The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-09-18
the P,s-,roa capls.ii.ts.


The pg.iron citizens oi Pennsylvania are attempting
10 raise hue. cry against the tariff Of 1916. because
the railroad iron Of England has in under low du-
ties TO supersede American iron. They forget to state
that this iron is generally Of very inferior quality which
the English engineers at first rejected and that then
some of il was thrown upon our markets. They also
forget 10 state that our own engineers beginning to
discover the imposition. and repudatng it, and are
going back to our own iron rails, not because they are
low in price, but because they superior in quality
The Harrisburg Union OF the 18th instant gives prac
teal evidence in the following paragraph OF this reac-
ton
AMERICAN RAILROAD iRoS.-The Harrisburg and Lancas.
ar Ra'Iaoad Company are now having delivered at
wharves, and along the line OF ,he new ROAD some Wo
hsv o nsy $50 per ION AT Danve This company
purchased lately one thousand OF English Iron AZ about
VIZ si th ,ev Ind iorey used they determined
end the at $50 per ton was decidedly The
English oa brought into this market us brittle
cason whilst the American railroad iron is so tough that
il cannot be broken
In fact these tricks cannot last long II may be safely
left to the practical Of people to detect them
without calling upon the government to guard their in
,erests by its restrictions This question is clearly and
conclusively treated in the following article from the
Lock Haven Qa) Democrat, that it is unnecessary to
multiply words on Abe subject:
PRorscrroN.-The wing leaders Of Pennsylvania have
evidently lately the conclusion that there Is even yet
political charm in the patd carcass OF partial
treay s1foti0R) and therefore stranng every
nerve 10 the corpse OF that monument of ioy OF
extonon the uneqsa oppressive pet q arlsto
cratic the lar famed tarf OF ~ We can
not believe Tor that these men are sincere IN
their apparent desire reesabs that justly condemned
they shut their 70 the glang truth mat
none bit eastern lords and
are now willing thai great o III %
They oug ago worked themselves into the belief that the
sss q s %
people ad ass esy . o % aae esne I
the people have long since been the auooons
character Of the IaTf Of 42-that instead OF proecnS
the u.nos. cx,see and was likely il continued make
paupers Of themselves The whg Leaders, Ike the Bear-
they not only ride death, but re lis corpse while
It's po ,ns Wings imagine tina. the people Of
are willing again TO adopt tariff which Expresses the poor
with burdensome taxes, while il comparatively exemps
,hsmwhich creates an Of paupsred arstoc,ats
lord it them and quarter themselves upon Them lor
ers viii be willing again close the markets Of the
world and reduce the prices Of wheat TO % and Oh cents per
bushe as il was under the tariff OF lsi2f
The people of Pennsylvania know how much protection
on-masers ought to haye and they know ina. even the
are anxious To establish many more OF them. The
in which most Of them are conducted !, not con
essentially Free not anxious TO build up e-
Establishments which on every oess,on use az sams 70
More than ali, they are not willing themselves
1s1 s % ss farmers and an any
other existed while u gives Ut least sufficient pro-
will adhere in defiance Of the rawlings Of dsmagogues
II whg politicians expect TO make capital out OF this
.os We ask 10 better. we can w,sn no more decided
advantage. There are but few wing farmers who wonid
Of men who may proper adopt teir rayng cry,
will find inemssives IN most cou,empnb,s minority. 4
II ny amoass, the aris,ocr ~ Of
IL may work admirably amschae TO draw slecuoneerng
psTodsn Of dandy coaast hoppsrs bur or hs Intelligent
rsenen Of the interior, accustomed 10 read and examine
spurn dead aud ePudate its npsisrt vo'Ares
The last ST. Louis Republican gives brilliant ac-
count of the metal of the Iron Mountain and the Pilot
Knob cas- superior in toughness neness, and its superior
adaptation many purposes that OF any other in the
east or The west" "The line of telegraphs from Nash
vile TO st. Louis is being put up with wire made from
the Missouri Iron Mountain and Pilot Knob and has beer
subjected TO the hardest possible tests, and has always
been found to be superior to any other. We learn tina
"a easily manufactured into wire, and can be furnishes
at a cheap rate" Il has but recently been brought d
markets but the respective establishments already in oPe
ration are turning out large quantity OF metal ever!
day. and the quantity Of ore in those iron mountain
isalmos inexhaustible II will defy all competition will
the foreign material and "when the companies at tn
Mountain and the Knob have pushed their works TO tn
extent Of which they are susceptible. Missouri will sup
ply the West with agrsasr amount Of iron ihsnany othe
State in the Union" They will scarcely have the grao
to ask for further protection. whatever be the quale
or the quantities which sent 10 us from England The
only want capital 10 work the with sufficient activity
but in this respect Of the other iron mines in tn
United States make up for any perceptibe inferoriiy
the quality Of the ore.