The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-04-17

from manufactures exported was only $1l ,249,-
777. The whole amount received from domest-
ic exports was $131, ,10,0S1. Thus it clearly
appears that this is an exporting country. A
"home market is too small for us. The great
contest now is, to determine who shall receive
the profits of this export business. The preat
effort of the capitalists is to change them from
the pockets of the laboring husbandman. into
their own Golfers. This can be done oniv bv
breaking down the price of labor, and drive i,
from agriculture to manufacturing, so that the
products of manufacture shall go abroad in the
place of the products Of the soil A protective
tariff will have tendency to do this .Tid
!. But the idea of New York, Boston, g. Lowell
being "home market" for the people of Iowa,
or any of these western States, is too fallacious
to be entertained by any rejecting mind Those
cities are nearer the home ofthe people of Great
Britain than Of Iowa. The eastern States are all
foreign States to us. What do these western
agrculturists care whether their wheat, corn, or
pork, are eaten in New York and Boston, or in
Liverpool and LoLdon, provided the best price
is PAID tor it in cash at their doors; and what
difference does it make with them, whether their
coats and shirts are woven in Lowell or Man
chester; or whether their saws or razors are man
ufactured in Philadelphia or Sheffield, provided
they get the best article for the lowest price,
And If they can sell higher and for better profits,
and purchase cheaper on the other side of the
Atlantic and Pacific, why cut these agricultural
lists OFT from this exchange trade, and give the
trade exclusively to capitalists. No good reas-
on for this can be given. The agricultural peo-
pie of the West have asked for no exclusive pri-
vllege over the capitalists of the East, and their
true policy is to grant none.
we are now on the eve of an important election
which Is to decide whether the people of this
Sfatn foro ~,
which IS to determine, as far as 1t can, wheth
er agriculture and American labor shall flourish
and prosper, with free access to all the marts of
the word, or whether they shall be given up to
the great harlot of feudalism to be ravished, ma
nacled and bruised by the iron heel Of monopo-
ly, IN the guse OF protection to American labor
What say you, farmers of Iowa? are you rea-
dy tor the contest? On you the great Tower Of
Sloan is to tall. Are you sinners above all 9TH
cr men: Your rights, your interests, your in
terests, industry, all the fruits of your sweat
and labor are to be cast into the grooming Golfers
OF the opulent, while you and your families are
to become their servants and haut-boys
What say you, Mechanics Are you prepar-
cd to have the price of your labor monopolizcd
and controlled by the despotc will of band of
solclcss corporations which know neither ius
ticc nor mercy And you, Printers! What is
your answer: You are sentinels on the watch
towers of liberty and intelligence 1t is your
province to bring truth to the eye and convic ton
to the heart Of the toiling millions You can
corrupt or purify the streams from the fountain
of knowledge, and ward off from the sturdy
yeomany, the poisoned arrows of avarice, which
the mammon of filthy lucre is hurting at them
Have you filled your mission? Have you sound
ed the tocsn ofwar-"war to the blade and from
the blade to the hit'-by money and monopoly
upon American labor.
E. w. EASTMAN.