Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-06-23
The Tariff and the Presidency.

the gallant warrior and to the incompatible leg.
isator of New Hampshire, but FRANKLIN PIERCE
the incarnation Of Democracy, that we will give
our support. His enemies brand him as a viru.
lent partizan, and hate him because he has had
the impudence to speak the truth-the audacity
to affirm that the world will yet be ruled by
" Locofocosw For the same reason we place
his name at the head of our columns for the
same reason he will be inaugerated in March
next, at Washington.
The most important doctrine in our creed is
the doctrine of Free Trade, with an exposition
of which we propose to begin the campaign.-
We affirm that Protection is the arch for labor
and Republicanism, and that by the adoption of
a Democratic Tariff every class of the people
would be benefited, and the dangers which have
hitherto threatened the existence of our Union
would be annihilated. The self interest of
practitioners has been the cause of rendering
every science complex. On none have they sue
ceeded so effectually as on those sciences which
are included under the general title of politics,
political philosophy, jurisprudence, political e.
economy, are labyrnths through which it is i'm
possible to penetrate unless the spectacles of
prejudice be cast from our eyes and the ball of
the thread OF common sense be unraveed as
we proceed, to enable us to retrace our steps
whenever we run foul of sophism. That what
benefits one man, will benefit a mllion-that
what benefits one family, will benefit a nation,
which Is congregation Of families, is self evil
dent Instead, therefore, of talking about ma
tons, let us speak of families and villages
Suppose smart family of ten, who own ten
thousand acres of virgin SOIL Suppose anoth.
er family of ten, who have only ten square miles
OF land, but are expert shOemakers or tailors or
weavers who live less luxuriousy and who are
willing to exchange their commodities for pro-
duce. How, think you, would their interest be
best advanced BY the landed ten improving
their estate and hiring the other ten to make
their apparel for which they would receive wheat
and pork or by one of the landed ten begin
ming to cobble, a second beginning to sew, and
by third beginning to spin! If you heard
this trinity maintain that they were advancing
the interests of their estate by neglecting to
improve it, and talk about encouraging Home
Manufacturers" if you saw the seven wise
men believe them, and in order to please them
imposing heavy fine upon every article they
could not manufacture, would you not be apt to
address them in such words as these! You
numbskull, don't you see you are robbing your
selves to pay these fellows? If you compelled
them to come and help you, your estate would
be improved far sooner; you could buy both
better and cheaper articles from the landless
family; you would sell as much of what Won
'ased, because produce can only be purchased by
produce AT present you are only giving round
about outdoor relief to the manufacturers If
leader, you are sensible man-and you being
'ne of our subscribers is an evidence that YOU
're-you would certainly thus address them.
Such is the professed policy of the Wings
t may be. science as Samuel Slick would say,
tut 1t is not common sense-that's fact To
ay that protection should be given in order to
improve the wages of the employed is ridicu-
Gus. Who on the earth, or beneath it, or above
t, even heard of a capitalist raising the salaries
# his workmen because his own profits were
Increasing. Those who are of the world know
his. Necessity alone is the mother of high
wages.
Protection is anti-Republican. Its effect is
o produce that most odious of all missionaries
an aristocracy of wealth. Tocqueville the
reat French Political Philosopher, has express
d his conviction that our liberties will yet be
by millonares. Whoever has look
d beneath the superfce of our nations affairs,
lust, if he is true Democrat have the same
EAR. Free trade would benefit every class save
ne upper-tendom. We might purchase manu-
lctures one third cheaper than we now do
ut of course, the Wings would rather have the
eople talk about Lundy's Lane and the hero
Chepultepec, than reflect on these facts
What has been the cause of the quarres be-
veen the North and South! What was it
hich reused the hatred of South Carolina
Ihiggery To hear protectionsts palaver
bout the patriotism of their party, is rather
ckening. We admire all friends of their coun-
y and sincerely love "good Old Harry Clay" |
I'd the other statesmen among our opponents c
no struggled to save the Union. But we can q
1t forget that it was the tariff doctrines that