The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-09-11
From the ~ Y. Plebeian
Who are the friends Of PrOfectionn.

| Ihe Democratic party has ever been and ever
will be the friends of the laborng classes. It
ever has and ever will advocate fair and lust pro.
lection to American industry. When it ceases
TO advocate the interests of the laboring classes
1t ceases 10 be the Democratic party. The De-
mocratlc party opposes the present Tariff be-
cause it is not protective Tariff, because it pay-
dGyses the industry Of the country, because il
pt"nders nine-tenhs of the people for the pur-
pose OF enrching the one-tenth! 1t is falsely
called Tariff that protects the industry of the
country. 1t draws the expense of Government
chiefly from the poorer and middling classes of
society. The man who labors daily for sun.
port contributes as much or more than the man
worth 100000, $500,000, or $I,0OOOO
Tie cheaper and coarser quality of goods,
whether cottons, woolens, whatever the material
may be, pays much heavier duty than the finer
qualities. Low-priced woolens, called hannels
and balzes, pay 100 per cent, and The finer
qualities but 4Oper cent Low-priced brown SUI
gars pay about 100 per cent, and the better
qualities about 30 per cent. Low-prced cot
tons, worn chiefly by the laboring classes, pay
100 per cent. and over, while the finer fabrics
pay but 25 and 80 per cent.
These are facts that the advocates the Tar.
lit, ''ds 1t Is" will not nor cannot contradict.
All the determinations in the present Tariff are
calculated to oppress the industry of the coun-
try; Cypress the laboring classes. Discrimina-
tons, or differences in the rates of duty, by
which one article of import pays more than a.
mother, can only be justified when the object is
10 relieve the poor and protect the industry of
the laborlng classes. The object of discrimina-
tons should be, as Mr.. Van Buren, said in his
Indiana letter, for the purpose of equalizing the
burthens of government; SO that the different
classes of society as regards their ability to pay
taxes, would bear their just proportion Of the
expenses of government.
Farmers, mechanics, and laborers of the Uni
ted States, call you the present Tariff a Protec-
tive Tariff? No, you will not! II does not pro.
tect, but on the contrary oppresses your industry.
1t protects or benefits nobody but the wealthy
manufacturers. The labor, which IS the capital
ofthe poor man, that draws from The soil BUSH
ell of wheat is inadequately compensated, while
the capital that is invested in cotton or WOODEN
manufactory is abundantly rewarded.
We confidently affirm the following to be true.
lst. That James X. Polk is in favor Of Tar
if that will protect the industry Of the country
= The whole of that industry.
3D. That Henry Clay is opposed to Tariff
that will protect the industry of the country.
3d. That james K. Polk is opposed to the
present Tariff
4th. That Henry Clay is in favor of the pre-
sent Tariff,
5th. That the present Tariff is destroying the
industry Of the country.
All of these affirmations we have time and time
again proved. The great mass of the people be- )
leve and understand them. They have convin-
cling arguments in the low price Of produce and
the high price of goods--argnment that cannot
be reiuted. No sophistry that our opponents
may employ can satisfy the great body Of agri-
culturists that their industry is perfected, when
their wheat, pork, butter, &C., &c, cannot be
sold Al price that will pay for the labor in pre-
ducng IT, We wovld be willing 10 rest our
cause, and 60 to the polls tomorrow; SO satisfi-
ed are we that the great body Of the labofing
classes will decide the matter rightly. Talk Of
the Tariff, "as 1t ISL being protective Tariff
when the greatest of all interests the agricultu-
rail- is opposed beyond all endurance What an
absurdity! There is nothing but oppression to
the laborng clssses can result ftorn the present
Tariff. Poverty and labor Is plnndered that
wealth and dleness may realize large dividends.
A Late English paper says that in the Court Of
Queens Bench, recently, a jury refused 10 make
a husband responsible for an extravagant milil
ner's bill for bis wife, comprehending among 9TH
items, ten new bonueis and fOrty-shree pairs of
gloves ia seyen months