The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1842-01-13
GLORY AND SHAME.


We select the following passage from Lester's pow
erfilly written work, called lhs Glory and Shame of
England
"Show me man who in the decline of life, falls
upon his parish for support in the work-house and
will show you man who has been compelled 10 labor
halfhs days to sustain the government which has made
him pauper at last--a man who, with the labor
aud economy, would have accumulated in America an
independent estate and reared up beautiful and well
educated family to smooth the down.h steps ofage,
comfort him in sickness, and close his eyes in deaths
peaceful sleep. There can be doubt that it costs the
poor man five times much TO bea subject of Great
Britain if he lives this island, it would ifhs
citizen of the United Sates Is there any benevo-
ence in giving shelter to the broken down operative to
come and die in, when his overs.rained muscles at
length give way? in answering his cry for bread by
telling HIM to emigrate 10 America7 Is there even
justice in it,
Here we see the legitimate effects of High Tariff
Laws, Corn Laws and other sou,grnding monopo'
lies IN England. 1t makes the heart mourn to conem'
plate such state ofthings Let the Home Leaguers T.
your High Tariff men look abroad and see what "Pro-
lection has done for the great masses of people ofhe
Old World Let them become sensible that the levy>
ing of duties upon the stamina Of life is crue iniquSus
and witkerng, to the last degree.
The people, in order to support lazy horde of drones
in luxury and greatne are taxed on every thing they
and see and are at the same time obliged to cry for
bread and sleep in the dog kennels for want of protection
rather, because they are protected too much!
And yet there those who wish to introduce the
same cursed system into our at present happy land We
hore they will be resisted in their unhely efforts Our
farmers and mechanics and manufacturers, would be in
fniteY better off, if "ee trade was the policy of every
nation, especially our own.
We sincerely hope the day will come when there
shall be no custom houses, restrictions, prohib-
tons, and no duties even for revenuewhen commerce
will be regulated, notify Government, but by the dic-
tateS cfcommon and common Justice Throughout,
the world. Men know their own interests, and wish
laws to interfere with their legitimate and honest full
fmOnt.
"Protectipn' and "Rag MONEY have been proved to
be the greatest curses with which any people have ever
been inflicted. The scourge of the plague is not equal
to either The plague produces horror and distress for
limited period. Protection and rag money. produce
evils for which there are remedies-dsease, poverty
crime, and death attend them foreveh
Much of the evil which we now suffer in this coun-
try, was brought about by the grand scheme Of taxation
twelve years aeo, by which twenty millions of dollars
were wrung from laboring people, and placed into
the hands of New England manufacturers, thereby
building up abominOble purse proud monopoes in the
American Union.
1t is time our law makers permitted trade and com.
mOrce to find their level and bless mank ind with their
rich and beneficial fruits. FIVE were to do away with
swarm Of idle and proaigate ofi,c holders, who like
the locusts Of Egypt eating up the subs lance of the
land, and reduce the machinery ofgovernmentto less
complex form, we would be the happier and richer &
better for it, asO in point ormorals than we are at ihs
present day. lfhe prejudices of the people could bo
overcome against direct taxation would be found the
falrest simplest, and most republican method ofraisng
revenue that could be devised. We would then know
for what purposes the money was required, and would
not have our eyes bndlod0d while public robbers plum.
ged their fingers into our pockets with impunty. BY
means Of your high tariff laws, made to pay Eve
ten,twsnty, aye fifty times much as an article is re-
ally woHh Wehave to support the men employed by
government in collecting the revenues, whenthe saa-
riOs alone, if their offices were oboShCd would pay al