Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1844-06-14

(COHcluded.)
The Tariff Democratic-Fee Trade
M0RarchiCaL
MIR. Dromgoole replied enable bare
headed people to buy cheap hats!
To enable bare headed people to buy
cheap hats! Sir, let me tell the gentle
man # he carries this measure, the poor
people ofthis country would not only 90
bare e-headed but bare backed they wopld
be doomed, like the paupers Of Europe to
20 hall fed and half clad. The tariff,
sir, is "be poor mans law" it is THIS
md this aIoae that gives him employ.
ment and wages Just as the tariff goes
down, the wages Of labor will 20 down
with it. Repea! the tarlf-adopt the
genllemau's luvorite plan oC"free trade"
and you will bring down the ia5or here
in every department Of industry, to the
level oil the labor Of the sers and paupers
of Europe. This is certain II is IneVIla
BILE. As certain as the laws Of glaVIta-
tomas inevitable Hs that the removal OF
an obstruction between two unequal
bodies Of water will reduce the one to the
level o. the ether. Repeal the tariff and
what 10 there 10 prevent our country
from being instantly inundated with the
productions OF the low priced labor Of
Europe. When hatters, shoemakers,
blscksmilhs, and all must come down
and work as cheap as they do, or give
up the market! With the present Iaci-
Ities Of intercourse by steamships, you
might as we'll attempt 10 establish high
O. wages snd higber prices on one side
ola street than on the other, a. to ss
tabIish and sustain higher prices anc
higher wages here than in Europe, un-
dor the delusive and Ethiopian scheme
of free trade But, sir this scheme
would bring in its train other and more
fearful consequences Adopt this echem'
and you will soon bring down and de
grade tho now free and prosperous la
Dor Of this country, not only the moral
but TO the political condition oi the slave
and serls of Europe. BY reducing 'be
wages you deprive the poor man OF tn
means of educating his children an
fitting them to be free. BY thus de
pressing one class OF your people, 20,
necessarily elevate another. You di
vide society horizontally into upper an
lower classes distinctions and title su
perveue - iealoUses and finally hOstlI
Ties follow, end liberty itself is in tn
end swallowed up in monarchy. Sue
are the political and moral teUdencie
of every step in the direction Of lre
trade. The protective policy s therefor
democratic 10 its character and tender
cies, it is a policy which promotes equa
ty, not by depressing one class, but b
eIsvating abby eleVating, sustaining
and projecting the labor Of your ow
country against The ruinOus and degra'
ing effects Of a loo free cOmpeutc
: with the low priced and depressed lab,
OF Europe. These are views which b
long 10 the subject, and should not
overlooked or disrsgarded by those wi
represent the free labor OF this countr
and especially by those who make pr
feSSionS of democracy and lone Of
people. Now is The time and this is Il
question, TO test their sincerity, Tho
who represent StdUeS may he excuse
but those representing freemen will
held to a strict Accountability.
. The Duties added TO The Price, MOI IT,
The great and leading objection
tho protective policy is, that the duu
are added to the price, and paid by /
consumers. This objection lies at t
foundation Of tho opposition 10 this po
Cy; and, if uDrounced, this opposIli
ought TO cease. The duty is added
the price ,hlsis tho theory. Now, s
how Is the fact; what says experlen,
All experience proves that this obi
tlon has no existence save in the in
smatlons Of those who make it,
Now SIR, ,sy ii down as a gene
proposition, that there never was b
protective duty imposed upon any al
Gle. from lhe foundation Of this COVE
ment TO The present day, the price
which has not been 10 The end redu
-greally reduced In many lnstan
to one half. one third, and one lou
Of what it had been before these pro-
live duties were imposed This.
may seem TO gentlemen on the Of
side 10 be a strong declaration; but,
make it deliberately, with full C
viction Of ils truth. and challenge g
,e men 10 disprove il-l defy then
polnl Out single instance 10 the con