Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-01-01

1aDor OF Eur Pc ne Is pau LOT MS p"ouS III
currency less valuable than that paid TO his
foreign competitor. As a necessary result
the home fabric is driven from the market,
and the home manufacturer ruined. The
operation of these causes, stimulated 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 laborcrs thrown out Of employment (;
that commerce has scarcely an existence,
that bankruptcy and ruin are around us, and
our general property paralyzed. To avoid
these disasters, to which We have been peri
odically exposed, reform not only in our sys-
TEN of banking, but in our revenue laws, be-
comes indispensable.
If the principle of the act Of 1912 had
been preserved - 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 '.wc want work, y issuing from a
thousand lips, in our large cities and manu-
featuring districts, would not now be heard
nor would a foreign debt of nearly five hun
dred millions of dollars exist to startle and
alarm us. That system that practically pre-
fers foreign to Lo,pe labor,-that keeps our
workshops in Europe, instead of building and
supporting them here--that takes our gold to
pay the wages Of the British laborer. whilst
our own are without employment and without
bread,-that fills the country with foreign
merchandise to the exclusion of the home
iabric.-that LAYS the British rail upon the
road through our iron districts and by our
rolling mills, whilst they are silent and de-
serted, and that invites TO speculation and
extravaganza, i at war with every true
American interest and should be at once
abandoned
\ period of low duties has always been
marked by excessive importatiOns,-largee ex-
ports Of spccie-ovcrtrlding- eXpan-
siunS and suspensions. and financial and com
mercial revulsiOns Under the protective
pOiicv THESE p-ruiiaf ur'i startling character
isticS of free trade have all been wanting.
The history of the country establishes these
facts. \ well regulated tariff, adjusted to
protect the productive industry of the cOun-
try. is not only the true policy of the Gov
ernmcnt, but is a better regulator Of the
currency. and more certain security against
bank expansions, than any system of pains
and penalties vet devised for the control of
banking institutions, or the operations of
capital. To this we should return. Penn
sylvania is vet true to her ancient and long
cherished convictions Of its propriety and
necessity. She may have been misled.
Political and partizan pressure may have
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.,ne agr,cnunra, lntaresJs t,i me conntrTi
sbopld ever be fostered and sustained hy the
State They are first in necessity and use-
tulness. and constitute the basis of State and
National prosuerity. Tpon their progress
ard daveInnment drnend the success of our
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Ia'-;sIo.,,ra in 1s55 is ar.itIeJ 10 tho osno-
c;,G ,tter,io, of the friends of .cricuI,nro
In tbe tcacbinrs of This institution thc Sci
cntif;c and ,ba nr,ct;c,I arr. united. arJ yb;Is,
the art Of f,rrpinc and all that ner,oins 70 tb,.
management, business and work of a farm.