Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1894-04-19
PUBLIC OPINION.
DANA, HILL AND CLEvELANl


undeniable by any Democrat; namely.
that under the rule of a tariff for reye-
nue. only" the administrations scheme
of a tariff for deficiency" can have no
standing either in expediency or politics;
and that an income tax is fundamental
absurdity in the purposes and doings of
the Democracy.
AS it stands to-day the White House
tariff bill, for cleveland only" is an
outrage and fraud.
1t pnts new and fresher face on the
Democratic party, when after so many
of its once trusted leaders have COM
bined for its surrender to its inappeasa-
BILE enemies, an able and stalwart par
tisan steps to the front for its salvation.
The country must honor David Bennett
Hill.
THE LAW OF sELF-PRESERvATION.
New York Tribune.
Senator Lodge is one of the few men
in public life capable of discussing
economic questions on the broadest
grounds. His tariff speech is not only a
destructive assault upon all the academic
sophistries of English Free Trade, but
also philosophical defence of the
American Protective system. 1t ought
to be reprinted by the Republican college
clubs, and circulated among students
who are accustomed to hear in Free
Trade class rooms the changes rung
upon the law of supply and demand and
the superior policy of buying in the
cheapest and selling in the dearest
market 1t points to self preservation
as higher law than any of the discred
tied theories invented by political econ
omists. That law is recognized by every
civilized nation except Great Britain in
the protection of its industries.
The Senator describes the Temperate
Zone as nearly absorbed by the most
highly civilized races, while over against
it are the tropics with their crowded
masses of population multiplying with
alarming rapidity. "Are we to sit down."
he asks, "with our great civilization and
bring about Free Trade in order to be
gradually overwhelmed by the labor of
the tropics after a desperate struggle
with the over-crowded people of our own
race in Europe?" He contends that it
is sound instinct for self preservation
that excludes the Chinese from Australia
and the United States, ,:and that protects
home labor by imposing proper duties
upon foreign labor, when it is brought
down the ships gangway in the form of
a bale of imported goods carrying low
rate of degraded wages. 1t is an instinct
of human nature, and in the long run it
will involve the repudiation of the worn
out theories of the Manchester school.
Senator Lodge would have found
forcible illustration of his argument in
the successful resistance offered by the
beet-sugar countries of Europe to the
competition of the cane &C untries of the
East and West Indies. Germany,
Austria Hungary, Belgium and France
have Systematically developed by bounty
and protected by duty their sugar indus
tries until their product for ten years |
has exceeded that of the cane countries. |
Self preservation compelled them to in
troduce new farming industries when
their agriculture was menaced with
from the grain belt in
America, and they accomplished their
purpose by discriminating against trop-
ical sugar. While England suffered its
agricultural interests to decline, Cont
mental Europe protected its farmers by
tariff legislation and by sugar bounties.
The home market is allowed to have its
full weight in all international arrange
nents for the exchange of products
Germany, Russia, Austria Hungary,
Italy and France from motives of self
protect their industrial
classes whenever there is a tariff enacted
,r commercial treaty negotiated. Eng
and is the only civilized country that
1eglects this first law of the economics
If human nature, and it has failed to
Keep its own colonies and dependencies
n line with Free Trade.
Any nation that aims at slef- -preser-
Tation recognizes the paramount neces-
ity of diversifying its industries and
furnishing as many kinds of employ
nent as possible for its labor. If polit-
cal economy were an exact science, the
aw of supply and demand and the poll
~ of buying only in the cheapest market
night be insuperable objections to Pro-
ection; but it is the science of human
nature and notoriously inexact. OF
What advantage can it be to the working
people that they can buy few imported
Irticles little more cheaply if they are
deprived of trustworthy and remunera-
i've employment, and are living from
land to mouth? viii the workman be
benefited if he can purchase dinner .
,ail for penny less under the low tariff I
f he be permanently out of work?
iuman nature requires apractical econ
INV in national legitlation by which the
working population will have employ
nent, whatever may be the theoretical
peration of the universal law of supply !
nd demand. 1t needs to have its in 3
lustries and markets protected by tariffs
nd reciprocity treaties against cheap |
nd degraded labor. 1t is the law of |
elf-rreservation, as Senator Lodge con- 3
ends, and it is immutable. |
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