Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-01-14

Europe, he is paid for his goods in a curren
cy less valuable than that paid to his foreign
competitor. As a necessary result, the home
fabric IS driven from the market, AID the
home manu- facturer ruined. The operation
OF these causes, stipulated by low duties, is
sufficient to destroy the industrial energies
of any people.
With these facts before us, it is no matter
OF surprise that our mills, factories and fur.
naces have been closed, and thousands OF
honest laborers thrown out of employment
that commerce has scarcely an existence
that bankruptcy and ruin are around US, and
our general prosperity paralyzed. To avoid
these disasters, to which we have been peri
odically exposed, reform not only in our
system of banking, but in our revenue laws
becomes Indispensable.
If the principle of the act of 1S42 had
been preseryed-eVen if its rate of duties
had been reduced-our specie, by millions
would not have gone into foreign Golfers to
build up and sustain the foreign manufac-
turer; home industry would be prosperous,
and the cry We want work." issuing from
thousand lips in our large cities and man.
ufacturing districts, would not now be
heard; nor would a foreign debt of nearly
five hundred millions of dollars exist, to
startle and alarm US. That system that
practically prefers foreign to home labor
that keeps our workshops in Europe, instead
OF building and supporting them here that
takes our gold to pay the wages of British
laborer, whilst our own are without employ
ment and without bread that fills the
country with foreign merchandise, to the
exclusion of the home fabric that lays the
British rail upon the road through our iron
districts, and by our rolling mills, whilst
they are silent and deserted, and that in
vltes to speculation and extra vagance. is at
war with every true American interest, and
should be at once abandoned.
n period of low duties has always been
marked by excessive importations large ex-
ports of specie over trading; bank expan-
sions and suspensions, and financial and
commercial reyulsions. Under the protec
tive policy, these peculiar and startling
characteristics Of free trade have nil been
wanting. The history of the country es-
tablishes these facts. A well regulated
tariff, adj usted to protect the productive in
dustry of the country, is not only the true
policy OF the government, but is a better
regulator of the currency, and more GER
tam security against bank expansions, than
any system ot pains and penalties yet de-
vlsed for the control of banking institutions
or the operations Of capital. To this we
should return. Pennsylvania is yet true to
her ancient and long cherished convictions
Of It's pr0priety and necessity. She may
have been misled Political and partizan
pressure may have forced from her true po-
sltion. This was her misfortune, not her
fault. She sees and feels the wrong, and
with an emphasis, intensified by her inju'
ries, will demand redress protection for
nd
her people.
The agricultural interests OF the country
should ever be fnstered and ssutaued by
the State. They are first in necessity aud
usefulness, and Constitute the basis OF State
and National prosperity. Upon their pro-
gress and development depend the success
of our mechanical, manufacturing an com
mercal interests.
Agriculture, in its varied and multiplied
relations, is the unfaiiing source OF national
wealth, and to its promotion all should con-
tribute. individual enterprise and liberali
ty, State and county associations, have done
much to advance this important branch Of
productive industry have collected and cir
culated much valuable information and en-
couraged by their honorable exertions, the
progress of scientific and practical agricul-
ture. Science and art have nobly proffered
their aid--the State should not Withhold her
encouragement and support
| have heretofore recommended the estab-
lishment of an agricultural bureau, in con-
nection with some one of the State depart
ments, to give efficiency to the collection and
diffusion of useful knowledge on this subject.
Impressed with the necessity and usefulness
of such bureau, again earnestly recon-
mend it to your favorable consideration.
The Farmers High School of Pennsylya-
MA" an Institution incorporated by the Leg
islature of 1855, is entitled to the especial
attention of the friends of agriculture. Ia
the teachings of this institution, the scienti'
fc and the practical are united and whilst
the art of farming, and all that pertains to
the management, business and work of a
farm, will be the subject of instruction, the
natural sciences, in their relation and april
cation to practical agriculture, will also be
taught. The student of the institution will
be enabled to test, in his daily occupation,
the truth and value of the knowledge COM
munieated.
Much of the land connected with the
school has been successfully cultivated du-
ring the past year. Orchards of every yari-
ETY. of fruit, and hedges, have been planted
and many valuable improvements made
double storied barn, large and convenient
as also the farmers house and part of the
out buildings, have been erected and occu
pied.
From the report of the trustees we Learn
that "a contract has been made for the cree
ton of an edifce calculated for the residence
of professors, lecture halls, and dormitorie'
for students, to be built of stone, tour stories
high, two hundred and thirty-three feet il
front, with wings, and to cost fifty five thou
sand dollars. This building is already il
progress, and it is hoped that part of j
may be put under roof and be so far com
pleted as to enable the board to make ar
rangements to receive a few students bofor
the elose Of the current year" The Legis
/ lature, at their last session, appropriate
fifty thousand dollars to this institution, one
4 half of which has been paid; the remainin
twenty five thousand dollars to be paid o.
condition that an equal sum be realize