Show TARIFF oar quotes history worth remembering correspondence chy democrats haye been talking very loudly about th great prosperity of the united attea under the low tariff co verine period of tan years irm 1846 to 56 have frequently quoted juma G blaina as an authority and here are a few historical facts that trill aldow whether this prosperity wa due to iha walker bill or not which I 1 quote in mr blainer Bla inea own words at canton ohio mr blaine B poke as Jo lown lt ar aay why years wre oua ahat tariff of 1846 was just about the time the mexican war bloice out and within leea than a baar more than one hundred thousand millions of dollars were disbursed by the government in all its brancha of mechanism we had juat made the ex bendure when a famine in ireland called for every surplus barrel of flour and bushel of in the country we had hardly transported that erain to the other s de and sold it for a high prica when gold was discovered in california and tha world was enriched with tue vast output of the mines we had hardly put that boid in circulation when the great revolution bean in 1848 that paralyzed the industrial energies of all europe and gaye the unitta states a market un parallel paral led europe had hardly quieted tha revolutionary lutio nary disturbance when fraasa and england and russia went into the crimean war aud for two years and a half these areat nations were paralyzed in in their industries low there are four r five of what you might call the acal dents or the incidents of history that would have insured areat prosperity to this country if there had not been a tariff of any kind whatever in the fall of 1856 when this tariff had been under way for years ten years this great war in europe came to an end and BO did the prosperity under the tariff of 1846 1 spanish fork sept |