Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1842-03-01
Prom the Cincinnati Enquirer.
THE TARlEF MEETING.

Last eyening, was unusually interesting
Notwithstanding the place of as
semblage vas changed from College Hal
to the Court House, without any notict
except what was given in this paper, tn
meeting was well attended.
Mr.. Cory having The floor, delivered
one OF the most able, lucid, eloquent, anc
conclusive speeches, we ever had thu
pleasure Of hearing. He presented an
array of facts co-extensive with the lead
ing topics of the question, that were per.
iectly overwhelming.
tie demonstrated that the proposal 10
increase the Compromise tariff to a duIy
OF forty per cent. instead of twenty.
would be raising the price to that extent
OF lOO,OOO,O0O of the manufactures we
consume, and would be direct tax on
the country of twenty millions more than
we would otherwise pay-and he extin.
gushed the notion that tariff did not RAISE
the price OF protected goods He show.
ed this In the case of the protected wheat
OF England, the protected beet root sugar
of France, for the production of which
the French government had Iavished al
together sum of money whose interest
annually would now be sufficient to sun.
ply all France with sugar. Mr.. CorrV
also showed the fallacy of the idea, that
because certain protected articles h sd
under that protection fallen in price,
therefore protection had caused the fail
oy naming the articles of coffee, tea. TO-
bacco and cotton, which, without being
affected by protection, bad fallen since
1916 from 80 to IS per cent.
MIR. Cory also demonstrated triumnh.
antly that the project of fmanuracturlno in
this. country all the fabrics we want.
would be one of the most certain means
OF Inflcting injury ON the working, men
that could be divised. That instead ofl
giving them more employment, it would
deprive them ofa large portion they now
have. For, he said, we now exchange
thirty-four millions dollars IN products of
the soil with Europe for that amount of
manufactures. And he showed bv an
examination ofthe agricultural statistics
OF Ohio, thatit would require about two
hundred and twenty Thousand men to
produce thirty-four millions from the
taFm,-whlst, according to the statistics
OF Massachusetts,, il would require only
about twenty,eight thousand mems labor
Tor the same amount of manufactures
We exchange then, now, said Mr.. CORY,
with England the labor of two hundred
and twenty thousand men for that Of about
thirty thousand. But let it not be SUD.
posed we give seven meas labor for one
we give the labor of seven men for the
abOr ofoue man, and large portion of
steam engine labor. For the steam en-,
CINE does the work of manufactures, but
t cannot be employed in the tillage of
he soil. If, therefore, we were to un-
iertake the manufacture of thrty.four
Millions mole th1n at present, We would
nut In motion good many engines, bu
We would only need the additional labor
u some thirty thousand men. Whilst,
y refusing to take from abroad the manu-
actures we now receive in exchange for
he products of our soil, we would lose
'ur market for these productsy as no ma.
ion could buy ofus if we did not buy of
hem--and the consequence would be,
hat the labor now employed in produc-
ng that amount Of our exports would be
brown out OF employment.
Mr.. Cory here presented some state
nents recently published, from the re-
lrns of The late census, of The numberl
It persons engaged 10 manufactures in
heUnited States, and the annual value Of
heir fabrics. The totol number lha: re-
nlred protection was only l25,OO0, and
Or these we were called on TO legis late >
the expense of the great body Of far.
ners IN The cOuntry--a body of men who
sked no fayors Of government, but who
1ere compelled TO pay the cost of every
hallow exPerm ents of legislation. Lett
1ls system Of ofeRormous taxation be un-
ertaken at their expense, and they would !
ONE into government with the irresisla-
le power of their numbers, through the J
and turn every thing out, and
" the key. iAta their pockets.
iMr,a Cory also showed that the pre-.
ence that our labor was contending
gainst .lo@ priced labor in England. was
roundless.i He stated, on the authority
fMcCulloeb, that the average price Of il
rIcklayeI's and carpenters wages, near b
.oudpps for the last thirty years, was {
bout Ll9 to l,25 per day. This state {
leRt being questioned, an emigrant re, B
entity from England, rose and said thai v
be pFice Of mechanics wages in Lon n
On when he left there, was about 4s [
9nces OF 96 cents, per day--and- this
ensieman would avail himself of The oc- b
aston 70 say, that the English laborer was v
and cursed With the projecting 3