The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-08-29


Iom.-Certainly it is. No Wing says
that when duties are paid that goods will be
lower, except when the duties on foreign
goods encourage people to manufacture in
America and then the monopoly of the En-
gttsh mill IS destroyed, and the competition
the price TO the lowestthe goods can
be afforded at. The more ofany thing that
is taken to market, the lower the price must
be; and if the Tariff encourages people to
establish manufactures, the increase OF man
ufactured goods must tend to diminish their
price. And by creating a large demand for
hands, the establishment of every manufac
tory in America tends to increase the wages
of labor.
Jo.-lfthat's Wing doctrine Tom, I never
understood it before.
TOm-No, 10, and you never will under
stand it, if you listen only % such misrepre-
of it, as the miller story presents,
and such as are daily thurst upon their party
by the papers and speakers ofthe Polk Dem
ocracy. If you want to know what Wing
doctrine is, you must read Wing papers, you
will never find any oftheir measures truly
represented in the Polk papers.
Jo.-But Tom, you forget that we are
told our ships will all rot.
Tom.--Oh! yes, 10, l did come mighty
nigh forgetting that ;but I'll tell you that when
l heard the miller story read, thoughtitf fit
ted the British doctrine of the, modern dem
ocrats much better that it did the doctrine
Of the Wing Tariff; because they'd have you
believe we can get goods cheaper from En-.
gland than we can make them ourselves ;that
is,the further the goods are brought, and the
more we encourage commerce, the cheaper
the goods will be, and they want us to go all
the way to England for our manufactured
goods.
Jo.--But they don't say so, Tom.
Tom.-Ohno, 10, they don't say SO; they
know better than that; but that's what they
mean when they talk of encouraging CON-
merce.
Jo.-And tell US what M is, Tom.
Iom.-Why commerce, you see, is just
employing ships instead of wagons to carry
your produce to market and bring back your
necessaries.
Jo.-And do you think Tom, that the
Democratic party really wan US take our
produce to England and bring back ourthings
from that country instead o trading at home.
TOm.-That will be the case whent the Tar
if is destroyed--and now | think of it, Iex-
pect the Polk Democrats want to persuade
you that can get things cheaper by going a
great ways for them is because they all ex-
pect to be rowed up to the head of Salt river
next November, and if they can only persuade
the ignorant among their supporters that the
forther they go for goods the cheaper they'll
be, they can still induce some to go away up
there to trade with them.
Jo.-If it is really true that our leaders
wanted US to support British interests instead
of American interests I'd help TO row them
UP Satriver myself.
Tom.-Well 10, every man must Judge
for himselfin this free country but if they
can persuade you that to take cotton from thi:
country. and pay freight and all the charges
of commerce TO England, pay the British
merchants profit, the British manufacturer
profit and the cost of manufacture-pay the
British merchants profit again on the goods
and the freight and charges back again &c
this coutry, and then the merchants profit
here and after bearing all this expense then
sell you the British goods cheaper than they
can be made in America; if they can per-
suade you TO do all this and make you believe
at the same time that by doing it you are
supporting the interest of America and 30
interest of England say, if they can make
you believe all these things why then you
OUGHT TO VOTE FOR Polk.
Jo.-I don't want TO support British inter
ests, Tom, any more than you do; but that
miller story made me think that the Wings
were foolish enough TO believe that the high
er the Tariffthe cheaper the goods would be.
Tom.-If there is any application of the
Miller story to the Tariff question at all, as il
is clear that it does not fit the Wing side, il