Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1850-06-27
Dull Times, And What Has Caused
Them

The Tariff Of le46 has opperated to charm
IN making times dull. 1t has served its purpose
most effectually in crushing rich manufacturers
and poor mechanics. 1t has fully realized the
expectations Of its best friends in reducing the price
of the great staples of Pennsylvania-as well as
the wages of labor. 1t has given wonderful
check TO the investment of money in multiplying
manufacturing establishments-dnd TO the demands
for labor as WELL II is eminently democratic,-
for it is calculated to make all men poor alike It
holds every nose to the grindstone-emptles every
pocket, and gives every body holiday from the
tolls and vexatons of business! An admirable
tariff is that of 1916 Ia better one never was
framed-to impoUer,sh all classes and conditions o
men!
Look at its effect in this country-how well it
has met the intentions of its trainers Under the
Whig system of AZ every body was as busy as
could be. An idle man, willing to work, was
greater curiosity than any to be found in Bar
NUNS collection! Every workingman had Plen-
ty to do, and our merchants, and traders, and
manufacturers, were over-run with business.
Bot there is no longer any necessity for com
plant on this source. No,C, most people have
plenty of time for recreation. Work has Stacked
and mechanics are no longer bothered with an
extraordinary run of custom. Tradesmen need
not apply themselves from Monday morning to
Saturday night to meet their orders. There is
plenty OF time for all hands to go fishing and
do what is to be done besides - Glorious Tariff
of lS46!
If enterprise. employment, and an opportunity
TO earn money, ev,Ls, we are singularly favor
ed under the present Free Trade system AS
our lamented friend, DR.. Green, used TO saY-'Let
us be thankful =
But seriously-Is any one so blind as not to see
that the Tariff OF 1916 is at the bottom Of all our
grievances Is it not a fact, proved by dear
bought experience, that business of all kinds, in
eastern Pennsylv anna, has gone d0acn since Free
Trade aCent up Is it not notorious that instead
of building new establishments and increasing our
manufacturing resources, their number and eff
cheney has actually diminished one half in peri
cd of less than four years
And so it is farther west in the iron business
especially, in relation to which we have abundant
statistics, collected with much care, and generally
10 be relied on. From these we learn that in the
counties OF Clarion, Armstrong and Venango, "a
bout thirty new furnaces were built between the
passage of the act 1912 and that of 1885, and bus
mess was prosecuted with great activity and sue
cess, stimulating and invgorating every branch of
trade and commerce coming IN contact with IT.
Now, however, seven furnaces in Clarion county
are out Of blast; many of them under levy by the
Sheriff, and those which continue in operation
some eight or nine, we believe, exclusive of those
connected with rolling mills, do SO because they
had their stocks prepared last winter These will
continue to blow the next season, but without an
pIlCcS VIII I6H6W STOCKS.
So also in Armstrong county. Here six furna-
ces have resulted in the total failure of their
ers, and only four il is said, continue in blast. In
Venango county, out of some seventeen or eigh-
teen furnaces that in successful and prosper
Gus operation, when the tariff of '46 was enacted
only four now in blast, most of the remainder
having been sold out by the Sheriff. and now ly-
ing without any preparation for fire. Of the four
still blowing, two working up the stocks on
hand without any expectation of continuing opera
tons. The other two may possibly continue in
operation during the next season.
So, and even worse in York. There is not
single Furnace says the Republican, lin opera
ton in York county "Codorus,' !" Margarette,"
(" Woodstock. !" " York; and Manor furnaces,
are all 6lown out, and no talk of putting them in
blast again. The thing has come to dead stand
Such are the whitening effects of the Tariff of
l646!
In the vicinity Of Duncan's Island six Furnaces
have been closed, while but one furnace and one
rolling mill remains in operation. The Tariff of
46 is every where doing its vork, and doing it ef-
fectually. It's effects throughout the State are
quite as 'dsagreeable" as the prospect Of an in
crease OF duties can possibly be to British manu-
facturers. Yet they are to be concil,ated and en-
rtched, and our own citizens crushed and mpover-
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