Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1842-03-25
From the Ohio State Journal.
THE TARIFF,

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the people. They scout the idea OF
protecting American labor and enter
prize by The imposition Of high duties
upon foreign importations 1t is better
10 buy, they say, where we car supply
ourselves cheapest The British man.
uiacture cheaper than the Yankees
therefore they cry, "dopa wHh the Yam
KEGS, md hUaza for the BritiSh~ Does
1t need very logical or profound al.
gument TO upset such a falIacy as lhs2
We Imagine not. We imagine that
men OF plain common sense understand
1t better. II the farmers Of the West
buy the fabrics Of New England, though
they may be nominaIIy a trfie dearer
at first, would they not be benefited by
having It in their power TO pay in pork
and wteatS Old England will take
nelIher-she accepts Of nothing but the
hard metals BY dealing with nor for
what we want IN the way Of manu(ac-
tured goods, we circumscribe the mar.
ket for our products We compel the
New Englanders to live more CrugalIy,
and 10 cultivate a sterile soil for bread
stuits, which grow here almost spontan,
eousIy, whilst we send specie across the
Atlantic Tor goods that might be- obtain
ed al home and paid for in products that
we have now no market for. II we
were willing to trade with New Eng
land, her GrtiZans. would soon find out
that they could earn lhlice as much
-four and provisions at their looms, as
the same amount OF labor would return
thom, bestowed directly upon the soil.
| The more we bought. the more would
they be able to buy orus The money
used IN etlecting these exchanges would
be retained in tho country, anI its cir
collation. would prevent such distress
ing scarcity as we are now experiencing
When money is plentiful in our eastern
cities, il can no more be confined there
than the tides of the ocean upon the
shore, but Immediately flows off and
seeks level whore it is less abundant
But on the other hand, where an hun.
drod thousand dol ars in coin is shipped
TO England for goods, the county is
not only absolutely poorer by that sum,
but 1t becomes at once necessary to con,
tract tho paper circulation to three
times that amount. and thus We find
ourselves deficient in the circulating
medium for four hundred thousand dot.
lars When il is recolIected that over
f lDfeen millions Of specie have been sent
out Of the country in less than one year
and half, and that consequently the
cIrcu ating medium has been diminish
ed .Wty or Slriy millions, it can be no
reasonable matter of wonder that mo
ney is scarce, and every branch Of husi.
ness depressed OF this amount Ohio
has contributed nearly three millions,
r all Of which hns gone 20 pay For foreign
gew-eaws, which we might have dis
pensed with, or produced at home, and
paid for in the products Of the soil,
The impoIicy Of being governed by
this doctrine of purchasing Nbroad be-
cause we can purchase cheaper, may be
shown up in its proper light by refer
ring 10 the single article Of WOOL VIII
any one pretend that this country s in
capable of producing all the wool we
ought to think of using in the manurac-
- ture Of cloths? Yet on this principle OF
buying where we can buy cheapest, we
are importing enormous quantities Of
. wool which might just as we'll bo raised
= at home, In the year 1889, the era oI
The famous compromise act, which has
cost this country an hundred million.
of lis capital, and inflicted upon its ci
tizcns suIerings that can never be re
paired, certain description Of coarse
. wool was admitted into our ports free
of duty. The import that year wa,
D 32l4,00O los, but in 1888 it had risen
e. to over G,000,0D0, and in 184l to The
!, enormous amount Of 0,7l2Ol5 pounds
j The entire products of the u, States it
p 1889 was but about 35.0O0,OO0 pounds
: so that in a country Of unequoIIcd udap
! tNtion to the business Of wool growing
l. we are importing one quarter of wha
- we manufacture, the whole Of whc
J might be saved TO ourselves as we'll a
- what we do raise
J" But this question is ono of so pai
IA and lUartilical nature, that il scnrceI
needs illustration No man can rehe,
upon it seriously, without asserting
" the correctness Of the principle (c
sS which We are contending, Is it not r.
s mGrkabIe, then, that Locofocuism, {
ID this as on every other important quo
no ton Of domestic policy or public co
C cernment, should so instincliveIv tai
III the wrong-the anti American sjde2
III And is it not equally strange that At
We considerable portion Of the peopI
rs should be so warped by their prejudice
SO growing out Of party designations, tn
VS. they continue obslnOteIy to support Il
lol party leaders in heir hostile demonsu
he tions against the best interests Of t
~ countryf But this cannot be the ca
III much longer. The great body Of /
po' people are right in sentiment, and tn
nc