Show REPUBLICAN TARIFF CONFESSIONS Among other pieces of deception dealt out by our Republican opponents in Utah is the assertion that George Washington Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson distinguished champions cham-pions of Democracy were protectionists protection-ists using the term in its present high tariff sense Of course the assertion is false in spirit though it may have some semblance of truth in the letter There have been many staunch advocates ad-vocates of the fundamental doctrines of Democracy who have defended the 1 tariff for revenue principle of the party on the ground that it afforded incidental protection It was only in that sense that the great pioneers of the party whose words are misconstrued miscon-strued by our Republican opponents favored in any way the protective theory The present Republican doctrine is a tariff for protection with incidental revenue It contemplates as to its primal object the benefit of certain classes the taxation of the many for the benefit of the few and incidentally the furnishing of revenue for the expenses ex-penses of the government That Is the exact reverse of the true constitutional constitu-tional principle on which taxes duties and customs mav be levied I The exorbitant duties imposed on imports I im-ports as a war measure were only justified I tified even by the Republican party I on the grQund that the exigencies of the occasion required them But when the cruel Wctr was over they were not reduced but increased And it will be seen by the extracts below from the vj 1 I remarks distinguished Republicans s that the monstrous tariff against which the country revolted in 1S92 is as much opposed to the principles and policy they defended as it is to the Democratic platform The Wilson bill now before qongress and the country is in the main but a modification of i that existing order of thipgs which j has been so prolific of evil But it is I wise reform There are many things in the world that are wrong in themselves I them-selves but have become so interwoven with the very life of public affairs that i only a gradual elimination is safe i When a human toeing has become burdened j I bur-dened with adipose tissue or his system j I is charged with matter inimical to health the change desirable to be effected ef-fected cannot be brought about on a sudden but must be gradual and performed per-formed with prudence and skill So with the work of reform in the conditon of the body politic Of the evils of the protective tariff with which our Republican opponents seem to be so enamored and which they desire to maintain read the following fol-lowing sentiments from eminent leaders lead-ers of the Republican party No one Mr President in the commencement com-mencement of the protective policy ever supposed it was to be perpetual Henry Clay ISiO I sound this note of warning apd whatever this House may decide and although it may resound with plaudits of utterances that a Chinese wall is the security of the people yet I assert that there never was a time In the history his-tory of the Republican party when it was in more danger of defeat than upon this one suggested idea that it is per missable to levy tribute upon all the people of this country of sixtyfive millions mil-lions to confer a benefit upon a few hundreds Ben Butterworth May 10 1890The The tariff of 1846 a free trade > tariff tar-iff was yielding abundant revenue and the business of the country was in u flourishing condition Money became very abundant after the year 1849 large enterprises were undertaken speculation spec-ulation was prevalent and for a considerable consid-erable period the prosperity of the country was general and apparently genuine Up to 1852 the Democrats had i almost undisputed control of the government i gov-ernment and had gradually become a I free trade party The principles involved in-volved in the tariff of 1846 seemed for the time to be so entirely vindicated and approved that reslstaqce to It ceased ceas-ed not only among the people but among the protective economists and even among the manufacturers to a large extent So general was this acquiescence ac-quiescence that in 1856 a protective tariff was not suggested or even hjnted at by any of the three parties which presented a presidential candidate James G Blaine in his Twenty Years in Congress an involuntary witness for conditions under free trade The old issues are dead The people are arraying themselves upon one side or the other of a portentous contest On one side is capital formidably entrenched F entrench-ed in privileges arrogant from continue con-tinue 1tl uinph conservative tenacious to old theories demanding new concessions conces-sions enriched by domestic levy and foreign commerce and struggling ad t1 just all valuesto its own standard On the oth tJs labor asking for employment em-ployment striving to develop domestic domes-tic industries Battling with the forces of nature and subduing the wilderness labor starving and sullen in cities resolutely determined to overthrow a system under which the rich are growing grow-ing richer and the poor are growing poorer Senator Ingalls Feb 15 1878 a witness to the condition of the country under high tariff Hugh McCulloch Republican secretary secre-tary of the treasury in his report for 1884 recommended the removal of of the duties on raw materials and the reduction of duties on articles consumed con-sumed by the poor He then outlined the policy of the Wilson bill Jn 1867 the priqe of wool was 51 cents in 1870 46 cents in 1888 40 dents per pound this was the result of the policy of protecting the wool grower asit is in all industries to gradually reduce the price Senator John Shier i man 1888 These duties on raw materials not only come from the consumer at home but act as a protection to foreign for-eign manufacturers of the same completed com-pleted articles in our own and distant markets President Grants message IBIS Undoubtedly the inequality of wages of English and American opera tivbs are more than equalized by the greater efficiency of the latter and their 1 longer hours of labor Itt It-t us appears that each American operative oper-ative works < up as much raw material I as two British operatives James G Blaine rep rt as secretary of state 1891The The tariff of 1846 although confessedly con-fessedly and professedly a tariff for revenue was so far as regards all tha I great interests ofthe country as perfect per-fect a tariff as any we ever had But I am told we must legislate legis-late so as to furnish a home market I for all our agricultural products Anyone Any-one examining the subject will see that Our sssricultuinsl products increase more rapidly than our population so that if we do not export these articles in their natural condition we must do so by convering them into manufactured manufac-tured articles and export these articles ar-ticles But this cannot be done under a high tariff for all nations will buy manufactured articles wherte they are the cheapest and the nation selling the cheapest will control the market This rule excludes our highly taxed manufactures made from highly taxed materials from the markets of the world although we have natural advantages ad-vantages possessed by no other nation na-tion > Senator Allison March 241870 I think American labor will be best protected by taxing all the necessaries of life lightly placing the taw material which enter Intoour manufactures on the free lfstHenr Wilson 1 am for protection which leads to ultimate free trade President Garfield Gar-field Constitutionally a tax can have no other basis than the raising of revenues reven-ues for public i purposes and whatever government exaction has not this exaction ex-action is tyrannical and unlawful A tax on impprts therefore the purpose of which is not to raise revenue but to discourage and indirectly prohibit some particular import forthe benefit of ome home manufacturer may well be questioned as being merely colorable o color-able and therefore not warrantor bv I constitutional principlesThomas H Cooley Principles of Constitutional 1 Law II I We have morejflf the same kind and II I shall be delighted from time to tims I to show our citizens the true inwardness I inward-ness of the Republican tariff from a I Republican standpoint if our opponents want that kind of argument on this II question |