Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-03

axed, and all sorts of wild legislative
:cheMes are proposed to take its place.
That the policy of protection fosters this
delusion cannot be denied. Protection
claims that the legislation is able
TO change the facts of nature and reverse |
the operation of economic laws-surely |
the widest schemes of the most visionary |
socialist never contemplated anything |
more. Again the policy of protection pro- |
duces class injustice and class division
A protective tariff must, of necessity, be q |
discriminating tariff. It does, indeed,
protect some Industries and some classes,
but ct the expense Of others. Once we
had fourishing merchant marine. We
competed successfully with England for
the carrying business of the world. We
were one of the great maritime powers of
the earth. Where Is American merchant
shipping to- daya Practically dead; taxed
to death for the advantage of the manu-
facturers. Once We were Q fourishing
agricultural nation. The farming class
was as prosperous and WE'LL to do as any
class In the community. Look ct the position
ofthe farmer to day; ibis farm mortgsged half
Its value, every year becoming more deep
~ In debt, discouraged and disheartened
he sees no way of extricating himself from
his increasing embarrassment. This is not
q natural state of things. It Is due to the
excessive taxation of the farmer for the
benefit Of the manufacturer. In short the
manufacturer demands that all Glasses be
taxed for his private benefit and under our
protection policy that is just what has
been done. This has been one of the pc.
tent causes of our recent labor troubles.
The laborers had been promised that an in
crease of protection would bring an in
crease of wages with the passage of the
Mckinley bill. When no such result did,
in fact, follow 1t they concluded that the
employers were getting the whole bsne-
at of the increased protection. The
protective policy is setting of north
against south, east against west, seaboard
against interior. Any policy which pro-
duces such an effect endangers our ma
tional union and cannot be tolerated. The
policy of protection has been q most pro-
life source of bribery and corruption in
our political life. When great and power
full corporations are able to buy protection
for their industries, when protection, that
is, the privilege of plundering the people,
ia knocked down to the highest bidder,
surely the time has come when the policy
of protection should be abandoned by the
United States. And the time for the aban-
donment has now come. The conditions
are now favorable. The plea of economic
necessity ia certainly no longer valid.
There Is no longer any excuse for the con-
tinuation of policy false in theory, and
nomic ideas. A policy dangerous to our
institutions and public morals. A policy,
too, which the voice of the people, ex-
pressed In the last presidential election,
has emphatically condemned.
HARVARD G. M'LAUaHLIN.
Frederick Chase Mclaughlin 1913. of
Somerville, Mass, was the second debater
on the negative side, and fer Harvard. He
said that the free trade theory is nothing
more than reinstatement of the old princi-
pie of labor division, which declares that
labor produces successfully only when Or
ganized.
What is the first result of free tradea It
il the intensifcation and localization of in
dustry. What follows? Consumer and
producer are widely separated and trouble
and encouragement follow. Speculation
| is the direct result of labor extension and
division. The affirmative argue that divis
| ion of labor has proved successful In the
limits of the nation, therefore, 1t should
be extended. We reply that while 1t has
caused great benefits 1t has given birth tc
the greatest curse of the nation-the spir
it of speculatisn-with commercial crises
following regularly one another. He treat
| ed of free trade in an abstract principle
and without attempting an elaborate de.
scription of our glorious republic, the
| speaker proceeded to consider the specific
| conditions of the debate. After describing
the continued prosperity of the republic
| and basing the arguments for its progress
upon Its protective system, he proceeded
to enumerate the respective advantages
which the two systems might offer. HI
l oSy ,o{&ko1 &hof thu froa fpo1a ir1.
give greater wealth to the United Statel
while sapping the sinews of its strength
giving It an unwholesoms growth, snt
proving by strong argument that for o re
public in the. condition of our nation pro
lection is necessary for It's peace and pros
perity; before the world. -.
YALE-RIcHARD Il. TYNER.
Richard Henry Tyner of-Dss Moines, Ia.
was the fifth speaker of the evening AMI
the last speaker for Yale. he eaid: 18Th
United States, like every young and grow
ing nation, clings with death like tenacit,
to any policy under which she is prosper
GUS. In the past there have been man,
changes in the policy of our government
with respect to trade relations will
other countries. It has changed from tina
of perfect freedom to that Of retaliation
+ and thence to the more modern policy o
| PAotOobAOA. AAo ooNOC6GC6 VI bAt6 POllC.
call 1t the American system, because the,
have learned the truth of the maxim tina
men are swayed more by sentiment thar
by-reason. Under the deceitful and fasci
mating title of the protective policy the,
strive to win and retain supporter
for a legaized system of the mos
daring robberies which ever dis
graced the records of any country. /
protective tariff and all legislation towar.
that end are based upon the principle tina
the government is entitled to the privileg
of legislating in favor of one man or elias
of men to the detriment of another. Sucl
principle is not in harmony with the COZ
rect policy Of our government. Is 1t not
therefore, now time to pluck up and cas-
out from our glorious union this breede
of notification, sedition and sectional ba,
feeling, and plant in it's stead an act fol-
INFLATED upon the broad principle that t
satisfy the needs of the government shout,
be the sole justifying purpose of all tax
alton. Though the United States may
rich and powerful, she has not yet reaches
the pinnacle of her fame. Situated as sh
ia she ought to DO the leader in martini
enterprise. She ought to stand unrivalle,
on the high seas. But owing to tn
deadly effect of the protective theory W
are robbed of these honors. Ameri
| JON 5AAP6 5AouAo 10 cACOuEakeu To u
all the carrying in both directions. TIL
more nearly we accomplish this object tn
closer will we approach commercial su
premacy. But never can we accomplish
while we are bound hand and foot In tn
shaekles of protection. In the words o
that distinguished patriot and orator
commerce should bs as free as the wind
of heaven. A restricted commerce is lik
man In chains, crippled In all his move
ments and bowed to the earth" England
realized the truth of this when in 1880 al
chains and burdens were stricken off he
commerce. England is now the mistree
of the seas and trades with the entir
world. We are but small retail shop IL
the vast world of commerce. In conclu
sion, we claim that the policy of protec
ton should be now abandoned by tn
United States. The time has now come
the conditions are now favorable and tn
people are now clamoring for the absndon
ment of this unjust, unconstitutional ant
highly detrimental policy.
| AARvARD-T. ". DALLING Frs
Ladies and Gentlemen: The last gentle
man spoke in a very picturesque manner
of England as the mistress of the sea. Tn,
trouble with the gentlemen on the afirma
tive.is that they want to make England
mistress of us. He also spoke of Chimes,
war-that old free trade argument of which
we are all 80 tired. China is a country
behind tho times in almost everything.
ask the gentleman who spoke of a Chinese
war in the United States, are we behind
the times in pretty near everything a,