Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-09-05

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the most lightly upon the shoulders
of the American people and which,
while raising the needed revenue,
shall stimulate and encourage Ameri-
can production and promote and fos-
ter the great occupations and employ
ments of the people. Now there are
two kinds Of tariff in this country.
One is the British tariff, which is ad-
vocated by the democratic party, and
the other is the American tariff, advO-
Gated by the republican party. One
is a tariff for revenue only, the other
is a tariff for revenue, raising all the
revenue required for public purposes,
and while doing it, serving the treas
ury of the United States, and promot-
ing the great industries of our own
people, The tariff for revenue only is
exactly what the term implies-it is a
tariff for no other purpose but to
raise revenue for the public treasury.
1t has no other object; it has no other
mission; it proposes to do nothing
but to put revenue into the public
u
cupations of the people; it takes no
heed of the industries, it never takes
into consideration the skill, genius,
effort and endeavor of the American
people, does nothing to encourage
them, but coolly levies its tariff upon
foreign products coming into the
United States, which will produce the
largest amount of revenue with the
smallest rate of tariff. The protec
tive tariff does all the revenue tariff
can do and does more. The protec-
tive tariff raises all the revenue re-
quired for public purposes. 1t never
has failed but three times in our his
tory and then twas in a time of great
national emergency like war, when
we were compelled to resort to tthe
other system of taXation-internal
taxation, and raise the required reve-
nue. for public purposes. So [ repeat,
that protective tariff SO far as the
revenue is concerned, does every
thing that a revenue tariff can do or
proposes to do and does it with the
same certainty that revenue tariff
has been able to do in our
own country. The protective tariff
does more than that, it not only puts
into the federal treasury all the money
required for public services, but while
doing it, SO imposes it's duties upon
foreign products as to discriminate in
favor of our own against competing
foreign products.
Now the principle upon which reve-
nue. tariff is levied is to put duty
upon foreign product which does
not compete with home product and
you will readily see that tariff of
that sort put upon non n-competing for
eign products will produce the very
largest possible revenue for the pub
lie treasury. You put tariff upon
tea, upon coffee, upon many drugs
which we do not and can not produce
in this country, or put a tariff upon
sugar-we had tariff upon sugar for
nearly a hundred years of our national
life, when we were not able to produce
all the sugar we consumed-and you
can readily see the enormous reven
ues that would come into the public
treasury from a tariff upon those
stuffs, because the very necessities of
American people compel them to go
abroad and buy those products, be-
cause they are not produced at home
and the amount of revenue would only
be limited to the want of the people
of the United States, and their ability
to go abroad and buy. Now the pro-
tective tariff is levied upon the exact
opposite principle. Everything which
we can not produce in this country,
save and except luxuries, are permit
ted to come in free and go directly to
the people, and tariff is imposed un
der the protective principle upon
those products which compete with
the products of our own soil, our own
shops, and enterprises of our own peo-
pie. That is, we say SO long as we
have to have tariff, and all parties |
cOncede we must have tariff, that |
that must be the chief source of reve- |
nue. to the government, SO long as we
have to have tariff the republican
party says put that tariff upon the for
eign product that competes with the
American product. Put the burden
upon the foreign product, the like of
which you produce at home and make
it little harder for the competing for
eign product to come in when the
place belongs to the former, so that
the American purchasers and the
American producers can fairly have
the American market to which they
are fairly and justly entitled That