The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-07-07
Protection.


We bster. The present leaders, nov de-
nominated sold fogies," were, in reality,
merely the grooms Of the great " hig lea
ders and their masters being dead AID
gone, they have brought the old war.hor.e
out Of the stable and mounted him, precise.
iy AZ children do hobby horses; and they
huzza, and cut slash with their toy swords,
and blow their little tin Irumpets, aud
plunge their rowels in the flanks of the an
tiquated hobby, as their captains used to
do when there was something to fight for
But now (says the Monitor) he mann.
:actnrers Of the Lawrence and 81 one kidney,
il is well understoo merely desire monopo
lies as lobby spcculations, and there ale not
more than $50 of them, all told. They
will furnish so many millions 10 defray the
! expenses Of campaigi, for an equivalent
of no many tens of millions afterwards.
Protection! 1t is in ignominious word
We cnn protect ourselves. The LonG.on
Times is worked on an American press -
| American llcomoti, es whistle over the Eu-
ropean railroads; and Morse's telegraph
speaHs frain nation 10 nation, throughout
the ci,ilzed world. Protection Let any
man sit down in his own house and call hi,
family aiouud him. Let him examine and
enquire what il is needs protection. his
| cloth coat and h;s wife's silk dress are Sf
foreign manufacture are taxed-bnt
there are no silk and cloth mills in America
His tea and coffee are imported-but we
could n"t produce th,m it the duty was
raised one huadrcd per cent. Nearly erery-
thing else in his house is The product Of A mer-
icdn industry Ask our merchants if they
desire a high tariff il they b, no. .old
| ingies," like the simple arooms of the old
""r-h"rs-. they will frankly tell ,"u no /!
They know what fleet high prices nave mp.
| on tue consumer. The poor wouid trr il ;
aud all for the beach; OF tn, 36J monopo.
| lists!
TIE Quix"tical old r.gy" gronms had
better lead The oi' Whig 30 r>c back INTO
tho stable ard fc. him w.ril. TINT hi, .ife
u''. !. 3, lnr-..' Coz rl'" ~ J e. ,,cr cird
their nast"rs Us TIM. - ,r,, -: g,nr
>ih;e for if ANY f.ss 10, ~ de ,.cs his ,ar
cass, It MAY rXc.;r the .itrui,rr # he yo.i'
men If The country Ia The suD"ci, and 0Hrtter
mode o} raising rerenue may BE- tried
There ma! be something significant in 'hc
following ra"agr iphS, c"piri fruIn the Coi-
umbus, Ga. Crne~ Stone
IL will he rctn.lrclr.l tat II" man paws
any thing 4" ili' -npro 0i the z, cram, 20,
except what he pNN un tir f,Te'gu !uu =
which me consumes. The III ~ wiIu 'rr
millions OF prnp"rt aui Wu"> ia >hLrr
is -iNty thou>a' d dollar, must >tcunsu,nr thr,r
hundred Thousand d liars wort, III Iur,i.i,
goods ~ cost, before he can ia, Ia. n are
| ;n.r ". he pays thr., hundrei thou. al
Hnllar- Tor 'he goods aud sixt thou. al
t"llars far d ties. We all knnw hal thi, j,
Impossible. even with the wild 1T rxtr i,
gance. The man with 500 uf prop ,rIv
PAYS his sh re when he has con uuIrd = 3
ut f"r' ign I""ds-tuIt Is. nc pt. IS t"r
hI- goods and Co cents the duiir,. Tnls,
too. we all know, Is practically impossible,
rvrm with the most niggardIy economy
In this calculation We hav. assumed 20 PER
cent. ~ the rate ut duty.
Suppose the man with SlOOnO 900 OF
u
goods he pays 5000 of duties To the
support Of the government, which i, just
two cents on every 800 uf his property
Suppose man with $IOO Of property con.
| sumes 500 Of foreign goods, he paws 10
the support Of the government $40. which
is 1000 cents on the 500 Of his property
ln other words, the man v ilh SiOU Uf pro
perty pays just 900 times as mach, 10 pro.
portion to his property, this man with
10000 600.
Ii may be said that this ia an extreme
ease, but il is not 40. IL does not present
! the case even in its truth. There are thou-
sands upon thousands of men in the coun
try who have families, and the value of
whose property does not exceed 100 dol
lars, who are compelled TO consume mora
than 100 dollars of foreign goods, while the
| Instances are very rare in which the con
sumption OF one man, no matter how " cul
thy, reaches $4,000. But more thar this,
there are thousands of young men aud
/ young women without dollar OF property,
dependent npon their own exertions for sup
port, and not unfreQneEtly with "lhr:s de-
pendent upon them, who are compelled TO
| consume Target, Of foreign gonds. and con.
| sequenily to contribute largely out Of their
scanty means TO the government.
A system whi'h oi Necessity poses the
bnrthen Of supporting the government up
on the labor instead of the property Of the
| country, is 80 manifesty, glarlngly and
meanly unjust that no right minded man
can come To any other conclusion than tbpt
ii ought to be abolished. No man who
has the shghIes; regard for Justice will de-.
sire To pay less than his fair proportion To
the support Of the government, for III,
plain reason that il must imapse upon some
man more than his just share.
Sons of Temperance.