Show AM tha great error with most ameri oan in the from the standpoint point of history is ahat they do not go back far enough for tha last thirty years the question fans not beba debated by the frea traders in tha bold and outspoken fashion of tha earlier days anan they in little tear of the votes of working andar free to dee ae a e openly lhoir determination to cheapen labor and waag by lowering the by gia back to 1832 and applying the methode of historic andy to tha great tariff debate of that year tha author of the tariff riddle has Buce dod laclear icar ap A great amount at confusion and making the iisha between frea trade aad protection not a riddle at all ahe anti protectionist storm which broka in 1832 bad been leathering had for many years ua da the southern free pradere grew more end awra determined not to kiy tho cott ef a high wage araj labor aftem it the coith elrna in tha tion adopted by tha of carolina in 1828 aa ita solemn and pretest l th that the ewh wanted tha t ir iff lowered for thu dipre of reda eini N ir sidni and profi s tho contrary con frary in stating tha effect ot a low tariff un the north aad youth ivay the legis south carolino aard it would ft northern to with theres tuf the world in our market in trend open competition abo effects ot which would hare been a reduction of pride to the lowest point ua to exchange the product of our lab or most advantageously gavini a luff and receiving much while oa jbf olier band in order ro meet european competition they yn thern capitalists and would davs been compe litti to worn at ahe lowest waltg aud profits aal ia shown inobe tariff kiddie thia deductive idea of the cattou plat er giving little and receiving lauah while northern gineo were to be compelled to work at the lowest wages and profits has been at the bottom of southern opposition to the tariff for mo rathan three score yeara at one time it was openly and frankly admitted that such waa the object of tariff reform it would be ruin ons in thee days of universal Buff rag and a preponderance of strength in the north to the whole truth aad declare that the purpose of a low tariff is to cut down northern wasef aad profits the real purpose has to be kept veiled nowa dave but there hia been no real change in the politics of the boiton south uw as ever it demands revenda tariff aud for the same purpose ac in 1828 viz to effect a redaction of northern ws es generations come and gobat the doctrine of the southern free traders remains the same if the democratic convention which meets in chicago could have the full courage of its con dictions vict ions and a desire to tell the whole truth like an honest luj anit frankly and fearlessly adopt the cita maae above as its tariff plank and thus like the south carolina legislature of 1828 make the real doc ann of tariff laform ra form BO plain that a though a fool could not err therein |