The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-17

uends small per centage on these IL sood
round sum, and yet can be spared easily. Some
thirty thousand dollars wanted to build and f
up here in Washington, great show-house for the
protective interests, and to pay all the expenses
Of transportation, and exhibition, and travel
and the sum was forthcoming without delay
II lavish expenditure stop tariff reform,
it will not be grudged !, should not be; for
the capital so invested, if the investment se-
complish its object, will yield 10 the privileged
classes, who get the profits Of the law, pervert
ed, a rich return. When a SYSTEM has been build
ed up, and lie in full operation, and leves on the
community an indirect tax Of some fifty or sixty
millions Of dollars LAS the Secretary ofthe Treasu-
ry ealculates,) in the shape Of high prices,
paid into the pockets Of those who control
particular branches Of industry among US,
ii is quite evident that both the means, the
motives and the purposes Of panic-making on a
large scale are at hand, whenever such a system is
threatened with extinction modification.
The object is to produce false elamor among the
people, for the purpose of operating on the mem
bers Of the Senate. The manufacturers get up
meetings, appoint committees, food Congress with
circumstances and memorials, send agents to
utter their eomplaints-each memorial furnishing
the "cue to passio )" some text on which senators
may preach their queruous homilies TO the country
The lobbies beset. The members of this illus
trious body to be assailed. They who have come
up to the great council chamber of the nation bring
ing in their pockets their dgnifed commissions from
the sovereign States in this Union-trusted and hon
ored by their States-are they TO be turned aside
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from their solemn duties by the appeals OF these
manufacturing mllllonaires, by the multitude OF
their memorials, or their rush to the Capitol
why THIS pressure, but TO get up bastard
public sentiment for the benefit OF the lordy proPr-
etors OF the shuttle and the loom'-they, who are
trying to substitute fictitious popular sentiment
for the true one-ln word the clamors OF the priv
lIeged few Tor the voice OF great people. 1t Is
OF these PamPered manufacturers Ito use the quota
ton Of the National lntellgeneer) Of whom we may
truly say;
Upon what meat doth this our Cesar feed,
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"oSS ~ne" Su'n s'e"' u'''aenuS on It's S'oeA
anu which mas Just oo'a,neu '"o"'y-SeVeh charters
OF incorporation iro" inc legislature OIL I've" lamp
Shire laeeae'iaHy uhdT "ns rue) TOT the eSpaoh'h-
ment OF manufacturing companies
i"''' "~'''' '''S''''' VI Spi'@'' P'''' ''o' ''io
p'on'S OF 'na' line OF business are un"a'uraly IN
creased oeyoha any oner anu lha they arc maze So
IN part oy 'heSe arunc'a regulations. u th'S invest
ment were na'ural-'' MOVIE" INTO 'hat channel OF
tseit-no man coaid reasonably oo)ect 10 H. NO
one would DC more re)oHed 10 see than ourselves
Much ofthis capital we know would, OF itself, go to
that destination; because, in some parts of the
Union, laborand capital have so accumulated as to
invite the establishment OF many manufactures
these, along with the inventive genius OF our peo-
pie, invite the investment But to swell the tor.
rent by artificial means-to tax the people indirectly
to hil the pockets OF the privileged few, and then
for these manufacturers to attempt to arrest all
forms, even OF such an act as that OF 1912, which
was protested against at the time of its enactment
by some OF the very men who voted for ito ar
rest these reforms which are called for by the peo-
pie, by panic efforts, is out of the question This
panic must be put down, in spite Of the National
Intelligencer, who, all questions affecting the
great interests of free people, whether in contest
with foreign powers, or in a struggle with monopo-
lists at home-whether with the money king or the
lords Of the loom-whether with bank men or tariff
men, is always found arraycd against its coun-
try.
We have setdown these observations very hastily
general reply to the Inteigencer's naips inter-
rogatories in relation to the panic "tactcs" which
are beginning show themselves in the tariff dis
cussion We trust that journal will find our replies
satisfactory. If not, a luminous commentary upon
them will doubtless develop itself in the course of
events now taking place before our eyes.
Mr. Webster tells us, that the present administra-
ton are the most accomplished "panic Makers in
the country. Strange assertion indeed; and it has
no other foundation than hs-that the administra-
ton and its real friends, and the real friends of the
country, are carrying out reform which has long
been demanded by a suffering people, which Mr. Polk
has promised, and which it was known to every