Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-10-16
Prom ne Belmcnt CAronicle.


From he Belmont Chronicle.
THE TARIFF.-On recent visit TO
Wheeling. | was informed that the town was
fast recovering from The paralysis brousht on
b. he low state OF the tariff in lS3g. 1870.
1911 and 1912. n considerable munulactu-
rer was nemcd among others. who had come
from Pittsburgh. and found the position Of
Wheeling more advantageous in all rysrCcts.
for his opera ions; coal being much cheaper.
and the facilities for exporting his fabrics and
importing his materials from certain iron dis
tTiCts in Tennessee and Missouri greater and
more certain, since the Ohio from this point
is always navigablc and affords an easy inter
course with some 30 900 miles OF coast i'm the
Mississippi valley. The National turnpike
connects the town with the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal, and railroad progressing from the
East; as also the fertile West, whose States
with their cross roads and canals il traverses.
A census, just taken, of the town, shows an
increased population of some 1900 within.
l think, The last year. The many Belmont
ers. seen at the market house, with produce
for sale, showed for whose benefit the tariff of
/ 1872 was working. There could be no mis-
| take The vendors of chickens butter and
b Ell, mcrch MS. Manufacturers bankers land
lords; every link in tie social circle brighten.
inS and illustrating the dependence upon all
the others.
Ii the farmer cannot get good prices, the
merchant and manufacturer are doing dull
business. No one prospers then; fewer bull
dinSs are erected; less goods purchased: the
lawyer physician and parSOn with difficulty
collect their fees. All suffer except. perhaps.
the saar'ed officer who has no intort ST i'm The
country but his Office
The increase of Wheeling increases the va
lug oil Il lmont lands and OF the la Dor bestow
cd on them, by afording a convenient mar.
ket Tor their products. Whatever politicians
may say, the property holders of Wheeling
.teei that lis prosperity depends not only on the
Permdhence Of the tariff but ON confidence
of rs p;rm iAsAce. \ want of this con fl
d nee prevents or retards investments Tor ma
nldacturlng purposes. The continuance of
the tanh Is found TO be am element of every
! proposed bargain for property. elf one coul,j
be sure OF the continuance of the tariff. one
could venture TO engage so and SO, is the oft
repeated language of dealers. Not that our
manufacturers so much fear the rivalry of the
foreign manufacturer; for they are now com
peting with him in foreign markets success
fully; but they fear his government. who by
! premiums ON exports; may enable him to un
/ dersell them here at home unless prevented
by tarl!f. The premium would not be LOST
tothe loreign government but got back with
interest, IN the shape oil excise, after the dies
traction OF our manufactures had enabled The
foreigner TO raise prices. Since all our Prcsi-
dents have recommended tariffs of protection
and Polk approved such in his letter TO Kane
let us hope that democracy cannot progress To
the point of splitting in their faces. at the sug-
gestion OF cotton planting politicians, who
have openly avowed that they would rather
deal with England than with us. They might
as well suggest that it was democratic to quit
wearing The unmentionables. The shameless
ness OF the bare poles would only be more
striking, but not more real hurtiul that that
involved in the irreverence for the wise and
good, and the plain s. I'll tates of common
sense. How many things have been called
Christian let history tell not emitting the cru
sd s, the, burning of heretics, the butchcry
oil the Naldenses, &c. Democracy has been
PM to loul cmployments as well Us Christian
lily. MCrtosqji says, ''As rivers hasten to
minSle with tn SEA, 50 democraci,s run into
monarches,' not because the masses wish it,
but because these masses are scduced eradu-
ally TO disregard the virtues and wisdom OF
the founders OF the republic. They progress
from the rules first established for their sa ie-
~. Il ing told they are very wise, the most
foolish swallow the naItery, and submit to
the most laughable experiments oh their UNI
Outstanding. All who could help them to
think are called mad dogs. Their own vision
is .perplcxed, and they are above using the
eyes ola Jefferson ora Madison. How strange
that people can bear TO be told, in substance
that they must destroy their home market
turn their mechanics out of employment, re-
, press manufactures, deprcciate their land anl
1 labor, and that it is democratic to do So
( They might as well be told that it is not dem
ocratic to pursue their own happiness; that
for the convenience of the cotton planters
they must voluntarily impoverish themselves
abstain from matrimony, turn monks, for thi
would retard population and prevent FREE
votes from too greatly outweighing the prop
crty vote Of the mobility, that modestly rropo
ses to think for our democracy As wei
might Satan think for the Church We mus
. do our own thinking if we would remain
free people. +.