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Show Wilson Must Know President Once Wrote About Heavy Imports After the War of 1812. There is grand good reason for the f administration's couccslons to the dp ""; principle of Tariff Protection If it is "T ever true thnt history repeats itself; I and, while a study of history Is hard- I y necessary to convey an understand Ing of the Free-Trado menace, wo may suppose that Historian Wilson Is lately turning back to certain pages in I1I3 own Interesting books. Tho recent Wilson concessions concern only a Tariff policy for dyestuffs and sugar, but tho proposed nntl-duroplng legislation, by which the administration administra-tion hopes to restrain dangerous imports, im-ports, Is nono the less a measuro ot Protection. Speaking of history hero Is a part of what Mr. Wilson bad to say In his chapter on trade after the war of I 1812. "Peaco changed the very face ot trade. English merchants poured their goods once again into tho Amerl can ports so long shut against them by embargoes and war. "It wns manifestly Injurious to every young Industry that a flood ot English Imports should contlnuo to pour into tho country at tho opon ports. Tho remody was a Protective Tariff, such as Mr. Hamilton had wish cd to seo at first, and tho young Republican Re-publican leaders ot Congress did not hcsltato to advocate and establish It " Horaco Greeloy has written of the samo period: "Great Drltlan poured her fabrics far below cost, upon our markets ln a perfect dolugo. Our manufactures wont down like grass heforo tho mower; mow-er; ngrlculturo nnd wages for labor speedily followed. Financial prostration prostra-tion wns general and the prosonco of debt universal. In Now England fully ful-ly one-fourth of nil property went through tho sheriff's mill, and tho prostration was scarcely, less gonoral clsowhore." American Industry Is too firmly established to suffer such prostration II again, but tho damage posslblo under B Frco-Trado would wreck tho now pros Jfp pcrlty of labor, even though It locked r fow mill gatos. V Urltlsh tactics for rullug war com- I merco lmvo given us a plcturo of tho commercial fight wo shall lmvo to malto for foreign markets after tho war. Tho best beginning of any light is Protection at home. Wo don't want to bo on tho defensive. "An ng-grosslvo ng-grosslvo foreign policy" has been a demand often hoard lately. An aggressive ag-gressive forolgn trado policy l fu"y as necesary to tho woll-bolng of the coun.ry. llostou Journal. |