The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-08-10

the world, through the folly of free trade
theorists, and that American farmers
American manufacturers, and an American
policy throughout shall receive the consid-
Grafton of the lawmakers of this country
Do this and you will save yourselves from
poverty, and the nation from bankruptcy
If you make the attempt, you will surely
succeed; and when you have succeeded IN
establishing an American policy, let your
young men commence at once, with all the
aid you can give them, and build factories
in every part of the country where local.
ties favor their construction. Begin small,
if necessary, and as fast as capital is accu-
INFLATED reinvest in extending your works,
until the whole Northwest becomes freed
from their present thriftless system of being
the ''hewers of wood and drawers of water
for European manufacturers. Make your
own WOODEN cloths, c0ttons, shoes, boots,
agricultural implements, iron, steel, and ev-
cry other article you or your neighbors wish
to use. If this system was fairly in opera
ton at the present time, America might
complacently compare her power, wealth
and credit with those Of any other nation on
earth. Twenty years would make her the
moneyed center of the world, and the man.
utacturer of at least one fourth of the civil
lied inhabitants; whilst, with our present
policy, Heaven only can save us from deep
and lasting humiliation.
In support of the views l have expressed
abo We, l ask the reader to peruse the fol-
lowing extracts from Clay, Webster, Napo
Dallas, President Jacksons Secretary of the
Treasury, and Abraham Lincoln, our mar
tyred President, jefferson, Hamilton, Henry
G. Carey, the best authors and ablest states
men the world has ever produced. If have
failed to convince you that protection o
American interests against the fixed polio,
of Europe, and that the importation OF mn
told millions of luxuries and manufacture
from foreign countries, accompanied by tn
export of pur precious metals and our ma
tional bonds, is detrimental to the interest
of all the industrious people of the Unite
States, and especially those of the North
west, who live so far from foreign market
| cannot believe but that the opinions {
these great and practical men will carr
, conviction to your minds.
The United States have tried the proteC
tive policy four times, aud it always ha
the effect to keep our coin in America; BIT
every time the tariff has been SO adjuste
as to admit of large impcrtati0ns, we alway
get poor in money, and revusion ensues.
The question for you to decide is, shall
Americans do their work. and become ric
, and independent, or shall they hire EuroE
to do it, while thousands of our worthy PEE
pie live in idle poverty and servile depen'
) ence?
hope you will not fail to impress this v
e tai truth upon your minds, that our nation
, al debt, with the interest, must be paid b
and through the industry of the people
the United States. There is no other poss
BILE element adequate to meet this vast deb
: and any attempt to obtain the money for il
liquidation by large importations, for tt
sake of revenue, must fail, as every impo
tation that gives the Government thirt
e dollars sends one hundred dollars to EuroI
q to pay for the commodity imported, an
9 thereby lessons the ability of the people
pay home taxes to just tie value Of the
foreign purchases.
e If this nation drifts ashore, it will be {
i the financial rocks that are partially hid
9 the deceptive bay of free trade, and if v
have any statesmen in or out of Congress,
N is high time their foresight was brought
g bear on the impending dangers towar'
G which the storms of war and the weakne
= Of politicians are fast driving ps.
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