The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-09-29
Vol. 4.--No. &C.
A CONVERT TO PROTECTION.
Cotton Factories.

I dNNcltl>tiHeNt. t0at Ms new dCLOiys a.
Falmouth, is now in operation. We
chronicle this fact with the utmost pieA-
sure, and we hope the worthy proprietor
will reap the full harvest his enterprise
deserves. This is the third Cotton Fac
tory IN our immediate vicinity; and all.
we believe, are IN successful operaiion.-
Success to them all. Our merchants and
planters ought to make it matter Of con-
science to patronize them to the extent Of
their power"
In copying this paragraph the Rich
mond Inquirer makes the following com
meu':-
This is the true spirit, and should be
thoroughly carried out. We see
grea. many persons in the South, who
were formerly Free Traders and went 10
the verge of modification" now TIE most
ardent Tarj6fies, because of their idola-
try for Mr.. Clay. Encourage the esfaL-
hshmsHts at 5ouT o1cn doors. That IS
the true protectire policy fer the South"
Yes, says The New York Courier and
Enquirer, and for the North, and for the
West, and 'or every section Of the Union,
and for the WHOLE COUNTRY! I'm
courage the establishments at your own
dOors!" Build up the factories upon the
streams and water-courses that run through
your villages. Wherever there is water
power, establish Factory; encourage it,
by trading with it. Buy its fabrics and
sell to it your labor, your provisions and
whatever you raise that YOU cannot COM
sumo. No matter if It's cloths are at FIRST
little dearer than from other mills, you
can pay for them much easier, because
YOU can pay IN your own PRODUCE, in~
stead of MONEY. You can send them
your corn, potatoes. garden vegetables,
&c. 6s,, in payment for their manufac-
lures, and so in the end YOU will be the
gamer, even if you pay somewhat more
for the goods. And in the course of a
few years, after experience shall have in-
creased their skill, and your patronage
increased their resources, they will be
able to make the goods as cheap as If can
be done elsewhere. Let every one, then,
encourage the establishments at their own
door. The advice comes from the Rich-
mond Enquirer, but II is sound and JUDI
cious.
And precisely the same advice IS good
for the whole country. Let the AMEKf-
CAN PEOPLE everywhere encourage the
establishments at their own door" Let
them buy Of those who live nearest, and
to wIom they can sell their surplus pro-
duee Instead Of going to England for
goods, 90 to the factory nearest your own
door And let the Government project
and build up such Factories, instead of
abandoning them to the rivalry of foreign
capitalists. We rejoice to notice facts
like that which elected this advice from
the Enquirer. The South IS very geuer-
ally turning lis attention 10 manufacturing.
Il has abundant water power,-eheap Ia
Dor and the raw material close at hand:
and there IS no reason why manufactures
should not reach the same high point Of
prosperity and success there, which thew
have attained in other sections of the
Union. We hope to see the day when
Factories and Forges and Mills OF every
description shall be prOfusely scattered
over the Soulh-employing lis labor, de-
velOplng It's resources, extending lis CONF
merce and promoting its general prosperi-
" and advancement. We look TO such .
eOnsummation with high hope, not merely
for the South itself, but for the whole
country, and above all for The preservation
of the UNION, upon which depend all our
; prospective greatness and glory. Let the
South once feel the full effect Of exteu-
sive Manufacturing Establishments,-les
the system take root there, as II has done
at the North and East. and we shall soon
see different tone Of public feeling upon
many of the grea' questions which sgiiate
and threaten the welfare of the country.
Instead Of regarding a Protective TAR
IF as the enemy of her prosperi,y.-as
hostile encouragement Of FREE, TO the de-
preston Of SLAVE labor,-she viii then
regard it as the great defence Of American
: labor Of all kinds against the ruinous II
va " Of foreign labor. Instead OF hav-
inc and chershing sectional interests. she
/ viii then have interests more in common
, with those OF the entire Union, and viii
thus escape from the prejHdiees and nar-
row maxins which her faBaiical leaders
have instilled into so large a body OF the
people. We are heartily glad TO find
; notwithstanding establishments SO general
, " encouraged: and especially TO lind pa
: rers Of BOTH PARTIES unite in their de-
fence and support. The result cannot
T but be highly bencfcent.
MANNERS.