Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-09-16
From the New York Tribune.
Let the People See!

"Give Inc but light and Ajax asks no more"
If the Presidential contest can be decided
on the true issues therein inyolved-if the
people shall be made well acquainted with
both Winfield Scott and Franklin Pierce,
and shall deliberately render judgment as
to which of these is the more deserving
Of their suflrages-if they shall calmly con-
slider the Public Measures wherewith these
two are respectively identified and distinctly
pass upon their relative merits--we shall
confidently hope for such verdict as will
secure the tranquility and advance the pros
perity of the Nation. If they are governed
by mere party names, and rallied TO the polls
by trained politicians, we know that the is
sue will be against us. Everything de-
ponds on the fixing of the public attention
on Principles rather than Names-on the
living questions of to-day rather than the
blind, traditional prejudices engendered by
the struggles Of yesterday. And to this
end, we shall direct our efforts for the en-
suing two months.
Let any machine shop or shoe-factory in
the Union be fairly and thoroughly canvass
ed ON the question of Protection to Home In
dustry, let the various arguments, pro and
con, be lucidly set forth and deliberately
weighed-and we doubt that three-iorths OF
all the inmates would decide in favor Of that
policy which diversifes pursuits, increases
employment and draws the manufacturer tc
the side Of The farmer, securing ample mar
kets and steady customers 10 each with the
least possible outlay for the cost Of trans
portation and exchanges between them. II
is demonstrable that wages must be higher
under this policy because labor is porti
more--that is, there will be larger aggre-
gate product from the industry of each town
ship or community, vastly less being vast
ed in nom productive transportation than un
der that system which locates farmers on one
side of an ocean and artisans on the other
We must win verdict on this issue, where
the Jurors are laborers who own themselve:
and receive their own earnings.
But the very shop wherein fifteen out o
twenty workmen would be with us on ;
taril'issue fairly made and fully considered
will often give majority against us in The
absence of such discussion. Jones hate:
the Wings, because Esq. Simpson is lead
ing Wing, and feels too big to speak to com
mon people. Marks has been trained to be-
lieve the Wings were Tories in the Revolu
ton, and starved his father in the jersey
prisonship; so he is bound to hit them agail
at each election. Smithers is for a tariff
himself, but his father before him was {
Democrat, and he isn't going TO turn his coat
Smoker don't object to any thing his Whie
shop mates propose; but he is foreigner
and thinks the Wings hate foreigners; so he
feels bound to 90 against them. Pilkins i:
a hereto in religion, and most of the lead.
ing Wings I've knows are orthodox; and he
cant stand orthodoxy any how you can fix it
And so, for one or another of a hundred rea
sons, equally frivolous, or irrelevant, vote:
are piled up against us--not for anything
we as 4 party affirm or propose, but becaus,
of considerations as foreign from the rea
issues of the canvass as is the subjugatioI
Of Japan.
What the Wings have mainly to do there
fore, through the current month is to brin!
the real issues home 10 the apprehension am
the judgment Of the people. We must write
speak, print, publish, circulate and talk t.
this end. We must try to overrule or dis
sipate the prciudiccs which blind too man.
TO the consideration of our measures, b,
pressing home on every mans attention OH
real grounds Of difference with the advers
: party. Wing reader! will you do a man
share of this work? Or do you choose t
leave it all to be done by others?