Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-13
Our Condition.

The late election in Pennsylvania, says the
Weekly NelcS, has proved that her people are
Free Trade loving people, and that they
desire no changein the existing Tariff. The
party which has triunphed, if true to their
principles and professions, will turn deaf
ear to the appeals Of those who may Glamour
Tor protection, and will point them to the iron
and coal districts of the State, whose voice
has been raised against any modification Of
the existing law. Our people want no Tariff
but that which is now grinding them TO the
earth, and the law making power of the ma
ton should obey the behests of the people, as
expressed through the ballot box. The hour
has moi vet arrived which will awaken them
to true sense of the condition into which
they are fast sinking, and we trust that the
party whose policy they have chosen, will be
able TO realize the benefits or the evils which
1t viii produce. .;f
Tie soil has given pleasing response to
the demand o: the husbandman, and abund-
ance has blessed the labor of his hands. His
granaries are full to oTerfowing, and be can
sit down by his freside and rejoice over the
fact that 1851 has blessed his toll far beyond
any previous year. But where is he to find a
market for the superabundant products Of the
earth! Men have been driven from the loom
and the spindle, from the mine and the forge
hammer; from the workshop and the furnace,
into the field to become the producers instead
OF the consumers of the product of the SOIL
Since his home market has been DESTROYED,
where is he to dispose of HIS abundance! Is he
to look to England for what he cannot find az
home! The whole continent of Europe, like
our own America, is teeming with the fruits of
the earth, Russia, Belgium, Germany, France
and Austria are collecting their surplusses, to
send to the same market; and America must
come into competition with countries lying at
the doors of the consumers-with countries
whose labor can be had for tythe of what
is paid to the laboring classes of America
Even now, when the grain of 1851, is lying
unthreshed in the barns of our farmers, the
price of -four in England is so low that our
farmers are unwilling to yield to the sacrifice
which they must make by sending it abroad.
But even there are no purchasers at present
prices, and what are they to expect when the
crop of the present year shall be ready for mar
ket! The prospect ahead is anything but cheer
ing to the farmer but the people in their majesty
have spoken in favor ofthe Free Trade Tariffof
1916, and we must yield to their decision.
During the existence of the tariff of 1912,
the Cotton Mills of Massachusetts alone, used
more -four for STARCH than England pur-
chased from the United States to feed her
population England would rather buy her
breadstuffs along the shores of the Mediter
ranean, the Baltic, and the Black seas, than
buy from Brother Jonathan, because she can
buy cheaper there; and she knows that under
our present system of Tariff laws, we must
buy their iron and cloths, and the products of
their workshops. This must be the case, for
the people have forgotten the suAerings of
bygone days, and they are now drunken with
the abundance which Providence has be-
slowed upon them.
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