Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-06-24

| uuCtu ". ne SOL ana climate oil SPAN
was far better fitted for the growth of grains
the olive, the sllk-wofm, the grape, and the
finest of wool. Spain-tll she banshed
her artisans by process more sudden than
ours, but not more sure-took the lead OF
the world IN manufactures. lie then in.
CURED for a cause Of this difference and
found that in one, industry in commerce,
aud agriculture, aud manufacture was pro-
tected from ruinous competition; in the
other, the laborlng class was left unshield-
ed, while the Government depended on the
mines and tropical fruits of her colonies Ia
pay for her foreign manufactures That
man came home, and was one of the earI-
est and ablest advocates for the protection
of American labor. Now, of more than
tour-score years, This eve not dimmed with
age or his natural force abated that pair-
arch watches the minutest movements OF
his Government affecting the honor or the
interests Of his country. He mourus, and
mourns deeply, when he hears that one of
her sons IS advocating system that tends
to carry abroad all our American gold, aud
mortgage on al, our American invest
ments, aud bring down the American labor
er to the hopelessness. and stupidity, and
heggary of Spain have made this foil
acknowledgment of authority to save myself
from constant quotation Having done
this, ask attention to a few points in the
speech OF the gentleman from Massachn-
sets.
The first middle, and last idea Of that
speech, running through tie whole, and
repeated IN every form that can shun tau
toiory, Is, that the manufacturers of wool
cotton, and iron, will depart from New
England, New-York and Pennsy lyania, aud
take up their homes IN the West It's mild
est Interpretation IS a patriotic effort to
lberllze blgoted Northeast men through
their fears. The PLAN Saxon Of 1t Is, an
attempt TO sound sectional alarm, and cre-
ate the Impression that Northeast men want
protection at the expense Of the rest Of the
country Nothing can be more unjust
No man can make a forgery more at war
with the truth Northeast men have looked
anXiousy for the progress of manufactures
westward and southwark The reason may
be selfish, but II Is quite plain they know
that all who make far experiment IN man
ulacmring, will call out for protection to
labor, and they Will have allies aud not r.
walls. You may go, with the bonedlction
OF every Northeast man, to spread your
Hocks over the pralrIes of the West TO
rear your factories at every waterfall, and
your iorges at every miue aud mountain of
non IN The land In predicting the exodus
Of manufactures from New England, has
the gentleman quite forgotten the history Of
The word The wooden manufactures OF
England are now where they were first set
red--iu the two Ridmgs of Yorkshire; the
cotton, AZ Manchester the cutlery at Shelf
field and Birmingham the hosiery at Not
ungham; The poteres IN Stallor1shire ;
aud siia al Spitalhelds. Ten shues south
the Thames aud Severn, as well 6ued
for 1t. have scarce single mauulactory. -
Henry ~ brought the slk-worm and silk
manufacture TO France from his day the
eat OF the silk work has been at Lyons.
While other parts of France are as well a.
daptcd TO II. Geneva has been the fountain
clocks aud watches so long, that the
memory Of man runnelh not to the contra
y. Manufactures may-we trust they will
spread westward aud southwark but
while they can live anywhere in this land
they will live in New England, the home
where their Infancy was nursed. There Is
the natural power, the structures the ma.
hInery, the skill, and the industry and
there the laborer Will not be seduced from
his employment 10y the agricultural reward,
on the iertile soil Of the West.
The gentleman has made comparison
Of the effects of the tariffs Of 1912 and
1886 | regret he has done so; but the
fault Is his, not nine. have never beior,
seen so strong an illustration of the pollti
cal value of time, and he makes the mos
Of II. He has two or three years sliding
ia aud out of his calculations not by any
fixed rules, like those Of SIR Robert Peel
but lust To suit his own convenience. The
results of two of those years-le41 anC
IS5l-are written IN a kind of invisible
sympathetic ink. When wanted, he reads
like Lafayette IN the PRISON of Olmutz
with uncommon pdrmth," and all the fig
ures start into life when they would be
little troublesome IN his tables, he apple
the cooling process, and they disappear
leaving a perfect blank. He goes bacl
twelve or fifteen years for the price OF az
rlcullural products--takes the counlr
when suffering from financial REVISION
when II had sunk five hundred millions b
oyer-mpoTtatIou-whe II was drinking III
dregs of a compromise tariff; when forelg
creditors IN order to get their pay, wer
willing to take our products at any prlc
from American bankrupts-and then h
makes a very edilying table as to prices ic
four years on either side ofthe line of Isl.
For the manufacture of cotton he goes bac
2 20 years finding i, largely increased, sneer
at petitioner for protection OF labor, tel
him he is engaged IN " terrible losing b,
. siness." and derldes him for shyering unde
garment, though thin aud battered, that
I so much larger than he wore when chll'
e In the iron manufacture he starts at ISL
y and gides easily aud gracefully up to Il
: present Quite forgetting quadruplt
| territory, a population increased sirteen nj
e lions, an entire revolution IN the modes
manufacture, aud the effect of fifteen tarl
II on the forty intervening years, he dro
e down on 1850, and complacentIy gives
the credit of the change TO the tariff
e 1916. In this way the genlleman's tabl
A. are made up, of which no man Is better a
is ylsed than the gentleman himself | u
V the tariffs of 1912 aud 1916 as the OF
}; names by which to designate the systems
L. which they refer. do not use them to d