Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-09-10

The Protective Policy OF the Repul-
1ic"n Torty--F"cts for working Men.
The following are some extracts from a
pamphlet published at Detroit. during the
present month, by Mr. f. b. Ward, and en-
titled "Reasons why the Northwest should
have a Protective Tariff" The pamphlet
has an additional interest from the light
which it throws upon the understanding
at the West as to the clause of the Repub-
lic'n platform which relates to Protection,
as to the pretended ambiguity of which so
much has been said:
l. Because protective tariff encourages
the building of manufactures in the United
States instead Of Europe
2. protective tariff will give profitable
employment to women and children who
+" "" 80 - = L":'"S tax unon the productive
portions of the community.
3. II those now unemployed could he
profitnbly occupied, it would lessen crime
and poverty, increase morality, aud infuse
comfort and happiness in thousands of
families now poor and destitute.
4. No country was ever truly prosperous
and permanently wealthy, unless they COM
bincd manufactures with agriculture aud
commErce, thus employing all their popu-
lation to advantage.
| s. Lands and real estate are more valu-
able in manufacturing countries than in
those countries purely agricultural.
G.SWhen the entire population of
country resort to agriculture they produce
more than they can sell, thus reducing the
price of their products below their real
value.
Z. Tie wealth of the world always flows
! a., e
tries. Witness the wealth ofFrancc, Eng
land and New England Stntcs. The North
Western States are poor in money. Those
countries arc all rich.
s. Agricultural countries always be-
come dependent, and in debt to the manu-
featuring countries.
England, France and New England now
own, or have mortgages on, nearly
all ofthe most valuable productive
property of the agricultural States
Their railroads, mines, timber lands,
and the best of their city property, is
thus owned or encnmbcred, while they
are constantly in debt for wearing Nppar-
ell, money, insurance and other commodi-
ties, to those countries
The agricultural States arc the "hcwers
of wood and the drawers of water" for the
manufacturing countries and States, and
will always remain so as long as they build
their factories in Europe, and keep half
their own people idle.
Why have there been so many unem-
ployed men, women and children in the
Northwest, during the past three ycars?-
Because the American people have been
buying European manufactures instead of
employing Americans to do their work. A
protective tariff will give the work to our
own people, instead of the people in Eu-
rope. What benefit is it to American
laborers, mechanics, and farmers, to keep
all Europe at work, and let our poor suffer
for want of it?
Let every men who loves freedom better
than slavery, who loves industry, intelli-
gencc. and prosperity better than idleness,
ignorance, and poverty, surely aid in pro-
noting the moral and material wealth
and happiness of the poor and the labor
ing classes of his country. The true pa
triot has but one party. the people: he has
but one aim--thcir greatest good. Every
voter should be true patriot, aud every
vote should add to the aggregate good of
the country.
When the great laboring classes pros
per, all classes prosper. Our interests are
all alike. If the manufacturer fails, the
poor always suffer for want of work. If
he gets rich, he employs more men, and
spends his money in adding to his estab-
lishment. Every such addition gives en-
plnyment to labor.
have no interest in protective tariff,
or in tue success of the Republicans party,
in which you are not all equally interest
cd. have no Office, desire none. I
want the people of Michigan to maketheir
own cotton and woolen clothes, and their
iron. ] want them to buy less. silk and
other commodities from Europe. want
them to keep their money in America, SO
that we can keep all Americans at work,
and pay them for it.
Last year we sent S70,00o,000 of coin
to Europe to pay for European labor
want that money kept here to pay for
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