Show LET HISTORY SPEAK who Is the democrat would leave hta party if its achievements as glorious as have been those of the republican party who Is the democrat would espouse nf the republican party it free coinage of silver had been enforced by a democratic victory in 1896 and had accomplished the beneficent results already attained by the republican policy of protection who Is the democrat can point with pride to a period in the history of the nation when his party was able to turn national adversity nto national activity as did the republicans between 1896 and the present date when did democratic theories ever give this nation better times than prevailed prior to their application when did a democratic law ever afford every section of this nation an awakening in one branch or another of industry have you failed to read the industrial history of your native land have you tailed to observe the blunders of democracy which that history contains if you have not read american history then you should read it and from it learn eliat democracy has never been a party of progress that it has ever be en a party of obstruction that it has always blundered and has always failed have you heard of the distress that prevailed in the nation soon after the discovery of gold in california it you have not we will tell you hundreds of millions of dollars of precious metal had been taken from the placers of the sierra nevada mountains and valleys and money flowed east in superabundance for a number of years and believing the time was opportune for a trial of their peculiar tariff theories the democrats passed the act of march 3 1857 which was a horizontal cut on the tariff of july 1846 and hardly had the new law been written on the statute books than distress began to show its cadaverous hands and misery stalked through the land enforced idleness drove men mad and hunger immersed the homes in tears and the deplorable condition continued until the laws were modified in august and december 1801 the editor of the standard may be open to the charge of partisan prejudice to the extent of placing too much significance on the benefits of protection and therefore to escape this charge we will quote from an authority that all will accept as neutral and fair going back to a period oven prior to 1846 in fact at the very beginning of the protective period of our coun arys history we quote in support of doctrine from scudders Scud dera history of the united states now in use and recognized as authority in the ogdan public schools it must bo remembered that both democratic and republican boards of education throughout the state adopted this history these paragraphs are taken word for word from pages and of scudders 8 history THE RISE OF manufactures the war of 1812 shut the country off largely from european goods and thus indirectly stimulated home manufacture then not only did the war cost the government heavily but the income from taxes upon imported goods tell off a commerce declined when peace came and goods began to come in again with a rush congress increased the duties on these goods enacting what Is called a protective tariff it did this for two reasons to secure greater revenue a tor alie government and to encourage the manufacture of a similar class of in athla country THE protective TARIFF there was nothing new in the principle of the protective tariff hamilton urged it at the beginning of the government and it was the method u by all count rlee tor the protection ot their own Butt lie tariff jsu of 1816 in the united states came at a time when it had a marked in the history of the people it the united states could manufacture its own goods from its own products and sell them to its own citizens then one part of the country would help another and the whole union would prosper together thus the tariff tell into its place as one of the plans adopted by the country when it settled down to the work ot possessing the land and improving it manufacturing TOWNS the few manufactories manu factories which had ben started during the period when america waa breaking away from europe now began to thrive and new ones were established this was especially ally true in new england where the rivers which came down from the hill country afforded good water power the rise of manufacturing towns on tho banks of these rivers changed the old new england life it brought people together from different places there was more travel the young read more and talked more with one another they had societies and saw one another more frequently they had magazines and papers the american literature we now know so well had already been begun tor bryant was writing his early poems it does not at alt follow that people stopped buying english and french goods but every year there vas more business in making buying and selling american goods As people grew richer they continued to get from england and france the belter class of goods while american manufacturers were constantly endeavoring to make their own products better and thus get to the trade of their countrymen mark you what took place the people learned to be independent of europe and were established at home the very modes of life were changed books were read education was fostered a taste tor literature was cultivated and an american school of writers was formed to give to the children of that day and their childrens children thoughts born of american brains and nurtured in a domicile of liberty instead of trusting the declaration of independence to a people who lived in a foreign atmosphere of literature instead of subjecting the american youth to the intellectual environments of monarchical europe by the grace ot a protective tariff that precious document and that spirit of independence that gave birth to this nation were left in the custody of men and women instilled with american thoughts through american education and american literature A republican who knows his coun arys history will not forsake protection tor any panacea that democracy may present to the american people and a republican who has ever championed that principle of republicanism and understands its blessings must certainly have his head filled with wild thoughts to turn from his party and enter the ranks of democracy in search of something better |