The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-01-28

q SEVERAL MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN
SPECIE have left New York for England, by
late steamer. Every steamers takes out large
amounts now to pay for foreign goods that
ourht to be manufactured at home. Think ot it,
you who are called upon to decide between
Protection to Home Manufacturers, or Proec
tcn to the Manufacturers of Great Britain,
and Europe generally. ly.-Dubaquc Tribune.
Why don't your pet men do the manufac'ur-
ing at home if 1t onght TO be done here They
have every facility afforded them for competing
with foreigners and the fault is theirs, if they
do not improve them. But no, ordinary and
reasonable protection will not satisfy them and
their friends. 1t must be protection, which
will unjustly and GENEROUSLY tax the industry Of
the country ITO put millions into the Golfers of
class, and rear up an overgrown eristocracy and
monopoly of wealth S, far as this system OPP
crates upon the industrial pursuits of the coun-
try, you might as well establish rule in this
City, and say that any one class OF the commu-
nifty, bv municipal regulation, should be protec-
ted to the exclusion of all others. The effect
of the principle upon the mass would be the
same, although the cases not identical. This
Washington, to the Dubuque Tribune, is spe-
c;ous deception, intended to dupe and ilch from
the honest labor of the country portion of its
hard wrought earnings 1t is policy copied
from British legislation, like all other falacies
of the whig party, and has no application to this
government, and indeed is being abolished in
that country as fast as liberal and emil ghtencd
men can command the rcigns of government to
do it. There is no law Of political economy
which can excnsc high protection in country
like this and to adopt it, whele the genius Of
legislation is to cqualze the burdens of the pco.
pie, is an absurdity almost, if not quite as pal
pable as the once prevalent idola.ry with the
whg party, that "United States Bank was
absolutely necessary 20 carry on TIE fiscal con
Germs of the government. Come, come, Mr.
I Tribune, you must not attempt to cram this doc
trine down tie necks of an intelligent commu
nifty. IL arcnt do no hor gen can ,fr It, If VIC
have occasion to buy shirt pair of pant
which we no doubt shall have s me of these G
days, we don't want your whig policy to come
in and make us pay twenty-five or fifty per cent
,cants to buy little iron for making an iror
wedge or a crow bar, ''dont" want to sec
him pay price and a half FOR it. He is as goot
a man as your manufacturer, and perhaps It'll
better, and therefore his aterest should be look
ed TO by government, as well rs the other
He may not have quite as much money to cx
pend in fine houses and carriages, employin:
cour;ly servants and giving brilliant partes, bu
he has enough to provide for the wants of ma
turc, keep the old woman good naturcd, the ba
bes from sCuallng and discharge his homes
debts, and this last is more than many an Eas
: tern Lord does, under the pre:ext That lie is ru
S ined by the revenue tariff.
: IL this tariff will ruin any body, they dcserv
to be ruined for the man that cant succeed
when pro.ec'cd 10 the amount that the prese.
tariff prot, ct, him, voull fail under any ta-
! if Far cheaper Guild it lie for the people
through the government, t, appropriate anhua!
i ly sufficient sum to keep them handsomely
than to be subject to an indirect and oncrou:
j tax upon every article that they have TO buy
Put them upon the list of superanuated soldier
and let sum run at that.
) One would think too from the Trbuns artf
4 Gle, that all the specie was leaving 'he~eountry
This is not so, for the best statiss tables in tht
country show that the speeie circulation Of The
country is rapidly lDereas ng, and that there il
some $50 ,oc5, 5,0Ogmore in the country now thar
:. there was two years ago.