Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-03-14

VINO mad drlvrn hogs, which he had sold
to man who was engaged to furnish
pork 10 the manufactures OF Lowell, in
Massachusetts,; the place at which The
principal cottons, calicoes and yarns con
sumed in this country, are Manufactured.
BY an increase OF manufactures, there
would, oil course, be an increase OF the
consumption of farming products. And
as to the laboring classes, can they wish
to be put on the footing of the paupers Of
Europe? where the laboring man rarely
gets 20 cents day and finds himself
working IL hours lG every day-rarely
eating meat once month, and with no
other prospect before hun but hopl4ss,
squald poverty and death IN a poor house,
or IN the streets. Such is the doom of
thousands Of the Iaborero of Europe, whose
wives and children become beggars -
RAISE up maauiactorles--glve to the far
mer market for his products, then the
laborng classes will get employment and
good wages, and by industry they can
provide a competency for themselves and
heir families, and thus AVOID The misara-
BILE lot which awaits the poor Of Europe
How can the farmer employ laboIers, to
till the soil, 10 clear his land, to build his
houses and barns, unless he can sell the
products of his farml And how can he
sell, unless he has a home market?-lor
we know tat there is no market opened
TO HIM abroad for one tenth of what he
can produce, al Tor remunerating prices.
Fourth, Many Of the Wings are in favor
of a National Bank, to equalize the cur
rency, to give the farmer, mechanic and
laborer an uniform standard Of value. |
have moi time to enter INTO this subject at
large. Most OF US recoilect the effect
upon the business operations Of the cpun.
try during the existence If tie late Bank
Of the United States. Then, no country
on earth had better currency-the coun
try prospered an the laboring classes had
full employment aud good wages. But
Bank is SAID by our opponents to be anti.
r. publlcani The late Bank of the Unit
cd States was measure Of the RepubIi-
can par,y-ihat same party that earl d
US through the war with England, Great, d
the Bank, and It's charter WIS opposed by
the Federal party. M. Ma iison recon-
mended and signed the Bill for Bank;
md the then representatives from this dis
net, the lite Judge Jackson, supported
and voted for it-and was HIS republican.
ism ever ubuedl The Bank was EN-.
pnaiicaIly Republican me sure then;
and il So then, how can it be otherwise
now? Names may change, but facts and
ri1ciples cannot.
The Fifth great measure or the Wing
party is the distribution Of the proceeds OF
the public lands among the Stat, 8. The
Constitution of the United States only
provided, as means to support tho Gov
eminent, a revenue to be derived from d.
rect taxes and duties upon foreign imports.
The trainers Of that instrument never
contemplated that the Government shall
be land jobber, to purchase lands to
sell on profits, any more than to speculate
in cattle. wheat or cotton. The public
lands wero bought with the money of the
people-in trust for :he people, and thu
avails should be returned to them. This
would enable the States to go IN with
their internal Improvements, to educate
their people, and to relieve them Of the
weight Of debt that presses heavily; and,
above all, it would enable the States to
reduce their taxes, which are always in
their nature direc, taxes, and operate un
equally and oppressively upon the poor.
Taxes upon foreign goods are BONE by
the consumer and are paid prime paily by
the rich. 1t is not the poor man. who
drinks costly wines, and wears silks and
broad. cloths and consumes the uxuries
OF the Indies. TINS tax is voluntary
none need pay but such as shoose to con-
sumo foreign goods, and very few coa-
sumo foreign goods to large amount but
the wealthy and luxurious And suppose
u distribution of tn pr ce, ds of the public
Ian S among the States, by Withdrawing
the amount trrm thu gene al Government,
would result in rende ring It necessary to
rtise that amount by increasing the duties
on foreign goods, the only diff, renee
would be that the payers of the tax would
be changed, AMI the nature of the tax
rendered less odious and burdensome on
the poor and less expensive in its collcc
tim. For example, the annual proceeds
OF the sales OF the public lands, will, per-
haps, average S3,000,00O. This given
to the States would enable them TO re duce
the Safe taxes 10 THAT amount, ana to
make up this sum, the Federal Govern
ment must lay ADDITIONAL duties on foreign
goods to that amount. The differ, nee
will be this: the poor man wlll b. relieved
pro taRto Of the direct tax imp Sed by the
State on his little farm ami uten>Ils-a
tax which he cannot now avoid, aud The
amount that he will thus be tempted
from paying according to the Ian propos-
ed, vii de raised from the consumers OF
wines, silks and fureign Injuries, who, as
| have air ady observed, are the wealthy
and luxurious
have thus skctched the outlines n
the prominent measures adv Gated by the
Wing purity. They are American and
Republican. They are peculiarly the
calculated best to promote the
middle and poor ella SEES The rich csn
always take care of themselves. Our
offer to the American people
no measures ofPublic policy whatever
Ask them what are thur principles, they
tell US they are opposed t, Protective
Tarld-thty are opposed to Bank
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