Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1843-06-20
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE
PROF ECTIN T. TAR FF:
\ BRIEF REVIEW OF THE OPERATION OF OUR IA
RIFF LAWS SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THAT OF 1872
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This the industry which, above all others merits pro-
lection But what pocion docs it obtain ask Or what Is
ak the Government to cut down the trees for him. or build ms
cabin, and plough up the praric Docs the farmer ask expect
the Government to build his fences. plough his fields
docs he 90 to m Government and say my lana l. poor can
scarcely get living beg for projections beg you to impose
tax on the produce of ncghbor productive lands that
crops may sell higher, and may get rich! If he were to
approach Congress State legislature with such petition, he
chosen his occupations and chosen his home; that he
the hazards the of the other; that
sell his goods at higher price, would be to take his ncgbor
property without consideration, and give il t. him.
There but few society who advocate equal bu
ton OF property by law and these gmazcd agraans and
Jewellers But protective tariff, called founded the
for hat than should otherwise be obliged pay, does it
Se part Of my property 2nd s It to the hGcr o the law
could otherwise purchase for four does not take from him part
of his property and give it to the manufacturer
And this 10 called "goecia iadety The industry
thousands swell thousands
gottcn and the one only remembered And because he s rh
there much graduation though the rest OF the community
1t is frequently insisted that the great wealth of England
stoned by her high tariff system and that the United States should
copy her example We not little surprised to the same
venon, held Indianapolis. January Il, lSi3 In dwelling
somewhat this topic he said that Engnds palaces pro-
had also produced the toll the and death of millions
There tendency i high tariff IS the
cent counties in Indiana to have the same number Of inhabitants
and that the of labor If the
inhabitants ct one county should build palace or one or more
splendid mansions clear that the labor for that oil lcc
must be taken from other pursuits the ordinary
dustry The therefore. would be able send oil
much produce furnish much from the mechanics shop the
inhabitants the other would be able do who had
lined themselves to their farms and shops In that there
would be and and it would be cheaper The
aborer would retain of the fruits of his labor do
but certain of work given time, and of County,
4 State, a Nation.
The products of this labor constitute the wealth of the individual
community Ii these products cngroScd by few much
the less would be left to the others.
II half the people engaged erecting splendid buildings which
of themselves nothing the mouth the back make
provisions crcr and the people poorer Great wealth always found
with As much the higher classes OF
England the wealthy of country spcndo and luxury
The degree the poverty and wretchcdnes of the of the
community there greater aud widely extended We object
the poor the still greater United We believe
there large and for the only that all persons,
female, labor the country less but also that there
The inequality great between the rich and the poor
In other country there unequal distribution of wealth.
England and has the condition of the aorer steadily
become The of the body of the people,
have increased precisely the proportion that the nation has
become wealthy. We have the English aboer under this
the comforts the and life itself
We have him the then bread and
in of potatoes until he actually reduced
the made the starch which the cloth had been sized
at the fac
And this IS the whose tariff called upon
adopt, that have palaces and poor houses also
Whatever be the wishes of their leaders especially
other confident that thee of the Wing payespe
caly industrious &mers and mcclancs-do not
wish that England should be held up example
this respect