Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-08-26

pendent on Europe for market. MANY things
are now-turned-off from his farm at good prices.
wnich had no money value while an ocean rolled
between him and his market he becomes thrift
~ and buys more, far more, than formerly. be-
cause he Is abe to buy far more Instead of one
or two inbred dollars worth of Wheat or Pork
10 sell ut one particular season, he Is turning off
hundred dollars worth OF Milk Fruit. Timber.
vegetables, &C., each month Keeping out of
debt at the store and elsewhere, and LAYING IN
money lie improves his buildings and thus
g YES job to his ncighbor the carpenter: he
Hills up his house with furniture. TO the satfac-
ton OF MS neighbour, the cabnet-maker he sends
hrs children to a seminary, and thus increases
the income OF the teacher. On every side the
farmers prosperity oyerfows and conduces to
the prosperity OF his townsmen. And the basis
Of all tins IS the fact that BY a bengnant policy,
adequate eiarkeis have been brought nearer his
doors, whereby he receives eighty or ninety III
stead Of forty or fifty per cent of what the m
sumer oil ms products pays for them, and is en-
Hoieg nayantageously TO grow many articles
winch with our workshops IN Europe, must have
roiied on his hands. had he grown them. Every
dollar thus saved m the expense Of needless
transportation, by drawing the manufacturers
nearer and nearer to the side of the farmer il n
new stimulus to protection: and the hundred
acres which gave scanty employment a. herds
men and Uheai-growers to two or three hands.
hroId ample employment for dozen 20 twenty,
"hen, by reason Of the neighborhOod Of manu-
iactofes' wheat and grass have been in great
part Imprinted by gardens fruit. and vegetables.
There IS no more mystery III the increase If
Production and Prosperity under iudiclonsly
directed Protective Policy. than in the fact that
team immediately before wagon will draw a
heavier load than It would if fastened forty rods
ahead OF the load Protsciioa direrts Labor
ron "oa,-Productire 10 productive employme,,ts--
that j. NE whole story. Ey dversifying indus
NY u calls into active exercise a wider range of
elpacites, and develops powers which would
oiher" lse have lain dormant and unsnspected.-
Thousands who. IN a community wholly apricul-
tura' or wholly manufacturing, would fnd moth
ing TO DO are satisfactorily employed and remu-
nsfaied where diverse pursuits are being prose.
Suied all around them. Protection and Internal
Improvement work from opposite directions TO
one common end-nam Is, the dimnuton Of ex.
pen7e in the transportation from producer 20 CON
snmer. Protection aims TO bring the consumer.
wherever this may be pract cable, to the side Of
the producers Internal Improvement ESSAYS.
where tiat is not practicable. to bring the pro-
dac' from the latter TO the former at the least
possible cost,
Now there was time when. out OF the mar
were admitted and acted upon by the whole A.
mercan People-at least. throughout the Free
Smies. Nobody pretended that Protection was
anu-Democrauc fifty, forty, thirty, or even twen-
ty-live years ago. On the contrary. Pennsylva-
MA and Kentucky, then ranked among the most
Democratic States, were the earliest and most
decided champions Of Protection, throughout the
earlier decades Of the struggle. Cen Jackson
when a candidate for President and even after
he had been transformed from Federar into
he Democratic candidate, was Wanted By his
friends sturdy Protectionist His letter 10 DR..
Coleman. Of North Carolina, was repeatedly
published TO sustain the claim The Tariff of
lees ttae highest and most Protective ~ have
ever had was framed by Jackson Committee,
passed by Jackson Congress- and boosted Of as
jackson measure Party exigenc Is. and The
supposed necessity Of retaining the good will of
the Couon-growlng interest. have since vcerod
the Parry completely off the Protective track
but u Is none the less essentially Democratic
on that account Men are mumble, but Princi
pies ere eternal. Protection Is Just as Democra-
nc to-day, as if 1t had been endorsed and com
mcnded by five regiments Of rayenou5 Office.
seekers, styling themselves Democratic Nation
al Conventions