Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1852-07-29
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY "a, 1852.
Governor Wright.


which, in justice absent candidate for Governor
are compelled to notice. The article commences as
follows:
GOVERNOR WRIGHT
"As Of the means Of acquiring votes for rc-eec.
ton the Office which ke holds, Gov. Wright is
anxious TO make the people believe that he is the special
friend Of the agricultural and mechanical interests Of
the country. For this purpose he has Just issued in
pamphlet form, large edition Of addresses made by
him Cannelton and Richmond during the last year )"
Were Gov. Wrghts efforts, behalf of agricultural
and mechanical interests confined to mere words then
with proPriety, might the Wings make this
charge. But let Judge the tree by its fruits What
has Gov. Wright done7 Has he not been most active
and efficient agent in the organization of the State Ag
rcutural Society," In the formation Of County Soci-
eties3 Has he not given practical evidence of his in
terest in the cause of Agricultural What Governor of
Indiana has ever done much His works prove that
ne is in earnest. What higher evidence will the Jour.
nal requrei But he has had pamphlet edition of his
speeches at Cannelton and Richmond published! Is
there any thing wrong in thsi We think not But the
Journal fearing the effect Of these addresses attempts
by nuendo and misrepresentation controyert the pc
stons assumed by the Governor and do this he digs
up the fossil remains of the oil system of protection
and asks:
when we ought to manufacture it the very ground
where it is usedf Why not the gold we send
abroad for it, to our own countryr
Sure enough. Why do Oliver II. Smith, Albert s.
White Chauncy Rose, Geo. H. Dunn, Jehu T. Elliott,
Jas Brooks and John S. Newman Presidents of railroads
in Indiana, and all Wings, good and true-prominen,
Whigs-send to England for railroad front The answer
is easily given. II costs less II is cheaper, and
Wings as well as Democrats will buy in the cheapest
market. Under the high Wing Tariff of ls42, railroad
iron was from seventy to eighty dollars ton Now il
Is from thirtyeght TO forty. Just with the farm
ers. They tcul bay in the cheapest market. You can
not get one OF them to pay dollars for axe be-
cause il is made Of Pennsylvania iron, when he can
get Just as good article of English iron for one dol
lar; and Wings may preach protection till they die of
the bronchitis and they can't convince the people that
is their interest to pay double price for the home
uacured article. So long we buy the manufactured
articles Of England just long will they buy our corn
-four, beef, and pork. But when We, by Tariffs tax
their articles to destroy the profit they will turn
round and say, Why send to the United States for our
Hour, corn, beef and pOrk3 Wig not the gold al
homer Tar these American articles ard force the Yam.
KEGS to keep their provisions" Is this what the
farmers Of Indiana wanta II they do let them vote for
Whisgery.
Again the Journal SAYS:
''The Governor is opposed to any action on the part
of the General Government in the evying of duties
the foreign manufactured article, that shall give any
encourage cement TO its manufactures at home"
All duties levied for purposes of revenue give proec
ton the amount of the duty. For instance, duty
of thirty per cent iron sugar, twenty per cent
salt, is that much protection to the American manu-.
acturer the foreign producer. Beyond that Gov.
Wright and every other Democrat in Indiana, is oppos
ed to protection. Tariff for Revenue is the Demo
cratic doctrine As to the power of Congress enact
laws for the sake Of protection, the Journal says
''The founders Of our Government were of the opn-
ion that Congress not only had the power such
laws, but that il was its duty to do So"
On this question there a difference of opinion
among the early founders Of the Government John
Adams, Alexander Hamilton Rufus King John Jaw
Fisher Ames, and the federal party Of that day con.
tended for that power, but it denied by Jefferson
Madison, Monroe, and the entire Democratic party
who advocated strict construction of the constitution
and opposed the exercise OF doubtful power.
Again says the Journal:
Experience has established their wisdom to be too
we'll founded to be discarded because of the dennnca
tons OF partisan leaders"
Experience has proved that protection the manu-
facturer is wise stroke Of policy for him, but unwse
for the interest Of the It is that wisdom
which takes money from the pockets of the many, and
puts into the Golfers Of the fewthat taxes the poor
for the benefit of A policy which the Wing
party have always considered the very of wis
dom. For the truth of assertion, have only to
refer the prices of wheat pork, and beef under
the Wing tariff and the prices of the same articles un-
der the Democratic revenue system, on the one hand
and the prices Of sugar, SALT iron, calico, and cotton
goods under high protection. and under low duties
These prices prove the wisdom folly of the the
other OF the systems and that evidence rest our
case. But to the next argument of the Journal:
"But we suppose the Governor would ask why can.
all these articles be manufactured by peo-
pie cheap they can be brought from Europer The
answer is very plain and ought TO be satisfactory
sincere inquirer after truth Labor. which is the
foundation parent of all other kinds Of capital does
not bring onehird much there 10 our own country,
and the rate Of interest money is 81 per cent per
annum Labor and money required to carry on
manufacturing and in these foreign countries have the
advantage, and unless have the market TO our
selves they great that we cannot compete with
them. In answer TO this. we suppose, the Governor
will dig up fossil remains OF the exploded humbng
about the being tared for the benefit Of the
producer and that the article protected raises in price
the amount Of the duties imposed! There was
greater allacy. Ii is an assumption that all expert
ence disproves."
If the articles be manufactured cheap in this
country in England, who is to pay the diferencef
sensible man would answer, they who buy and
sumo but Mr.. Defrees says this is all a fallacy Black
stone the great law commentator who was one Of the
wisest men that ever lived. says:
"Those customs then, we see, is tax Immediately
paid by the merchant, although ultimately by the consul
mer And yet these the duties felt least BY the
people, and IL prndenty managed the people will hard
y consider that the pay them at ALL For the merchant
easy being sensible he does not pay them for himself