Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1846-09-03
TIL ariff.


full business and fill our cities with Jew
or foreign traders, or compel American
mechanism order to compete with them.
to become dishonest. The dishonesty OF
some Of these foreign traders has been il.
Illustrated by one of the Collectors Of New
York. The trader had for long time
been swearing TO false invoices and was
finally detected. He waited upon the Col
lecior and offered him 5000 dollars to
cover up his vilainy, and when the Col.
lec,or told him TO stop, and tina, he should
report the conversation, the trader closed
by saying that he had done nothing bu,
break Custom House oath, as if Gus
tom House oath was not as binding as an
oath in cour, of justice or its violation
less an act of perjury.
But this new Tariff will not affect the
merchant, merely. To say nothing of the
large manufacturers in Carpets, Broad
cloths, Cassimeres, Cassinets, Calicoes,
Co,ons, &C.. the manufacture Of which
has arrived 10 such perfection as to make
every paitioticA merican bosom glow with
pride at the superior hanGiwork of his
own counlrymen. i. will greatly and most
detrimen,ally affect ha.ers, boot and shoe
smiths, tobacconists, cigar makers and
host Of other branches of trade. We have
only TO compare the Tariff of 1912 with
the present, which is righsfully called the
British Tariff, and all can see the differ.
ence. Foreign labor in foreign countries
is so much cheaper than it is i'll America,
that haters, boot and shoe makers, saddle,
harness and trnnk makers, and mos. of
our mechanics will have to reduce their
wages so as to bring down their prices 10
the European standard or relinquish their
business. Pennsylvania will probably be
the greatest sufferer. Her iron and coal
trade must in great measure be rein
pushed for the same reasons as above
stated. Iron and Coal can be imported
from England at such cheap rates as to
make il no object TO smelt the one or dig
the other from the bowels of the earth.
Let no! the farmer think tina, he is to
be greatly the gamer by all this. His
prices for produce must fall in the ratio
with every other article. The decrease
in the home demand all must sec will no,
be made up by the increased foreign de.
mand, if there be any increase. The
thousands in our manufacturing establish.
men.s who will be thrown out of employ,
must 10 their turn become tilers of the
soil for living. These. with the great
multitude Of foreign farmers, who are
tocking in. must 80 far increase the sur
plus products as to make them low priced
Wha, are our farmers now making! Look
at the low prices, which can be traced to
the mismanagemeut of loco focoism, and
then let the farmers ask themselves if
they will still vote for men whose mea-
sures have brought upon them such
state of things.
We seem 10 be going over the same
ground occupied some years ago. Then
inducements were held ont to purchase
largely from England Almost every
merchant became an importer. Millions
Of dollars worth of goods were purchased.
Loco foco banks were chartered in loco
foco States almost by the hundred They
issued freely, and almost every man could
borrow as much of their paper as he need
ed. 1t was paper and nothing else. With
no specie basis they carried on their ope-
ralions. The borrowers fel! rich. The
creditors in England however, soon want |
ed the money for their goods, but as the
English merchants would not take this
paper money. The holders presented it TO
the banks where it was issued for paw
ment. 1t was then that the Bubble burst |
There was no gold or silver to be found |
in the vaults. Neither could they turn
their splendid paper towns. with their
water lots and corner lots, into cash.
They were paper too. AS worthless as
that which had been called money. Tens
Of thousands became bankrupt, and to get
them up again and make them all appear
honest, the bankrupt law was claritably
enacted May bea"en grant that it may
be The last of its kind.
Now, jus! as we had got over the shock,
just as our country had arrived at poin,
Of prosperity never before acquired, sim.
liar inducements are held out for mer.
chants 10 become importers and to flood
the country with British Goods. Before
it was accomplished by breaking down
the United States Bank; now, by break
ing down Tariff which protected home
industry and the passage of the Sub Urea
sury law. Our government says TO our
merchants, deal largely with the British,