Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-10-08
WHOLE NO. 1.04O


/ are blessed as nation beyond all others Will
iron mines, We have purchased our iron abroad
and closed our tonndries. Notwithstanding
our lllimitable resources for raising and manu-.
featuring wool, we have bought abroad, and
smut up our woolen tactuTies. We have ne.
elected utterly the manufacture Of linens, silks
ana various other national staples, and run in
deDt ingloriously abroad for them. The great
gold miner of all the nations, we have run in
debt to England for the means to grade 0ur
railroads and buy the iron. We have done
with our iron and wool as we formerly did with
our cotton allowed England to manufacture
them Ter us, and paid her hor own price. I'm
questlopdby, considering her lights, there is
no eoultry so stupid as the United States.--
Everything that France, England and Germa-
ny, can exclude, they do exclude, and look to
protection for prosperity. We have reversed
inns. Every bit OF Protection that we have
mas been gained through the fire. We have
never had Protection tour years heartily at a
tlne. lt lasted, amid the feroeious yells of the
majority of the Southern States, aided by the
slaln Democracy of the North from 1928
, to 1882, and from 1912 to ls46. No chapter
: lh history is more magnificent than the re-
r suisa OF policy during those years. Ii can
1 pe proven that every article protected was re-
dnced IN price, and that individual and natl
/ onai Indebtedness was largely reduced or wip-
eu out during the tariff years, and that our for
eign commerce was increased by the ineyita.
D!e laws OF general national prosperity. But
the rule-or-rnin doctrine OF the Southern plan
tatlon Democrats nominated over all facts,
over all warnings. The operations OF the Pro,
iectiYe Iarlh, not destroyed necessarily at the
instant the Free Trade Tariff was adOpted were
WIN degree ofdesperate ignorance or efffon-
terry that we did not know how to characterize,
assumed as part and parcel of the workings of
the latter by Mr. Walker. Hence MIR. Walker
CODY adopted the struggles. of the dying giant
| oil Protection for the iniantine kicks OF the
| plgmy Of Free Trade Such argument was of
| course all-snflicient for the Democracy. The
| grant being dead, however, and even the
| splendid accident OF the gold discoveries hav-
ing lalled to stop the gap, we finally have the
result.
or course, there will be any amount OF non
sense talked against extrayagance, speculation,
Waii street, and SO forth. The bankruptcies
OF the day, the stoppage of specie payments,
the destruction of manufactures the arrest OF
snip building, the debts to England-say fonr
hnndred miilions--each and all grow out OF
cause.-The abrogaton of the Tariff of 1912,
largely due to Mr.. Secretary Walker, person
al and political bankrupt himself, u man de-
nounced by some of his former associates as a
lit Fellow to Mayor Wood, and indeed alto
gether worthy of his party. To such men, hay
ing nothing to lose, and everything to gain by
commercial chaos, aided by politicians OF the
McDuffe school, who "preferred an alliance
with Manchester to one with Lowell,' and the
ignorant and illiterate foreign vote chiefly of
the North, we are indebted for the present |
Wretched condition of affairs.
Let 1t not be said that the storm is light, and |
Will soon blow over. Men considered preemi-
nentiy solid in the mercantile world, whose /
names are proverbial for vast transactions do |
not lightly fail. Banks old as the National |
Honiederacy do not jocularly shut their doors
ana refuse specie payments for their notes. =
Snch a Sanl Of Tarsus AS Duff Green who led |
the van uEder Gen. Jackson's Administration
against the Taritf-doing the worst work of
South Carolina in the best mannere-does not
now for sheer wlim pretend to behold light
on the road to Damascus, and become accor-
dinghy chief apostle for the protection of our
great national production--iron-and for the
dellyerance Of our country from the bondage
| OF British free trade saying that future ruin
| as well 90 present. ID inseparable from the
I growing interest which we pay for debts CON
| tracted for the staple which we should encour-
age and produce at home.
| In regard to Protective Tariff, we are in no
| hurry. We learn that the leading men of |
Philadelphia, especially the Hon. Joseph r.
Chandler, are doing their best in correspon-
dcnce with the Protectionists and Southern
eX-Whigs; to open the eyes Of politicians to
the necessity of coming to the rescue and Civ
ing us the old tiag-glorious and tattered-of
1872. 30 be 1t. But we choose to bide our
time. We believe that this country has to be
scourged with many stripes before she learns
wisdom. Experience is the only thing that
teaches her. The new millions Of voters born
or lately imported have, unfortunately, no
memory of 1928 or 1912, when the tariffs made
themselyeS-w some Southern States Join
ed some Northern and changed our fatal poll
cy. We must, therefore, not endeavor to has
ten a change. When it does come, let it be
through the conviction Of the country, grow
ing out of the knowledge which the great la
boring classes have acquired that Free Trade
with England is impossible, and that Pr0tec-
tion to native industry is indispensable to the
veal and the wages of Tie working num-
when we do have tariff, let it be passed, not
as a transient measure, but under the belief
that it should last indefinitely up to the time
that it viviies and enables every branch of ma
tional industry, and places our people beyond
the tux and refluX of European commercial
aud industrial crisis, pnd prevents them, by
laws OF politico-ecpnomical science, from run
ming in debt abroad and being eaten up with
usury at homc.-N. Y. Tribune.
ARTIFICIAL GIRLs.--The adventurous edi.
tor of the Horizon [Wis.) Argus, Z" lets on''
about the girls of the present day, in man
ner we think it would be danger Gus TOR editors
generally to initiate. One Of our exchanges
copies the article, but evidently with fear and
trembling. AS we have NO more hair on our
head than ig useful and necessary, we can not
run the risk OF losing part of it by publishing
the whole article. Accordingly We extract
but single paragraph, and that with the peace
offering remark that, whatever may be the ma
ture of the girls of Horizon and its vicinity, all
the girls hereabouts are not as our contemp
rary describes
The girls Of hc Present Day." We are I
sorry to see the girl of the present day have
sncl tendency to utter worthlessness -
growing up anxious to become more
fashionable than good, more anxious
to cultivate their heels than their heads,
and to encircle their legs with whalebone rath-
or than the brow with wreaths Of love, kind
ness and beauty. As a general thing, those
who are handsome think they are lovely. Far
from it. When We, years gone, took one to be
Mrs. p, girls We're girls 1t was finn tC go a
dozen miles afopt with mnd knee deep to see
them, as yOu wese sure TO find the clear girls
nature instead OF art. But now it is differ |
ent The dentist Supplies the teeth, Uncle
Ma" the cotton, sornO Optician the eyes, and |