The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1852-08-13


The Tribune and Clipper. in a lame attempt
TO say eomsihinei IN reply to an article Of ours
showing the Total abandOhmentof all principls
by It's party, says it eun answer our question as
to where was the ruin which followed the re-
pudiation Of whig policy For his purpose IL
alHdes TO the stoppage Of sundr5 furnaces in
PENNSYLVANIA. after the adoptiono Of the present
tariff law. in the following terms:
1thas moi been many months since The bis.
patch admitted In its editorial columns that
since IS46 DHe-kaB the iron establishments of
Pennsylvania had ceased to exist. JTi01
soas the sstin2'' Why sir, il existed aInong
these industrious manufacturers and their as.
sistants, who depended on their daily toll for
support
This is fair specimen Of the extent of the
views taken by the Tribune and Clipper and
disparity They had predicted the most vide.
spread calanities to the entire country If their
policy should berejected, It was rejected, and
we ask for the yerifcation OF their prediction.
In reply We are told that some manufaotuyers of
Pennsylpdnia are suffering in ineonpsnisnce! Who
ever disputed that some p,aaufact,rersia IN Penn.
syiocnia and elsewhere, who had unwisely en-.
barked their capital in an nnproftable business
might suffer temporary inconvenience from the
abandonment Of policy adopted to filch money
from other portions of the community and put 4
into their pockets9 The wings really seem 10
think that few ironmongers in Pennsylvania
and few cotton spinners of Massachusetts,
constitute the entire nation. They have be-
come SO accustomedsto regard the advancement
Of the interests Of a few favored classes as the
sole object Of Government, that they seem ut
terly incapable Of conceiving more liberal views
But this is not all. We never made any such
admission as is here charged upon us. We have
| at least once before this corrected our cotem-
porary in thispurticular, but he sees fit to per
sist in his statement, He, Of course, can take
his own course. We did admit. and now again
admit, that.Seuera furnaces went out of blast
in Pennsylvania after the passage of the act OF
1876. We did not state what proportion Of the
whole number Of furnaces in The State had done
SO, nor-whioh is much more material--did we
admit that they ceased operations in conse-
quence of the adoption of that measure. At
the time we penned the article alluded to by
our opponent We were not in possession of all
the facts in relation TO those establishments
Since then we have learned the truth of the
matter, and as usual, we have discovered that
! he whig prints have most outrageously misrep-
resented it. We have learned from most in
telligent and highly respectable gentleman,
who until recently, was citizen of Pa, that
in Clarion CO., instead Of twenty three, as rep.
resented by those prints, just nine furnaces. al
told, have thus far ceased operations. And
why? Because, in every solitary instance they
are or were mushroom concerns, which sprung
up without capital, relying upon the effect Of
the unjust act of 1912; or old and worn out es-
establishments which could not have subSisted
longer under any tariff. And such. we have
reason TO believe, is the case in other portions
of the State.
Such are the facts in relation to the "ruin''
to which we are always pointed by our oppo i.
nents as the result Of the tariff of 1916; but
they forget to tell us of the immense establish.
ments whicha being erected in Lowell, Ls w.
renee and other parts of New England, of the
new furnaces, founderies and rolling mills
which are being built in our immediate neigh
borhood, and the large investments which are
being made in manufactures all over the coun-
try, East, West. North and South. While
these substantial evidences of prosperity exist
it will require something more than the out.cry
Of the whig press to induce theSbelief that we
are "ruinedo