Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-08-20
From the n. Y. Evening Post.
THE USES OF PATIENCE.

THE USES OF PATIENCE.
"To purchase the same quantity of SUI
gar and molassess that used in my iami-
" 10 1899 and 1910, | am obliged to part
with twice the quantity Of eats that gave
for it them" SAID a Duchess County far
mer the other day. Duchess county is
almost contiguous TO a great market, and
its farmers, OF course, sustain less ncon-
venience than those of many other parts
Of the country. In the remoter districts.
in counties lying apart from the line Of
the canal and depending for tier trade
upon slow and expensive modes Of trans
portation, the disproporton must be still
more 10 the disadvantage o. the inhabi-
tants, and the farmer who depends upon
his pork and wheat to procure the comforts
Of life which are brought from distance,
is obliged TO part with still larger share
Of what he has TO sell, in order 10 pur-
chase his usual supplies.
There never was z time when the farm
ers Of the country, now living, were COM
PEELED to practice such close frugality as
at the present moment. There never was
time, in the memory Of the present gen.
Grafton certainly, when they were obliged
o economist in molasses, which they may
dip up at Mantanzas for nothing. or next
to nothing. Even this cheap seasoning,
of their food, which but for the high du-
ties we have laid upon it, would be greatly
cheaper-is come TO be regarded ia many
families as a thing 10 be carefully husband
ed, and lrugally administered precious
fluid, 10 purchase cask of which it takes
a great many oats, and prodigious quan;i-
ties Of wheat and pork. La various other
comforts once easily within Their reach
the low price of what they have to sell,
and the dearness of what they have TO
buy-both artificial, both caused by the
high rates of duties-now compel them to
deny themselves.
When we suggest these results as oh; &c
lions to the tarih which the wings imposed
on the country IN 1912, we are answered
that the farmers must have patience. that
the tariff has not yet wrought lis full eff
feet, that they must give it little more
time. and that ii will assuredly adjust eve
ry thing. This is very consoIing TO be
sure, but it is consolation which has been
administered so often that it has almost |
lost its effect. Six months after the tariff
was passed, the farmers began TO com
plain, and were told that they had only TO !
wait, that better times were close at hand !;
the tariff was rapidly bringing them on
They waited another six months, found the |
times worse, complained again and were
told the same story. Another six months
passed, the same complaints were made,
and the same consoIlions applied. We
arc now at the end of nearly two years
from the time when wing Congress pas
sed the tariff: and the times are worse than
ever for the larmors-sower and lower |
markets for their grains, their meats, their |
receive in return. They complain louder |
than ever; and the friends of the tariff
are more busy than ever in attempting TO
pacliy them. Only wait, say these assid |
nous comforters, only wait ill the tariff
has had time to produce its effect and you
shall see what you snail sec. Only wait |
and 1t will bring you cheap sugar, cheap
moIasses, cheap salt, cheap iroa utensils |
and implements, cheap cotton and woolen |
clothes, and thousand other cheap arti-
cles, the prices of which will be lowered
amazingly by the heavy duties you are
Obliged to pay upon them. Only wait
only have patience till the time comes
and you will find that The products Of your
farms VIII be bought up at prices which
will make you stare.
1t Is no wonder that the farmers at last
suspect that they are cheated. He whose
land is under a mortgage, and cannot raise
money enough by the sale Of his produce
to pay the interest, is not satisfied by being
put oil in this manner from year to year
lie sees that the manufacturers are grow
ing rich, while lie is growing poor lie is
told that they are growing rich by the
help of the tariff, and he begins yche-
mently to suspect that his own increasing |
poverty is owing to the same cause He !
sees little good in tariff that is not to
prove beneficial to him till his land is ia
ken from him to pay his debts. Would it
not be better, he begins to ask, so to re-
guIate the tariff that we, who till the soil.
shall experience some benefit from It IN
our lifetime
The wing journals answer this question
in the negative. Whatever be the obiec-
tons to the tariff, whatever be its mistiiefs
to the agricultural population, whatever
be the Injustice Of the tribute 10 collects
Tor owners OF the mills, it is not to be al
tered, not to be revised not to be touched
If Mr.. Clay succeeds, the tariff is to re.
main as it is.
THE DEMOCRATIC SPIRIT.
ONWARD AND UPWARD.
The spirit of the Democratic masses