Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-11-18


as an act Of policy and justice. i, should be
the first business Of Congress, at its next
session, 10 provide, by law, for The promo
lion of non-commissioned officers and pri
Yates, who have dis inguished, or may dis
tingush, themselves in the public service
There is another matter which should
also be attended 10, and that is, TO provi1
more amply for the widows and orphans
Of ptiva.es kill ed in the service: and fol
The wives and children Of those disabled
The TARIFF.--lf, as manv Of the wing
presses contend, the political changes which
have taken place in the country, as indica-
ted by tho late elections, are the result OF
the action of the democratic party, at the
last sess on of Congress, on the subject Of
the Tariff, we have this 'ery gratifying CON
solution under present adverSes, viz: that
public Sentimen. will be certain 10 come
right before the next Presidential cleo
ton, as we have every confidence that the
new tariff system will be found far less in
furious 10 the country than the tariff Of
AZ has been. We say ''less injurious" be-
cause we have no faith in any tariff system,
as being advantageous TO the country; and
50 long as we can't lave free trade, which
is the only true policy, we are disposed to
favor that system which is least burden
some TO the people and most profitable to
the government. That the tariff Of '46, in
these respects, is vastly TO be preferred to
that Of '4?. its practical workings, before
the lapse OF two years, will very fully dem
onstrate. And the people, at that time, in
stead Of being disposed TO take step back
ward, in favor of wing policy, will be pre-
pared 10 take another step forward, toward
free trade. Let Democracy, then, stand
to lis ground on this questions; and there
cannot be doubt, however discouraging
matters may now be, that lis 'men" and
its measures will, in the end DC triumph
anily sustained.
There was time, it will be recollcced.
when U. S. Bank was deemed absolutely
necessary 10 regulate the monetary affairs
OF the country. This opinion was enter
tanned for some years after the late nation
al institution wen; out Of existence; and il
is more than probable, would still be enter
tanned, if the wings, before the pccuniary
affairs of the country had become settled on
Il permanent basis, after the removal OF this
great disturbing agency, had been able to
foist upon the people, as they designed, an.
other "Rcsnlator." But providence order
ed otherwise. And year or two more of
experience, without a Bank, demonstrated
lie fact, upon which the democratic party
had planted itself, that an institution of the
kind was not only useless as a fiscal agent
of the government, and as Il regulator of
the Currency, but an agency of evil in both
respects-lhat the people and the govern
ment could sc; along far better without
than with il. \ National Bank is now en-
phatically an "obsolcte idea" How the
Bank managers, from the control they had
managed 10 get over The business interests
of The country, operated upon public senti-
ment, through the means of pahirs and
ErcSSureS, need not be detailed Wing Bank
victories were quite frequent then; and the
eilervesccnce of feeling, created by this
and other causes, enabled them 10 elect ii
President.
Tariff now occupies the position that
Bank did then; and it is an animal of the
same color. The democrats have swept
away the ''proteclion'' principles; and we
have the same cry about the ruin which is
certain TO result to the industrial interests
Of tie country, as we had when the Bank
was destroyed. The screws are iurn-
ed wherever they can be-operatives are
thrown out Of employment ncedlessly-sad
stores are circulated IN egard TO the closing
up Of extensive manufacturing establish
meNts Of various kinds-and nothing is left
undone, which can be done by the "mana-
gers" TO create a tariff panic, that may be
turned to their advantage and that OF The
party which is committed TO their interests
and against tie true interests of the mass
How far publ sentiment his been opera.
ted upon in tbs wsy,'hc result of late cleo
tons. in some localities, probably shows
But The humbug cannot deceive long. Tie
business of The ooRtry cannot lon Lc dis.
,urbed by such causes. 1t will have a more
healthy and prosperous tone than ever. as
the result Of the "leI alone" policy Of the
government The people, if they do not