The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-03-08
PROTECTION.

The Loco presses throughout the Union are
more than ever industrious in binding the far
mers, by playing off their miserable sophistries
and bug bears against the only true policy
Kenda's Expositor talks about manufacturers
as Unsuitable monopolists, who are eternally ap-
pealing TO the government to favor them at the
expense of every farmer, planter, mechanic
and working man in the country; denounces
protecting American industry as a system to
depress American industry, and even declares
for the doctrine Of laying duties to discrimin.
ale against protected articles. The Spirit of
the Age, Montpelier Patriot and Burlington
Sentinel, with infinite guslo echo these loath-
some rawlings of their masters, and even swell
against protection with NORWOOD and gall so
bitter, as TO render the indignant eloquence of
of their betters comparatively amiable.-
Read the following extract from the Spirit of
The Age, the leading Federal Locofoco organ
of the state, which has been copied into the
Burlington Sentinel.
The system that builds poor houses and fills
them up with paupers. I he very system that
fills cities with miserable vagabonds, starving
mendcants, robbers and midnight assassins.-
The very system that builds up distinctions
between classes gorges one with wealth and
leaves the other wallowing in the ditch. Eng
land is blest with this SYSTEM Look at her
Pauperisn, most loathsome, and most horrible,
crawls and creeps over the whole length and
breadth of her bloated and wasting carcass, as
the lice crawled over the land of Egypt when
the God of the Israelltes visited that country
with scourge scarcely less terrible. Look at
her The lordly palaces of the protected nabob,
with its marble steps, gilded towers and shee-
ted domes; with gorgeous furniture, brilliant
illuminatIons, reveries, music and fcasting,
towers to the heavens, overshadowing half the
land, and around it raves fierce and maniac
mob, clutching their rags and bowling BREAD
OR BLOODp
1.-THE people ofthis country wish 10 see such
a state of things here, let them protect and
pamper the grasping Manufacturer few years,
raise up an immense population dependant up
on him for their daily bread, and they shall see
it in all its beauties.-Spirit of the Age.
How lamentably contracted must that men,
tai vision be which adopts the meagre idea, that
protection to the manufacturer was intended
for his benefit alone. Protection to the man.
ufacturer was never regarded by its weakest ad
vocates, but as merely incidental to the protec-
ton demanded by the great agricultural inter-
ests of the country, which froms the basis of
national prosperity. The vcriest tyro in polit-
ical economy must see that to secure a market
for the manufacturer, is TO secure a more AMI
pie market for all the products OF the agricul
turllist, and enable him 10 encounter ten
times over the enhancement of price which the
tariff is falsely supposed to produce.
The following communication to the Bur-
lington Free Press, shows how completely an
farmer under the brow of the Green
can refuts the wisacres of loco 70
ism in Vermont.
Westford 25th, Feb. 1912.
Mr.. Editor Il noticed an article in the |
Sentinel of the 18th. instant under the head |
Of ga CALL SECOND" taken from the Tory Spir- |
it of the Age printed at Woodstock in which |
find the following.
at is little strange that the farmers will |
not understand this matter. Suppose, to |
make the subject plain, they sell their wool |
his year for forty cents per pound and buy /
heir broadcloth for one dollar yard. The .
get up tariff of protection on .
oreign broadcloths, not to protect themselves
'ut the farmers; well, next year the farmer
tells his wool for sixty cents per pound, and
buys his broadcloth for one dollar and twenty
It's per yard what has he made by the oPe-
alton how has he been protected ,"
Is it possible that Eastman. and Winsio"
lrs so stupid that they can not see what tne
Farmers would gain by revision OF the Tar
IF and an increase of protective duties will |
tate tbc two cases, and have no doubt the |
farmers of this state will perceive the gain
which would accrue to them if Eastman of
he Age and Winslow of the Sentinel can not.
am Farmer and raise yearly 500 pounds
f wool, which, at 40 cts. per pound only, {
etches me 100000. r
buy five yards of broad cloth
er year at one dollar per yard. $500 f
My balance is $4,000
Now if the Tariff should be raised, as the ,
sentinel and Age put the case, my 500 pounds {
f wool, at so cts. per pound, would T
etch $4,000
And my yards of broad cloth n
t S1,20 is 5000 /
My balance would be S294,O0
Now can not any simpleton see that have Z
ot 800, more for my wool when pay 5 20 {
er yard for my cloth than whom paid only '