The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-05-03

Pennsylvania to see any approach to the
performance of the obligation assumed by
our opponents in Congress, when counting
their assistance in aid Of measures that are
now rapidly closing all the furnaces of
those States, and converting consumers Of
food into producers of food.
The politico- economical creed of the
Wing party may be briefly stated as fol-
lows:
The more coal we mine, the more iron
ore we smelt; and the more cloth we
make, the greater will be the demand for
labor, and the higher will be its reward.
The greater the demand for labor and
the larger its reward, the greater will be
the number of persons who will come here
to sell it.
The more the people who come here to
sell labor, the greater will be the demand
for ships, the larger the freights from Eu-
rope.
The larger the demand for ships, and
the more valuable the return freights,
the lower will be the charge on them to
Europe.
The more the people who come here to
sell labor and to buy food and clothing,
the smaller will be our SURPRISES of food
and cotton.
The smaller those surpluses, the less
will be the demand for ships outward, the
lower will be freights, and the higher the
prices of food and cotton in distant mar
kets. The higher the prices in distant
markets, the higher will they be in the
domestic ones; and the lower the freights,
the larger will be the share of those prices
received by the farmer and planter.
The higher the price of our products
abroad, and the lower the freight out
ward, the more tea and coffee and silk
will be consumed by the farmer and plan
ter, the greater will be the demand for
ships for homeward freight, and the greater
will be the tendency to reduction in out
ward freight, with the further advantage to
DOM FARMER ana planter.
The more coal we mine, the more ore
we smelt, and the more cloth we make,
the more men we shall import and the
more ships shall we build.
The more ships we build, the greater
and the more profitable will be our COM
merce with the world.
The greater our commerce, the more
men we import, the more coal we mine,
the more ore we smelt, and the more
cloth we make, and the smaller the surplus
of food and cotton that must be exported,
the richer will the farmer and planter
grow, the greater will be the facility of
making roads, building schools, and OBJ
tanning books and newspapers; and thus
will intellectual keep pace with physical
and moral improvement.
Such is the creed of our party. Such
were the results of the practice founded
upon it in the adoption of the tariff of
1912. For the creed of our opponents,
we must refer our readers to the cele-
brated report Of Mr.. WALKER the last
session; and for the results of the tariff of
1916 we must wait until they shall be
called upon for an explanation of the
causes why the consumption of iron, and
cloth, and coal has been arrested-why
immigration is Enthusiastically the de-
mand abroad for surplus food does not
ego on augmenting'-why the building
of ships is diminishing-and why the be-
nefcent effect of the "benign" system Of
the late Secretary is now manifesting it.
self in the annual export of twenty or
thirty millions of certificates of indebted
ness, because the prices received for our
"surplus agricultural products" are insult
fcient to enable us to pay for iron and
cloth that should be made at home, and
would be made at home to treble the
amount Of importation, had not members
of Congress been dragooned into the sup
port of measure that they felt to be OPP
posed to the best interests of their con-
stituents.