Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-11-16
A Republican Tariff.

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regard to Tariff The clause in qles-
ton is as follows:
"Thss, while providing revenue for the
support Of the General Governmeut oy
duties upon imports, sound policy require.
such az adjustment Of these imports rs 10
encourage the devslQpemeHtcf the Industrial
Interests Of the Ehoie country; and We
commend that policy Of national exchan-
ges which secures TO the working man lib
eral wages, to agriculture reuumerating
prices, to mechanics and manufsctgrars an
adequate reward for their skill, labor, and
enterprise, aud to the nation commercial
prosperity and iUdePendeuce."
Now, this is easily understood. We all
all know what results free trade produces
in country which has not arrived to the
position that Eng lau1 has. The results
Of low tariffs in this country, are we'll
Known; and to observing men it is evil
dent tha, it is only BY Just aud discrlm-
mating protection, that ''encouragementls
given to the deveiopement Of the indus
trial interests Of our country" Low tar
ifs have crippled many Of our branches Of
manufactures. The damage they have
dope our iron interests, is immense. We
have been importing rails, and laying
them down, i'll regions in which coal snd
iron were abundant. With every means
for making ths best Ct rails, and that too,
at fair prices, furnaces and forges, which,
when protected we're in full operation,
have hal little or no work. One effect
of this system Of buying rails abroad, is
thus shown by St. Louis paper. Ii says ::
ave hope to see the Missouri Legisla-
ture put an end to the system Of bayiug
rails, on long credit, BY the roads incorpo
rated III tbs State. The system impoyer-
ishes Us, aud makes US dependent Oh for
eign capitalists. Our own lsborers are
crushed aud drivea out Of the State BY
the heavy taxes caused by our railroad
debt-,axes which 60 to support the la
borers in the mines and rolling mills of
England, tha, have made the rails We arc
using.
"The supposed necessities of roads ofteo
impel them to buy the good-for-nothiug g
foreign rails, because they can use bonds,
or some species of credit, in their purchase
But all such debts have to be pad in the
end, and ,ciM interest, that not the less
exhaus,s q community than if they had at
once taxed themselves and paid the whole
debt"
The fac, is. only by a judicious proiec-
ton eau a Few country ever reach a point
at which it eau advocate free trade. Eng
land protected herseit until she had ena-
bled her manufacturers to send their goods
iuto the markets of the world to be sold
at prices dcfying competition. When she
had done this, when she uo longer feared
any rivals, then she advocated free trade,
Lnowing that, while other countries might
be injured BY it, she would be benefited,
for they would become her customers.
Now it was no longer than in 17l3, that
the merchants Of England, finding that
the policy their Government was then iu-
clined to pursue, was not one tending to
foster the interest Of the country, made
declaration of what they believed to be
the true "MAXIIs OF TRADE" These
maxims were the foundation Of Eugapd's
presen: commercial position. They were
as follows, (and there is 10 less wisdom in
them now than there WAS then y
81. That Trade which exports Manu-,
factu7es made Of the sole Produc, or
growth of the country, is undoubtedly
good such is the sending abroad of our
Yorkshire cloth, Colchester bags, Exeter
serges, Norwich siufs, &c, which, being
made purely OF Bri,sn wool, as much as
these Exports amount to, SO much Is the
clear gam Of the Nation.
Ill. Thg, Trade wbi,h helps of
the consumption of our SGperaulties,
Is also visiDly advantageous as the ex-
porting Of Alum, Copperas, Leather, Tin,
Lead, Goals, &c; SO much as the export.
ed Superfuities amount tO, SO much also
is the clear National Profit.
"III. The importing of Foreign Ma
tericls to be manufactured at home, esPe-
ciaI!y when tue goods, after ihey are man-
ufaciured, are mostly sent abroad, is also,
without dispute, very beneficial as, for
instance, Spanish Wool, which, for that
reason, is exempt from paying any duties.
"IV. The importation Of Foreign Ma
terials, 10 be manufactured here, although
the manufactured goods are chiefly con-
su,aed by US, may also be beneficial; es-
pecialiy when the said materials are p.o-
cured in exchange for our commodities
as Raw Silk, Grogrum yarn, and Other
goods brOush: from Turkey.
~. Foreign Nsterisl1, wrought up
here into such goods as would otherwise
be imported ready manufactured, is
means Of saving money to the Nation
and, if saving is getting, that trade watch
procu1es such materials, ought to be
looked upon as profitable; such is the
Of Hemp, Flax, and Raw
Silk. IT'S therefore to te wondered at
that these commodities are not exempt
from ell duties, as well as Spanish Wool
"VI. A Trade may be called good
which exchanges marufac,ures for manu-
and commodities for commodities.
Germany taxes as much in value Of oar