The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-05-31
THE MINNESOTA PIONEER,
st. 1Daml, nllnnesota,
Thursday Morning, May 81, 1919.
New York and Boston, Foreign Trade
and Home Trade,

At the time when, in 1916, Mr.. CALHOUN
and his friends, introduced the protective
system, the whole moneyed and;commercial
interests Of the Atlantic cities, opposed it.
No where was this opposition more en-
phatic than in Boston. Protection was de-
nounced as robbery. 1t was not then fore
seen, that the system would soon build up.
manufactures and create for its own defence
powerful interest. The BoslOnians, pro-
verbally shrewd and versatile, poured the
stream of Yankee capital and industry into
the new channel-and presently mills and
machines and manufactures were in motion
all over New England. Meantime New
York profited by the withdrawal Of the cap
ital and competition of Boston in the i'm
porting trade--she had the whole Hudson,
which God had gwen her, draining the in
terror trade of the North and the Erie canal
which CLINTON had given her, draining the
trade of the lakes. In these she was strong
and confident. To the queenIy mistress OF
commerce, sitting enthroned upon the island
of, Manhattan, bowed the cotton planter OF
the South, the drovier of the West, and
even the lords of the cotton loom, were com
PEELED to do liege service. Time elapsed
Notwithstanding the assaults made upon the
protective systematic changes III its details
and the imminent hazard again and again Of
its overthrow, the business of manufactur-
ing was hourly extending and increasing
the system had resulted in drawing thous-
sands of factory hands over to our factories
and workshops> from Europe, and in fully
occupying the surplus industry and capital
of New England. The Foreign Trade and
the Home Trade, now began to assume a
more hostile attitude. The South became
jealous of the Manufacturing interest-Bal-
ance all-change partners and cross over
Mr.. WEBSTER and MIR. CALHOUN change
grounds and swap weapons and ammuni-
ton. Mr.. CLAY, cherishing the interests of
the West in the growth of home market,
and his own interests in maintaining the
confidence of New England, rallies on the
side of Home Industry every time. The
cotton mill and the plantation seemed to be
arrayed in hostility. The city of New York
fancied that she was mere spectator, and
felt but little interest in the result. Boston
at last one day. drove her trains of cars over
the Green mountains, loaded with shirtings,
exchanged them for Genesee -four, and
trundled back again with her train of eat
ables-and continued to repeat the opera
ton SO often afterwards, as to seriously d.
vert the trade of New York. Flour was
beginning to find a market in New England
instead of Old England; and those cotton
and woollen fabrics which New York form
erly exchanged from abroad, were trundled
into the Northern and Western interior from
every little rocky manufacturing town Of
New England. Boston and New York, now
represent two rival policies, which by no
means rest for support upon mere party pol
itics. Friends and enemies of a discrinina-
ting, incidentally protective tariff, are to be
found in both parties. Incidental protection
is the old established democratic creed. 1t
is the ground which the staunch democracy
of Pennsylvania occupied and still do occu-
Ply. We believe it is the true policy; for it
aims to bring together the producer and the
eonsumer-to invigorate the industry of our
country and to make the only possible mar
ket of the least value, that can possibly be
made for the gross agricultural products OF
the great West. Standing yesterday on the
shore at the falls Of Saint Anthony, where
the whole volume of the Mississippi is COM
manded if needful, for hydraulic purposes,
the most complete and extensive water pow
er unquestionably, in the world, we could no,
refrain from rejecting how important it is
to the welfare and the wealth of Minnesota
whether the Free trade policy of New York
which -despises machinery and turns up its
nose at Domestic manufactures, and regards
as nullity and waste of water, the great
Embarrassed cataracts Of the West, should
prevail; or whether here, in the centre as i
were of a vast continent, there should be
fostered up, under discriminating system
of duties, town of more creative energ,
and productive skill than any other city, in
terror or maritime, now on the face of tn,
earth. .gsr s.s -
Arrival of the Governor.
His Excel'cy Governor RAMSEY, and lady
arrived at ST. Paul early in the morning OF
Sunday last, on the Steamboat DR.. Frankie,
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