The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-02-01

As the time approaches when General TAYLOR will
the rens of government the federal organs begin
manifest their attachment TO their old pet PRorEc
TON" The wing leaders would not openly face the
people during the late campaign and take up position
in their presence which hostile the revenue poll
cy of the present administration Its successful opera
ton apparent to the jaundiced vision of
wing fnancies, that they did dare directly to assa
whose beneficial effects were as plain as noon
day in increased revenues our extended commerce
and the thriving condition of the great agricultural inter
of the country Before the election of 1885, as before
the election of $780, they either silent the subject
admitted freely if not frankly that tariff which was
levied for the purposes of protection an obsolete idea
But the election being and the "sweet voices" of the
people being longer needed we see in the wing press
in every quarter that General Taylor will have wing
cabipet that he will give the country wing admins
lraon and that he will carry the .chig policy
We have taken part in the contests of parties to little
purpose if we mistaken in saying that wing ad.
minsration, carrying the true wing policy, means
anything or less than that the country again to
be placed under the control of corporations and the
rights of the people stricken down by that system of af
fliated interests which has been miscaed the AMERI.
CAN Indeed. find some of the wing organs are
generales of expression, and say that the revenue bill
of 1916 must be repealed and that the tariff Of 1872 en-
acted in despite Of the compromise which had been entered
into in 1882 between the friends Of free trade and the ad
vocates of protective policy be restored and made
the law the land epovery Distress and wide spread
ruin, eagerly predicted by the prophetic statesmen
OF the wings, have obstinatey refused to overwhelm
the country. The miners and manufacturers are still
IL AZ
ica is Aourishng under the wholesome influence OF
publican But this prosperity will satisfy the
wing leaders 1t is nothing them that the great laborng
interests of the country have recovered from their depres
sion, whiehe Of the government have been
y augmented These objects do not lie at the basis of
the true whig policy Cupidy must be appealed and the
manufacturers, whose profits greater than
those who i'll, the soil and earn their bread by the sweat
Of the brow must be reminded of former times, when
by grinding oppression and rank injustice, princely for
tunes accumulated in the course OF few years
This appeal will not be made in vain. Cupdity cannot
be goged to safety; its appetite grows by what
ii feeds The fox in the fable begged that the flies
might not be driven from him, because he fearful
that fresh swarm hungry and thirsng for blood. might
assail him with new vigor
We apply this moral TO the State; for the life
blood of the people drained remorselessly
when monopolists already rich and bloa,ed, fix them
selves upon IT. These monopolsts again banding
themselves together against the commercial policy Of the
country and those who wish to strengthen the federal
government by building up dependent interests, giving
them aid and encouragement in their attempts. The note
Of preparation even falls upon the car-preparaton
for contest between the labor capital and the mo-
ney capital of the country This contest decided by
the people in 1874, when they sustained at the ballot
box liberal commercial policy; but what wing
leaders for that decisions They have principles for
The popular eye and all their sympathies enlisted on
the side of corporations and monopolies. They have
published to the world chart by which they would be
guided, and made known system which they would
pursue and having spread their 'nets to catch birds of
every feather" they have been trusted with power and
are determined to pluck the plumes which they have
caught
1t IS surprising to by what different and ncongruous
arguments they seek to justify the measures which they
contemplate. From whig champion we hear that
the manufacturers should be sustained in order that
their competition might reduce the prices to the
emitting, in the tme to notice the fact that foreign
articles admitted into this country reduced by foreign
competitors for markets From another goes
forth the complaints that the foreign competition is sogrea
ha' our own uacTers cannot bear against IT, even
with the protection OF 80 per cent, which The
nue. laws extend to them The argument saddessed to
the ignorance Of the consumer and the other the
OF the producer But the protectonss mistaken when
they suppose that the great body of the people TO be
duped by proposition which Mr. Adams admitted to be
eiaby absurd They know full well that the competition
for markets between foreign merchants and manufac-
turers is already great and would be diminished il they
were excluded by restrictions. They know that high
duties do not make low prices, and four years ago
lemned, in terms not TO be mistaken, those politicians
Who would impose upon them with such a papable alb
surdty.
But not purpose TO investigate this subject
this lime The able reports of the Secretary of the
Treasury have fully vindicaied the free trade policy
That policy had long been taught in the schools and
was recognised by oil those sagacous political
mss who had not been welded ancient prejudces
influenced by the loavcs and fishes of protection. Nou
Inc theory OF the schools has been brought to the stern
test o. experiment, and the Secretary of the Treasury
has erected enduring monument for himself in tht
successful operation Of that experiment Leaving, then
This branch of the subject, take up the complain
that the competition which laws encourage II
so ges, that manufacturers cannot bear up against il
II we aunt the fact 10 be so, what does prove? Tt
our minds IT is conclusive evidence-slrong proc
IRON Holy Wrt-that prices have been reduced to III,
consumers, the great mass Of the people, by the com