The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-07-05

III AdUltdHtS VI LiiSidHd dtC PouPSAo, ehoe oHN
inhabitants of some other most opu-
lent cities have but FIVE CENTS a day 10
keep soul and body together; and that there
are instances of men dying in that country,
leaving behind them, one, five, ten and even
twenty millions of dollars. Capital album
dant, labor cheap. Is that thestate Of things
in this country? Is not oursituation precise
ly the reverse? Here capital:is scarce, and
labor scarce, and both dear.
Withdraw the protection Afforded to the
labor and capital of this country and cannot
the most shallow thinker perceive, that it is
at once to hand both over, to the tender mer-
cies of British capital and British pauper la
Dor. Could not the British manufacturer
sell cheaper, without sustaining a loss, than
the American? And would it not be his
policy TO do SO until he had broken down
the American? and got the command of the
market. Whilst the short-lived and unequal
contest would be going on, the consumers
might enjoy a few halcyon days of cheap
goods-but the struggle over. our noble
Eagle, deserted by its government, sunk TO
the feet Of the British Lion-then look out
consumers; you will be in the lions mouth
sure enough. And after you have been
crushed and trodden down, you, who, inlu-
enced by the cuckoo sound Of cheap goods,
have abandoned yeur own noble Bird, and
sought the embraces of the Lion, may ex-
lclaim in the anguish Of despair, that Mr..
Owen, in his speech on the 22d of April,
1914, told you at least one truth, and that is,
that cit is easy 10 throw dust in some mems
eyes, and persuade shallow thinkers of any
absurdity."
BY way of Illustrating my views on this
subject more fully, let me suppose that our
politicians up to the present day had been
all free trade men: that up to this time we
had no tariff TO protect manufactures or any
other interest. That England was still send
ing US her old clothes, and tattered remnants
and selling them to US at high prices-say
they sold us her old fashioned remnants of
calico, at so cents per yard. And suppose
that We had just made the important discov-
cry, that this state offhings was giving wealth
to England and nakedness and poverty to
us? What would be the first thing tina
would suggest itself to a sensible man, in
order to remedy the evil? Would it not be
to shake off this ~disreputable dependence on
England, and to do this would he not -ascer-
tain what it cost to make a yard of calico in
England and what would be the probable cost
of making a yard here? He makes the en-
quiry, and he ascertains that the yard is made
in England for five cents, for which we are
made 10 pay 40 or so cents, and that it could
be made here for ten cents. The govern
ment takes the matter in hand, ievies a duty
of 100 per cent. on the British calico, and
thereby places a barrier between the British
and the American manufacturer, which Sc
cures the latter from destruction. All 90
to work, sheltered by this tariff. The Amer
lean consumer, is now enabled TO purchase
by means of increased competition and ofin-
%creased supplies, for ten cents, what before
costhim fifty. The country rapidly energies
from poverty and nakedness, to wealth and
comfort. But in the midst ofour prosperity.
British emissaries, aided by southern sympa-
thisers, come among US and tell us that our
government is depressing US very much, by
means of the tariff duty; that if that were
out of the way, we could buy British cali
Goes for five cents a yard, and here we are
paying ten, an enormous monopoly, a bounty
10 our citizens, with the whole rigmarole of
free trade sophistries. Might not a plain
man make a sensible answer to this, and
say
Il know we pay Ten cents; one half is
paid into our treasury for the support of gov
~ernment--is paid out in the various depart
ments of the public service; enters the gen.
eral circulation, and promotes the industry
of our citzens-THe other halt goes to Eng
land. We know that without the duty Eng
land could sell the articles for five cents
Our manufactures cannot sell for less than
ten, labor being high in this country and
capital scarce. If we take off the duty Eng
land will undersell our citizens, drive them
from the business-break them up. From