The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-07-16

who cannot make his plough or harrow go
by steam, aud who can only do the work
Of one. Unfortunately for his argument he
stated that there were thousands of INTEL
leciual girls at Lowell, Massachusetts, each
of whom does the work Of twenty men.n
These girls are paid about SO per week, less
than the wages Of one man, and the wealthy
owner Of the machinery who gets for every
one Of these thousands of girls, the profits
of the labor OF twenty men, yet sends Mr.
Bebb, and other Siumpers, 10 tell the farmer
of the West that he will be crushed with
ou, government adds bonus Of from 80 10
100 per cent. to the 1900 per cent, profit
he gets by his machinery. Mr.. Bebb in
contending that our manufactures, though
protected for the last lify years, are yet at the
mercy of English capital TO crush them at
will, should have given his audience some
clue 10 the time when American energy, well
fed laborers, and extensive machinery, with
the advantage Of the saving Of the cost Of
transportation from Europe, and revenue
duties, will be able TO stand alone. His
vivid description of our boundlcss resources,
our untold mineral wealth, our mighty rivers,
and ocean lakes, certainly did not assist the
picture of puny decrepitude which he drew
of our capacity to compete with other nations
in arts and manufactures. His assumption
that we might trade with the West Indies
and South America, that such trade was
natural, but " that there was no necessity for
trade with England that freedom Of
trade with Europe would drive all the people
of America into agriculture TO the exclusion
of manufactures and the mechanic arts was
made in contempt for the judgment and in
tellgence of his audience.
He had designed to con6ne himself 10 the
tariff, but he was met by the ever recurring
question ~ want 10 hear what you have got
TO say about this Tax Law" To explain
this he charged Ransom, Spencer &c. as
defaulters TO the government, though he was
we'll aware that such WIS not the fact-he
charged that the Wing Commissioners had
made all the valuable improve menis in the
State for $5OOO,0OO, and that the balance
of $l5,000,00o we're added by the "Loco-
focos, for furnishing the Miami Canal from
Dayton, The Wabash and Erie to the State
line, and few side cuts, though his illus
trations o, his position proved its falsity
He entirely forgot the sale of the bonds OF
the State at half price by Alfred Kelley, the
payments of the interest TO favorite banks in
return for deprecated paper, aud the mass
of Wing dclnquencies which have swellcd
our debt 10 its present onerous bulk. He
also claimed that the farmers taxes under
the new tax law would not exceed five mills
on the dollar; the amount which is paid by
the banks on their profits! Look TO it far.
mers, and see whether Bebb's explanation
or prediction is either sound or satisfactory
In conclusion, it was conlcnded that by
our present banking system the "trash' o
other States was excluded. We who be
lieve our home bank" trash" equally will
blue pup, red dog, and the " Banks of Ken
lucky slave holders," Ito adopt Mr.. Bebb'
description) leave to the experience of ou
farmers to determine, whether foreign pape
does not hold its ground with the trash" o
Ohio.
AT the conclusion, faint cheer for Bebl
as the next Governor was given, and the list
less audience dispersed. Bebb will find tha
his prospects among the citizens of fputnan
would have been advanced either by neve
having addressed them, or else not having
offered TO them arguments which would have
disgraced the acuteness ofany Of the "youDs
Democrats who declaim on Constitutions
law at the Cross Roads"
0r From our Representative, Hon. VIM
Sawyer, we received by the following note
the earliest information of the passage of ,ht
amended Tariff through the House Of Rep
resentatives. Since then, it has been reat
a first and second time in the Senate, ant
there is every indication that prompt actor
will be TAX en- upon il:
Washington, Sd July, 1916.
DEAR Mac:
The Tariff bill has passed the House by
majority of 10 votes. w. SAWYER.
The Tariff as passed admits Tea and Cof
fee as heretofore duty free. II will Withdraw