| Show VILSON WILSON W WOULD REPEAL ALL protective TARIFF LAWS the following Is taken from an in address delivered by profet tor or woodrow wilson before the tariff board in IM 1882 showing his hi view then on the question of the tariff and the distinct dit announcement of his position as a free ree trader opposed to all tariffs except merely iTte rely for the purpose of raising reen revenue uc W 4 but put the danger of imposing protective duties it is that when the policy is once embarked upon it cannot be easily receded from protection is nothing more than a bounty and when we offer bounties to manufacturers rs they will enter into mr t as aad hd build up In inter tereAs els and when hen at a liter ahter day we seek to over overthrow thron this protective tar iff we must hurt somebody and of course there is objection action they will thousands of men inen will be thrown out of cm 5 and hundreds of people will loee lose their capital this sec ns very plau plaus luie but I 1 maintain that are made better m manufacturers w fencur hen cur they are thrown upon their own resources and left to the natural competition of trade traded protection also hinders corn com the english people do not send as many foods goods to this country as they would if the duties atre not so much and in that wal wa there is a restriction of commerce and 1 ie art all b building U alding up 41 t tories here at the expense of commerce we are hodin g ourselves aloof from foreign countries in effect and saying we s t e sufficient to ourselves I 1 we wish h to toi trade not with eng land but with each other I 1 maintain that it is not only a pernicious system but al corrupt system by commissioner garland Q are you advocating the repeal ol 01 all tariff laws t A cf C all protective tariff I 1 aws w 0 of f establishing a tariff for rv revenue nue inertly merely it stems ams to jg 11 aff very absurd to maintain that i 11 vie shah hall tuve free trade between different portions of this ciuni i try and at the same tine ti ne shut 0 out from front free com i mum muni cation wai other producing 1 ng countries of the world it if it Is s necessary to impose lestric tive duties on goods bro brought 1 from abroad it would seen n to ire we as a a matter of logic feces sary to impose impose similar res t lions on goods taken from one state of this union to another that follows as a necessary con sequence there is no escape from it i |
