Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-03-11
THE SENTINEL.
YpsILANTI. WEDNESDAY MARCH II. 1886.

0>Upon our first page will be found an ex-
tract from the True .4mercdn touching the correct
ness OF the protective policy, which must commend
itself to the candid experience of every intelligent
man.
!. With few exceptions, no article of consumption
can be procured from abroad cheaper than it can be
produced, in land like ours, teeming with album
dance of every kind of material and soil of unpar-
allied fetihty, when suitable manufactures are once
fairly established. The chief disadvantage, which
may cause an enhancement of price in the domestic
product, is the difference in the price of labor This
the all pervading Of machinery goes far to equal
Use. Inexperience is another disadvantage, which,
however ingenuity soon removes. Precedence and
reputation, is the advantage which the old establish
ed manufactures of England and the continent pos
sess over us-an establishment in business and
wide spread market which enables them to crush any
new competitors if they be not bostered by the pro-
tecting arm of their government.
five are disposed to learn from Observable ms
of the past, we might find innumerable instances
where the most splendid pecunary prosperity has
attended nations, when wars of their own or of
neghboring nations have cut off their commerce and
compelled them to fall back on themselves Of this,
France during the of Napoleon affords bril-
liant instance. Her marine destroyed cut entirely
off from the rest of the world, nature herself must
needs be forced to furnish the means from the resour
ty leader. Napoleon needed powder but France had
heretofore depended On commerce for the main sta
pie of this article, salt petre. There not natu
raj depostes of this in the kingdom and must be
resorted to. Buoneparte convoked council of Chin
lists, and demanded if they could produce salt petre
in large quantities. On their replying in the affirm
ativc, he set them about it and this want sup
piled. Beet Sugar was invention of the era,
and machinery for manufacturing flax with the same
facility as cotton earnestly sought after. This
will show to what extent France was thrown on her
own resources; and yet though her treasury was
drained and her population repeatedly decimated by
war, France prospered, and hestupenduous improve
ments of that period, many of them, remain as peace
and the restoration of commerce found them. We
may safely says flor feel confident that our asser-
ton will be borne out by the experience of many still
living) that the influx of English goods into this
country Immediately at the close of the last war;
the cause of more bankruptcy in year, than the
war itselin three years proceedings and farther that
the nation made more advancement in manufactures
during the three years of the than during the
years following t-not that war is benefit, but that
of necessity, our citizens compelled to improve
the natural advantages of our country, and at
the same time freed from the crushing weight of
nopolising competitors.
We challenge any to dispute the position assumed
by the article in question: 'that all marines except
productive ones, such fisheries, dead loss to
the world at large" The intrinsic value of an arti
Gle is not enhanced by being carried from place to
place, though its market price must need be raised
| to cover the expense.
All other things being equal the best place for the
farmer and manufacturer is side by side. True
omy is that the farmers poughshare comes from the
nearest bed his clothing from the nearest facto
res, and thither should the produce of his farm go
| exchange. How much has our agricultural interest
lost! How much anxiety suffered by the 1uctua-
tions of trade,th raise and fall of markets-the I'M
certainty attending the measures of foreign cabinets,
and the various chances incidental to wide spread
commerce, and an entire dependence very few
staples of expectation! This would not be if the
people exercised in their sovereign capacity the
discretion they are wont to do in their private affairs.
The following sums are given as the amount of
net profits made on the railroads of Massachusetts,
which are to be taken as the standard for the Central
Road of this State.
Boston and Lowell, S177,O25 Sc
| Boston and Providence, l96,S27 IL
| Boston and Worcester, 237,726 O3
$612,57S IS
The united length of these roads is about 95 miles
and the total profit S6l2,57s So. The advantages
the longest is not over 40 miles, are many and vari
ous but, say they but equal, the profits of the
Central road, being twice long may fairly be set
down at l,235157 &c. or, about 25 per cent on the
entire capital of the company. If there is any
ror in this calculation it must arise from inaccuracies
in the reports of the first mentioned roads, as they
reach U.S. for taking them correct we can arrive al
these roads present fair criterion by which to reg,-
late the price of fare upon ours?
| The SALE in THE SENATE.-On Monday last the
Senate took up the Railroad sale bill as reported fol
Thurber the clause relating to courts of record was
struck out. Mr.. Hale moved reconsderation-lost
Mr.. Thurber moved sthat the company be sued in
Courts of record or elsewhere"
Mr.. Fenton moved to strike out of the amendment
Cor elsewhere" carried.
The Senate proceeded as far as the fourth section
without any material alteration and adjourned with
| an amendment pendino. made by Mr. Green that nc