Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-06-19

tno spluulc. l. He ICOplc VI tue NOItl
and East make fabrics Of cloth, aud man
{, ufacture all those articles which man
= needs, and which do not grow These
. constitute their wealth and their stock oi
. merchandise for trade. The markets oil
the world are open to them, and Of right
; ought to be. The West is an immense
consumer of these articles which they
have 10 sell. We are willing to buy OF
them of our own choice if we can buy
; there os cheap as VIC can elsewhere. But,
here aver that the unequal and unjust
system Of finance now adopted by the
| party in power gives to the vast manu-
featuring interest Of this county the ar.
bitrary power to fix its own exorbitant
prices, and the laboring agriculturist is
compelled to pay them. To this no peo.
, pie can submit. Against this outrage
the people of the West will cry out
You have fastened upon this country the
most odious system of tariff on imported
goods that ever paralyzed the energies o
nation or oppressed his agricultural cit.
izcns. You say by that tariff that the
manufacturing institutions Of this coun
try shall not be brought in competitio,
with those of other parts Of the world
on say that our ports shall be closed tC
foreign traders for fear they will under
sell the manufacturer of New England o.
the ironmonger of Pennsylvania. Iot
require Of the European merchants dut,
which he cannot pay, and thus you ban
iSh him from our commercial intercourse
You say to the Western farmer, to agri
cultulists everywhere, that there shall b.
but one market in which they may buy
\ on drive them to the counters and foun
derleS of men whom you protect in
monopoly OF the sales which they make
\ on do all this for the sole and avowet
reason that goods from abroad can b
sold hore cheaper than they can be mad
and sold by our own citizens, and that
protection must be given to high prices
Every school boy in political scicnc
, knows who pays this increase of price
Need |, at this period of American histo
ty, discuss tho operations of high pro
p tective tariff ? No, sir. 1t is ono of tn
settled questions Of governmental policy
+ Twenty years ago it was fairly tried an,
the American people passed an inelI
gent verdict Of condemnation against it
1t was fully heard by greater advocates
than It has to- day, and lepudiatcd a. an
unfair and ruinous system. If any ques
ton was ever, in the history of this Coy
crnmcnt, distinctly tried before tribu
nal of the people and condemned, it was
the question of n protective tariff. The
country prospered by its population, anC
the laboror bought where his money
would buy the most. But this Issue has
again risen, and in a shape more offensive
and injurious to the true interests of the
country than ever before. The pr, sent
tariff is one which no party in tho past
would have sanctioned 1t would have
alarmed the old Wing party as much as
amy other by its stringent and prohibitory
features. 1t goes far beyond what was
deemed wise or prudent by the strongest
protcctionists Of former high tariff peri
DDS. And now allow me to state some of
its specific practical operations as a part
OF the financial policy of the present hour.
1t forces the laboring man, the consumer
the farming classes generally to pay for
manufactured articles, which embrace O
large portion Of the necessities of lifc an
increased price over their proper value
and over that for which they can else
where be bought of from forty to one hun
drod per cent, Thus tax of most fear
iul rate is levied on one branch of indus
try, not to support the Government, but
to contribute as a grntuitous donation to
i" i" ,tTilnn,l n,,l (,
Is the first cXtortonatc species Of taxa.
ton which meets us ia the examination
of this subject. 1t is one which at any
time would fall with oppressive cruelty
on largo maj ority of tho loyal pcol lie
OF the country but, ut time like this
when the Government itself is claiming
almost the entire substance of the land for
y strong with which to charac-
terl1e the cnormity of such policy.
In the next place, tho present tariff
rob3 the Government of much needed |,
revenue by keeping imp ortcd goods from
our shores. Under its operations during
the past year, according to statement
made II few weeks since in the British
ParIimcnt by the Chanccllor of the Eng
IlSh ENchcqucr, our importatons from
Great Britain alone have fallen off to the
amount Of $50, 600, 0O0 The report on
the finances of our own Government for
the year ending June 80, 1861, shows n
loss IN our receipts arising from customs
during the first three months after this {
tallll went into operation of over ten ,
millions of dollars, as compared with the I
receipts during u similar period of year {
previous. Under the tariff of 1916, a G
revenue to support the Government was I
sought by liberal terms of trade with for a
ign nations, and richly obtained. The q
.ula Is now reversed. and for the unwor. G
NY purpose OF protecting class of bu-
'lneSS which ought to sustain itself or be /
this great fountain of pccuni Il
lry su port to the nation is dried up a
Il no IongerilowS into the Treasury and /
he money which is thus diverted from t
he public to private and individual hem Y
MT, has to be replaced under this Admin II
Stration by direct and specific taxes on il
he people Thus taxation grows and G
'ngments its alarming proportions, in b
'fder that the interests OF II favored few II
nay be cherished and promoted. /
Bnt the manner in which this taxation "
$ to be levied, and in which it is to affect c
he different interests of the country cx. Il
eedS all the preceding features of Grim. y
nal OuITnrp nu ihocn n,h,, Ia, H.. - a,