The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-05-14

The Chronotype is little daily sheet Is
sued in Boston; its editor is the translator of
La Fontaine. 1t is neither morning nor
an evening but noon paper, and it often
contains pilhy articles, ofwhich the following
is sample: ....
CAIECHISM ON THE TARIFF.
Question. What is meant by Tariff laws?
Answer. Laws which enact that the agri-
culturist, planter, mechanic and laborer, in
fact all consumers, shall not exchange their
productions for clothing, except at certain
shops; namely, the warehouses of the manu-
facturers.
@. For whose benefit are these laws?
A. Manlestly for those who advocate
and support Ihem, viz: the manufacturers.
@. Are not the increased profits of the
manufacturers justly their property?
A. no more than the Increased price
which a shopkeeper might get, if he could
forcibly prevent men from buying at any shop
but his own.
@. Is it not hard that the manufacturer
should not sell the productions Of his factory,
for the most that is possible?
4. Not SO hard as that the farmer, planter,
Sc, should not sell their produce for as
much as they can get by free sale, and
buy their clothing SO wherever they can get
the most for their money.
Q. Is it not wrong TO encourage the pro-
ducjions of foreigners?
A. When farmer or planter produces
corn or cotton, and exchanges it abroad for
goods, he may as truly be said to produce
ihe goods, as il they grew in the fields: and
if they are prohibited from doing this, it is
their production that in reality is stopped.
Q. How is the present state of things to
be altered?
A. BY making it generally known, how
much all men except the manufacturers, are
interested in the removal of the injustice.
@. If our manufacturers make goods as
cheap as they can be imported, what will
the public gain by change of the Tariff!
a. Nothing. Neither will the manufac
lurers lose: but the change in the law will
soon determine the correctness of the i.
@. Taking ii for granted, that the good.
can he had cheaper from abroad, what gain
is their import to the country?
A. If the farmers, planters, and othe
consumers of goods outnumber the manu-
lacturers, (Which they doubtless do, ten tC
one) then ii is the advantage Of the grea
majority to have clothing and other goods
cheap.
The manufacturers exist for the consum
3rs, not The consumers for the manufac
Jurors. The great public are interested, bu
it is strange to see how their existence is
rorgoten by every body. To make MAJ
pay one dollar, for what, without a Tarif, ht
could buy for fifty cents, is robbjng him @
halfa dolar-cal it what you like.
O. Is not free trade theoretical conceit
A. Yes; and in the same manner the idet
of two and two making four, is theory.
q man avoids running against post, he ha
a theoretical conccit that it will be unprofit
able.
Theory is from a Greek word, signifyin
"to see," and means seeing further than
mans nose. The outcry against theory Ii
the abstract is the outcry of monopollst
against common sense-the defence Of thel
own robbery Of the public at large.
@. Does not free trade mean repeal 9
the laws which protect American industry
A. Certainly not, The industry of tn
buver is as much American industry as thi
, of the seller. A lOboring man or farme
is told that he must give dollars worth {
0 the produce of his labor for cotton shr
9 instead of sevonty-Gve cents, and this /
d way of protecting native industry. Now, il
# dustry against industry, why is not twent
five cents in The hands of the farmer as go'
as in the hands of the manufacturer. The
r, is no use in protecting one mans capital al
o industry against another mans capital and
dustry. It's fraud.