Show A eisson HISTORY bilat the appetite for protection under the tariff grows by what it beads upon is strikingly illustrated by what i occurring oe currin all around us at present says say the poston herald a nonpartisan non partisan paper protection is asking double or treble in the way or of duties that it asked when it first put in its claim for especial privileges civile es under legislation 0 and it has incie inci increased ased eased in its demand with every erlof our government originally henry clay was war the great representative of later generations fifty years ago 0 mr clay presented the argument f for or protection on the brouti ground d that manufactures in this country were in their infancy ife he was asked on abo floor of con rees how ion long ho he thought it would bo ica for them to h have ave protection protect jon ilis his reply was ivas that if it could be afforded for six or at the most for eight years it would be suffield ent after that time he said paid manufactures would be able to do without it this was protection for american manufactures with it extreme advocates fifty years ago let us see what it wal wa a 1 dozen i tears ears later then the tariffs of and 1857 aulry satisfied it there was war something e of the same clamor of ruin to come from lowering duties then however at the beginning that t there here is now abbott lawi lawrence ence beside the prediction to which we have before referred as to cotton mills closing declared that a general crash would take place which would not leave a specie paying bank doin doing business in the united states the low tariff of 1816 18 IG 16 went into operation there were spindles in the united states when it be began an there were spindles in the united states when ended after that bill had been in operation ten years there was scarcely a murmur of complaint no man manufacturers called for ing higher 0 ier d duties senator hunter declared on 0 n the floor of congress 0 in 1860 Is it not notorious that if we were to leave it to the manufacturers of new england themselves to the manufacturers manufacturer of hardware textile fabrics fabric etc would bo be a large lare I 1 majority against n any change do we lye not know that the woolen manufacture dates its revival from tile the tariff of 1857 which altered lowered the duties on wool the testimony is overwhelming that not only did the country prosper under tinder the operation of the tariff of 1816 1846 18 16 a considerably lower tariff than that it is now propos proposed s ed to enat enact but that manufactures themselves were fully satisfied with it when it came caine into operation they made the same predictions of the extinction of their business when it was passed that they are making no now v not one of them was realized not a voice from 1 new cw 13 england was raised for tile the restoration of higher duties when mr r I Morril forrill lof of vermont first proposed to indrea e duties in 1859 60 he lid not put it on the ground 0 round of protection out but based it ol 01 on itile the necessity c sity of revenue even here lie declared his intention was only to restore tile the rates of the tariff of 1816 which had been lessened in 1857 mr fr II 11 A rice of mai maia a chu an authority which will not be questioned said at that ti time me the manufacturer asks no additional protection ile he it his is learned among other things that the greatest evil next to a ruinous colleti competition from foreign V sources is a an ex cestive protection I 1 protection which stimulate alike ruinous and irresponsible competition at home mr rice said this ibis while the tariff lurid was protective on an average 0 of less than 20 per cent of duties on dutiable goods good in place of the nearly three times that amount which now prevails john sherman said raid at tho the same time the tariff of 18 1857 5 7 i is 8 the manufacturers bill mr borrill himself declared later the tariff of if 1861 was not aked fur for and but coldly welcomed by manufacturers it is not at all probable that were benefited ell essentially ally when the tariff castill wa was still till increased liter later it caused a return to old processes in manufacture under wl which ich there was an inere aked juice to consumers without a corresponding 0 gait gain to produce producers is this is one of tile the cn of high protection it removes that stimulus of competition from tilt 0 ta and thus doaa deadens enterprise enter in the lowering of the price of production now 1 01 what does this prove it proves that this same new england industry which now claims that it Is to be ruined under a w we e should say at the lowest will amount to fully 35 per cent was prosperous successful contented thirty years ago e under tinder the operation of a tariff that averaged less ext titi 20 per cent it was under tho the operation of this 20 per cent tariff that A II 11 rice raid aid tho manufacturer asks no additional protection that john sherman declared the tariff of 1857 is the manufacturers bill that justin S morrill affirmed that oliata a change 0 was coldly welcomed and we may inay add that henry wilson averred that hat it had proved the best tariff abe lie COU country ever had we have ir gone one on oil with thirty years of high 0 protection since bince and with what esula the industries that have been ieca petted and pampered with are now low declaring that without double the lie protection under tinder which they then hen prospered prope they shall bo be ruined dined if this does not prove that ligh high protection in this country has been a lamentable failure even in its application to manufactures themselves we beg to ask what could prove it the most impressive lesson of the itri policy of a high tariff that could possibly be afforded is found in tile the ti recent resent position of our manufacturing interest it has bar had extreme aid from the government for thirty years and on oil its own showing I 1 0 it is ia not as prosperous not as contented not as ablerto able to res rest t 0 on n its ita own resources as it was before that aid was provided |