Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-10-24

terials formerly supplied from Ger,
many aud Austria. II Is stated from
notwithstanding good demo
cratic authority At this time--that Il
Holland should be drawn into IN.
war, thus shutting OFF the last port,
through which German products
may reach the outside world. ful.
~ n million laborefs in the United
States would he thrown out of en-.
ployment through lack OF dyes made
Ia Germany and used in our textll,
plants.
There never was Il duty on the i'm.
porlation of dyes, therefore no Amer
iican chemist or manufactures was en-.
coufaged to engage ia their produc-
ton. He could not meet the cheaper
labor Of the German, therefore the
very prosperity OF our whole country
is threatened through our inability ia
get necessary ingredient which
might better be made at home than
abroad
What should be the slogan Of the
American people is: Make this nation
independent by producing at home
everything that can be made at home
from the soil from the mines or In the
factories. Pay wages and profits to
Americans instead Of TO our foreign
/ competitors.
The Albuquerque Morning journal
poses as a republican newspaper. but
usually finds some reason for support
ing the democratic party. ! know of
nowhere can be found a clearer and
more concise statement of the disas-
trous effects of tariff for revenue
only than was contained in an edi-
torial two years ago in reply to the
keynote speech delivered at the demo-
cratic state convention 'by Hon. A. A.
Jones, now first assistant secretary of
The interior. The editorial sums up
the tariff history, ana its practical
" orkings as follows;
4 brief history Of the tariff may
be enlightening
Before the revolutionary war, the
policy of Great Britain was that all
trade laws were enacted for the BEN
eft of the mother country, and not
for the colony. Hence the British
colonies, including those OF America
produced the raw materials. shipped
to, English factories and the finished
rsoducts were sold again I'd the cor
onisis. That fact was one of the
great reasons for the revolution. And
when the Confederate States of Amer
lea had been established. permission
was not given to the federal govern
ment TO levy taxes. The fact that the
general government was helpless, SO
far AS obtaining revenue was COM
cerned, made II necessary that con-
stitution granting federal power sup
plant the articles of federation.
II may surprise some TO know that
the first message Of the first presi-
dent of the United States declared In
most emphatic terms for a protective
tariff as a means OF common defense.
washington said:
IA free people ought not only to be
armed, but disciplined: to which end
uniform and well-digested plan il
requisites and their safety and inter-
est require that they shall promote
such manufactures as tender to rem !
der them independent Of others for
essential, particularly military. sup !
plies.
1t may be a matter of further sur
prise to know that the first law passed I
under the constitution of Is9 was a /
tariff bill introduced by James Madi- |
son for the encouragement and pro-
lection of manufactures" And that
bill was signed by George Washington
as his first official signature to a law
passed by the American congress. Re
ferring To It's results six years later
President Washington said. Every l.
part Of the union displays indications
Of rapid and various improvement.
and with burdens SO light as scarcely
to he perceived.
Thomas jefferson, the great patron
saint of the democratic party, seven
teen years after the passage of the
tariff act introduced by Madison and
signed by Washington, said The
prohition duties we lay on all articles
Of foreign manufacture which pru-
Hence requires us to establish at
home, with the patriotic determine
ion of every good citizen to use no
foreign article which can be made
within ourselves, without regard to
Inference of price, secures us against
I relapse into foreign dependence
That was protection with ven-
,eance. That we should not use for
,ign articles which can be made with
n ourselves, without regard to differ
nee in price, was never even advo-
'ated by William Mckinley, or Nell
on Dingley in their greatest pleas for
In 1872 tariff duties were doubled,
wing to our war with Great Britain.
Factories grew, farming industries
banks had money in plen-
Y. and the country flourished. But y
n 1916 there had grown up one of 3
hose mysterious desires for change u
hat seem to be characteristic OF the
american people, particularly on the c
ariff question, so duties were re- g
uced.
England had been at war with Ma 4
,oleon and with the United States, U
nd her commerce had been shut out q
4 embargoes until her warehouses
fere filled with goods, some of them q
four or five years OF u
Jackson had won the
attic of New Orleans. Napoleon had G
cen crushed at Waterloo and was u
ecure on the rock of st. Helena. and u
he United States reduced her tariff
n account of the same old cry that G
rejection afforded special privileges A
,r the few at the expense OF the y