The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-02


lican tariff declaration in the Minneapolis
platform.
REPUBLICAN,. DRHocxAr1c.
We believe that all ar When custom-house
tcles which can not be taxation Ia levied upon
proaucsd In tina Unfted articles of any kind
produced In this coun.
-r-,s Sf-...s try. tbs di ference be-
snouAu 70 "1u''se1 Aee tween the cost OF labor
OF ouH, ana snas on all here and abroad, when
imports coming into such difference exists
competition with the fully measures any
ufoducts OF American j-possible benefits to Ia
labor there should ba Dor. In making reduc-
1890. 1919 -, = tons in taxes 1t 10 not
the difference between domcstic indu.trt...
Wages u nome ana but rather to promote
abroad their healthy growth
For this Democratic resolution recogniz-
ing and affirming protection the Chicago
convention substituted another resolution
announcing Republican protection" as
fraud and robbery. and declaring that
the federal government has no constitu-
tional power to enforce and collect tart Il
duties Except for the purpose Of revenue
only"
tits significant fact that $50 members
Of the convention voted for the tariff plank
- originally presented by the committee
on resolutions. This original protection
tariff plank was framed by Cleveland's
managers. and Henry Watterson says that
Cleveland approved of this protection
plank as he did the protection
astraddle" In 1854. The resolution
denouncing protection and declar-
ing for . tariff for revenue only
Was opposed by the solid vote of Arkan-
sas, California, Connections, Kansas,
Minnesota, New Jersey. Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin,
and all these states afterward voted solidly
for Cleveland's nomination.
It Is clear that Cleveland and his man.
ayers feared a declaration of tariff for
revenue only, because they knew that
there were thousands Of protection DEM
ocrats in the doubtful states Of the North
who would repudiate this free trade plat
form and its candidate. These protec-
ZIONIST Democrats are intelligent enough
to know that as far back as 1s46 tho COM
mercial prosperity of the country was
wrecked by the experiment Of tariff for
revenue. Under this tariff of 1916
infant industries were crushed
out, and thousands of wage workers
found themselves in such q condition
OF enforced idlcness that it was found
necessary to open up soup houses in every
ward in New York where persons who had
been deprived of work through that tariff
policy were fed. At the time we speak of
there were 26l, 155 paupers in the state of
New York in total population of $500.
600, or one pauper to every thirteen in
habitants.
The disastrous consequence of the tariff
Tor revenue enacted in 1s46 were thus
described by President Buchanan: "In
the midst of unsurpassed plenty in all the
productions and in oil the elements of
national wealth we find our manufactures
suspended, our public works retarded, our
private enterprises OF different kinds
abandoned, and thousands Of useful laborers
fhrown out Of employment and reduced to
rant."
These Democratic protectionists in the
doubtful states, whether employers or en-
ployed, will never vote for tariff for reye-
nue. only, that again invites the wreck of
American industry that was accomplished
through the revenue tariff of lS4G. The
South, that favored a tariff for revenue
only and fastened it upon the country in
lsi6. favors free trade today and hopes to
iasten it upon us by the election of Cleve-
land and Democratic congress and Sem
ate. 1t is true that Virginia is divided
upon the subject, but the comments of the
Southern press upon the Chicago platform
show that the South is still welded to Its
old theory that the South should till the
fields and let Europe do the manufacture
ing.
While the South bitterly needs the de-
veiopment of manufactures to help her to
wealth and prosperity she still throws up
her hat for free trade" the South was
responsible for the disastrous revenue tar.
lit OF lsi6; it waved its Confederate stars
and bars for the free trade" that WAS
voiced in its Montgomery constitution;
the Mills bill, sectional free trade" meas
ure, was Southern born and bred. and
the tariff for revenue only" plank
was fitted To the Chicago platform by
Southern brains and nailed there fast bv
Southern votes, The North repudia,ed
the Mills bill rs a Southern scheme con.
trived by hide-hound Southern Bourbon.
Mills, OF Texas. and the North will Ger.
fanny repudiate the Chicago tariff pIank
and Its candidate. The candidate waspo,
altogether satisfactory To the South hn,
the platform, in its leading issue Of the
tariff, is entirely its work, and this vii, hs
sure to condemn 1t to defeat at the hands
of the protection Democrats of the aopn.-
full states At the East and the West.
The South does not care for the nror,-
ton of its industries: its press and its
political leaders prefer the standards Of
the Old 10 the prosperity Of the New
South, bat the North Will not vote for +.
tariff which has no honest friends save in
the comparatively poor, iimping. ignorant
half of our civilization, the Old South.
which seeks tariff that will enable il 10
s,rsngle the New South in its cradle. So
obvious is the difficulty of the Democratic
tariff situation at the North that even the
London Times, slways the friend of the
American free trade party, confesses TO-
| day that Mr.. Harrison's chances are
slightly better and Mr.. CleveIand's slightly
worse than they were in lSsA