Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1848-11-11
EFFECTS or PROTECTION.

All experience proves, that the nvarable
effect OF protecting the manufacture IN our
country, of goods which can be manafac-
tured here, is TO diminish ultimately the cost
OF such manufactures below the cost of their
production abroad What grea, yarie,y
Of articles there Is, which might aud ought
10 be manufactured along the banks Of the
Platte qna Grant rivers and exchanged with
our farmers To- their produce, but which we
ARE compelled to send abroad for. What
fqrmer is there amongst Us, who could not
raise his own wool and e.othe his family IN
warm woolcns. wirhont f,eliag tho expense.
if We hal wooden factories on those streams
now wasting their waters 10 no pGrpose!-
What benefit il would be to the whole
county, ii an extensive tannery were osiab-
lshed, say at Milvillr, where every farmog
gould exchange two green hides for one of
well tanned lcalher' We want wagon fac
tories, white lead and lead pipe factories,
paper mills, soap and candle factories, aud
various other manufactures, 10 make US
really Independent. With these, our farm
ers would not be compelled 10 pedde out
their corn for twenty cents hushel, their
oats and potatoes io fifteen cents and their
flour for just what they could get. There
would he an end of these heavy bills at the
stores, and every branch Of business would
be righted up again. Give us u tariff with
proper Determinations, and all these things
will be brought to our doors. We can not
only then pay Tor these manufactures in our
own products Il, fair prices, but in a short
time, lay competition, these manufactures
can be borgh, for less money than they now
cost. IL is in the recollection Of some mer-
chants " hen an article of East India man
ulacture was imported called h,sRhums--a
species of cotton goods twenty-seven inches
wide, beachcd, aud made of the poor India
cotton, which then sold AT about twenty-five
cents per yard. Then there IRE few but
English prints; the lowest, at wholesale, in
Charleston, by direct Importation, were sold
a, forty. tour cents per yard. The first prints
mad. in cur country were a coarse article
dyed bh.e, " oh small white spots, made at
Taunton. in Massachusetts, which sold at
twelye-and-a. half cents in tho Northern
markets. Thee EnXland prohibited the
expor, OF machine y, q" the view OF her
manufactures; but \ ankee ingenuity found
way to look into Ia mys'efy' anu out
generated the cautious .Englishman. one
pf the owners of tue Taunton factory went
60 Liverpool, and presented b, Hse'i W Man
chester in the garh of a lalorNr, As sneh
he was employed, aud worked orr year, at
the esnira,ion of which, (having wl'h MS
nsariI copie.l the patterns purchased for tie
nsxt issue of priuts,) IN the garb Of gentle
,aep he succeeded in smuggling material
hands, (Nho were then not permitted -
leave Eng!aud.) So completely dad he sue
coed. that he had goo,. suPp'S ct prints u
The New York market, OF the p ec'se pat
terms Of those from Manches'ef, sohe '''"e
bsfose those of the English mono ol'sis !
asi goods OF really more value, being stout
er, ana having more of the raw material lib
.rsfi. usei in their manufacture.
uy-Ne are authorized TO announce that
r;oy. DEwrr has issued bis proclamation
: e,,A.,,,l,.,,;,;ng. IN Wisconsin. on the seth