The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-28
4 TARIFF FOR REVENUE ONLY.

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form declared, as it does today. for tariff
| for revenue only. General Hancock was
nominated on that platform; he wa,
''war Democratic splendid soldier; his
| military service was considered by Grant
| to rank him next to Sheridan and Sher-
man on the list of our great commanders;
his military fame was so great that
General Garied's soldiership as
chief of staff to General Rose
Grams was completely extinguished
as a political factor in the canvass. So
| much stronger was Hancock than the
| record OF his party that as late as the
middle of August 1880. General Garfield
was completely discouraged and came
East to hold council of war. The result
of that council was that Roscoe Conkling
| and General Grant stumped Indiana.
Ohio, and New York for Garfield
| and the whole argument of Conkling's
great speeches was against the Democratic
| platform plank "a tariff for revenue only"
| Conkling's appeal on this issue swept In
diana and New York into the Republican
column and elected Garfield. Had Han
cock carried New York he would have
| been elected
If tariff for revenue only was repudi-
! ated by American labor for the imperfect
| because inconsistent protective tariff of
| 1880, which taxed sugar at the rate of
$4,000 900, which is today on the free
| list. the prospect is very bright
| that American labor will refuse to accept
tariff for revenue only in place Of the
absolutely fair protective tariff known as
| the Mckinley act. The Democracy were
so discouraged by their defeat in 1850 on
| the issue of tariff for revenue only that
| in 1884 their tariff plank was cast in the
| spirit of protection; and in 1888 they did not
| dare go beyond declaration for sectional
| free trade; that is they declared for taxed
sugar, direct revenue tax; for free wool
and taxed wooden goods; that was the
| Mills bill Endorsed by Grover Cleveland.
Today the Mills, Watterson and Cleve-
| land Democracy have moved forward to a
| blunt declaration of tariff for revenue
only, although Mills no later than Octo-
raw materials, with protection to the fin
| ished product. Today. however the DEM
ocratic party proposes frankly to make
| England the workshop of the world, and
America merely one of the countries that
| are to supply England with her raw
material and take in return her manu-
| featured goods. A tariff for revenue only
is tariff upon foreign products levied
with no other object in view but
| revenue, unmindful Of every other
| consideration. not caring for the
industries and occupations of the
| people. A revenue tariff does nothing
| that protective tariff does not do, for
protective tariff raises revenue for the
government, which is all that a revenue
tariff assumes to do. but protective
| tariff, besides raising revenue, also stimu-
lates the industries of the people and has
secured to us during the last thirty ysars
| the first rank in mining, agriculture and
manufacturing. A tariff for revenue only
means the removal of all duties from
| produced in this country, and the impos-
| ton of duties on commodities most wide
| ly consumed which we do not produce
| ourselves. and on articles of luxury.
| Under this tariff for revenue only the
people of Washington would have free
wool, free hops and free lumber, while
| duties would be laid on sugar, tea, coffee
| and other articles most largely consumed
| by the masses, which are now on the free
| list, because they are non-competitive
| products. Under tariff for revenue only
| all protection would be withdrawn
from American products, includ-
ing manufactured goods. The
| West would have no protection
| for its raw material; the East no pro-
lection for its manufactured goods. Free
raw materials and free goods means that
| American industries will fight for their
life against the Democracy this year
| in the doubtful states of the East,
| New York, Connecticut, New Jer-
sew, and in the doubtful states of the
| West, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
| For this tariff for revenue only the Dem
ocracy cannot hope to carry single man
ufacturing state.
The Democratic juggle OF 1883, which
stood for protection for manufacturers and
for free raw materials, was beaten, and
surely tariff for revenue only cannot hope
| to replace the Mckinley tariff, W hich is an
| absolutely fair tariff, since 1t protects both
| the producer of raw materials and the
| manufacturer Of the finished product
This Democratic tariff juggle of lSSS failed
| OF endorsement because its advocates
| could not answer this searching question ::
Is there any reason why the manufacturer OF
| a carriage should be protected. and not the
| maker of ITS wheels ana axlvs? why the weaver
| OF cloth should be protected, and net the spin
| ner of yarnT why the manuacturer of forks and
! spades and not the makers OF iron and handles ?
| why the manufacturers OF woOieus and not the
| growers of woo,r why the manufacturers Of
cigar. and not the growers o: tobaccof
The people would have none of this
Mills iugge in ISIS; does anybody of
intelligence suppose that when the pro-
ducers of the West and the manufacturers
OF the East are both thrown on the defen-
sive in the doubtful states by tariff for
revenue only that Grover Cleveland can
POSSIBLY be elected? 4 tariff for revenue
only is utterly odious TO New
York and Connecticut. and the Democ.
racy must lose in these states
the votes they won in 1SSS. when
Muls and Cleveland angled for supper;
with the hait of free raw materials and
taxed manufactured goods. The acricul