The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-03-16
THE MONTGOMERY MACHINE.
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Orr citizens are nov beginning to expe-
r.snce ths tsne6cen. effects OF tbe provi-
sloasl go-ernmen. which irresponsible
bodies, elec,ing from among them selves The
constituents of another irresponsible bodT,
are constructing for their advantage. The
distinguished political asssmhlage at Mont
goEnerv have, hv ukase, inst proeiafrnei the
Old tariff Of the United States as the pro-
v.sIonal arrangement of the prev siona. body
TO raise the WAYS and MEANS 10 maintain
themselves in psxer and peFpetuaie The
machine called goverunsa: tnas theT,
Frauksssteln IKE, have animated into e1-
isieuee.
Practically, perhaps, It is OF very small
consequence 10 the grea: body oil the PEG
pie, whether the unjGss and stupid con-
glonsfatios # cao;g4d.cssoas aas a5saraI-
ties called the UnIted States tariff be adopted
by the Montgomery ConventionIsts or not !;
for, az all trade is paraiyzed; as Importa-
tons from Europe are over the season, and,
from the North, can only be made by those
who are able 10 pay, and then only IN small
orders to complete stocks; whether tarih
averaging twenty four Per cent, or one
hundred be imposed, save for the pretexs
j. affords to multiply enormously the loeusss
/ of ofiee, is of the smalies, consequences.
Fl d any MN Of business knowledge, or
Of practical familiarity with the subjects o:
trade and finance, had voice or an inGu-
| ence in shiTi,y the deterra nation OF the
| salf-etectei Provisional Government nj
| Montgomery. of course he would have
/ pointed out the INDUSTRIOUS absurd.ty OF
what they have done, which, except IN the
/ irritation 10 will produce IN the States upon
/ our rrsa. river and its fruitful valley, and
/ the ruin il will assuredlv effect among the
/ .nalIrr classes of the business people of
| this place, among those who cannot pur-
chase largely at any one time, and who
are mainly dependent upon Eastern credit
and ininlgeEce for that, will have no sen
sble effect upon the country. Many stores
viii be c!o.eI in this place, complete
prostration Of small traders in the interior
will follow, until at length the bulk of the
people, perpI-xed by perpetua! changes,
and harnssed and tortured by multiplied
| fiscal exac,ions, will either seek bread and
| tranquility elsewhere, or a place in the
ranks of the enormous army of p'ace-hold-
ers which the policy Of provisional authori-
ty, or its reckless and ignorant disregard Of
consequences, will cali into activity. For
establishments Ike our OVID, which give
steady and well paid employment to large
! body of men, the new imposirions will be
| insupportubly burdensome. Upon the ar
| tiele Of paper alone, which all newspapers
take as they require from the manufacturer
or his agents, the enhanced cost BY the
Montgomery act will be about twelve
| thousand dollars per annum, while for all
other paper and dutiabe articles we will
rcq1re, eight thousand dollars may be ad
! DID. footing up a sum Of say twenty thou
sand dollars per year for our share alone.
! THIS is the feast Of free trade to which We
were to b. invited!
| Il may be all very we'll and profoundly
consistent and polite to take the whisky,
the alcohol and other such things from the
Wet at thirty per cent; the people there,
| according to that great authority, 10 Lane,
late Of Oregon, afe our enemies. and we
should consequently make them friends by
plling on all kinds of duties; and besides,
| after all, it will make small difference to
! them in the end rs consumers must GER
| tainly foot the bills. In like manner the
twentv-f0ur per cent, upon. coal and oncr-
Gus burdens upon raw material for manu-
featuring purposes, will principally conduce
20 tho vitIalIzation of those domestic
estab shments which we are so confidently,
and of course, 80 truthfully assured will all
at once stud the surface of our ever happy
and blessed country, and make everybody
independent of everybody else. A tax of
twenty-four per cent, upon clothing, shoes,
boots, furniture and such like small affairs
cannot fail, particularly when the material
out of which they are made is equally heav-
iIv hurdened, to stimulate the torpid
energies Of the hitherto apathetic popula-
ton of the inexhaustible pacers of manu-
featuring wealth, which they have
unaoountably allowed in all past times to be
unworked, and consequently unprOductive.
All this is now, however, to BE- remeded BY
the convention in Montgomery. presided
over by that modern Neckar, who in four
short years managed to exhaust federal
treasury which he found full to repletion, !
and submergs it in almost inex;ricable
bankruptcy.
How all these things are to 90 oo, and |
mature and produce is unknown to us; but
the injury, the anarchy and the ruin that
may come we shall have to take as others |
will. and in the meantime hope. if even |
against hope, that the reople will sooner or
later resume the power and sovereignty !
which so far they seem to have abdicated. |
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