The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-09-28

Loco Foco Policy No. 2.

Loco F0cO Policy No. 2.
In my communication of last week
exhibited to the enemies as well as 10 the
friends Of protection and Home Indus
try some of the ruinous effects of the
Polk and Walker British Tariff of 1916,
in the great increase Of of the imports Of
certain British manufactures into our
country, 10 the manifest injury of Amer
ican capital, American skill and Amer
lean labor. | shall say but word or
two more upon that branch of Locofoco
policy. The .Isondon Economist" a
noted British free trade paper, exulting O.
yer the passage of law so beneficial to
England as the Tariff of 1916, says that
ito the United States the increase in the
amount OF our shipments in The present
year will exceed any thing on record
The editor then enumerates. in detail some
of the articles whose exports to this
country have SO greatly increased, and
he gives the comparison for six months.
Among them we find most enormous
increase of calicoes, linens, silks and
woollens. Or plain calicoes the increase
is li4,9SS, 1857 nearly Is millions of
yards, and Of prints 1921 ,23l over is
millions OF yards, of linens (2,ls2,92D
over 2 millions of yards, besides an a.
mount entered only by valuation of g34.-
456, or over $4,000 worth more than
was imported under the Tariff OF lS42.
Ofsilks the increase is &c. yards, and
of woollen goods the increase in value is
G35,927 or nearly 10000 dollars
What think you of this, We farmers, me-
cllanics and iaboriug men of our country,
DO You prefer that your wives and daugil-
ters should be clothed in British calicoes,
prints and silks, instead Of the superior
fabrics, spun, woven and printed by the
hands and skill of your own fair country
women of Lowell, Providence ,Gc.! lfso,
then vote for Skunk and the Tariff of
1916 at the coming election, and in the
fall of IS4s you will be called upon to
vote for Polk or some other heretofore
unknown Locofoco, and absolute free
trade-and then Tor vastly greater in-
crease of British goods, the products of
her half fed and quarter paid mechanics.
But it will be said by the Locos, that
we have paid the British for this in
creased importation of their goods, by our
wheat, corn. -four, &C., which has great
ly benefited the farmers Of our country.
All. and are you so simple as 10 believe
it was the Tariff of 1916 that has caused
this great expectation OF breadstufs to Eu-
ro2es No. | answer for you. You know
it is an unmitigated falsehood, | was a.
bout TO say blasphemous lie. II was
not the Tariff OF 1916. Every body
knows il was occasioned by visitation
of Providence for some wise purpose, re-
fusing 10 the fruits of the earth their nat
ural increase in some of the unfortunate
countries Of the Eastern world. And wc
have received, the locos will say, some
20 or 25 millions of specie soboot for our
exports. Well we admit that there has
been large import OF specie into our
country-it has however ceased, for prov
idence has blessed them again with an a
bundant harvest, and they no more need
our surplus breadstuffs.
Suppose YOU then turn round and ask
Locofocoism where is all this specie!
will answer, it is swallowed up, gone
and lost forever in this miserable war for
Slave territory in Mexico. But this is
another branch of Locofoco policy which
requires another ckapter, though volumes |
would not contain its disgraceful history. |
CLAY.