Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1844-02-09

| goods. Oar own experience proves The truth O
this assertion. We know that under The opera
ton Of Tariff Laws the prices Of manufacture.
goods, that can be produced the United States
! have been constantly falling. Every farmer. an,
every farmers family, knows that The p,,cc o
axes, for instance, and of sbriings and shectngs
and Of calicoes, have been constantly becoming
less and less.
| This know, and this is enough 10 reply IL
all mys,ifica ton that can be thrown around ihi.
! subject; aud this, too, sutficieut answer iC
/ all Tho Insinaaiions contained IN the dogma .tha
| il is our interest,", to buy where we can boy cheap
/ est"
All men will buy where they can buy cha pest,
and oil men do act upon that principle OF
they are fools. II is ns fr+re, that, often,mes
other considerations will enter into the calcula
ton Of price than tho amour, Of dollars anC
| cents asked. Suppose ha, TIE ordinary cash
price Of butter is Elk cents. and Of caiIcoes Of
certain quality is twelve cents. Suppose that a
farmer with butter, and wanting calico, is offered
the common price for his Dutier, and calico n,
the common price, at one store; and at another
store is asked thirteen cents for the calico, bu,
| is off red eight cents for the butter; at which
store should he deal! Certainly not at the one
which would sell him the lowest price.
And so il is with all our business, fellow cit
izens. We are an Agricultural People, with a
few mechanics, merchants. aud professional men
amongst US. We are farmers, or are Dependent
on farmers. We must hare produce to sell be
fore can buy. We hare produce TO SELL and
we mus, sell it.; and i, is our interest 10 buy oil
those who will buy Of US.
Nay, unless we can sell. We cannot buy. |,
is our interest then not Only TO buy Of those who
will buy Of u.s. but Of ihos, who will buy of US
the highest price. lfiae goods are cons
PEELED 10 buy are Manufactured n n foreign
country, the people emp Dyed are foreigners
and the materials and provisions consumed, will
be principally if not entirely foreign products
And II these goods are m nulac,ured In own
land, instead Of Englands France, or Germany,
employment will be given 10 American men and
women; American beef, pork and flour, will be
consumed by them, American oil and fuel, cotton,
wool and iron, will be USED and employed and a
market thus furnished Tor our own produce on
our own soil; free from to burthens and impo.
si,ions Of taxes and eX,rIations Of foreign gov
ernments. Ask the foreigner, just landed on oar
shores, the price Of . ner tobacco, -four. pork
and beef ia his own country. And ne Will tell
you that the duty is h5i, TINT either It i5 not
bought ia his country ~ all, or II bought, the
poor 's not The r,vIrchase-. Tor he cannot af-
Enssand, IS a!.ae .od = I-gS,o du;S. =. o.;
500 worth Of wheat is charged upon average
about 500. In like manner, every 500 worth
of beef is charged $50, OF pork sos, and bacon
S8o. The Governments Of Europe assess annu-
ally on American tobacco alone, $50, 900 ,uoO;-
equal each year 10 the average amount of MIR
Van Buren's ex,ravagance, and double tho a
noun, of the Ia.e Wing appropriations for the
expenses Of the government. Shall we have a
market at home, farmers of Indiana7 Shall we
have n market in the bosom OF our own country
free from the accidents OF foreign commerce. in
dependent Of the policy OF foreign nations. and
untrammeIIed by the exaciIons OF foreign Princes
potep,ates and powers?-In The days of his glory
hefore he had been entrapped by the spoilsmen
and my stuffed by Mr. Van Buren,, General Jack
understood this matter right. and favored a
Judicious Tariff, because domestic manufacture
was necessary for our own security in war. and
for our prosperity in peace.-The Wings desire
to protec, aud promote the interests of the
country; they are for tariff. The Locofocos
are opposed TO The Wings, and therefore, they are
opposed to a Tariff.
They are for free trade. for anything, for moth
ing; but always for the loares and fishes.
In his fonr,h annual message, Dec. i, 1882
President Jackson after stating the grant OF the
public lands to the Union, for the paymen, Of ths
Revolutionary debt, uses This language; "as th'
lands may now be considered as relieved from
this pledge, the objec. for which they were cede'
having been accomplished, i. is in the discretion
of Congress 10 dispose Of Them in such way a
best TO conduce to The quiet, harmony and gene
raj interests of the American people" But sine
then Democracy has "progressed." great poe
has said Of evil, that there is IN The lowest depts
deeper still. We pray YOU, fellow citizens, Il
| rouse yourselves as in 1910. Again show you
might, and again rescue the country iron
this "progression' beg oud The loves, depths w
| have been dishonored enough, we have sufiere
misery enough. We have seen the credi, Of tn
! Union below par 10 time Of peace, and the Stale
| Of the Union branded with bankruptcy.
Our pastures teeming with f1ocks and herd:
our fields blooming. and our barns filled with a
the gifts of n munlficent Providence. in ric
soil and genial climate, We have seen, and W
have felt the dun, the constable and sheriff IN on
neghbornood, and sometimes at our doors w
have seen enough, we have endured enough
we are dsgraced enough
I From our priv ate debt, with industry, econorn
and INTEGRITY we can redeem ourselves. Blu
from our public debt, from the deb, OF the s'a't
a deb, into which we were driven 10 the msdnes
of the times. excited By the reconmenda''ons Q
tho government. and s,inulsted by Vie pape
money Of the Pet Banks; from THIS debt, no