Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-08-27
" 100 more NlajOrity.o

number OF gentlemen OF the Fierce party,
when the ruin of an Ironmaster who had until
recently struggled to live under the Tariff of
'46, was commenced upon. One of the gen.
tlemen remarked, .your county ought to give
100 more Democratic majority. now that
Mr.. - is down."
The incident struck Us as one worthy of
thought The ruin''of man past middle age,
who had invested in an honorable enterprise
all the earnings of himself and his family,
during laborious and economical life, is
commented upon as party blessing. The
scattering abroad of large number Of la
boring men who had derived their support
from an iron establishment, is considered as
"good for 100 more Democratic majority"
So, when the English landlords eject hun
dred poor Irish families from their native
hearths, and toss their humble cabins to the
winds, they boast Of 100 more Englishmen in
their places, and count it all a gain-nOthing
caring for the houseless and homeless fugi-
tives, without bread and without means OF
earning it! And so would the hear,less ply
sician exult in the ravages Of disease, that he
might make few more dollars This trio of
politicians weighed the fortune of man
once of wealth, and the means of subsistence
of hundred families, as of less consequence
than paltry hundred votes!! And they call
themselves Democrats
Look al the silent Forges and Foundries
over this State! Inquire for the miners who
once wrought at Turtleville. on Montour
Ridge, &c. &c. You will find half or three
fourths of the smaller iron works suspended
totally. Only those Establishments, which, hav-
ing broken down he builders, are obtained for
next TO nothing, or the larger establishments,
where a great amount Of capital and peculiar
advantages protect them, are now in operation,
and many of those at a loss for, with the
large capital invested, they can only 60 on
sacrificing, and hoping for better times-as
the only means Of avoiding greater loss.
We never hear our people rejoicing over
| the destruction Of farmers, OF merchants, or
mechanics; why is this fiendsh exultation
| over the ruin of iron manufacturers "What
evil have they done!" The great wealth of
| Pennsylvania lies in her iron-one pound of
which, worth few pennies in crude state,
by manu- featuring may be valued at thousands
of dollars! To transform the raw material
into the manufactured fabric-to convert po-
verty into wealth-is the business Of the Iron
| master. What class of persons. or what
branch of industry, does he iniurel None
! bu. he benefits the farmer, the mechanic, the
day-laborer, the merchant, aud all those en-
gagged in other manufactures. No department
of domestic industry is Of more advantage to
our country than the iron manufacture.
We ask, why then this political party ha-
tired of the iron business and we answer
lst-because out of 10 of those engaged in
it ask for and need protection against foreign
pauper labor and facilities acquired by age
and capital, by a proper Tariff Law and
2d-because they remember that good Tariff
Law was wrested from them by swindlers
who obtained that power by protesting to be
the best friends of that Tariff, and Of Penn.
sylvania interests especially. These two facts
furnish the answer of the bitterness of the ha-
tired of the Piercers to the great interest OF
Pennsylvania.
7icenty-nine Furnaces have been sacrificed
under the Sherif's hammer in Clarion county
alone within one year. A No. Of the" Clarion
Register" of the l4th inst. is before US, which
contains not less than 70 Sheriff's sales-serea
! furnaces, .fre mills, and sirfy-sepen tracts OF
land. That is an Iron county, and gave 1869
majority for Polk, Dallas, and the Tariff
| of '42"!!
| Why should not iron and other manufac-
lures be made TO flourish in our State, as well
as Agriculture, Commerce, and the Mechanic
| Artsi Experience has proven and is proving
| that nothing but Protective Tariff can prop
erly develop the Iron interest. And the elect
ion of another Tariff President, and of Tariff
Congressmen from Pennsylvania, would. we
doubt not, induce the selt-styled Democratic
party to unite with the Wings on the platform
of Jefersonian Tariff principles, and enact
! laws that shall enable our iron makers not TO
barely live merely, but to flourish and greatly
| increase.