The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-11-19
Wftkly Grprtss.
WEDNESDAY MORNING -...-. nov 10.
Encourage Home industry.

Encourage Home Industry.
The exports of gold from the Z, States this
year has ureud; reached beyond Mirg-iaree
sziiiions Of dollars. II is IT, be hoped Tint
this drain will not mnci longer contnu.. but
the balance Of our Indebtedness mnst he adjust
ed. Needing like this mnst hive some effect
OH the h.dy pecun,ary. When is it to be- stop
ped. and huw, The tune will COME, we trust,
when the people ct h- United States viii i'm
p''rt more al the predictions Of the soil, and
export iess of f"reign manufactures. Three
things we should d.. feed ourselves, clothe our
selves, and bnild our own railroads. Our soil is
sufficient for the first. and we improve il; our
skill is equal To the second, hut we do not
encourage and protect IL: our mn-s AID our
~orkmen abundant for th. last; bat the
0rss OF our tnrges put on, that those of fer
eign countries may hnrn with more profit. So
" is. Must II so continue Ia BIZ {, The remedy
Is with the people, and after they have had time
10 note the matter rishilv and weigh It carefully.
We are mistaken IL they do not apply it
Twenty years Of prudent economy would make
the United States the richest country in the
world
We find the above appeal to the high tariff
sympathes of the people of 10 Davies county,
IN a late number of the Galena Advertiser
We had supposed that the sautary operations
OF the present tariff, had produced such an I'M.
preston upon the more enlightened and con,s.
Amt members ofthe Wing party, as to have for
ever sealed up their mouths against repro
duction of their old and often rrpudiated high
tariff notions. But such is not the case. As
the time for another Presidential election ap-
proaches, they begin to cast about for their flu
gtive principles, and having entirely run ashore
forany other issue, they boost up the old tariff
nag, lean, lsnk and horribly emaciatcd, and lead
him trembling and lettering upon the course
He makes sorry show, and from the amount
Of labor he has to perform, between this and
November, 1852, with sponge and water, and all
either restoratiyes that the ingenuity of our
jockey neighbors can bring to the course, he will
make astill worse one.
The Advertisers satisfied we shall be ruined,
unless we close our ports against foreign manu-
features, do our own manufacturing, and thereby
stop the immense drain upon our specie.
Now let US state few plain practical facts il.
Illustrative of this subject, and which will relic We
the fears of our friends on Fevre river, PROV ding
they seriously entertain any, which we think is
a matter of grave question. According to a
table of exports and imports which appeared in
the Journal of Commerce, neutral in politics.
and one of the most reliable statistical journals
in the country, we are assured, that from lStS,
70 the presen. time, cur exports have exceeded
our imports over 0,O00 GOO, that, iith.r- is
any thing to be gained by the balance OF trade,
We certainly have it, although our poor btssdng
country IS cursed ,ci,h Mis odi0Vs tariff Of
1siS--And 50 far from the gold and silver in
the country having diminished, it has, for the
last twenty-five months, greatly increased
Never, within the history of the government,
was there 30 much specie and bullion in the
country, AZ at the presenttime. The Journnl If
Commerce says, 'swithout counting any of that
brought by emigrants, and after deducting all
that has been exported, we still have balance
Of some $50 ,00o,G eco more than we had twenty.
Ave months age
win this supple statement satisfy the editor
Of the Advertiser, that our poor country has a
few dimes left'
But suppose that the policy of the Advertiser
be adopted, what is to become ofthe great farm
ing interest of the country Are the few hun
dred thousand persons who are engaged in man
atacturing, to consume the immense productions
Of the country: And If not, where will the
farmer find a market for them when he is pre-
sluded from a foreign market-for it is fair to
presume, that if We prohibit the importation of
foreign manufactures into the country, that we
force our foreign neighbors, to adopt the same
policy towards US. This policy adopted, would
throw our great agricultural interest, which nu
merically outstrips all others, helpless beggar
at the feet of a haughty and imperious monied
manufacturing monopoly. And woe TO the hardy
filler of the soil, when he is legisated into the
acknowledgment of such friend. 1t will be
for him a lean breakfast, lame dinner and lost
supper. 1t will be like the lamentsd Dan
Marbles diet at New Orleans, "dried apples
FOR breakfast, warm water for dinner, and let
them swell for supper" If the manufacturing
interest, was the predominant interest of the
country, then such policy might be endured,
but as the country is emphaucally an agricultl-
raj one, and the people an agricultural and not
3 manufacturing people, We think the policy
would be highly detrimental and ruinous
An ACT THAT SPEAKsi-Somethinr Of the