Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-09-23
Enr TIE Gnzetfe


sical rhodomontade, attempting to create the
impression that the embarrassed state of our
country, the result of the existing low tariff,
is chargeable to the Opposition and not to the
Democratic party. while everybody knews
that incidental protection, or in other words
free trade, has been adopted as their doctrine,
which they have pertinaciously carried out
whenever that party has been in the ascen-
dancy, from the earliest history of our gov
ernment. At the present time, we appear to
be divided into two great interests or parties,
the one advocating protective tariff sufficient
to give assurance to our capitalists and our
laboring men that their investments and their
labor shall not be sacrificed and stricken down
by the free importation of the products Of a
foreign country; while the other party contend
that protection shall be afforded to the bust
ness and industrial portion Of our common
country only SO far as the Government of
these United States shall require that eighty
millions of dollars shall be raised as revenue
for the support of the oficeholders.
The South having but little iron and coal
are in favor of free trade, as they do no not
produce, but purchase what they want; while
the North having these articles in abundance,
ask for protection in order that we may man
ufacture our own iron, and thereby use our
own capital and afford employment to our
own citizens and at the same time develop
our greatest wealth that now lies hidden in
the bowels of our native Hills. This is espe
cially our position in Pennsylvania and both
reason and experience teach US that with low
duties on foreign iron, our capitalists cannot
manufacture that article unless our laboring
men are ground down to level with the pau
Just turn TO our idle furnaces and workshops
They speak more eloquently in their silence
than u Webster or a Clay in their palmiest
days could have done. A protective tariff is
50 clearly the interest Of Pennsylvania that
we should think every man, woman and child
within her limits would be in favor Of this
measure. The question naturally arises. why
is it not so The reason is obvious: the pol
iticians Of the South having out-generaled
those of the North have obtained the balance
three Presidents in succession, and through
these Democratic Presidents the South have
dictated terms to the politicians Of the North.
1t is well known shat many, very many as
piring politicians, in order to obtain favor and
patronage from the General Government, are
willing to sacrifice the good Of their country
for individual promotion. Democratic politi-
clans of the North (among whom are not a
few editors) must then work for the interests
of the South, and the burdens imposed on
them by their Southern masters are neither
few nor light They must subscribe to every
radical doctrine proclaimed hy the Washing
ten Union and call it all Democratic-thoy
must say it is right to carry slavery into every
State and Territory in the Union-they must
say it is anti democratic to impose protec-
tive duty on any article Of domestic manu-
facture that cannot be produced in the South
and the iron interest is thus doomed to take
care Of itself they must say that the whole
Lecompton swindle is just as Holy Writ be
side endorsing every other measure that the
South chose to adopt. If they become weak
in the knees" or falter in the adoption Of any
one Southern dogma, they are informed that
they need not expect one iota Of Executive
patronage. All must be published by Dem
ocratic editors as righteous doctrine politi-
clans must proclaim the same from the stump;
pubic opinion must be thus manufactured.
We in Pennsylvania must be taught that 1t is
better for US to pay a cents per lb. for iron
of foreign manufacture than cents for a
better article of domestic manufacture by
which one dollar paid for iron made by our
own hands will so circulate in our midst as to
paw at least twenty dollars Of debt before we
lose sight of it. All this has been imposed
upon the Democracy of Pennsylvania as their
unconditional duty, and right well have they
come up to the standard. They have some
times taught US that white is black, and again
they have taught US that black is white, as
the case may be, and under the specious guise
that all is Democratic we have swallowed it
blind"
1t is within the recollection of many that
in the year 1910 our common country was
suffering from Democratic misrule, and we
saw and felt just such suffering among our
industrial classes in every department as we
now experience. The people resolved with
common consent to have change, and with
one fell swoop hurled Martin Van Buren, and
his satellites from the white house and elected
the brave Harrison Whig President and a
E Congress of like complexion. We say, at this
period our furnaces were they now are,
idle-the laboring part of our community
wandering from post to pillar in vain, in
search of work, with families at home crying
far hrnnd=and cur currency 50 deranged and