The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-06-23

country lie m0urns, ana mourns ueep
ly. when he hears that one of her SOM
is advocating asystem that tends to car
ry abroad all our American investments
and bring down the American laborer tc
tie hopclessness and stupidity, and beg
gary of Spain | have made this full
acknowledgement of authority to save
my self from constant quotation. Hav-
: ing done this, ask attention to n few
points in the speech of the gentleman
from Massachusetts,.
The first. middle. and last idea of that
speech. running through the whole, and
repeated in every form that can shun
tautology, is, that the manufacturers of
wool, cotton. and iron will depart from
New England, New York, and Pennsyl-
vania, and take up thcir homes in the
West It's mildost Interpretation is q
patriotic effort to liberaize bgoted
Northeast men through their fears. The
plain Saxon Of Il is, an attempt to sound
a sectional alarm. and create the i'm
preston that Northeast men want pro
lection at the expense of the rest of the
country Nothing can be more unjust
No man can make forgery more at war
with the truth Northeast men have
looked anxiously for the progress of
manufactures, westward and southward
The reason may be selfish but it is quite
plain they know that all who make a
fair experiment IN manufacturing, will
call out for protection to labor. and they
will have allies aud not rivals You
may go. with the benediction of every
Northeast man,to spread your focks over
the prairics of the West to rear your
factories at every waterfall, and your
forges at every mine and mountain of
iron in the land In predicting the ex-
odus of manufactures from New Eng
land, has the gentleman quite forgotten
the history of the world The wooden
manufactures of England arc now where
they first settled-in the two Rulings of
Yorkshire the cotton, at Manchester
the cutlery at Sheffield and Brming-
ham; the hosiery at Nottingham the
potteries in Staffordshire and silk at
Spitalfelds Ten shres south of the
Thames & Severn, MS well fitted for them
hoNt ENtitC HUI
ry ". brought the silk-worm and silk
manufacture to France from his day,
the seat of the silk work has been at Ly.
ons, while other parts of France are as
well adapted to it. Geneva has been
the fountain of clocks and watches so
long, that the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary Manufactures may
we trust they will-spread westward
and southwark but while they can live
anywhere in this land, they will live in
New England, the home where their in.
fancy was nursed. There is the natural
power, the structures, the machinery. the
skill, and the industry, and there the
laborer will not be seduced from his en-
ployment by the agricultural rewards OF
the fertile soil Of the West.
The gentleman has made compari-
son of the effects of the tariffs of ls42
and 1916; I regret he has done so but
the fault is his, not mine | have never
before seen So strong an illustration Of
the political value of time and he makes
the most of it. He has two or three
years sliding in and out of his calcula
tions not by any fixed rules, like those
of Sir Robert Peel, but Just to suit his
own convenience. The results of two
of those years-lS47 aud ls5l-are
written in kind of invisible, sympathet.
. ic ink When wanted, he reads, like
Lafayette in the prison of Olmutz, with
uncommon carRth, and all the fig.
ures start into life when they would be
, little troublesome in his tables he ap-
plies the cooling process, and they disap-
pear, leaving perfect blank lie goes
back twelve or fifteen years for the price
, ofagricultural products-takes the coun
try when suffering from financial revul
: sion--when it had sunk five hundred
, millions by oyer-importation-when ii
was drinking the dregs of a compromise
) tariff; when foreign creditors. in order
to get their pay, were willing to take out
: products at any price from American
; hankrupts-and then he makes a very
edifying table as to prices for four years
= on either side Of the line Of ls42 Fol
the manufacture of cotton he goes bacl
: twenty years and finding it largely in
creased, sneers at q petitioner for pro
lection Of labor. tells him he is engaged
/ in terribly losing business" and de
rides him for shivcring under garment
. though thin and tattered, that is so mucl
larger than he wore when a child Ii
the iron manufacture he starts at 1910
and glides easily and gracefully up tc
E the present Quite forgetting quad
: rGplcd territory, a population increased
S'TtecH millions an entire revolution il
r The modes of manufacture and the ef
, feet Of fifteen tariffs ON the forty inter
+, vening years, he drops down on 1850
: and complaoently gives all the credit o
Q tho change to the tariff of 1916 II
f this way the gentlemans tables ar,
= made up, of which no man is better ad
vised than the gentleman himself
a use the tariffs of 1912 and ls46 as tho
only names by which to designate tn,
{ systems to which they refer | do no
+ use them to distribute political praise o
+ blame TO any party. am sincerely an'
] earnestly anxious to see such a chang
6 in the revenue laws as the interests o
}, the country demand, and would be gla'
a to sacrifice every particle of politica
= credit, in order to gain that end d'
r not represent my State as in beggary o
= starvation no act of the government
n nothing short of the act of God--cal
{ ever bring her to that condition. Il
c her limits more than Sl7 900 900 hay
: been expended in railroads to open tn
, way to her rich fields, to her mines, /
It her marble quarries, and her natura
n manufacturing power She has not, lik
a the West, asked public lands TO huild be