Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-07-19

would be picking their 0Ion pockets by directly
advancing HORIZONTAL, ANTl-PRoTECT-
| I'VE TARIFF, in the election Of Polk and Dallas
This odous pill would be Immediately forced upon
the healthy body polite, the moment Southern
measures triumphed by the efforts of Northern 10.
cofocoism.
Two things only will we notice in our neghbors
argument, and close article already spun TO
greater length than intended, for the winding
up one. The foreign manufacturer has not so
much need Of inventions as the American be-
cause wages many times lower and IL no.
torous fact that the greater number of laborsaving
improvements have Of late sprung from Yankee in.
genuity. The foreigner, tolerably secure in pay
ing his pauper operatives shilling day, does not
feel TO the same extent the need OF such increased
facilities in machinery while the Yankee, paying
high wuges, contrves every means to lessen the
cost of producing. [lf ii is asked what is to be-
come Of the operatives thus thrown out Of employ,
we reply in the words of our neighbor, they can
squat on the unoccupied land out west, aud never
s,arve : But it need not generally be So The
increasing cheapness will create an increased mar.
ket, and of course increase the production; hence
the number Of persons engaged in manufacturing
may not be very much smaerl When we said
.
competitor from market, we expressly declared
that there was danger of this citkoUf proteetion.-
| Hence the argument founded on the Yankees pres
ent ability 10 maintain himself uSDER tariff, falls
far short of the mark Again, manufacturing
abroad is mainly done by great capitalists and not,
as here, by every enterprisng aud ingenious man
who command few hundred dollars Such
could not often flourish theIe-they would be I'M
deTsold and ruined. This has happened again and
agan--indeed, have before said, il is a com
mon thing in business We put this FACT, and the
old maxim, What man has done man may do
against our neighbors pithy and lucid ARGUMENT to
prove that such an event would be impossible
Reader, compare and decide for yourself
Secondly. In Senator Phelps speech on the
tariff of 1912, neighbor has stumbled upon d
mares nest. and raises great ado it as Pat
did at the first sight of mud turtle. 'Arrsh !!
cried he in mighty amazement, that shodd liver
come TO 'Merrky 10 see snuff box walk But
what can this settler be upon which n,ighbor
'threshes long and hard Why, no lessthan a
discovery of the fact that domestic manufacturers
have exported several millions worth Of their goods
TO foreign countries since the tariff was imposed
and found a ready market for them And h. takes /
legitimate tfeet OF this measure, or a result Of
the cheapness induced by il, proof positive that
protection is no, and never was needed Wonder.
ful sapiency Astonishing profoundness Our
neighbor should at once be raised to the had of
the Philadelphia bar, or made chief among South.
ern absiraetionists This reasoning remind, us Of
a remark made by Gen. jackson on his tour 10 the
Eastern States in 1888. Visiting Lowell, aid OBJ.
serving its great prosperity, the happy and ndus.
trious air Of her mechanics, and last, but notleast
the smiling faces and neat attire Of her thousands
of factory girls, and sweet children, assembled to
welcome him-'3y the Eternsl!' mut,ered tie old
Roman, 'there is need Of protection whae ba-
bes can wear rich frocks and morocco shoes Our
neighbor and his idolized paragon OF laannnd n II
statesman, might with the same propriety afRue
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Auence Of warm rain, therefore (mark the 'sdtoit
eoncusion) rain is not and never was needed
II our neighbor had shown that such expiration
of goods ever took place 10 any extent trhiie there
toas tariff, then he might reasonably infer that
protection was needless, for obvious reasons But,
on the contrary, our factories have been compelled
TO stop on account of the floods Of goods sent here
to break them down, and the balance Of trade was
very largely aeans, us-s2l5 .0O0, 900 in ten years
until the passage Of the tariff.
Here We leave the matter so far as tediously spun
misunderstanding to ourself and the Democrat
and tresome 10 the public-are concerned What.
ever may have been our Inconsistencies since the
beginning Of this discussion, we have surely not
laid down the position that the true policy of our
government is such protection TO home industry as
will command labor and skill and capital suvFI.
cIESr to supply the actHai irdnfs of community ;
and then, forgetting all this, harped upon the i'm
'nedi0te and superior BESEFIrs' of full foreign
competition in our own markets Neither have we {
proiessed to favor in any way policy which we
ire all the time endeavoring tn shew is absurd, :
useless, and even pernicious. Neither have we
condemned, both by slurring and casuistry,
measure which our political friends within our own ,
State have endorsed by placing upon their banners Il
coupled with the name Of James X Polk as lis es. d
'eciai friend. Neither have we abused without
tint law which our party associates in the two
principal States of the Union boast was passed o
Trough their agency and declare il is their DE. y
ERMISED PURPOSE to uphold
since The above was penned, we find our posi- al
ion upon this subject clearly and briefly stated by
correspondent of the ST. Adams Messenger, in in
aragraPh which we give below. The reader will W
ecollect that we have nowhere unqualifedly main-
aimed that protection 0i,e0ys reduces abe price of o
he protected article, that i, does this Immediate
y-and we now say n
Though IL werc true, that the immediate U
md certain effect Of regulations controlling ia
ne competition Of foreign Nth domestic fab hi
'cs 'oaS an increase of price. it is uaiicer- M
ally true, that THE CONTRARY is THE uLTI- Ike
late EFFECT WITH EVERY SUCCESSFUL MAN
FAcTURE. When domestic manufacture OF
as attained to perfection, and has engaged
. the prosecution of IL a c0mDefenf nunber