Milford chronicle., 1924-08-15

JEFFERSON. MADISON. MONROE JACK
| SON-all hOnOred names in history. certainly
And all Democrats! ours is the party of Jeffer-
SON. the 1924 Democrat boasts.
But is it? Would Jefferson own as his the par
ty that would lead us into the fires of Europe TO
he scOrched by the flaming hatreds of wrangiing
nations?
| Would the statesman who was opposed to Civ
! ing advantage to foreign over our domestic man
ufacturers subscribe to- or even cOndome. the dia-
tribes his political poserity now directs against
the Republican protective tariff policy?
While the Davis-Bryan Democrats are MARSHAL
ing forces for attacks on the FOrdney-Alc Cumber
tariff law, would it not he we'll to thumb some old
records to see again just how the Jefferson -Aadi-
aGr-Jackson brand of Democrat stood On this is
SIC'
Thomas jefferson in his sixth annual message
said:
"Shall we suppress the imp0sts (dutfes) and
give that advantage to foreign over our domestic
manufacturers: On few articles of more general
and necessary use. the suppression in due season
will doubtless be right hut the great mass of the
articles on which mp0stS are laid are foreign lux
ures purchased by those only who are rich
enough to afford themselves the use of them"
"%#**%AIy Own idea is that we should encour-
age home manufactures to the extent of our own
consumption Of everything Of which we raise the
raw materials" (From letter to Humphrey
In 1917 he said. in accepting an election to
membership in a Society for the Encoura cement
of Domestic Manufactures:
"The history of the last twenty years has been
Il significant lesson for us all to depend for neces-
saries on ourselves alone: and l hope twenty !
years more will place the American hemisphere
to
and industrious and not needing to extract its
comforts out of the eternal fires raging i'll the Old |
World"
James Madison in his special message to Con-
gFess in 1902 said
1T will be worthy of the just and prOvident |
care Of Congress to make such further alterations
in the laws as will more especially protect and
foster the several branches of manufacture
which have been recently instituted or extended
by the laudablG exertons of our citizens
James Monroe in his inaugural message show
I'd how clearly he realized the Importance Of
home market in the following words
"Our manufactures will likewise require the
systematic and fostering care of the Government
Possessing, as we do. all the raw materials, the
fruit Of our own soil and industry, we ought not
o depend in the degree we have done, sup
)lies from other countries. Equally important is
t to provide at home market for our ma
erials, by extending the competition it will
enhance the price and protect the cutiyator
gainst the casualties incident to foreign mark
is"
And in the seventh annual message he said: t
Having formerly communicated my views to L
congress respecting the encouragement which f
ught to be given to our manufactures. and the G
rinciples on which it should be founded l have G
My to add that those views remain unchanged. n
recommend review of the tariff for the pur-
ose of affording such additional protection TO
lose articles which we are prepared to manufac =,
Ire. or which are more Immediately connected
ith the defence and independence of the coun- :.
~"
Andrew Jackson said in 1924 in the United D
ates Senate:
providence has filled our mountains and our
aims with minerals-with lead, iron, and copper of
and given us a climate and soil for the grow Sc