The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-08-08

ana roVide for~common defense and
general welfare Of the United States
ana a reduction of the rate Of the
duty only will restore the exercise Of
the power to that object.
The understanding of this COM
mlttee, therefore, is that While every
duty is necessarily protective to its
extent, yet every duty is to be con-
SACRED, and is properly denominated,
a revenue duty, the rate of which
from the importation of the article
upon which it is imposed, or the rate
OF which Is below hat point, so tina
AN increase Of the rate WaRld pro-
duce an increase of the ~revehue; and
that every duty is to be considered
and IS properly denominated a pro
tect1Ve duty, the rate of which is so
high as to diminish the amount of
revenue derived from the importa-
tons Of the article upon which it
is imposed, Inc the rate Of which
required to be reduced to increase the
revenue
In the same report Genera Mac
Kay tells why the committee discards
specific duties and imposes ad valore1n
duties instead.
All the commentator that has
been given to Walker belongs also
to MacKay. In that day the major
portion Of the press Of North Caro-
lima was controlled by the Wings and
the Democratic AIDE received scant
consideration ron them, therefore.
although Mr.. MacKay was chairman OF
the Ways and Means Committee and
IA National leader who brought in
the best tariff law ever enacted, he
did not receive that commentator
and approval that would have been
lavished pom a lesser man if he had
belonged to the opposite party which
had more influence. In writing his
tory than the Democratic leaders and
the Democratic press. But Mckay had
big thoughts and did big things and
an examination of his great work, the
tariff bill of 1876, will cause all peo-
pie who are studying these questions
wish to know more of the chairman
Of the Ways and Means Committee.
senator Haywood in his letter
mentions that in the campaign OF
1874 McKay's report was the Demo
cratic platform as to the tariff. 1t
was an important paper and the
abIest National document on the
tariff Of hat period. Genera NC
Kay was no follower Of Walker any
more than Garfield was the follower
Of Blaine or tina Carlisle was the
follower of Cleveland. Walker and
Mckay were Of the same school Of
thought as were these other men,
and Mckay conferred with h dis
treasury and those Kindred spirits
were n yoke fellows In the tariff
| act for revenue only. But because
McKay's modesty and the fact that
the principles for which his tariff was
enacted were warmly approved in
the report by the Secretary of the
Treasury, the credit went to Walker
which largely belonged to Mckay.
The North Carolinian obtained all
the help and assistance he could
from Walker and personally amend
ed Walkers bill.
The following sketch of General
Mckay in h book Eminent North
C~arolinians," will be read with in
/ terest by all:
Sketch of General MacKay.
Bladen county, from its first set
Element, mas given to North Carolina
some Of it's finest citizens, The
Owens, RObesons, Porterfields
Browns, McNeills, .McRees, Salters,
McDowells and Lloyds are not IN
known to fame.
About The year 1889 there came
from Scotland to Bladen liver and
Ann Miller Mackay, their family con-
sisting Of four sons and one laugh
ter. Their son, John married Mary,
a daughter Of William Salter and
Sarah Lloyd.
William Salter was one Of the early
patriots Of Bladen, and was a dele
gate to the first Provincial Congress,
elected in August, 1774, and also to
the Federal Congress Of 1878; the
Lloyd family was equally devoted to
the patriot cause.
To John and Mary MacKay was
born in Bladen county on July II,
1892. James liver MacKay, the sub
ject Of this sketch: After being pre-
pared at the Raleigh Academy, where
he delivered an elegant address July
4. 1909, young MacKay entered the
University Of North Carolina along
with his first cousin, William j.
Cowan; but doe not seem to have
graduated at that institution.
He studied law, and that he was
we'll educated and possessed attain
mantS &C we'll as character Is amply