Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-05-26
To the Editors Of The state OF Eses,,-
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order TO see our members, they appeared 10 be-,
very respectable body of men Looking :,
little more mnulely, came to the conclusion
that every member of both houses was dressed
in English broad cloths or foreign fabrics IF
this is fact, how much did ii take TO equip each
member? both houses consisting of 1873 men,
bers; say on an average 500, making 800.
However, whatever the precise amount NAV
be, the gentlemen members sent it TO foreign
countries, instead of encouraging Pennsylvania
and her factories Members who thus decorate
themselves at the expense of the State! Does
the act render them more economical, more fit
or competent to make pure, wholesome, domes-
tic, Pennsylvania laws?
What contrast between our members and
queen Vlctoria's Mother respecting national
integrity She, making a present of a cradle
qulI 10 her grand daughter, exclusively OF Eng
lish manuiaclurng--our members, their cloth
ing, must be OF foreign manufacturing
i Therefore Tor the honor of the state and the
Integrity OF the people, il is 10 be hoped that
GO member will ever appear in the legislative
halls, dressed in English broad cloths or foreign
f;lbricks.
These remarks do not only apply to the MEM
bers of the Legislature, hut also to nine-,enths
Of the people of the state. All encouraging
foreign countries by wearing their fabrcks, iu
preference TO our own.
When standing before the glass adjusting
these foreign fabricks upon our persons, if we
only had Pennsylvania blood in the body thus
decorated, we would shrink back with indigna-
tion at the injury we have done and are still
lnfcting on the country which we are bound
by every tie of honor and gratitude to support.
In order therefore to retrace our steps and
10 come out heart and hand for our country let
us form ourselves into grand society; that is
every man, and women, boy and girl, within
the pale of the state, to be a society within
themselves for the promotion Of domestic indus
try of every description.
The imports of cloths amour, to about eight
millions yearly; this is truly deplorable, lamen-
table, that we men, citizens Of the U. States,
should so far forget our love of country as TO
pay eight millions yearly for our clothing. in
stpad of aiding our factories which are anguish
ing for want of our assistance. AS the last tif
ty years of government ended with December,
1910, let US commence the present fifty years
as real friends to the country by using domes
tic clothing, instead of foreign---and TO live
within our income.
The imports of silks, on an average, amounts
to about sixteen millions yearly. The ladies'
are patriotic, and possess too much love of
country tn retrace their steps, and lend their
aid, which is very powerful in lowering the
imports and furthering domestic industry. The
day is not far distant when our ladies will be
more engaging, and more attracting in their
domestic calicoes, than those in in their costly
French, Italian, or English silks Why should
it not be so? The former supports their coun-
try, the latter supports foreign countries. And
it is to be hoped the day is not far distant when
our ladies will dress themselves in domestic
silks, and appear more engaging and lovely
than they ever did in those of foreign produc-
ton.
Agreeable TO the late census, Pennsylvania
contains l,700,560 human beings. Now sup
pose each costs only $40 for foreign fabricks.
the amount yearly would be seventeen millions,
Were we only faithful to our own state, and
keep this amount of money among ourselves
by employing our own people, in few years
it would not be poor Pennsylvania! but 1t would
be Pennsylvania against the 'UOrldi
The two candidates for the highest office In
the state, which ever succeeds, will for the
honor of the state and his own integrity, take
the oath of Office in domestic suit of clothes,
manufactured on some of his neighboring
creeks.
Never was there in any age more union of
sentiment, more concert of action, thanI is
evinced by the citizens of Pennsylvania in. ia
vor of foreign factories9and mechanics. From
the highest citizen to the lowest, from the rich
est to the poorest, from the father TO the sons,
from the mother to the daughters--all as 1t
were vieing with each other who can wear the
finest foreign fabrirks and send the most mon
ey to the subjects of the Kings and Queens of
Europe.
These Kings and Queens, especially Queen
Victoria, must laugh in their sleeves, and would
laugh out loud, was it not against their interest
to do so, at our credulity. No general ever
had his army better trained than they have US,
in their favor, against. our own particular inter
ests.
Let us then, my fellow citizens, throw off
the foreign yoke, and come out boldly as Penn
sylvanans each of US determined to buy'no more