The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-08-10
PROTECTION vs.. FREE TRADE,
To the Farmers, Mechanics, Laborers
and all voters of the Western and
NOrth.W Western States,
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK.


There is but one remedy, and that is the
adoption OF a rate of duties on imports so
high as to lessen the importation of foreign
goods below the value ofthe products we
can easily export, and keep the principal
part of our coin at home,
By pursuing this policy for five years, we
would accumulate $3.50, 600, 900 of coin in
this country-more than we now have
and with-this addition as a basis for resump-
ton, we could glide into specie payments
without any great financial disturbances
occurring.
The opponents to this remedy, and the
enemies Of American manufactures, as well
as the enemies to the American farmer,
are
First. The free trade theorists, who are
so very benevolent as to desire America to
abandon all her interests for the benefit of
Europeans, who always did and always
will, legislate for their own exclusive inter
ests.
Secondly. The British, French, and other
European manufacturers who always have
agents in this country, and especially in
and about Washington during the sessions
of Congress. They are always anxious to
promote the interests of the people of the
United States by offering what they call
cheap goods, and, when the ordinary modes
of persuasion fail, they bring large sums Of
money to bear, in order to aid i'll convincing
Congress gifts duty These Legislative
parasites are the most pestilential curses to
American interests that our lenient govern
ment and people tolerate within their cap
ital. What other nation permits the inter
ested, paid vampires of legislative corrup-
ton to infest its seat of government but
America? After the free traders had sue
ceeded in breaking down the tariff of 1912
it came out in the testimony of enc of the
Investigating committees, that the European
manufacturers had sent 81, $50, 900 to this
country to be used in satisfying the govern
ing classes of the United States that low
duties for America, and high duties and
commercial restrictions for Europe, were
for the interest of all mankind.
Thirdly. The merchants and business
men of the great seaport cities like New
York and Boston.
Just SO long as vast imports and exports
continue and the transfers are made there,
the people Of those cities are enriched by
the operation. Every cargo of produce that
is shipped through New York, and every
package of goods that arrives there and
goes West, leaves profit to the New York
merchant This trade, both ways, amounts
to seven or eight hundred millions per an
Dum, and the importers and exporters get
about ten per cent, of profit out oft. This
gives them eighty or ninety millions of dol
lars per annum of profit. Whenever the
people build wooden or Gotten factory, or
an iron mill, in the West, and consume
their own wool and food, and sell their prod
lcts to Western consumers, the New York
ers get no profit out of it, but the whole
profit remains with the people who manu-
actuIe and the farmer who raises the
God.
Fourthly. The carriers of the products of
he farm (nearly half European embracing
IL the ship-owners on the ocean, and part
f the ships and steamers on the lakes.
Many of the owners of our Eastern and
Western trunk line railways suppose their
interests to be in favor of free trade, as con-
derable of the iron, and steel, and other
rticles used i'll railways is imported from
Europe. But if they could fully appreciate
ne fact that the profit of their roads is the
lternal traffic along their lines, that through
eight and passengers are the least profta-
lie, and that when the commercial interests
the nation are depressed, their stocks and
lvidends are sadly contracted, as was the
ase of 1857, they would see that their
rosperity is so closely allied to the general
rosperity of the nation, that whatever in
Tres the one Injuries the other, they must in A
re end agree with the friends of protection,
lat all real American interests are, in fact,
Many of the newspaper publishers have v
ecome partially committed against us, be.
ewing their own interests would be pro-
oted by reduction of duties on baper.-
lme and little sober reflection, it is
oped, will redeem them from an error sol
tai In the long run to the interests of their
'st customers, as well as their own. +
With this powerful array of wealth, intel
ct and interest opposed to the establish
ent OF Western manufactures, it is no :
ouder that the Western farmers, laborers
I'd mechanics, whose interests are imme-
ately involved in this question, should j.
I'VE shrunk from a contest that seemed so :
lequaI and hopeless. o. o.
But the history of this war has proved be
at your courage and perseverance are
.ual to any emergency, and you, the vot-
S of the Northwest, should make united
termined, persistent demand upon every
ndidate for Congress, of whatever party,
at, if elected, he will use his best endeav
s to free your country and your people
rim the terrible incubus attempted to be
reed upon you by European legislation
dCongressional folly, and you should tell
EN- that you will not permit the great
Irden of America to become the Ireland of