The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-10-07

Z ment for dozen 10 twenty, WHen, Dy Ied
son Of the neighborhood OF manufactures
wheat and grass have been in great part
supplsn,ed by gardens, frait, and vegeta-
!, oes. There is no mystery in the increase
Df Production and Prosperity under a judi
ciously directed Protective Policy, than in
The fact that team Immediately before a
! wagon will draw heavier load than il
would il fastened forty rods ahead of the
load Protection direrts Labor from non
r productive to productive employments--
that is the whole story. By diversiiyin ing
industry, It calls into active exercise wi
der range Of capacities, and develops pow
|ers which would otherwise have lain dor
mant and unsupported. Thousands who
in a community wholly agricultural or
wholly manufacturing, would find nothing
10 do, are satisfactorily employed and re-
munerated where diverse pursuits are be-
Ling prosecuted all around them. Protcc-
ion and Internal Improvement work from
0pposite directions to one common end
namely, the dimunition Of expense in the
transportation from producer to consumer
Protection aims to bring the consumer,
wherever this may be practicable, to the
side of the producer; Internal Improve
ment essays, where that is not practicable,
to bring the product from the latter to the
former at the lerst possible cost.
Now there was time when, out OF the
narrow circle of Importing influence, these
truths wcro admiued and acted upon by
the whole American People-at least
throughout the Free States. Nobody pre-
tended that Protection was anli-Democrat
c fifty, forty, thirty, or even twenty y-tiye
years ago On the contrary, Pennsylva
nia and Kentucky, then ranked among The
most Democratic States, were the earlies
md most decided champions Of Protection,
throughou, the earlier decades Of the strug
gle Gen. jackson, when a candidate ioI
President, aud even after he had been
transformed from Federal into the Dem
ocratic' candidate, was vaun,sd by his
friends sturdy Protee,onist. His letter
10 DR.. Coleman, OF North Carollaa, was
repeatedly published to sustain the claim
fhe Tariff of 1928 (the highest and mos,
Protective we have ever had was framed
by Jackson Committee, passed by Jack
son Congress, aud boasted OF as Jackson
measure. Party exgencies, and the sup
posed necessity of retaining the good vii
of the Cotton growing interest, have since
veered the Party completely of the Pro
tiective track, but it is none the less essen
tally sDemocratc' on that account. Mel
are mutabe. but Principles are eternal
Protection is Just as Democratic to-day. al
if il had been endorsed and commended by
five regiments of ravenous office seekers
r s,ylng themselves Democratic Natlona
: Conventions.
ri A. There undcrles the practical polite
Of our tiuie and country radical diverst,
Of sentiment respecting the appropriate
sphere of Government. On the one hand
] Republican Government is regarded as The
natural friend and servant Of the People
whose proper function it is TO tighten theiI
burdens, to increase their facilities for in
tercoarse or intelligence, and to contribute
in all practicable ways to their progress
comfort, and happiness. On the other,
Governmen, is regarded with jealousy and
Idistrust, as an enemy to be watched. on
! evil 10 bo restricted within the narrowest
limits. The notices of this latter school
are significant: 'Fhe world is governed
too much,'-'The best governmont is that
which governs least, t,'-Laisse@J fare, Let
10 alone,'l &c, &c. Now these maxims
II seem to me unwisey transferred from
Governments directed by despo,s TO Gov
ernmenis controlled by and existing for
the People. They are nowhere recogni-
zed by the Democracy Of Europe, which
plainly contemplates the institution OF
| Governments more pervasiye and etticieni
than the world has yet known. Free Edu-
cation. Insurance by the State, the Right
to Labor, these are but part OF the
IDEAS of like tendency, which the Europea n
I Democracy stands ready TO realize when
ever it shall have the power. It's policy
is constructive, creative and beneficent,
while that of our selfstyled democracy is
repuIsive, chilling, nugatory,- bundle OF
negations, restrictions, and abjuratlons.-
| Can there be a rational doubt as to which
Of these is The true Democracy? Who does
no, see that the fundamental ideas Of our
party Democracy are as radically hostile to
i Common Schools, and to tax sustained
Common Roads, as to Protective Tariff,
La National Bank, or to the National In
Iproyement of our Rivers and Harbors, i
lit dare but follow where its principles
lead?
j ). There is another point on which |
must speak frankly; aud ! ask you not 70
take offence at, but earnestly ponder it,
You and prefer the society and counsel
of those who walk, so far as we may Judge,
ia the ways Of Virtue, to that of the reck-
less, osteniaious servltors OF Vice. You,
am confident, will not stigmatize this
preference as Aristocratic, nor seek to con-
found Poverty with Vice, in the paltry
, hope ot making capital out of the natural
Indignation of the former. The great
city Of my residence is, perhaps, fair
sample politically of the whole country
its parties almost equal in numbers, and
each composed Of rich and poor, native and
foreignborn, informed and ignorant
! Doubtless, the great mass, OF whatever
party, sincerely desire the public welfare;
doubtless, rogues and libertines are to be
found in the ranks of each of the great par,
{ Ties. Bat point wherever you please to an
election district which you will pronounce
II morally rotten-uiven up in rreat part to