Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-09-22

A writer upon the important theme Exports
and Imports who uses the Boston Transcript AZ
his chief medium ol communication, ,nys that we
should take care that when Great Britain protfcrs
FREQ trade she is not offering Trolan horse The
classical alluson is very suggestive, In Nirgils
animated description Of the design 10 ihilict evils
by making u present If II horse, inr;ivcly filled
with armed men. we have symbollral picture of
the very course taken by Great Britain to injuro
this country. As the Boston writer says
England now imports grain and produce to the nm-
cunt of one hundred and twenty millions of dollars,
Her exports, however nearly NIL u manufactured
goods and amount 10 the enormous SUN of over six
hundred millions OF dollars. She has never alered
in her course nctuncd in her policy. but kept
straight until she has risen to her present colossal
height That her great wealth has grown out ct he"
man curing industry no one can doubt nor can
I,here be any more donb, us to the mnauer IN which
that industry has been iostercd aud bnili mp, The
great facts Tat she is the richest nation on the
globe and with the exception of France, her wealth
hey ond all comparison. She is the largest export
err and her exports are almost exclusively OF manu-
features Between these facts there must be an int,
mate relation and may say with perfect safety +,
that England affords In herself ;hc highest and best
cvden &C e the existence Of the law tha, in propor
ton as a nation exports goods IN IA manufactured
state, it grows in wealth, and therefore IN strength
and independence.
Thus we perceive by the results that there is no
Great Britain throws it down To tho world rs II
sop to soothe and pacfv Ccrbcrus or the three
headed sources of national wealth: capital enter
prise and labor. The whole system is tantamount
to obtaining goods hy false pJcences; andin March
,lS54 the Free Germans 1T keutueky .net pcrceN-
ing the fal>i,v ot the principle IN It's operation
against labor decided to maintain IT, though they
qualified their determination by If reciprocity is
accorded by the other side something which has
never been accorded. and never will be, except in
the barren and disastrous name, continually cJac-
ulaed to deludc the masses ot our country.
British Statesmen and Manufacturers are not
the only persons who ud to draw the Trio an horse
within our walls. The interested manufacturers Of
other countries unite in the work. and they are
aided by some of our narrow thinking politicians
at home, who toll to deceive the industry and la
Dor of the country. Mr.. Boyce last year in com
mittee with Quitnan. Of Mississippi; Spinner, Of
New York; Mott, Of Ohio; Wortend,kc, of New
Jersey: (Garnctt. OF Virginia. and Trippe, OF
Georgia, not concnrrlug IN it, made II Report tn
the House Of Representatives, strangely enough
recommending direct taxation always odiuus Ia
the people--nnd an abrogati"n of all duties on
imports This was tho curious policy by which
the enormous expenditures of the year and all flu
ture expenditures were to 10 met. We were to
have the Trojan horse forced upon us by these sa-
gacious statesmen. They would bring linn inup-
on us that mischief may be done i'll our CONNER
cial night-that is. before we by adopting the
British policy of protection have become equal III
our capital. aud by the price OF labor, too, can
compete with Great Britain on Il Free Trade plat
form There can be no fair race without an equal
start with equal weight, and equal burdens: but
the Boyce Report urges US to carry several tons
and keep up with a well trained unburthened
courser. BY Kind of inckeyism inlogc it would
have us believe that class only is to be benefit
ted by acceding to the demands Of those who add
yocate the establishment OF an adequate tariff to
protect our industry. This is not true. 1t is II
mere assertion. The manufacturers would only
be benefited III fair ratio corresponding 10 eve
lry other class. The mechanics aud the operatives
would not only be better paid, but with their in
creased wages aud surety of constant employment,
would be able to purchase more farm PRODUCTS and
more Of the Injuries of life. Every business from
the North to the South and from the East to the
West would feel the vital influences IT protection
were it once fairly tested. Labor would DO en-
ployed everywhere at high prices, and the money
now expended by our laboring people to feed Eu-
ropean workmen to the deprivation Of our own
families. would flow into home channels for dis
trbution through all the veins and arteries OF
American commercial life 1t is true Great Brit
ain would feel the shock but she would soon change
the policy by which she now exhibits the extreme,
of wealth and poverty, and would he subjected Il
the modification of seeing diminution Of the
capital which she holds in an inactive. unear
ming state, that tends TO impoversh her laborin,
classes.
A public document never has been issued il
this country that has had so much OF the Trojan
horse trick in t,as the Boyce Report. The sophs
try throughout and at the conclusion of it, is pc
litcal elimination from the brain of the cunnin,
Greeks Of old, and we may paraphrase the ceebra
ted line of the poet. and exclaim:-
~ fear free traders free traders gifts fear"
The entire promises Of the argument are false be
causet is taken for granted that the conditions Q
IL