The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-08-21
From ne Naaonal Intelligmeer.

WHOM DOES PROTECTION CONCERN
This question, asked as to lie Tariff,
and as to the greater interest Of the poor
or the rich in Protective duties, is a good
deal like asking, Who havo the greater
need 10 be defended by the laws, The weak
or the strong For, as The strong are ahle
to i've with less aid Of laws Than the weak,
so can tie wealthy better take care ofthem.
selves than the destitute. For the latter,
there may be need Of poorhouses End 9th.
eF public charities these, therefore, tho
a purely artificial contrlyance, and Gov.
ernments find It good to create but is ii
tho rich who require Ihem2 We appre.
bend dol.
Now, TO sag that protective tariffs are
adopted for the bened, Of the capitalist s
just about as true as that Jaws are made
for lie beaeG, Of lawyers only, or that
Puorhouses orc built merely for the sake
Of tie oyerseors Of tie poor. Bot there
are others that have much greater inter.
est 10 The existence Of law than the law.
yers, and in that Of poorhouses than the
oVerseers. Il IL all The difference which
a man has beIzeen the necessity Of living
and that of getting rich. Laws and poor.
houses may enablekwyers aud oserseers
10 grow richer; but the rest of the com.
munuy could mol eXls! wlhou, the laws,
and the Fsupers would perish Il there we're
not pDorhCuses. 30 Il IL with lsvs that,
by what Ne all the Protective System,
create -0Fs operative employmcn.s for
those dependent for subsistence on their
dally labof. The same laws help the cap. /
itallst-a man already possessed Of some
weaIlh-ta get more; but what ls the little I
and vain enjoyment Of show. which added /
wealth creates for him, IN cnmparison with .
tie solid eamlori spread among whole DO.
dies ofthe poor by these laws, which bring
their Iaboe Into constant demand, and ad.
vance It's compensation still moro in that
conjuuaI employment than in the mere
ratio OF wages
Ii, then, protective duties are to the I'D.
Of one capitalist, (who could how.
ever 1--we without them, they are Of vastly /
more relative advantage to perhaps hun /
could scarcely lire, even without them,
lnd about whom, al any event, they double
md triple and quadruple all the security, /
md comfort, and respectabiily Of life.
To Judge more surely OF the fact which
we are asserting, let any one look at the
condition of the laborlng poor,
n those quarters where the Protective
system has reared up these artificial EN-.
1luynents, and 10 those other quarters
where il has not, 10 the former, you see
all busy, dilIigent and well paid; The wo-
men as prodtablv occupied as the men, in
eIaaeTtftq 70 their strength and the very
,hlIlrcn oitier at work, or at school, upon .
uads which the surplus II fttle1T- - W 4sa.
;es has in reality often supplied. No rags,
10 wretchedness, no melancholy CABIN, ,
and with floor Of mud, tat.
cred troop of children about il, sad mo. r
her looking hnlfllmre. struck, TO be seen p
occasionally through the dismantlcd door f
r broken walls, her husband probably :
one a fishing or o hunt ing, because he, I
he sole worker for the family, cannot get 4
more than half his time .
his latter IS the description, familiar to '
very body, of the poor of all those parts /
+ the country where the benefceut action II
{ the system we speak Of has not yet cren.
ID employments. Among them, the bnbi.
,fon t, such as scarcely defends them =
ON the weatheri the rament is scan,v, u
oarse, unsutcd to the season, and full oil
'nts or patches the food itsefis bad, in.
Efficient, and always uncertain for the
borrow and five dollars at a time in mo.
av is a thing no more to be dreampt of
ian The possession of the Bank Of England.
id to all this the saddest of human depr.
,iions-the absence of nearly all hope Of
yer lettering their condition. This is
ie situation Of the poor--of those who
,vo not farms of their own-over nearly
e whole country where manufactures
I'VE not vet sprung up. Except their col.
=, and some few general signs Of belonging
civilized life, they are very little better 70
/ than savages. fr
On the other haOd, see what general IN
mtott, what cheeuulness in the dwell.
. what decepcy and fitness Of the appar.
what abundance and nicely Of the food, ha
rat a multiplication of all the household CO
nveuiences, what habits Of order and in be
stry, what general educations what re. 81,
reliability, what cheerful expectations of ia
Q future, grow up for the laboring classes no