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Past Presidents Against Free Trade |
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Written by Mike Griffon
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 15:59 |
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PAST PRESIDENTS AGAINST FREE TRADE: President Lincoln was a "Protectionist" and a proponent of High Tariffs, even with all the other responsibilities of the Civil War. Lincoln prevented the U.S. Railroad companies from purchasing less expensive railroad cars and engines from England, so the U.S. could develop large scale manufacturing capabilities in steel and other necessary products. Lincoln is quoted: "the abandonment of a protective trade policy must result in increase of both useless labour, and idleness; and so, in proportion, must produce want and ruin among our people." [The ultimate most efficient world wide Free Trade process is the use of Slave Labor as it was prior to the Civil War.] President Teddy Roosevelt said in 1895; "Thank God I am not a Free-Trader, In this country pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fiber. Every class of our people is benefited by the Protective Tariff." President William McKinley besides calling it "national looting" stated it in the finest logical detail: "Free Trade in the United States (among the states) is founded upon a community of equalities and reciprocities. It is like the obligations of a family. But the foreign producer had no right or claim to equality with our own. He is not amenable to our laws. He pays no taxes. He performs no civil duties. He contributes nothing to the support, the progress, and glory of the nation. Free foreign trade results in giving our money, our manufacturers, and our markets to other nations, to the injury of our labor, our trades people, and our farmers". |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 January 2010 16:01 |
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