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

10 cause this great competition constitute fund with
which other nations may purchase our surplus produc-
tons The whole world could not purchase that surplus
for single year, unless their surplus productions were
taken in exchange for own. We must resort TO
barter either direct indirect the fruit of the farmer
toll must perish his hands. The more liberal,
therefore, in our commercial policy the higher
will be the prices which agricultural products will
command
To show this prospect, cannot do better than make
the following extract from the Farmer and Journal :"
published at Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania (We like 10
publish these articles from the Keystone State, because
they demonstrate that in spite of the clamor about coal
and iron the truth striking lis roots deeply in her
noble soil y
"Under the tariff of Is2that Juggernaut Of wbigey,
commencing January, lsl3 leaving sufficient rimr for
the blessed machine move its ponderous packs-he
average price OF four the great ne of the farming in
OF middle States less than Sl 80 per barrel
in the best market in the United States, the city Of New
York Under the democratic tariff of 1876 much de-
nounced by the monopolists-the cotton lords and the
iron and their hired parasites, who consent
wickedness for small the average price of
the article for the two years commencing January
l. lS47, giving the chance for the less grinding
wheels of the democratic locomotive lnove the
market has been SO 81 per matchmaking difference Of
ST. IL each barrel 35 per advance on the price
of that single production OF the farmer and the prices
all other grains and provisions enhanced in the
greater ratio If recoecs right $50 0O0 900 worth
OF breaduhs exported from the United States in the
year 1917, by which the farmers and their factors real
lied SIT 900 more than they would have Cone under the
Juggernaut tariff of 1872 in addition the increased profits
on home consumption This sum the co,tonmasters and
their allies the iroamasers grudge the humble farmers
for although they be gloared like the anaconda after he
has gorged his victim, with the profits which the
bounty OF the has with indecent Partially be-
slowed upon their business yet in the spirit of envy
ritv
OF their lowmoItas and horror struck The idea of in
dependence among the masses"
1t is in vain to talk about the "home market being
the best market. The reports OF the distinguished Sec
rotary, and the facts developed by the operation Of
present laws, have settled that matter to the sat-
isfaction of all unprejudiced and rejecting men, We
have now home market enough, and the home manuac-
turers have not been stricken down. They not real
zng the enormous profits which they realized in former
times Nor it right or proper, desirable, that they
should do So The protection of thirty per cent is suf
icient premium, and it is not just that they should
ceve The iron and coal interests, from which the
complaint the loudest, prosperous and those
engaged in them would be contened with the present state
of things, if they did not continually refer the past and
not aured by expected favors from the whg party
In order to make this fact apparent subjon ari-
Gle below from the western STAR" published in Beaver
on the soil of Pennsylvania, which presents strong
view of this branch OF the tariff question
We cannot dismiss this subject without calling the
attention of readers to the fact that one least of
the organs of the wing party and high in it's confidence
seems DESTROYS of connecting the Wimot Proviso with
this question of protection. The Philadelphia North
American, speaking of the meeting of the southern
bers Of Congress, makes this remark 1ss
Gan this shows very plainly that the Southhe thing
that is ling with the North, and which wishes
blow the Unon-s nothing nor less than south
en locotocosm the one time southern democracy, with
which Pennsylvania and many other States of the North
raternsed, electing southern administrations and sustain
ing southern pocicsfor all which the South, above
first rewarded them by attacking their dearest interests and
breaking down northern domestic labor: and proposes
still further to pensate them by dssolvng the Union
Free trade and disnon the great characte stcs of
southern locoocoism; and northern men may now under
stand what they have gained, and expect from the al
lance with such political associates
We pass the insulting language of this paragraph
in relation to the people of the South. 1t deserves
answer But we call attention to the circumstance only
that whg friends of the South may the estimate
which put upon their section of the Union by leading
organ of their northern allies As to the charge that the
southern democrats desire dissolution of the Union, it
is utterly untrue. No portion OF the people is
DENLY attached TO the Union than the southern people
And If we could only say with truth that the northern
wings much attached to the great principles of
that constitution which made the Union as the "souhem
democracy" all would be well. We should hear no
more of these miscbevous attacks on the rights OF the
States There would be chickering's and strife
but all would be quiet and contenment in borders
We protest against this attempted alliance between
protection and antisavery, and ask the tariff advocates
in our southern States TO mark the effort which is made
10 unite them with the advocates of the Wilmo Provi-
So The democratic party has not broken down northern
domestic labor II has built Up and sustained the great
aborng interests OF the country and placed the farming
interest in better condition than it had previously
oyed But the hgh-tarif men seem TO suppose there is
no labor but the labor of manufacturers This most
egregious and papable II they will only condo
scend to leave their huge establishments and 60 forth
for moment they will discover millions of industrious,
intelligent, and rd-working men, who Till the soil
from morn till night and would look to Providence
with humble thankfuness for half the return which
the manufacturer murmurs discontenedy. OF these is
the democratic party--ihe southern locolocos, as the
North American is pleased to call them and these
mccullough they had been oppressed by class legisla
ton by imposts and exactons-in their time OF power
dealt lightly with their oppessors They did not even
reduce the profits of the monopoiss to a level with
their own returns; but generously left them in prosper
GUS condition. To prove this proposition, we have only
to call attention to the article which we have promised,
which was published in the very State whose coal and