Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-06-24
THURSDAY, JUNE "a, 1852.

has not, like the West, asked public lands
to build her roads, or, like the South, re-
mission of duties on railroad iron. The
work is mainly done and paid aud now,
could she receive a portion of protection
given to the pauper labor Of Europe, she
would feel sudden impulse in manufac-
lures, and stirring movement in her agri-
culture, by a home market for her products,
10 manufacturing establishments on her
own soil
Let us now turn to some facts tina, bear
on this comparison The tariff of 1912
found the country IN great depression our
able financial agent, offering double inter-
est, and pedging the security of this Gov
eminent, could not borrow dollar in the
glured money markets of Europe. That
act checked foreign importation, restored
the balance of trade, and rescued from per-
petua Infamy the blasted credit of the coun-
Try. Its design was TO have a home market
for the products ofihe shop aud the field, by
having the man who makes and the man who
uses IN the same country. And it effected
the object The manufacture of IRON IN
creased from 300 to $50 600 tons; railroad
iron from nothing to 100 000 tons cotton
cloth from 267 600 to 500 600 bales WOOL
EN- cloth from 81, 600 600 to 50. 1000 600
pounds; the produce consumed ia 1916 a.
bove 1872, m consequence Of having the
produce and market together, was $780,
600, 900. This was the result Of turning
into manufactures the produce of the earth
Hood, wool, cotton, coal, iron and hemp.
Turn, now, to The other side, and take
few out OF perfect deluge of facts In
1916, at the close Of the tarif Of 1912. we
produced $50 600 tons OF iron. Now we
produce 4CO 600 tons, and import annually
To the amount Of s. 600 0OO-almost equal
to all our exports Of food In ls46. Illinois
exported 100000 pigs Of lead last year,
35O,OOO; while we are importing more
than 10000 600 pounds, at cost Of -,
1000 That sum ought 10 nave gone To
Illinois farmers and miners. Who has pre-
vented 1t from taking that directionl
Look at the change, as it affects mdiyid-
uals or companies H. lsl7 there were five
furnaces, manufacturing Pug iron, IN blast
IN a small valley west Of Lake Champaign
Jackson's produced 5000 tons in 1917,
500 tons IN ISIS, and closed Two of
Grays IN 1917 produced $500 tons; IN
le4S they failed, and asslgnees worked up
the stock. OF all that have risen. aud slrug-
aled, and sunk down in that valley but one
remaius-thai Of Piu6eld. Hammond &
Tower. They have SO 000 invested IN
their works managed by the owners on
the spot with wise aud practical sagacliy -
They have one Of the best MINES, making
the best iron in the land, as shown by re-
pealed trials at your nayy-yard Their coal,
ore, labor, and transportation Is rs cheap as
can he found any where; vet they cannot
compete with the miserable foreign IRON
without loss of from IS to 81 per ton -
Go by their wharf, and YOU may see their
iron, Pulled high as human hands can
lift IT, measured by roods aud acres. The
gentleman from Massachusetts may ask -
Why don't they give up1' SIR, the hard
earnings of past life are invested IN that
house, in Adirondack mountains Invested
under the solemn promise of protection by
the Government, pledged by the law of the
land That promise was kept by the tariff
Of lS42. You promised them better
tariff" IN 1916, and, trusting YOU they went
on. Now they, and thousands of others IN
the Northeast, are like mariners on wreck
lifting up their signals of distress, and
calling on the Government TO redeem their
promises under which they entered upon
the VOYAGE
Look a little further into three counties,
Of Clinton, Essex, and Franklin, New York.
The properly, real and personal, invested
in furnaces, rolling mills, nail factories, ore
beds, and wood lands, for making coal, was
worth, In 1916, at least 50 600 900. Now
al - a..
Two-hundred forge-hres and SIX blast fur
uaces produced, in 1916. from the ore, 90, =
00G tons of pig and wrought iron. The
iorges produced in 1916, 80 900 tons OF
wrought iron, at $40 per ton, ~ 100000 !
II coo tons of pig iron were made, at $50,
per ton, equal to $40 900. la 1851 the
same works made only II 900 tons Of
wrough, iron, at S25 per ton; pig iron
$500 tons, at Sl7 per ton, S342 ,5OO.-
Only ninety out of two hundred were II
operation in December last probably less
now. Five thousand men, sustaining one
third of the entire population of these
counties-73, 000-were directly or Indl
rectly connected with the iron business
while made at compromising prices, are nov
thrown out of employment what Is lh'
cause of this change, from competency Il
penury, in so many human beings Thu
change from the tariff of 1912 to lel6.--
/, The value of iron made there IN 1916, wa
, 81 $50, 900; in 1851, S342 800. Tn,
difference in the products of a single year
+ Is 81 ,637 500 Let the gentleman iron
Massachusetts go aud sing his iree-trad
. lullabys al the deserted forges, and iurna
5 ces, and hamlets, on the banks Of the Au
5 sable. Let US know the answer he WI
get, when, with his usual vivacity, he tell
r them. as ne tells US, that "the iron inter
5 ests, making the most rapid progress, al
ways cry out, most Justify, that they ar
terribly distressed"
e England understands the science of pro
d tecuon; in forty years, preceding le20, sh'
: changed her tariff on iron fifteen time!
# rising from 81 los to Il per ton. Sh
s was not free-lrader ill she had made he
IS artisans sklllful enough and her laborel
II poor enough, to compete with the worl'
If Our policy seems to be different; undt
IS the tariff of 1912, more Improvements wei
l. made in the modes of manufacturing an
Sc machinery, than IN any other four years
~ our history. We break up that system, p
10 the mechanic on short allowance, al
s. slarve him into submission to an unimpro
p ino round of toll for his daily bread.