The philosophical pronouncements of Monroe, Lincoln, and McKinley do not preclude America’s prospering market economy in the 1800’s which was mostly free from government interference and in which the average American was better off than anyone anywhere else.
Government has always distrusted freedom because by definition freedom is the ABSENCE of government. People all over the world risk their lives and often die for freedom. Freedom is a God-given desire and right. Freedom is worth fighting and dying for. And freedom is what made America great.
Those pronouncements were a reflection of the trade reality.
The US derived 95% of all its revenue from tariff on imported goods until 1913. Of these were blanket tariffs...a flat 20% being one example. Sometimes targeted.
But never absent.
And that includes the 1800s, your contrary contention notwithstanding.
Additionally, I challenge you to cite a single example of a large nation-state which has practiced Smithsonian free trade...ever in human history.
Let it be with a voluntary tax on optional purchases instead of a required tax only on the earning of income.
You lament taxes being high in the US, yet, you love the income tax over tariffs, because the US Government couldn’t be supported by tariffs, alone.
So you are really for high taxes because we couldn’t have what you want on the smaller tax income from tariffs.
That is idiotic.