The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-06-05
Democratic "Ruln."

The Lebanon (Pa) Courier, federal iounal--whch,
no Doubt assduous any other in predicting the
most dire disasters TO the farming interest from the
revenue policynow states the cheering fact, that "a
Gentleman living Annville this week sold two
thousand bushels OF wheat the part produce of his
farm in North Lebanon, for THOUSAND DOLLARS "
This is at the rate of two dollars per bushe which is
now the current market price OF wheat in nearly all the
ich agricultural regions of Pennsylvania We have be
fore us copy of the same journal of June g. lsI0-pre-
csey year old-n which wheat is quoted under the
market record at only minety.fue cents per bushe--
less than oae-haJ the present price
II the doleu prognosics of the federal orators and
their presses had been realized, the hardy ters of the
soil had ere now been enguphed in common and hope
less vortex Of insolvency From Daniel Webster in the
Senate do,cn to the dulest declamer at the hustings
and from the most dimnutive "Weekly" up TO the Na-
lona nteigencer," there sounded universal cho
rus despair such had hardly been equalled by
all the ugubrious lamentations of all the calamity mon
gers that have ever lived in the tide of time. The
un" which beel the country when the heroic Jackson
vetoed the United States Bank, was bad, il is true II
was however, mere drop in the compared with
the overwhelming disasters" which resulted from the
removal OF the deposites What, indeed, could be more
pregnant with national and individual disaster than, with
cool elaboration and malice aforethought," 10 take the
money, collected in the shape OF taxes from
the hard earnings of the people, out of the custody OF
fraudulent corrupt, and the sequel proved, insoren
corporations The evils concenred in Pandoras box
were visitation not half teribe for they were allie
waited by having hope at the bottom.
But the chief calamity yet in reserve. Notwih-
country hod haan time oftan no,da 10
suffer maryrdom in its cruel FORMS it was again to
be inundated the democratic altars-a rich holocaust
to the insaate spirit of the democracy new and yet
more fearful fundamentally was to be employed in
this relentless crusade against the public peace and pros
perity The bank had become an "obsolete idea" ac-
corlng to the confession reluctantly wrung from one of
its leading champions and attorneys Assaults on the
domestic industry of the country We're now to take the
place Of assaults its banking institutions; and what
before only to "ruin the merchant and the banker
was now to overwhelm in common fate all classes and
conditions OF society; and principal among the sufferers
we were told, should be the hardy and industrious FARM
How nearly these forebodngs have been realized
let examples such as the above quoted answer
There exists not in the United Siates-as there
ought not TO exist anywhere-a people, around whom
cluster SO many OF the elements of prosperity and
conentment, the toling and independent agri-
culturst If their profits are not so large as those
which serve 10 swell the Golfers of the manufac
turer, neither do they possess 1.-THE of his avarce and
his constant discomfort with the measures of government
The difference between the farmer and the manufacture
ing capitalists, always camorng for new burdens upon
the people under the of protection" is simply this
The one acts out in his life the scrptura injunction to
L. IL, L. Al
evlles his government without stint scrupe when he
cannot extract piles of gold from the of his fellows
1t will be contended, however, by the federal press
which is in want of for the failure of
It's predictions, that the high prices of produce in tbs
country have manner of conneXon with either the
the old tariff, but are the result solely Of the
famine in Ireland, Scotland and parts OF Germany That
our land favored of Providence, has great extent
poed by the msfortunes of others, undoubtedly true
" 1t is an i'll wind that blows nobody good" Lawyers
live by quarels, doctors by Diseases and
nation may reap advantages from the wars, the pes
lences, and the amines, which sometimes overwhelm
other nations. We would not, therefore, venture to
deny that the scarcity and deaness OF breadstus the
other side of the Atlantic have exercised extraordinary
influence in determining their value here.
But what have these profound teachers of political
economy 10 say TO the fact, that IRON and coAL-those
other great elements of the business and trade of Penn
sylvania- maintain high price under the tariff of
1916 they did under the Wanted tariff of 1912, These
great interests, like the farming interest," TO be
equally doomed by the new law, and not month was
10 eapse before every furnace and forge in the country
was to elbow OUT and their propretors be compelled
10 embark in other and profitable pursuits Instead
OF this prophecy being fulfilled, the Pennsylvania jour
nails record the erection of iron establishments in
every county where there is the slightest sprnkling Of
ron ore. How these results accounted for? Have
meg any connexon with the famine abroad3 How is the
prce of pig metal in Centre Columbia counties affected
by the potato yield in Macroom and Tpperary' Be-
tween the "bioonS' which cast out in such unlimt-
ed abundance from the smoking furnaces the Schuyl
kali and Susquehanna, and the misery and want of the
inhabitants of Dundee and Leith in Scotland, what pos
sbe sympathy There can be none. The price of
grain here may be increased, owing to the potato rot in
the parish of Kilkenny, but the value OF pig metal is
surely not 1t is, therefore, both idle and preposterous
TO ailm--as the discounted federasts doing
that national prosperity solely the offspring of Ire
land and Scotland's calamities? Besides, if the
tariff system has no with the prosperity of the
country how happens that the whole cry of federalism
denounced it as tending 10 act directly upon that pros
Perity with destructive power'
The United States the favored and the avorte
nation of the earth. Thousands upon thousands are
docking to her hospable shores every day Not yes
sci sails from foreign port that is not freighted with
emigrans who are all welcomed in our midst whether