Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-11-04

duStry, than II Is TO supply ourselves III the
same way with flour, sugar, and gold Why
should it not he as economical to manufacture
; our own cotton, wool, iron, and gold, as it is
to manufacture our own furniture, wooden
clocks, and ships! If mining and manufac-
lures generally were not profitable in Eng
land, they would not be prosecuted there
If they are profitable there they would be
profitable here.
You reply that manufacturing labor is
cheaper there. Yes, because you leave it
there. If you offer inducements. it will come
here just us freely as agricultural labor now
comes. The ocean is reduced to II ferry. If
you must depend on foreign skill for fabrics.
pray You bring that skill here, where YOU
can sustain it with greater economy.
The advocates of dependence on foreign
manufactures tell us that it is as we'll to sell
gold and buy iron, a. it would be to sell iron
and buy gold reply: |. That to the cX-
tent Of our own necessary consumption. hay
ing cxhaustlrss resources, and adequate in
dustry or ability to procure it, we ought to
buy neither, .. When Bpulton the a.~ociatr
0i the great Watt. showed his iron lnanufac-
tory he said, - sell here, what all men are
anxious to buy-Powcr." 1t has been proved
that a nation may sell gold without
gaining power, as many II nation has bought
iron without securing it. But it is clear
that the nation that makes its own iron Gre
atcs its own power.
1t seems to be understood bv the advocates
of foreign manufacture hero. that only those
branches anguish, which have not sufficient
vigor to be brought to maturity, bv
never 50 much protection. This is oI-
posed to the experience of all man
kind. There is not in France or in England.
Il successful culture or manufacture. that has
not been made 50 by the application of ma
tlonal protection and patronage. The manu-
facturcrS of England are sustained, even now
10y the sacrifice Of agricultural labor there
The decline oi agriculture is proved by rap
idly increasing emigration from the British
Islands What England calls free trade. is
indeed Il new form OF protection. but it is pro-
lection nevertheless. She finds it equally eff
fectiye and expensive. British commerce and
British manufactures do indeed flourish. but
British Empire declines. Tho decline is seen
in the tamcncss of England now towards
Russia, France, and our own country, com
pared with the different attitude she main
tanned against all offending Powers, in the age
Of the elder Pitt and the younger Pitt.
1t Is insisted. however. that encouragement
yielded to the industry of one class of citizens.
Is partial and injurious to that of Others
lhis cannot be III any just sense true. since
the prosperity and vigor of each class depends
IN great degree ON the prosperity and vigor
of all the industrial classes. But all cx-
pericncc shows, that if Il Government do not
favor domestic enterprise, its negative pol
icy will benefit some foreign monopoly, which
OF all class legislation is the most injurious
and least cXcuSahlc.
Once more it is said that the present system
must be right, because predictions of disas-
tcrS, that should result from it, have been
falsihed. do not dwell ON the signs, which
seem now to portrnd II fearful tulfmcnt, new
theless of those ,redictions. Let it suffice to
say that 1t is Il. common an error. to look
prcmaturely for re blghtS which must fol-
low erroneous GU urc, ;IS it is to expect pre-
cociouS fruits from that which is iudiciouS.-
This nation is youthful and vigorous. It
cannot now suilr long and deeply from any
cause, iOr 1t has great rCcurcratlyc energies.
1t Is not destined to an Immediate fall, or
even to early decline. 1t is the part of Wis
dom. nevertheless, not to try how much of
erroneous administration 1t can bear, but to
adapt our policy always 50 as to favor the
most complete and lasting success Of the Re
public,
Gentlemen of the Institute, | refrain from
discussing the details of policy. Clrcumstan-
ceS are Fastening necessity Tor an eXamln'-
ton OF them, IN another place, where action
follows debate aud is effective. shall not be
absent or idle there But | will not attempt to
deIude either myself or you into the belief that
the opinions have expressed, which trust in
some degree correspond with your own, will
soon become fully engrated into the policy OF
the Gov crnrlent.
All that we can expect from the Government
is some occasional and partial modification of
It's financial policy, so as to favor the success OF
the efforts OF the friends Of home industry III
establishing 1t on safe basis without the im-
mediate and direct aid of Congress And this
will be sufficient. 1t is not yet forty years
= since New York applied in vain to the United
States to construct the Erie Canal which was
acknowledged to be the incipient measure IN Il
system OF Internal improvements to be coeXten-
= sVe with the Republic. Now, not only that
canal has been built, but the whole system Is
IN IL train OF accomplishment, although Congress
has not only never adopted, but has almost con
stanty repndlated it. Private and corporate
enterprise, suSrned by the States has worked
out what the Federal Government has refused
10 undertake. The same agencies VIII eSlab-
llsh the American system. Capital, labor, sci
ence, skill, are augmrnring here. Power Is
daily becoming cheaper, and consumption more
, extensive. New Hampshire, MASSACHUSETTS,
i Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New
: York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
= MARYLAND, and Ohio, have become manufacture
ing States. The advantages resulting from
f that policy are Indicated not more by the uni
a versa improvement of the agricultural districts
t in these States, than by the prosperity and
Y growth of their town and cities. Here art
. Boston, Lowell, Lawrence, Springfield, lroyl
: dcnce New Haven. Rutland Bennington, New
= York, Albany, Troy, Rochester aud Buli'lo
t Philadelphia and PittSburg, Newark and Patcr
- son, W llmlngton and Bllumore, Cnclnnatl anc
Cleveland, contrast with them the towns ana
4 cities of those States, which practically adhere
= to the policy OF employing foreign industry, ant
= you see plainly the result Of error. That con
t lrasl eXcireS inquiry. and inquiry will 20 ON
until it shall CORE, the great error, and intro
duce universal emulation.
e Persevere then, gentlemen of the Institute
, While you are represented as Checking the
, rising greatness of the nation, YOU, and only
1 you, by lifting Labor to It's rlghtul rank, are
t elevatlng the Republic to true and lasting IN
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