The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-06
JEFFERSON A PRoTEcTloMisT.
Born April 10, 1T43; Died July 4, 1926.
and Left These Legacies of Wisdom.

ana Lett These Legacies of Wisdom.
Thomas jefferson is dead and cannot
speak for himself. Hence it is that the
cheeky crowd of free trade Performers"
dare, on his anniversary, to invoke his
honored name in their nefarious war
fare on American industry But, for
tunately, jefferson while living made
himself sufficiently clear on the subject
of protection. We present below few
brief extracts from the many of the
illustrious patriots utterances which
might be quoted in excoriation of the
Hon. Grover Cleveland and his anti
American free trade followers:
Is THIS M'KINLEY SPEAKING?
To be independent for the comforts of life we
must fabricate them ourselves
We must now place the manufacturer by the
side of the agriculturist.
The grand inquiry now is, shall we make our
own comforts or go without them at the will of
a foreign nation?
He, therefore, who is now against domestic
manufacturers must be for reducing us either
to a dependence on that doreign) nation, or be
clothed in skins and to live like wild beasts in
dens and caverns.
HAS lduBul me tHhI
are now as necessary to our independence as to
our comfort and If those who quote me as of a
different opinion will keep pace with me in pur-
chasing nothing foreign, where an equivalent
domestic fabric can be obtained without regard
TO difference OF price, 1t will not be our fault il
we do not have supply at home equal to our
demand, and wrest that weapon OF distress
from the hand which has so long wantonly
welded it.-From Jefferson's Letter to Benja.
man Austin.
JEFFERSON ON THE CHINESE WALL ARGUMENT
Ihave lately inculcated the encouragement of
manufactures to the extent Of our own con-
sumption at least of all articles of which we
raise the raw material On this the federal pa
pers and meetings have sounded the alarm OF
Chinese policy, destruction OF commerce, etc
= But l trust the good sense of our coun-
try will see that its greatest prosperity depends
on due balance between agriculture, manufac-
lures and commerce, and not to this protuber-
ant navigation, which has kept us in hot water
| from the commencement Of our government and
| is now engaging us In war.-From Jeffersons
Letter to Thomas Leiper.
INDUSTRIAL AUTONOMY SHOULD BE OUR AIM
An equilibrium of agriculture, manufactures
| and commerce is certainly become essential to
our independence Manufactures, sufficient for
our own consumption, Of what we raise the raw
material-and no more. Commerce sufficient to
carry the surplus product of agriculture, beyond
our own consumption, to market for exchang-
| ing II for articles we cannot raise-and no more.
These are the true limits Of manufactures and
| commerce. To go beyond them is to inc ease
our dependence on foreign nations and our la
bility to war.-From Jefferson's Letter to
Governor JAY
NO cLEvELANDIsM HERE.
The question now comes forward, to what
other objects shall these SURPRISES a. e. surplus
revenue) be appropriated, and the whole sur
plus of imposts after the entire discharge OF the
public debtY Shall we suppress the impost and
give that advantage to foreign over domestic
manufactures? Patriotism would certainly
prefer its continuance and application to the
great purposes of public education, roads,
rivers, canals and such other objects Of public
| improvement as it may be thought proper to
add to the constitutional enumeration of federal
Ppowers. From Jcfferson's Sixth Annual Mes
| sage to Congress
PROTECTION ONE or JEFFERsoN's LAND.
MARKS.
= TO cultivate peace and maintain commerce
r and Navigation in all their lawful enterprises,
| to foster our fisheries and nurseries OF naviga
| ton, and for the nurture of man. and protect
| the manufactures adapted to- our circumstances
etc .. these fellow citizens, are the
| landmarks by which we are to guide ourselves
| in all our proceedings Jefrersons Sec.
ond Annual Message to Congress-
FEARING FOREIGN COMPETITION.
| much fear the effects on our infant estsb-
| Iishments of the policy avowed by Mr.. Brou-
CHAM r. e., his advice to British merchants that
| they ship their products at sacrifice to Amer.
| fca so as to 'stilc in the cradle those infant
manufactures in the United States" Individ'
| ual British merchants may lose by the late i'm
mense importations, but British commerce and
| manufactures in the mass will gain by beating
down the competition of ours in our own ma r
kets.-From Jefferson's Letter to William
| Simpson
DID HE MEAN RECIPROCITY?
The history Of the last twenty years [t7gI-1Sl7l
| has been a significant lesson for us all to de
| pend for necessities on ourselves alone; and
| hope twenty years more will place the Ameri
| can hemisphere under system OF its own
essentially peaceable and industrious, and moi
needing to extract its comforts out Of the
/ eternal fires raging in the old world.-Fron
| Jefferson's Letter Accepting Membership TN the
/ Society for the Encouragement OF Domestic
| Manufactures.
JEFFERSON WOULD PROTECT SHIPPING ALSO
II particular nations grasp at undue shares OF
| our commerce, and more especially If they
seize on the means of the United States to con
| vert them into aliment for their own strength
| and withdraw them entirely from the support
of those to whom they belong, defensive and
and protecting measures become necessary on
| the part of the nation whose marine resources
are thus invaded, or IL will be dlsarmed OF Its
defense; its productions will be at the mercy OF
the nation which has possessed itself exclu
sfvely of the means of carrying them, and its
politics may be influenced by those who com
mand its commerce-From Jcfferson's Report