The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-01-21

For he Gazette.
'JaAisisss Tariff Essential to = Hatisn's
Prosperity.
IcoRcLupxD.
And is it not notorious fact that when
ur government has endeayored to throw
protecting arm about our infant manutac-
oriss, that English capitalists have sent
arge quantities of goods to be sold in our
market much below thei value, for the ex.
,ressive purpose oil Gripping ours in their in.
sney. Arguing rom a just data that they
,ouid we'll afford to sell one year without
profit, that by so doing they would force
,nrs from the market, and break down our
infant establishments. And the conse-
3asnce would be, they would have no rival
for years TO come, and their extra prof, |
would more than compensate for one years /
sale with bare cost. Notwithstanding our |
government has pursued vascilating |
course, with regard TO our manufacturing |
interest, vet they have struggled on through
many difficulties until some OF them DEFY
foreign competition, whilst others at times
have hardly the breath OF lite remaining
And it is owing only to The indetaiigaoie
energy and perseverance, Ia the American
character. combined with ingenuity, sur
passing any other nation on TIE inhaoitahie
globe, that they have been ensh.ad to
encounter the hostility OF our government
combined with adverse foreign influence.
1--we have prospered as nation under
| such adverse circumstances to what height
OF greatness would We not have arrived to
| under more favorable auspices! We need
| only to look to our mother country for
definite answer. Probably there is ne ma
ton tina, has ever thrown the protecting
arm of government around their manutacto-
ring and agricultural interests equal TO Eng
| land, and she has bsen amply compensated,
by being able to assume the proud appelia.
| tion that .Bri,ania rules the waves as we'll
as maintains a proud pre-, eminence among
the Kingdoms OF Europe.
Our manufacturing interests have two
serious difficulties to encounter, in contact
with Great Britain-the low price OF labor,
and the less rates of interest in favor OF the
latter, which are in some measure lessen
ing every year. But a. long as we have
such 4 vast unsettled domain, labor here
must be more difficult to be obtained thar
in Europe. And it Stands US In hand 4
guard our own interest to that extent, tha
, under all circumstances We may be ia de
! pendent of our transatlantic neighbors, 81
much 90, ii they do not want our surplus
produce At remuneraing prices, that We n
turn can dispense with their surplus goods
, without Inconvenience.
The Democratic party have contendec
that what the Wings called ''Iudieious tar
iff,n if carried into effect, would be fostering
f manufacturing aristocracy ineonsisten
/ with our free institutions.
{ should like to know if the field is no
equally open to the North, South, East ant
West! And If il has not been fairly de
9 monssrated that If one branch Of business
|. lie more lucrative than another, that tn
most profitable will be pursued with un
!, ninching energy and perseverance, that vii
I soon reduce ii BY competition with most Q
!. the ordinary avocations oil lie. And thini
e | i, might Sc safely relied on as basis t
J. erect superstructure Tor our future great
ness, that If Congress would pursue pre-
tecting policy for term OF years sufficient
q IL long to fairly test the question in relation
i. 10 every branch Of industry, that has ten
/ dekcy to develop our resources, the time
not TAR distant when We would become IN
most ndependent nation in every resPse
e on the habitable globe. Andlhe consume
= would be enabled to procure the necessa
|. ries OF life on better terms, considering hi
ability TO pay, than when We were pursuln
more Yascilating policy. And would nc
o the South be equally benefited by polio
is tina, had tendency to enrich the ire
Il States, that they have so Enormously con
!. demned.
There have been times when the siaPl
i productions Of the Souih--cotton, sugar
Is Nc.-haye not remunerated the produce
d Tor his toll. And has il not been when
general prostrston of business, accompanie
By financial distress, spreading as dar
pail over the energies of the nation, oeea
U stoned in great measure by vast Nigh
d be called the want OF q "judicious tariff. =
ri Wool and iron manufactures are unique:
tionably among those that call for The pro
tecting hand OF government. And will eli
v still remain recreant to her trust, and sui1e
l. almost untold millions to depart our shore
e yearly, when by "iudicious tarin ou
;. specie might be kept at home to degelo
= our own resourcesl And does Il not greai
- ly detract from the wisdom OF those VIII
s. are continually Ihwarting these measure:
j. that has a tendency TO ral.e Us TO Pre-emil
. ence among the nations Of the earth!
As long az we have got unoccupied, sell
y producing, grassng lands at the West, in
wiling the woolgrower TO cover them witt
3 vast Aocks Of sheep and coal fields and iron
s ore, unsurpassed in qantity and quality
/ does il not argue volumes against the wis
dom of those who advocate the doctrine
that it is more for our interest to be Deepen
dent on ether nations for those indispensi
Bile articles that are yearly draining US Q
our precious metals!
II And do not British statesmen look uPol
# our suicidal policy with pleasure, and laug
| in their sleeve that the Democratic part
has succeeded SO long in humbugiug In
y nation, greatly to the advantage of "OS
;, England
b And is il not surprising that there shout
;. be Ganted in our national councils degre
OF wisdom and magnanimity suffcienr Il
raise US above coming in contact " til Rus
sian seridom in our agricultural products
: in the ports OF Europe, all for the wan, CT
I "judicious tariff"
A FARMER.
Davenport, jan, 1857.