The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-06-25
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- The Hon. r. w. THOMPSON, OF
Terre Haute, spoke at the recent meol-
ing OF his old friends OF the protection
Of American Industry. al Philadrlphia.
His speech was enthusiastically recciv
cd by the audience. He said the prin~
ciPle Of protection was The basis on
which to build UP national party
There was no other party wi b which he !
was willing to unite.
In such a cause am willing TO enter
The ranks as private soldier, to bear he
brnLt and pcri's of the baIile amid the
rank and file, and TO be shot down, il
need be upon he butte f..ld
Now Congress has adjourned. 1t has
expended vast sums from lis treasury,
but nh mnre perhaps than Was necessary
What we had year ago is gone, aud
twenty millions besides borrowed, with
a prospect that before he ead of the
wear $4,000, 900 more " II be req uired
Are you, {, How citizens, 10 bear all this
depletion, AMI sill to have your manu-
factur crushed; your looms condemned
TO enforced idleness; your furnace Fl Is
ext;nguished; your implements un"m
p'oyed. and your energies crippled?
live in the prairics Of the West. take
no part in your local affairs. With you
our people can only sympa:hsc, and
this, be assured, we do with our entire
hearts. But, as for me, would sup
port no man for any Office, no matter
wha, may be his parizanship; NJ mat
ter what may be his claims TO your con-
fl .ence; unless first, and in front of all,
he IL The hearty advocate of protection
to home industry. (Vocierons applause.)
We, in the prairies Of the West, feel the
need Of protection. But boy much
more must you feel il, when eighty If
every hundred your iron works are
closed ard when so many Of your looms
and spindes are rusting from lack Of
employment.
care not what you may be in party
name; in party proclivitics-whrther
your re Federalist, Democrat or Aneri
can, if you 90 for protection, III go with
you.
But, again, though You may take the
most sacred political name. though you
even call yourself by the once honored
name Of an old line, Henry Clay whig
unless protected in Tie cardinal point in
your polilisa faith, / turn my back upon
you. (Cries of "G ood-thars our doc.
,rine!') Do you often think that we
are building railroads of foreign iron
uv,r The earth whose bowels team with
minere ores? OF course you have
But there is another idea wish to give
4 you. Did it ever occur to you that
every ton of pig iron imported into this
Country contains twenty TO thirty days
Of imported labor! am not Az FAT
as to he am ,unt of time required IL
manufacture iron; but did you never re
alize that for every tou.f raIroad iron
brought to this country. is brought also
from thirty to forty days OF foreign la
Dor! Aud have you yet reflected that
these forty days OF labor is so much EN-
ploy IN ut OF which the American opera
tivr is literally robbed! Now estimate
all the foreign ion that has been i'm
ported, aud think how many days OF for
eign labor are imported with it. to rob
US At the Expense OF the pauper labor in
England. Think not tina, would speak
disparaaingly OF this Labor because it j,
paup%r. NJ! let The EnSliSh operative
il he please, come here and share our
protcction with US. Ii thcro are a
such operatives here to night, to the il
required work which they perform, %
the manner in which their ambition il
reprcssed, and Of the fractional portion
which they receive for Whit their ;oi
should Justly c,mmaDd. | want 10 SCI
the men of this country paid fair sun
for their labor, aud furnished with mo
tive fer their labor. aud furnished with
motive Tor the exercise ofindus,rial an,
J inventive powers, Of which they now
, possess none.