Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-08-20
A BIT or HISTORY.

Itcpubsican protectiop naa q sport and
Instructive history. Here v y h. Q Tow
words. aud thA f.lcts snd dAees bore given
may be verified by any man who has no
cess TO documents. Republicans them
selves viii not deny those facts and dates.
though they will hsrdly ngrce To tho con
clusions that must bo drawn from them
BY fair minded mon
When tho 60 called Morrill tariff was
passed In lsoa tho tayjR then tn foCco wac
extremely loysi In fact, tho lowest stnco
1916, and tho country bad ncN had really
high protective tariff for many yeara
Speculation 10 no way connected With
tho tariff has paralyzed business In 1S67.
and tho Morrill, tariff was adopted avowed
ly to increase dwindling revenue 10 In
creased duties, but Mr.. Morrill, himself
has declared that 1t was not asked for and
VIVA coldly welcomed by the mannfactur-
ers Senator John Sherman declaree thas
tho manufacturers wished TO be let alona
That was tho first advance Of duties
after 1857, bnt 10 did not mark return DO
protective feeling, and Mr.. Morrill, DO
clarcd that 1t was tho intention Of tho act
20 restore tho duties Of lSia Now, tho
tariff Of 1910 was In tho main a revenue
tariff.
When the country gos well into the
civil war large revenues became necessary.
and In July, 1892, an internal revenue bin,
taxing domestic manufacturers. was
passed. In tho same month new tariff
bin waa passed Its nuthors declared that
IL increased duties only In order that high
ly taxed domestic products might Dos have
TO compete with low taxed or duty FREQ inn
L.. "a
Republican protection was merely 70 mako
up to domestic manufacturers for the
taxes exacted by tho internal revenua In
some instances, however, duties were high
enough to do n great deal moro than thia
Other tariff acts wero passed in 1868 and
1894, In each case, it was declared. for tho
purpose OF ofrScttiay tho effects Of tho In
ternal rovenue taxes. But tho framers OF
the bill were genuine Republican protec-
tionists, and In many instances they per
mittcd the manufacturers who were b.
profit by the measure to say Just what
certain duties should le. TNe bill was
passed In haste, especially by the sonatA
This practically closes the series OF war
tariffs, aud the tariff ma Il .s after the
oct Of 1854 has becn tho basis OF all subsV
quent tariffs with few conspicuous eS-
ceptions md mnny trifling variations The
average ratio Of duties on dutiablo goods IN
1865 was rather more than a7,T per cent
When the war was over congress beaap
to take of tho internal revenue taxes, and
by 1872 all domestic products cave splritu-
ous and malt liquors, tobacco, matches,
patent medicines and few minor articles
were mado tax free. 10 must DO renem,
bered that the excuse for Republican pro
lection 70 domestic manufactures was the
fnct that they wero taxed for the purposc
of raising internal rovcnnA When she
latter taxes were removed, Of course the
high protective duties should logically
have been removed. DuS they were not
Manufacturers fattened by Republican
protection, demanded that &c DO continued
aDd continued it was, In fact, dutlas iI
special cascs were Increased from tlmo tC
tlme.
Tho cry of protection 20 infant indnstyiGl
1ts raised and tho workingman vas use
wtso put forward as an oxcuso' Cor contin
ued Republican protection. In spite of 4
growing acntlmnnt against tho owl systen
tho ntcrested manufacturers have bee1
ablo To mGiutain duties ou most axticlee
and now wo have the Mckinley tariff
avowcdly passed as radical measurc O
Republican protection. with pcvensle a. ,
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