The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-08-28

The whlg papers are becoming extremely un.
easy under the exhibition in the democratic pa.
pers, of the extremely low prices Of farmers
produce. Wing partizans are concerned by a
plain table of facts, and as the last resort of de.
spalr, they pronounce these statements ssunscru-
pulous
To sustain all the inequalities of the present
tariff, some of their most reckless organs insist
that produce is not lower than it has been in
years past. The farmers who are now receiving
II cents per pound for their butter, under the
influence of the "home Market" when in lS42
they received l6 and II cents per pound, and
for their wheat go cents, where they used 10 re-
ceive 80 cents, and for their beef 2 cents pound
where they used TO receive cents, may think
that these prices are lower than they have been
before, and even below living profit Let
these whig editors who probably get their facts
at the counting-room of some manufacturer, &C
among the hard-working farmers of this vicinity
or on the fertile lands of Western New York
Ohio, Michigan, Illinois or Wisconsin, and they
will tell them that they have not been so poorly
ren'unerated in years, as they are under the pre-
sent whig prices
The sugar, the molasses--the duties on whicl
range from so to 40 per cent--the iron and
the woollen cloth, are higher than they were in
lS42, while his prices for wheat, beef butter
cheese and lard, have more or less fallen Is
this the advantage the farmer was to receive
from the tariff of '42? Was he not promised
higher prices by the whig party of the nation?
The question is, have these promises been reali-
zed? The answer is simply, they have not
This is the position in which the whig party
cfa AZ ho
tween the upper milestone of large profits for the
manufacturer and the neither milestone of low
wages for the farmer. This picture is too mani.
fest to be mistaken. 1t should also be remem-
bered that this effect was foreseen, for at the
time of the passage of the tariff of '42, it was ip-
sisted that the farmers would not gain dollar by
that bill. The wings insisted that they would
This was thus made an issue. Which proved the
true has prophet, and the most provideut Of
the agricultural interests of the union? The
present low prices answer that question.
The millions of farmers are now suffering in
diminution OF the profits OF their labor, and
when the Democratic Press of the country hold
up the very results which sagacious minds anti
clpated, the Wing party are put in spasms by
these statements. But do they forget that fol
months, they have been studiously and most en-
fairly representing the Democratic Party as in
favor of Brtias free trade, and as the determined
enemies Of American labor? Has not this been
the policy of the whig press from Maine to Lou.
Iisiana? And now, when facts, ever powerful
with thinking people like the American, are
lavorng the democratic side of the tariff ques
| ton, their publication is denounced as s'unscru
pulous and unfair!"
We are but administering to the wings some
OF their own medicine, and if they find it disa.
greeable, they should remember that for the last
two years they have had their time in denoun-
cling democrats as the enemies of the industrial
interests of the nation. These tactics are moi
forgotten, ard now they are returning to plague
their inventors.