Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1844-05-10
POLITICS FOR FAR NERs.


The following familiar dialogue. from
Pennsylvania paper, between a farm
er and merchant, 10 good illustration
Of the argument between The advocates
OF home manufacture.
Farmer. Well, Mr. A., have been
dealing with you now for about year
without a settlement; how much have
you go, charged against met
Merchant oh, never mind a settle
msni; come, what shall | show you TO
day! You want bill Of goods, don't
youf Hurrah for Free Trade!
F-WoIl, may be | will buy some-
thing after while, but ! want a settle
ment first, and then we will commence
square on next year account.
livery well, then; your account is
jus, ono hundred dollars.
-Four shIlings ia now the price
Of Wheai here, and have got one han
dred aud fifty bushels, just enough to
pay your account.
M-Oh! bless you, my dear friend,
don't want wheat,
F-WeIl, then, I've got plenty Of
Corn and Pork at home, and will bring
you that.
N II can't take your Corn, Pork, or
dny producei I must have the cash.
FL fortunately have the money by
me, and here it is-receIpl your &C
count.
| M-(cOuntiag the money All right
Now hope you will come 10 olteO thi.
year, and trade freely; there is nothing
like free trade.
F-la am beginning TO understand you
free trade You expect me 10 buy good
Of you, and at the end OF the year pay
you the cash freely But I'II put sIoI
10 that game. There is a little stor'
just starting in our nejghborbood by
friend Of mine, who will take all kind
0 produce for goods, and you have seer
my last dollar After this | will dea
with him -ESH.
Change the name and see Of whom
the story is told. England wauts US +,
! buy our manufactured articles OF her
and yet refuse 10 take American Whea
Pork, or other products in payment, bu
demands Silvsr and gold.
The American manufactures (,he lit
tie store kept by our friend will Great
home and permanent demand for III
excess Of the products Of the farm; fo
. the men who work in the manufacture
must eat, and if they are here, they wi
, ear American products, and thus we vi
supp Y one another, retaining the gol
; and silver, instead of sending it off t
!, England TO pay for manufactured art
y cIes while they refuse to take one do
iar's worth Of products, unless the En-
glish crop is SO small that they ar
starving.
And yet in the very town Of Chill
= cohe, 400 miles from the Atlantic,
, report be true, we have an Emssar
y sent all The way from England. hire,
J. and paid by the year, to enIlghten t
) bsckwoods men Of the Buckeye State
The benefits Of free trade and Of har
money currency, How kind and consit
crate is the British Government 10 tax
J. such a parental interest in our welfar,
= We hope none OF our Democratic brett
T ern will be so selfish as to charge job
-
Bull with being ung ratelul in his labor
thus 10 better our condition. Their
s surely can be no design 10 this effort
d theirs, TO write down our manufacture
q Of iron, gunpowder, salt, wearing app
10 rel, &c. in order to reduce US, as NJ
i Jefferson said. TO dependence on fot
f tiCn nations The Two Englishme
10 Bennett and Pine. the one a proIess'
1t tory, and The other his copyist and the
A followers are. as an irish writer declar
y to US of the Kings, Lords and Commo
J, stamp-aiI for John Bull first, and h
's country IdSt,' The one publishes Il
e New York Herald the other the 'Cb
e lico,he Advertiser associated with
y gentleman. who does not write ten lin
for his paper in a twelve month, if Il
h hands in the Office are 10 be credited,
j. True Democrat.
Of I'VE have branch here. in this ma
DC utacturing town OF SIeubeDviIe, OF III
II Bennett and John Bull concern, CALI
= the American Union. 1t is oil the Kin
>. Lords and Commons stamp-for En-
$. lish interests first, English lnIeres
Is last-and American interests q oil at al
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