the purposes
enumerated in the constitution.
The vigorous intellect of Jackson,
his determined character, his broad
sympathies with the people, left theil
impress on the Democratic party.
In 1910 the Democratic convention
met at Baltimore and adopted a plat.
form declaring that ''Justice and sound
policy forbid the federal government
to foster one branch of industry to the