Show icahn HEADERS RM who boar baar witness against tho the protective tariff PRESIDENT V U S GRANT said in ins his sixth message of tile the introduction arc free e of duty of f such IN wools as we ire do not prod produce lice would stimulate the lie manufacture of goods requiring the use of 0 f those we do produce ind and therefore would be a benefit to home production 11 in his seventh message Me sage 1875 lie he adds adde these duties not only come f from ro in the consumers at home ionic but act as a prot protection edion to foreign manufacturers PRESIDENT JAMES A GARI said april 1 1870 in opposition to the increase of katiff 1 I am for the th C kind ki 11 d of I 1 protection ar ote ct i on which leads to ultimate free trade on oil the isthmal of may 1872 lie said I 1 and alid those who heard mr should note this 1 I know 71 moreover that the wholesale price of american salt in toronto canada I 1 a i is S a doll dollar 1 r low lower r per birrel barrel than the same salt i is 3 on oil the new york sid side e of the lake that is we produce it ship hip i it across paying M portage freight and transportation and then sell it to our canadian neighbors one dollar a barrel clil cheaper caper than it is sold fold on our own shores to our own people certainly gentlemen will not want a duty continued that enables th this ais thing to be done PRESIDENT l CHESTER A ARTHUR said in ill ins bis second message of 1882 1 I recommend an all enla r ment of the free list lia and a 1 substantial reduction ilu cioll 1 of tin the duties dutie upon cotton iron and steel and ildon upon sugar molasses silk wool ci and nd woolen iro 0 lev aois TAI Y or 01 STATE JAMES JAM erf G C BLAINE said on tile the day of june durin during the entire war when we were seeking beking every thing on the he earth and in the skies out of which taxation could be wrung neither bread stuffs nor lumber ever became can I 1 e the subject of one penny of ta when the western frontiersman builds A home he needs lumber for liis his cabin lumber for his fence lumber for liis his wagon or cart lumber for his plough and lumber for almost every purpose in his daily life put but the republican party clapped a tariff on oil ut ag yg or just the sai same no and again in in 1890 mr blain said in reference to the mckinley e bill it ib will not open the markets of the world for another bushel of american wheat SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN EItMAN the republican leader in the senate said on the ath lay day of june aery ery advance toward a free exchange change of commodities is in ill advance ill in civilization ever every obstruction st to a free exchange 0 is born of tile the same balile narrow despotic spirit which planted castles upon tile rhine to plunder peaceful acom commerce every obstruction to commerce comerce erce is a tax upon consumption every facility to a free exchange oe cheapens commodities increases trade and production and promotes civilization nothing is is worse than sectionalism within a nation and nothing is better for tile the peace of nations than unrestricted freedom I 1 of commerce and intercourse with each cadi other SENATOR WM 13 ALLISON on oil tile the of march 1870 said 1 I will say I 1 with v ith re regard ard to the duty on wool and woolen that I 1 regard r it not as an all intentional fraud but operating as a fraud upon the I 1 great reat body of alie people of the united states I 1 allude to the wool tariff tile the tariff act of asu 1864 1 was a war measure and was not to remain upon the statute book as a protective tariff iu in time of i peace abc sEN SENATOR vron JOHN A LOGAN said 1 on alic thc esth day dav of april 1870 when a i gentleman stand upon this floor and tells me that this high tariff is for the protect protection iou of the laboring 0 man I 1 tell him lie he cannot possibly substantiate uch such a theory SENATOR FRANK HISCOCK said may IJ id 1880 we need no protective tariff to protect our hoine markets against the foreign producers jn in all tile the cheaper fabrics fabric we can call and do compete with the world As to all fabrics aion steel wool wood and leather goods gooda largely made by machinery and in which manual labor is comparatively a small element we need deed no protection whatever we can call make inake and bell them on equal terms with the rca of the world JNO A KAS KASON KAMON O N said in IS GG alie title of khetar alic tar ill bill L lie alian changed gell to 10 read A bill to prevent t alie diffused 11 blessings blessing of Provid providence enec from bei being enjoyed by the people of tile the uni united led states Z |