Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-09-20
LETTERS FROM THE HILLS.
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returning about the money he was TO have
got. At last logged his memory about it.
Dad SAYS | one day, shall soon
need that money you promised to get Tor
me. and, if convenient, the sooner the bet
ter
Why SAM says he, the fact is | don't
know exactly whether can get it for YOU.
mentioned the matter when got 10 town,
but they said you was such an ALFRED
tariff man that il was no use TO lend YOU
any money, for il would do no good And
besides, Sam, YOU know the democrats
have turned their coats on that question,
and Andy Parker now says we must 90 in
for free trade, because we can buy iron
and other things cheaper i'll England than
we can make them
so, then says 1, 'you and ANDY
Parker and the rest of the locofocos, have
all turned Britishers. To my mind that's
new idea ia Jeficrsonan democracy, and
| suppose if you'll 90 on in your progress,
1t won't be long before Jefferson will be
voted a fool, Simon Snyder goose, Mad
lson i jackass, Monroe an ignoramus, and
jackson a mule--!or il is as plain as a, b,
c, that YOU don't stick to any one thing for
more than six months at time nowadays.
and as YOU have discovered that all the
professions heretofore made of sustaining
our own industry, so as not o be depen-
dent on British lords and ladies', in case of
wars, WIS all CANNON, il will not be long
before You'll find out that it's more demo
cratic TO make kings rich than to give en-
pluyment TO your neighbOrs'
Bul Sam, don't you see that we were
all wrong before. I'm sure we were, for
can buy iron cheaper now than did un-
der tariff
les, and what effect has il had already.
Where IS there a hill in old Miliiin that
now resoundS with the woodchoppers' axe
Where are the miners, the coalmen, and
hundreds Of others who in by-gone wears
found ready and profitable employ mcnt
You have driven them away, MANY from
the scenes of their early DAYS. and com
PEELED them To wander here and there in
search OF employment, when nature has
furnished material enough under our feet
to give steady aud - living" labor t. hun
dreds. But for the woodchopper's axe.
how would you ever have earned more
than prccarl0us existence Yet with
ont dollar in your pocket at the outset,
as YOU have yourself often boasted, in less
than ten wears Won became the owner of
more than a hundred acres. much of which
is good land, and although NV chance was
not so good as yours, vet | also BY dint of
industry at the axe, got together enough 10
give myself homestead. We were then
protected from heavy foreign imporialions
by proper tariff and had il been let alone,
competition would have brought down the
price as low as il ought TO be brought
But the tune changed-such wiseacres like
ANDY Parker and others who make their
money by S50s and Sl00s, BY giving adj
vice on laws they themselves don't under
stand, got 1t into their heads that we must
buy cheap, and so they are now at work
TO break down the little employment vet
left 10 the poor man. They come and
tell him that he can get British cotton goods
Al two or three cents less a yard than
American-cloih at so cents or dollar
less, and iron ware at similar low prices,
but they don't tell him Where he IS TO ret
the m0ncy. " hat matters il, ! should
like To know. to the poor man how cheap
things are II he has not the means TO pur-
chase them Do YOU not see that the adj
vantage 10 them is nothing at all, while to
the Andy Parkers Ii is everything And
besides, if iron can be manufactured pro-
li,abIy Al the prevailing prices. why don't
some OF these lot specializing nabobs buy
up the f0rgcs aud furnaces now living idle,
and get rich, as they allcge the iron mas
tcrs can Let them face the same music
they want the laboring men TO face, and
III give them more credit for honesty and
sincerity than | now can. So YOU see,
dad. that I'm still an ALFRED tariff man,
as your particular friends in town think,
and TO tell YOU the truth wouldn't touch
their money with a ten-foot pole, if there
by | should trammcl myself into voting
for any of their elan. They arc out on a
fox hunt of some kind YOU may RELY upon
it, or Ross wouldn't have been put up for
Assembly, and Stroup for Commissioner,
and if it wasn't 10 gloss the thing over.
M'COy might have whislled Yankee boo
die 10 Mexican gals for two or three cam
paigns more before he'd got the nomina-
ton for Prothonoiary. Take my word
for il dad, there is something wrong: they
gave YOU a small loan OF money for the
purpose of asking YOU greater favo be-
tween this and the election, and if they
don't do it, there are no musketers in the
Narruws.'
Dad stood musingly for while, when
he ayerrcd that always could see some
thing in certain matters that he couldn't.
Sam, says he, Il don't see anything
wrong in one man lending another some
money, and ! think it WAS very kind in
them town folks TO offer il.
We'll says |, / don't. If you'd
wanted the money, it would have been