The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-04-04

The Friend of AristOcFatic MOnOpOlists
aud English Manufactures.
WTTIGGERY EXPOSED.
Wig lsfcation--dissemblag Of HENRY CLAY
the democratic Party the only true friends
to american industry-ConSiSteacy MARTIN
VAN BUREN, the Peoples Candidate.
The whig politicians are assiduous in their en-
deavors to make itappear that their party are the
only true friends of encouragement TO our Homo
Industry. They denounced the democratic par
ty as the enemies Of this policy, and declare them
to be the advocates of ''Free Trade" The,l
presses are daily filled with sycophantic adua.
tions of HENRY CLAY as the alleged ''embod-
ment' and illustrious champion of the former
principles, and with bitter f1lInnations against
MARTIN VAN BUREN as the alleged advocate Of
the latter. Thus they yhypocrticalIy contrast the
principles of the Wing and the Democratic par
ties upon the subject of the Tarif;-these are
the positions they falsely assign the respective
candidates for the Presidency upon that impor-
tant question.
It's time this Justification was fully exposed, and
lis authors exhibited in their true coors. The
deception has been allowed to go ON long enough
The matter must be set right before the people.
They demand the Truth. Demagogues arc
seeking to suppress it-democrats should make
it known. For the attainment of this object, we
have some facts to present.-They are taken
from authentic sources, and cannot be controyer-
i ted.
We deny that the Wing party arc in favor of a
PROTECTIVE Tariff, so far as concerns The doncst
industrial interests Of the country, This is shown
in their support of the present awwith all its i'm
perfections and inequalities. That law imposes
duties of from so to go per cent. upon many ar
ticles of fnecesslty-such as cannot be dispensed
with by the people. For instance, on the yari-
GUS qualities of iron, there is a duty of from 45
to l123 per cent; upon glass wares of from 100
to 600 per cent; upon sugars, molasses and salt,
of from IS to so per cent; upon woollen manu-
factured goods, of from SO to 100 per cent; up
on cotton goods, of from 100 to $50 per cent.
&c. &c. Now these high duties amount to a
prohibition of importation of the articles named
and secure monopoly ofthe market to the home
manufacturer Foreign competition in those ar
tcles cannot exist, and thus the manufacturers in
New England are enabled to exact their own
prices for the goods. And they are not slow in
improving the opportunity. The rise in the price
Of woolen manufactured goods, cotton goods
Bon SC, generally, of from 20 10 so per cent
since the present Tariff was laid, establishes this
fact beyond all peradyenturo; and the great mass
Of our own industrious populaton-the laborine
lmen, mechanics and farmers, who constitute
moro than niaeteea-twentieths of the producing
population of the country--are obliged to pGJ
this additional price of the dutiable articles" tc
enrich the less than OnC-twentieh who produce
them. This is the legitimate fruit of our present
whig Pr0hibHory Tarif-and such was the ef
feet designed by the specializing capitalists who
produced its enactment.
Thisis the mannerthe rrbigS protect our Home
Industry. They tax that Industry, to enrich the
manufacturing corporations.
HENRY CLAY is the advocate Of a Tariff like
the one with which the country is now inflicted
His efforts in Congress have been directed il fa-
vor of this anti-republican monopoly. But con-
scious Of the growing uapopuIariy of the niea.
sure, and anxious that none Of this popular dis.
favor shall attach to his character in his present
position before the American people, he has beer
engaged during the past year in writing episto
larry essays TO his friends and supporters at the
South, condemning Prohi6itory Tariff, ant
expressing Die,os nearly bordering upon the al
ira doctrine Of Free trade. We take the follow
ing extracts from the latest of those productions
to prove the TRUTH of what we say.
In letterto Messrs. Branham and Bledsoe, d
Eatonville, Georgia, dated ''July 2Sth, 1872
Mr.. Clay uses this language:
81 NENER WAS IN FAVOR OF DUTIES
BEING so HIGH AS TO AMOUNT TO A
PROHIBITION OF ARTICLES ON WHICH
THEY WERE LAIDI HAVE THOUGHT II
BEST FOR ALL INTERESTS THAT
THERE SHOULD BE COMPETITION
again: "a Tariff for thatpurpose (revenue) ough
tobe SO adjusted as TO afford acknowledgement
Iagement to our domestic manufacttlresn "TC
import to il that character, il should be MODIER
i ATEDw 81 was not in Congress ia 1928, anc
Therefore DID NOT VOTE FOR THE TARIFF