The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-25


spring in its infancy. A conspicuous d1-
vergeDce of the parties was marked by
these affiliations, and. in 1875: when Jay,
treaty with England was ratified by Con-
gress anG signed by the president, there
was no longer any question as to the in
dividual status of the people. The Re
publican party universally denounced Jay
and the administration as disloyal to :he
Union. The provisions of the treaty were
such that it still permitted England to
continue her outrageS on American COM
merce and impress our seamen. 1t was not
generally thought that Washington would
subscribe his name to such document,
disloyalty to American interests went up
from the Republican ranks. ASperSlonS
on his character were carried to such an
extent that he remarked, Il would rather
be in my grave than in the presidency
Jay was burned in effigy in many of the
principal cities.
The ratification of this piece of misdir-
ected craftsmanship, and a lack of Anglo
Saxon dignity and heroism in connection
with the passage of those two vicious
statutes, of alien and sedition under
Adams administration insured the over
throw of the Federalist party. The genu-
inc elements of heroism and patriotism
were particularly eXempified through this
and the succeeding decade in the Repub-
lican party. The composition of the Fed.
eralist party was undoubtedly largely OF
Tory extraction, for the extreme Federal
ISIS wanted to establish a monarchfcal
form of government after that of England
Hamilton himself is reputed as having
wanted to crown a prince in America 1t
is further evidenced from the fact tnat
country, a government that the ant-ted-
erallstS had naturally learned TO nate.
Those who were thoroughly English, VINO
at the commencement of the war favored
reconciliation, were quite easily reconciled
to the offenSe committed, but the broad,
unselfish, heroic, patriotic Democratic
what he demanded retribution for the
crime of England. and considered that he
owed an ineXtinguishable debt TO that
country that so bravely fought for his
home and independence Jefferson showed
the true character of an American in re-
fusing a treaty like Jays and in the
recommendation of the famous embargo
act of 1897. 1t was retaliatory against
France and England, whose Berlin de-
crees and orders in council had so COM
pletely ruined our commerce. 1t was a
species of retaliation that greatly crippled
those powers, and that should have been
declared against England in 1895.
Under Jeffersons first administration
duties were reduced and were not changed
until Monroe's accession to the chief mag
iStracy when in 1916 tariff was made
protective to meet the expense of the war,
and also for incidental protection to in
dustries. Monroe himself recommended in
cidental protection. This measure was
contemporaneous with the first agitation
of tariff reform in England. In 1917 an
act was passed by Congress continuing
the duties on cotton and wool for seven
years, being conceived that at the eXpira-
tion of that time those industries would
be sufficiently well established as to main
tain their own independence. In 1919 tar
/ if measure passed the House but was
! killed in the Senate.
| Practically there was no further tariff
I legislation until 1924 when a high protec-
/ tive tariff was erected to exclude foreign
goods, eminently Satisfa Glory to the New
| England states, and unanimously objec-
tionable to the south. The south was and
! since has been an agricultural district,
and the north manufacturing. The south
| denounced il as unconstitutional and sec
tIonat and hostile to thsir interests. A
Federalist majority In Congress- passed
the tariff of 1928, being more thoroughly
protective than any preceding one. 1t for
| titled and encouraged the south in theil
determination for notification. The north.
ern states knew that the south in the pos
session of slave property had certain ad.
vantages SO in order to make conditions
more favorable to them, eXtorted unrea-
| sonable tariff taxes, which were so in
curious 10 the agricultural interests of the
southern Democracy. Accordingly in 1S3;
upon the enactment of the tariff OF
that date, South Carolina passed
the famous notification ordinance, based
upon the Kentucky and Virginia resolu-
| lions OF us, maintaining that the Con
Stltutlon was compact by which the
States had surrendered only limited por-
ton of their sovereignty. Then whenever
the federal government undertook tc
oVerstep the boundaries of its delegated
| authority 1t was the right and duty oil
the states to interpose and maintain the
rights they had reserved to themselves
The great Statesman CLAW. who was the
incarnation Of patriotism, came forth
with his compromise tariff and prevented
a civil war. General Jackson with an i'm
penetrable resolution would have gone in
| to 1t. By the terms of the compromise
duties on imports were to continue fol
ten years at the expiration of which time
they were to be reduced to a uniform
schedule of 20 per cent. This was re-
ceived with much satisfaction by the ag.
riculturistS Of the south. Jackson, whose
! elevation to Office was due to Crawford's
failing health, the first choice of the
south, was not in favor of free trade, but
was rather tinctured by the sophisms OF
protection, therefore the south transfer
red their attachment to Nica-i'r"Si"o'7-
Calhoun. In accordance with the last
passed, constructed on the basis of the
compromise act. The Protectionlsts, re
CARELESS of the intercession that prevent
ed civil war, still insisted on high pro
lection, but Tyler, like noble Roman
strenuously opposed it with a sensitive
recollection of the history Of ten year!
previous.
Under Folks administration in 1916 an
other tariff was scheduled, being based
upon the strict constructionist theory
which was with the design to secure suf
machinery. This was followed in 1857 un
der Buchanan's presidency by the enact
ment of the most thoroughly free trade
measure since 1916. 1t was entirely con
iSOndIlI Win lle principles OF democracy
and but for the disintegration in Demo
: cratic ranks consequent upon conflicting
views of the predominant question, SlaV
cry, would have been perpetuatet
through all the years of Republican su
premacy, and that dark tragedy, the war
that blots the pages of our history would
not have occurred. The nation to-da.
would be standing "tfp-toe on the noun
! tain tops Of prosperity. and these tempo
rary commissions would have been elimin
ated.
Such, then, is brief exposition of tariff
legislation down to the introduction OF
new and tragic scene in the great theat r
of American life. We draw the curtain
, over Democratic activity. and behold tn
tragedians of new play consisting o
three acts. The first entitled 1.-The Wa
, and Protection the second THE Demon
, etization of Silver" and the third 9TH
= Piracy of AcKinleyism," the plot of tn
: last being the fostering of monopoly b.
, robbing the poor, the leading character
; being launcelots and shylocks Some O
! the characters of this act are the mos
eminent tragedians of the nineteenth
: as the financial stars of the play, Car
negie. Spreckles, HaVemeyer, Mckinley
? etc. Mckinley, however, is the centra
; figure of the act, and like Caesar is des
I tined to assassination (politicaD. Whe
: the salutary effects of Democratic legis
lafion are felt by the people, then a mil
5 lion political dangers will be 1ourishe
: and extinguish forever the political an
2 social influence of those monsters.
1t was generally understood that if Lin
/ coin or q Republican President was elect
ed the south would secede, for prominer
1 Republicans had expressed thei
: determination to suppress SLAYER
E whether constitutional or not The de
Tenders of the proposition that the Unio
, was indissoluble overlooked the constft
7 uent elements of the contract consolidat
l ing the thirteen original colonies, or ]
not, in their zeal for the destruction @
slavery disregarded them The electio
: of a Republican President precipitate
the civil war and that party is largel
: responsible for the dreadful execution @
those sorrowful days.