The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-08-24


THE TARIrF.-At recent Democratic
convention in one Of the districts of Maine,
70 nominate candidate for Congress, reso-
buttons were adopted recommending a revis-
ION Of the tariff to give protection to home
labor and home interests In the First Con-
gressional District of New Jersey, the DEM
ocrats held a meeting ON "Wednesday last, to
nominate candidate for Congress and after
selecting Judge Walker, of Atlantic county,
the meeting passed resolution recommend
ing ia nodifcaticn of the tariff, SO as to
afford protection to the (now depressed iron,
glass, and other manufacturing interests" :
Hon. William Montgomery, the nominee OF
Democrats in the Washington district OF
Pennsylvania, in a circular addressed to the
people of his district says: "On the sub
ject of tariff, whilst am not the advocate
of protection for the mere sake of protec-
ton but am the devoted friend of reve-
nue. tariff, with duties so arranged as to wise
" and judiciously discriminate in favor Of
our own productions and manufactures, and
thus incidentally foster and encourage their
growth and prosperity, and shield them
from the injurious consequences OF free
competition with the chief products and
labor of other lands. ! regard the reduction
of the duties on wool and iron by the tariff
act of 1857, as unwise, impolitic, and highly
prciudieial to Pennsylvania interests.
Col. Forney, of the Philadelphia Press,
an old and consistent Democrat, in an article
upon the evils of the times and the rene
dies. refers TO revision Of the tariff and
adequate protection of home labor as the
cure for the present depressed state Of home
industry. He says Many look hopefully
for aid from a revision of the tariff. We
hope it will be granted as speedily as posi-
bic. The present tariff is a miserable affair
1t was constructed in indecent haste, and
without proper examination. If the scale
of duties had been nothing more than the
price of an assortment of old store goods, it
could not have been arranged with less
statesmanlike consideration than was dis
played in forming the tariff of 1857. 1t
has failed as revenue measure, and is of ne
real value for purposes of protection. The
sooner it is abolished and superior one
substituted in its place, the better. We have
plenty of capital lying idle in the country.
1t will eagerly seek employment on the res
toration of confidence. If judicious tariff
law is enacted it will help greatly to inspire
buoyancy and hopefulness, and we trust that
Congress will make the experiment as
soon as possible"
There are indications everywhere that
the Eastern Democrats are ready to support
a revision of the tariff for the protection of
home labor; and in this good work the
Western Democracy will join them. The
opposition party of the North and West
have always been tariffites, and there is now
prospect that the measure may be intro
duced at the next session freed from party
schemes and prejudices and carried by the
united interests of the East and West.
The extension Of manufactures at the
South has wrought, too, great change in
the views of Southern statesmen within the
last ten years upon the subject of protection.
Alabama, Georgia, and South Corolina are
now supplying the markets of Baltimore,
Philadelphia, and New York with their best
heavy coarse shcetings and osnaburgs. Their
shipments of cloths arc rapidly increasing
and in few years they will supply other
qualities
The. large body Of intelligent planters are
looking forward to the time as fastapproach-
ing when nearly all the cotton crop will be
spun into yarn from the gin, on the soil
where ii is grown. II seems an inevitable
event; as everything in the nature of the
material and process Of manufacturing IA
from the saws Of the gin is in q better state
than il can ever be made again for the spin.
die. Its felting qualities are unimpaired
and its natural oil in that condition give:
the thread smooth, silky texture, which
can never be obtained from cotton that has
been through the process Of COMPRISING
Nearly one third of the cost of manufactu.
ring in New England and Europe is in the
processes by which the manufacturer At
tempts TO restore baled cotton to the condi.
1ion in which it left the gin.
But the injury done to the delicate fibre
10y compressed baling can never be over
p come The native climate of the plant
too, is found to be the best atmosphere in
which to work the cotton. The humid eli
mate of England gives the English cotton
spinner, it is estimated, FIVE per cent. the
advantage over the spinner in the dry and
electrical air of New England. In the at
nosphere of Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana
and Mississippi, the spinning jenny produce.
more beautiful thread than the bes
mills of Great Britain. These advantages
lead the Southern people to believe that the
chief seats Of cotton manufacturers are tc
be removed to the cotton growing States
and they are more ready than at any pre-.
- yious period to support n system of policy