The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-03-17
its business was shaped on this
idea. Manufacturers built their


plants, bought their machinery and
carried on their business with the
expectation that in that business
there was an element of protection
against the free Importation Of
foreign goods.
The importer in New York or
other Atlantic cities shaped his
business on this plan and with this
understanding. The people who
made purchases knew that In max.
ing those purchases they were pay
ing out a certain amount of the
money which they parted with as
tax which went into the treasury
for the support of the government.
They did this freely and without
the least hesitation. During all
these eighty years, whenever the
question came squarely to an issue
the tariff was always supported by
the people. The doctrine of free
trade had no place in American
politics. The leaders of the Demo.
cratic party were the advocates Of
low tariff and low taxation, for the
tariff by them was considered a
tax just much as it would be if it
had been levied directly upon the
goods in their shops and in their
stores. The Democratic party
throughout its entire history has
been a party in favor of a tariff as
a means of raising revenue and as
a consequent protection to labor
and to money invested in indust-
ries.
1t is only within the last few
years that a party has sprung up
indoctrinated with the English
system, with English ideas on
finance and taxation. They seem
to be determined that the revenue
system, which is nothing less than
the tariff system, shall be over
turned and that in its place the
English system shall be placed.
Some of our colleges have been
teaching this doctrine. Many of
the papers have been full of it and
spreading it broadcast, and the
theory has taken such shape that
now the people of the country must
come forward and decide whether
tariff system shall be maintained
at all or whether the whole system
shall be overturned and free trade
or the English system take its
place. 1t is no use to dodge this
question.
While this question is not entire
ly a local one it has SO shaped it.
self in the present congress that a
large proportion of its advocates
are from the southern states. They
are persistent, they are determin'
ed and undoubtedly are sincere in
their convictions and therein is the
greater danger to the republic
The question is upon US as to
whether we shall throw open Oul
markets free to all the rest of the
world and place our labor upon an
equal footing with the rest of the
world, or whether we shall main
tain the A merican system of taxa
tion and 60 on as we have in the
past in our growth and prosperity
We charge this condition o.
things greatly to the Mckinley
bill. 1t was.a bill uncalled for. Il
was extortionate in it's demands
1t is the embodiment of organized
greed and it has forced the pendu
lum to swing too far the other way
There is but one safety and that i!
to avoid b0th Sylla and Charybdis
to sail between the two extremes
which is to continue the system o
a tariff for revenue with incidenta
protection. We rejoice to see tina
the Democratic senators represent
ing the great manufacturing states
have made II stand on this ques
tion. We hope that they will have
the backbone to stand straight VI
and demand that tariff shall b'
enacted in accordance with histor
ic Democracy and the Democratic
platform of 1892.
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