The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-12-24
DEMOCRATIC PAPERS
GALL MACK A HERETO
FORMER NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
lFAvoRs PROTECTIVE TAR
IFF POLICY.
american Economist,

per policy to be pursued toward the
upbuilding of new industries and the
better maintenance of industries al
ready established, there is little rea-
SON to anticipate that the party OF
free trade is going to be won over to-
or even toward, protection merely be-
cause Norman e. Mack has come oul
sluarely for the protection doctrine
Mr.. Mack, democratic national COM
riitteeman from New York for the
Iast IA years, deserves credit for read
ing rightly the economic lesson of the
European war. The great mass of his
party leaders and newspapers fail to
read that lesson as he does. They
i eem. incapable of learning that II
this country is ever to become indus
trially Independent of Europe in the
matter of supplies and materials need
ed in our own manufactures, such in
dependence can only be secured
through protection. Mr. Mack com
prehends this fact thoroughly. Why
should he not? How can any reason
able man fail to understand that Am
erican capital can not be tempted in
II new fields of industrial production
n the face of the certainty that 1t will
be driven out of business when the
war is ended and normal conditions in
Europe have been restored?
Industries Must Have Guarantee.
Nevertheless, large number of
democrats do fail to understand the
perfectly obvious conclusion that you
can not hope for the creation of new
industries unless there is some guar
antee that they will be allowed to ex-
list. The general body of free trade
democrats can not, or will not, grasp
the fact, so pnngently put into cpl
gram by Robert Ellis Thompsin in a
cent editorial in the Irish World,
that I'VE do not have tariff because
our manufactures, but we do have
manufactures because of the tariff"
The free trade editors are roasting
+. Mack and his paper the Buffalo
lines. for his economic apostasy, And
5ell they may, for if that kind of
q lostasy gains ground it will not be
ng before the party of free trade
goes out of business permanently.
Then the tariff will be taken out Of
one of rates and schedules and not one
of general policy. But there are no
present indications of any such mill
lennium. Mr. Mack has stirred up
hornets nest with his protection pro
pensities. Democratic writers all over
the country are singing him. They
are not silencing him, however The
Buffalo Times comes back with good
answers. For example, in its issue of
November 27:
No Patent on Protection.
"The trumped-up claim that the re-
publican party has a copyright on the
wore protection that to protect Ann
erican rights and American enterprise
is strictly republican business, is one
of the chief obstacles in the way of
progress. 1t has been worked to death
and it now shows for what 1t Is, a
mere political scarecrow, which should
not be permitted to interfere with do
ing what is necessary to be done. To
provide for American enterprise the
safeguards which the occasion re-
luires is a legitimate and inevitable
function of the democracy, both as
The party in power and on which the
falls and as set forth
in the party doctrine of the democracy
in every epoch"
We have never heard that the re-
publican party claims protection" by
right of invention or discovery George
Washington was a protectionist. So
were Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Adams and Jackson. Right here Mr.
Mack scores a strong point in reply
o the remark Of the st. Louis Repub-
I'c that he has put forth a new con-
fession of faith" New? Not at all. |
says the Buffalo Times:
jackson Was Protectionist.
ITO show just how new it is we re-
'pectfully refer the Republic to the
second annual message of Andrew /
Jackson. In his message of December +
!. 1880, President Jackson said:
THE power to impose duties on i'm 7
1rts originally belonged to the sew
raj states. The right to adjust those
luties with view to the encourage I
nent of domestic branches of indus
ry is so completely incidental to that
ower that ii is difficult to suppose
he existence of the one without the
Their.
"'While the chief object of duties
hould be revenue, they may be so adj
listed as to encourage manufactures.
a this adjustment, however, II is the
uty of the government to be guided
v the general good. Objects Of ma
onal importance alone ought to be ]
OF these the productions !
our soil. our mines and our work. c
lops, essential to national defense, II
,cupy the first rank. Whatever 9TH I
: species Of domestic industry hav- a
g the Importance to which / have r
ferred, may be expected, after tenn t
,rary protection, to compete with Il
reign labor on equal terms merit the c
me attention in subordinate de- b