Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-07-02

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FINANCIAL PROSPERITY OF THE COUNTRY
When Secretary Corwin made his scarecrow
report at the commencement Of the last ses-
sion Of Congress, and prophesed that nothing
but an increased tariff could save the country
from ruin, we ventured TO dispute the correct
ness of Mr.. Corwin's reasoning, and the relia-
bleness Of his estimates. A very brief space
of time has furnished proofs sustaining our
views BY Il statement emanating from the
Treasury Department, it appears that the reve-
nues for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1851,
will exceed the estimates by fire millions of dol
hzrS The entire revenues for the year just
closed will exceed fifty millions of dollars.
We cannot but rejoice at thoeo evidences of
the great prosperity of the country; and we al
so rejoice ut the arguments advanced to favor
resort to increased taxation upon the laboring
and producing classes, for the benefit Of spe-
cial interests, have been so sgnally falsfed.-
The people, and especially the agricultural clas-
SEES, will now see better into the character and
design Of that policy which is ever seeking ex-
cuses to increase taxation for the benefit of the
few, in opposition to the interests of the many.
We do hope, however, that the extraordina-
~ prosperity in the financial condition of the
country will not induce greater extravaganza on
the part of the Governments but that it will
recommend reduction of the duties imposed
upon such articles as are essential TO the COM
fort of the poorer classes.
A good and wise policy demands that the du-
ties should be placed at the lowest rate upon all
articles of general consumption. A low tariff
j. proved to be most favorable to IN increase
of revenue, to an increase of the comforts of
the people, and to healthy development of all
the resources Of the country. A patriotic and
economical government, light taxes, rich and
prolific SOIL and free, industrious and moral
people, will make the country great, powerful
and prosperous, in spite Of all foreign oppos-
ton and rivalry. On the other hand selfish
and extravagant government, and hightaxes, will
rctard the progress of any country, and make
the people Disseminated, divided and weak
This Republic has now arrived at stage in its
existence, when it becomes of the first impor-
lance to its future prosperity, that the tendency
i'll its government to greater extravaganza and
higher taxation, should receive an effectual
check from the people The extravaganza Of
Monarches is one of their worst features-one
of the causes of their decline and destruction.
A republic would be declared failure as form
of Cover nment, did it not prove itself more &C.
onomical than Monarchy. N. Y. Sun.
a Loweii Factory girr' writing from the in
terror towns in Georgia, to the Lowell Adre4i-
ser, gives the following description of south
ern cotton mill:
When first went into the mill was speech
less, bnt my tongue has since been loosened
and have expressed my mind in tolerably plain
English. The girls in the mill are so ignorant
that we have to talk to them as though they
were children not more than three years DID,
They keep their bonnets on when in the mill.
and also'the men, their hats There is but one
clock in the mill, and no looking glass until we
carried in our own
"a northern hog pen is a parlor, when placed
In comparison with the mill. We had such a
disturbance about the dirt, that the first super
intendent came in with hoe and shovel, and
commenced work around the sink as though he
was in barn yard, Nearly all the girls in the
mill chew tobacco. They have also small
stick, nearly as large pipestem one end of
which they chew until it is something like
brush, then they dip it in snnff, put it In their
mouths and suck it like babe. They pay
ty-fve cents bottle for snuff, one of which
will last them a week."
Thos. Dorr is now editor of the Providence
Ddity Herald, staupch and of course talented