Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1844-05-09

Every body jumped from bed, anx
ious to be prepared early for the grea
festival of the Twenty-second; aud nc
sooner were sufficient number oil
berhs vacated than the mischevous
Council of Ten quietly took them fol
their own especial purposes and were
soon enjoying refreshing morning
nap-and thus ended one scene OF fur
upon the Mississippi.
H15- The magic power Of the Protec-
five System was thus illustrated by
Mr. CHoArE, in late speech in the
United States Senate:
With the battle of Waterloo one age
of the world departed and another
commenced. On that day new age
aroSe--an age 10 which no monart h
can atfx his name-an age of comforts
TO the poor--an age of induslry-the
age Of The people. The policy of the
whole world became changed. Every
nation seemed to forge, war and to aP-
ply its energies 10 the development of
its resources in commerce, arts. and
manufactures. England with all her
capital, skill and machinery, commenc.
ed in Manchester her contest for pre-
dominance in the manufacturing arts.
On that field we were not able to cope
with her. Our infant manufactures
could not stand an hour against such
competition. The law Of 1916 which
was then passed afforded TO manufac-
lures better protection than The bill
now proposed by the Senator from
South Carolina would give us, and bet
ter than the principles advanced by the
Senator from Missouri would give us.
The tariff of 1916 was good for some
thing. 1t served the purpose of pro-
tecting cotton manufacture, and il pro-
tected The raw cotton from competition.
|. cut off the East India cotton, and it
gave an enlarged market to the cotton
of the South.
Mr. CHoATE showed that it was very
soon found that the Tariff Of 1916 did
not, in the new state of industry
throughout the world, afford sufficient
protection. A distinguished member
Of the other House from Pennsylvania
NOW on the bench Of the Supreme
Court came here in 1920 and advocat-
ed a Tariff of a more protective charac-
ter. He was ably aided by distin-
guished member from Kentucky
Their efforts were continued ill 1924,
when we a, length recognized the in
dusirial policy Of the world, and estab-
lished the Tariff of 1924. He had
said that in 1915 we began to live in a
new age. He had before him proof
that then the world assembled into new
light. He referred to English authori-
tiles to show the efforts made by Eng
land to bring the world back to the
use OF her manufactures. One of the
writer's whom he cited seemed to be-
lieve that the first cause Of the creation
of the world was the consumption Of
British manufactures. There was
hardly press or an intellect at work
in England tina. labored for any other
purpose than to win the world back to
the consumption of British manufac-
lures. From German authorities he
also showed that the spirit there incul.
Gated was that Of encouragement to
home industry, to the consolidation of
it's industrial policy. The same spirit
ought 10 animate US. We had an
America, and it was ours to embellish
it and build il. up. There was not a
nation in Europe tina, did not try to
thrive by industry. except Holland,
and she was not the Holland that once
traded and banked for the world. Tur.
key was another exception. and she
laid no duties on any thing imported
and sen, nothing out; like the water of
her own sea, in which there was no
tide, her trade came in and never went
out. .n
There was nothing, perhaps. that
better illustrated the tone and charac-
ter of the present age than the modern
character of the debates of the British
House of Commons. What would
Lord Chatham, with his warlike policy
and his exaggerated eloquence. say to
a debate on onion seed? But the
present minister, Sir Robert Peel,
seemed to manage the onion seed ar.
gomen. as well as he did tina, which
related to Irish affairs. The wealth
and power OF England has been vastly
increased under this system Of pro,ec.
ton TO her industry.
INDIVIDUAL demonstrating at
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