Show 1 ae r I 1 LE R who bear witness ara ast the protective tariff 1 P S GRANT said in his sixth message of 1874 the introduction free of dibov wools is as we ire do not pr odLIN would milito the manufacture of goods requiring the use of alo we do produce ind and therefore w diw be ft a benefit to home production 11 in his hie seventh message 18 1875 5 in adds Tl icse duties not c come ol 01 ne from froin the con umers at lionie honic but act a ai a protection proter tion to foreign manufacturers JAMES A GARFIELD said april 1 1870 in opposition to tho the increase of ta tariff 1 I ain foi tile the kind of protection which load cad to ultimate free trade on the lay day of may 1872 in ie said and those who hoard heard mr should note tin 1 I know moreover that the wholesale price of american salt in ill toronto canada is a dollar lower kowt r per birrel than the same salt alt is on tile the nety york side of tile the lake that is we produce it ship it across geror s paying payin porta portage Oc frei freight ht and transportation and then sell it to our canadian inadi tn neighbors in one dollar a barrel cheaper than it ia i on our own shores to our own people certainly 13 gentle nien will riot not want a duty autv continued that enables this thin thin to bo be done IDENT CHESTER A ARTHUR said in his second mess message age ol 01 1882 1 I rc recommend comin end an eul enlargement ar t of cf the free list and a substantial reduction of the duties upon cotton iron and steel and upon upon uga ugar Illo molasses lasses silk wool a and d IV boods OF JAMES G sn i d on oil the day of june during u r i n the entire e war when we seeking every thing thin on the he earth and in the alic out of which taxation could be wr wrung in neither breadstuff bread stuff nor lumber ever became the subject sub J acet of one penny of ta when the western frontiersman builds a home hs needs lumber for his cabin lumber for his fence lumber for his wagon or cart lumber for his plough c and lumber for alil almost lost every purpose in his daily li life fe i but the republican party clapped a tariff on lumber just the same and azain in 1890 mr blaine said in reference to the mckinley bill it will not open the markets of the he world for another bushel of american wheat SENATOR jotin JOHN SHERMAN EllMAN the republican leader in the senate said on tile oth day of june every advance toward a free exchange chan c of commodities is iu advance in in civilization every earry obstruction st to a free exchange I 1 c is ib born of the same narrow despotic spirit which planted castles upon tile rhine e to plunder peaceful commerce every obstruction to commerce is a tax upon consumption every facility to a free n e cheapens commodities i es trade and production and pron promotes lotes civilization nothing is worse ti than I 1 all sectionalism within a i nation and nothing is better belter for tile peace of nations than freedom of commerce aud and intercourse irith each other SL W 1 l ALLISON on the of March 1870 said 1 I will say with regard to the duty on tool and woolens that I 1 regard rear re ar J it not as an intentional fraud but ope operating operatic ratin as a fraud upon the 11 great ecat body of tile people of the united 1 i states state I 1 allude to to the wool tariff the tariff fact of was a war measure und and was not intends tu to remain upon the statute book as a protective tariff in time of peace SENATOR JOHN A LOGAN locian said baid on the lath day of april 1870 when a gentleman stands upon this floor noor and tells me that this hi high il tariff is for the protection of t the e laboring C man I 1 tell him lie he cannot possibly substantiate uch such a theory SENATOR BENATOR FRANK iri xiii tid may 19 1886 we c need no protective tariff to protect our home markets against tile the foreign producers in ili all the cli cheaper caper fabrics fabric 6 we beean can and do compete eoin pete with tile 11 world orld As to all fabric iron steel wood and leather goods large largely i y made by ina machinery chinery and in which manual labor is comparatively a small element we need no DO protection whatever we can make and bell them on equal terms with the rest of the world JNO J 0 A KASSOV KASSON said in ISM the title of the tariff bill should lie be changed alian ed to read A bill to prevent the diffused blessings of providence from froin being enjoyed by bi the united states |