The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1894-07-21
FOREIGN FREE TRADE.
The Tariff rs Protection 60 Domestic
Manufactures.

Manufactures.
In the United States IN internal rev.
enue tax Is essentially n war tax.
Three times the government has had
TO resort 10 IL, each time To meet the
extraordinary expenditures and debts
created by war. In each case IL pro-
tested purpose 20 abandon such
taxes as soon as the state of the pub
lie finances would permit. This spe-
cies of tax has always met the most
determined opposition from the peo-
pie and has always provoked bloody
conflict with the public officers At
the close of the revolutionary war an
internal tax was adopted. which pre-
cipitated the Shay rebellion and was
very soon abandoned. Again, at the
close OF the war OF 1912, IL was tried.
and after a few years abandoned as
promised.
The present system was adopted
during the civil war, the enormous ex-
pense and debts OF which compelled
resort TO every possible device for rails
ing money and with the most solemn
assurances that IL should be aban-
doned as soon as practicable. This
pledge was faithfully kept in view by
the republican party while in power.
All taxes on occupations, on incomes,
on legal and commercial papers, and
on manufactures, except spirits, beer
and tobacco, have been repealed. And
1t is the pledge and the intention OF this
party TO keep its promise and abandon
the whole internal tax system as soon
as practicable.
But the government must have
money with which To meet It's vast ex-
penditures, and this money il must de-
rive from some form of taxation. And
from the beginning OF the government
IL has been our policy 20 derive this
money from customs duties. The tariff
is a tax on foreign products brought
into our country 20 be sold in our mar
kets. 1t is the only form in which we
can make foreigners who enjoy the
protection of person and property
given them by our laws, and who have
the profits OF trade in our markets,
contribute 10 the expense of maintain
ing them. And 30, the second law
placed on our statute books, by the
FIRST congress OF the United States,
was n tariff. This tariff was avowedly
adopted for the two-fold purpose OF af-
fording revenue for the treasury and
protection TO domestic manufactures.
And the principles OF this act, pre-
pared by Madison, advocated by Ham
ilton and approved by Washington, is
still the republican shibbolith. We
are for tariff for revenue, so adjusted
AS 20 protect our own manufactures and
thus furnish employment for our own
labor.
Our political opponents do not stand
on the Same platform with us. In spite
of constant denials, in spite OF the
warnings and opposition Of individual
leaders in their own ranks, year by
year they are growing holder and bold
or in their advocacy of free trade. This
was the undoubted doctrine of the
democratic party before the civil war,
ard back TO this position they arc
steadily drifting as the inevitable re-
suit OF their fundamental doctrine OF
state rights. In ls4S their national
platform declared that tho fruits OF
the great political triumph OF 1914
have fulfilled the hopes Of the democ-
racy Of the union in the noble inn
pulse given 10 the cause OF free trade
by the repeal OF the tariff OF ls42, and
the creation OF the more equal and pro-
ductive tariff of lS46." In 1856, they
again declared, 1.-THE time has come
for the people OF the United States 60
declare themselves in favor OF free
seas and progressive free trade
throughout the world" During the
rebellion democratic doctrine burst
into full flower as applied 90 revenue
systems by provision in the confed.
crate constitution prohibiting their
congress lcvying an import duty FOR
! the encouragement of any industry.
/ And since the war, each tariff bill they
have prepared goes further ard further
In the direction OF their free trade
| theories, until now, in the Wilson bill,
we are challenged TO n choice between
the two fundamentally different sys.
| TENS OF external and internal taxation.
This bill cuts down the tariff, equally
regardless OF protection and OF reve-
nue., and proposes TO supply the def.
cheney by "A return TO the income tax
and an extension OF other internal
taxes We are at the forks OF the road
IL is no longer question OF tariff for
revenue only, as against n tariff for
| protection. IL is now tariff for de
ficiency and permanent adoption oil
| internal taxation for revenue The
democratic cry OF tariff reform" "a
tariff for revenue only" is demon
strated 60 be insincere. It's true mean
ing is, free trade in foreign goods
and internal taxation To supply the
revenue"
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A BRAlNLESS PARTY.