Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-12-30

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they do upon ours But would it not be
more in accordance with the christian rule.
/ more noble and philanthropic, for US TO adj
nit foreign manufactures into our country,
duty free, and thus remunerate the poor
operative for the hours of suffering and long
days Of toll which he has expended on them
and that loo, though the !ordy aristocrat
may not feel any sympathy for the gain
grower of our country, andreiuse TO remu-
nerate him in reiurnl Let us remember
that this poor toil.w operative is our
brother, recognized as such by the Christian
Lawgiver, and that all those taxes in the
form Of duties, are after all, ground out of
him. AS the manufacturer cannot get as
large profit upon his foreign sales in con-
sequence of having 10 pay these duties, he
reduces the wages of his labo'ers to make
up the deficiency? and they must submit, or
take the alternative Of starvation. They
cannot, like the fa"ored laborer Of our coun-
try, turn tn cir industry into other chan
ncs.
In this case, as ii always is under the OPP
Grafton of retaliatory measues,the innocent
arc the sufferers.
Let the advocate ola tariff show incor-
rectness Of this position if he can. |, will
not do to say, with late Tribune that lie
poor laborer Of England may come 10 tbs
country and be free from the evils TO which
he is now subjected. Many flhem have
not the means ofdoing so, and besides. all
laws that compel expiration or starvation
are ani-chrislian. Let it not be said that
sin consequence of existing laws favoring
| certain class Of forwarders and shippers, five
: barrels of flour ont Of every ten exported
will go into their hands, two more TO pay
government duties and one 10 satisfy the
rents and titles of an arlstocraiic priesthood,
so that the poor only &c, two OF The ten.''--
The principle for which we contend will
speedily overthrow all these restrictions and
fayorit;sms. An equal and righteous legs
lation would soon right all the wrongs
This objection is also founded on the as
sumption that one wrorg will justify an.
other.
have stated above, that il is deemed
, by some TO be the duty Of government TO
promote the pecuniary and economical in
terests gifts subjects. But lam Of the num-
Der of those who deny the power of govern
ment 10 do any thing Of tie kind.
This disposition 10 look after and take in
hand The Interests Of the ''dear people," is
: one of the gross errors Of modern lcgisla-
, lation. The dear people arc alone capable
of looking after and promoting these inter-
ests themselves, and ill the government can
t righ.fully do is to protect them in Their law
} full pursuits. Let all the artificial barriers
for obsructng trade be removed--let the
: channels for the fall flow of human love
and sympathy be cear--let the doctrine of
the universal brotherhood Of the whole race
of mank ind be proclaimed and acted on by all
government, and then, the wretched selfish
! sentiment oftariff men that one nation may
pursue lis interests to the ruin Of the pros
perty of another will be looked on in the
odious light it deserves. The parable of
the good Samaritan was directly intended
TO to teach how nations who were indeed
very dssimilar should treat each other
even as neighbors-as brethren.
The christian spirit seeks the good Of,
: not part but the whole, not of one nation
\ only, bat of The whole world. 1t regards
t not the boundaries Of rivers, mountains,
| fiths or seas. 1t is world wide in its phil
e anthropy.
t The laws Of christianity harmon re with
E those Of nature, and the wealth of nations
S as well as of individuals must be gained, if
gained rightly in conformity with them-by
/. benevoently helping and cooperating for
each others good and not by envying and OPP
D pressing one another.
. The principles of Ere, Trade once
be unincumbered and unsustaned; and the
q various ties of interest and brolherv feeling
would bind them SO firmly together that
wars would of necessity cease. As it now
is,naiions are virtually III state of war in a
! time of professed peace. Tribute is COM
PEELED from one another in the form of a
t tariff and operating as kind Of embargo
upon the commerce of the world it tends
5 greatly to embarrassment and difficulty.
How happy the world will be, when it shall
come 10 be acknowledged that men can, no
) more trample adeantageously, on the great
, rule of right when acting collectively than
, when acting individually the right
eous principles of a natural and therefore
sound political economy shall commend
themselves TO the whole world.
What good reason can be given why
mutually of interest and dependence may
not hoftp