Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1842-10-15
Political.
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Store goods are rising.
Produce is falling.

w hat makes store goods rise!
The tariff lately passed by Congress.
What makes produce fall!
Chi.Ry abundant crops, but in pari the
same tariff.
Why does not the tariff raise the price
Of produce.
Because our farmers raise more than
our country consumes, and hone being i'm
por'td, the price cannot be 1aiscd bv Aearv
dniIe. on imports.
How does tariff reduce the price Of
produce?
By ;wuring or destroying the foreign
market.
Our farmers feed all the mouths in our
country, tariff or no tariff, and still have
surplus to sell TO foreign nations, which
pay for it in manufactured articles. A
tariff which prevents the Importation Of
those articles i'll whole or in part, lessons
their means 10 buys. and in the same de.
gree d;minisl.es the chances Of our farm.
crs to SELL
Thus excluded from foreign markets
Ivy our own legislation, the produce 81 our
farmer remains at home to eve, stock the
domestic market, and the price falls.
''Goo,l times vetnrning,, says the adyo.
cate OF the tariff, as one factory and forge
after another is put In operation.
Good times Tor whom? Not Cor the
farmer or planter, or mechanic or mer.-
Chant, or professional man; but only for
tie owners Of factories and FORCES, and
other favored classes.
Well, how are the times made good for
them?
By making erery .f,rmer, planter, me-
chantc, merchant professional man, and
ereryb,dy else, lay higher prices for the
products q tie factories and torges.
BE it enactcd,'' says Congress, .thalio
ena5ic Tie ouncrs ct factories and forges,
sa'irorks and sugar plantations, 10 make
money by their business, erery farmer.
planter. m,eAanc, &c. saaH 1ay trenly,
AWiy. .N)'y az one hundre.i per cent, as tie
ease nag he, more than tie far market price
FIR Meir salt, sugar, clothing and erery
scrap ej iron purchased for tie comfort Of
Memsetres apl families, or for the prose-
cu'iom IF their business.
This is the exac, effect Of our protec-
Hrr ldr.T. 1t is peculiarly the farmers
sweat which greases the rusty machinery
oi the proiitless factory aud forge, aud
sets il in motion. 1t is his labor which
swclis the income oil the salt monopolist,
and gives princely income to the SUE
gar planter. And this evil falls upon him,
no. from Tie operation OF the laws 81 ma
t,,lc or ot trade, but his erlings are trans
erred to others by human aws-laps
passed BY his orH Representatives acting
J. y. -.
From 1.-The n. 4. Morning Po.t'
PAavY rAcTlcs.-l'he grcatcr number
OF politicians err in the methods they
adopt to carry their objects. They oye.-
rate their own sagacny, and undcrrate
the sa ,aci,y OF the people. When they
wish to impress tic Importance Of any
measure upon the community, they do
not at once state its principles in all 1T
tulncss, but state them under modifica-
tons. They endcavor to concil;ate what
they consider the pre'udices Of different
classes, and III this way acquire a motley
l'neer,ain character which destroys tho
confidence Of all thinking lhen IL them,
ana finally defeats their aims.
The true way for il politician to walk,
the only way in which an honest man can
walk, is that OF open, direct and fearless
Independence. Let him say clearly what
his political tencm,s arc, what objects he
has in view, what will be the tendencies
oil his measures, aud what he hopes to
accomplish by their establishment. He
is then known and read Of all men,
l..;.e,, those who oppose him most vehe-
neatly, from sinister motives Of their
owl, will still respect his integrity
They will feel assured that when tho
time comes, they may trust hun with per-
.evt freedom, and ilnpuu.ty. II he was
true To himself, they will argue, in tho
dark days OF adversely he will be true
in prosperity. IL he could not be shaken
when there was eyeY reason to mako
nlin, he viii no. be shaken when those
reasons have passed away. lie has beeu
tried, aud not found waning.
hat politicians for the mos: part take
another course. They hesitate, shuttle,
trim. pursue expedients, until every b.dy
begins 10 suspect they are rascals, aud
no one will give them credit. Their
subsequent history, then, becomes blank.
They are defeated by theircnemies, aud
dcspisel py their friends.
The same remarks may be applied to
the political parties. They are trusted
only SO long as they arc honest. This
has been singularly verified in the history
OF the democratic party. Whenever e
has been bold, open, and above board Il
has carried the people with il; but when.
ever it has allowed itself 20 be misguided
by leaders, into unccr,ain and devious
paths, it has sunk in popular esteem, and
los, its ascendancy. Its great merit al
WAYS has been that il has possessed dis
,incl and deci.sed principles; II loses that
merit, whe.1t begins to ialter and truckle.
COMING ELECTIONS. Elections
,akoplace in the following States At the
Dies mentioned: ss
Georgia, Michigan and A.
kansas. Oct. 3rd
Maryland. Oct. 9TH
Pennsylvania and South
Carolina. Oct. 10th
New Jersey, Oct. 10th and 1lth
Ohio. Oct. tIlh
New York aud Della.
ware, nov. ON
M;s.;.s;,n; Nov. 7ih and 9th