The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-28
ProteetIon b Americnn Indnstrr

The "Society for Protection, - &c, nj
Cleveland, have announced the follow
ing as the principles and objects OF their
association. We commend them to the
careful attention of our tax-paying
community:
The United States are rich beyond
present calculation in all that makes n
nation truly great. Their undevelOped
resources nfe YRster than those OF any
other country in the world,
Our people have Just emerged from
an Immense war, burdened with debt,
and borne down by taxation. Our inn
mediate wants are payment of the one.
and relief from the other-the discllarye
OF our personal oblIgations-the tIeyei-
opment of our informal resonrces-the
resi- z torgtiony and advancement OF our
financial prosperity.
To etleOt these we must cut down OK
penses and abandon extrayaRnnce-
keep our gold and silver Mt honie-cre-
ate an American mRrket-reEulate our
currency, and transact our business nv
a specie standardization hard In ali
branches OF Industry, and thoroughly
protect all departments of labor,
The first great step in this direction.
We firmly believe, Is an Increased Dro-
tectiDe tdTi9. It is to be noted that Sur-
ing the war the extraordinary advance
of gold prevented importafions and
amply protected our Industry; that the
return OF peace has SO deprecated gold
thatimportatlons are being largely re
newed; that this, added to the neees-
sarY burden Of excise taxation, has be-
gun 10 cripple our mechanical enter
pFtses to an alarming extent. that un-
less relieved by early legislation. we
shall speedily be Hooded by the pnIiper
productions Of Europe; and that under
these enormous disadvantages our
home manufactures cannot long sur
vive- We must inaugurate n system OF
competition between the well-paid, in
telligeent labor OF a free country and
tho ill-p1id, Ignorant labor OF dense.
despottc countries. Such n system 4
high protective tarin alone affords,
thus opening our only avenue to finnnl
cial equality with the world.
Every true interest OF tho Iarmer, the
mechanic, the miner and the mnnufnc-
turer, demands n judicious embargo on
tmportaho ions. Pnblicand private econo-
my demand It. The non-eSportatfon Of
gold depends upon it. Financial inde-
pendence Is ndream without Ii. Tic
succeas 3L our industrial pursuits md
the development OF our wealth, are Inn
possible without It. In short, we be-
lieve that oqr individual prosperity and
our national security and progress, can
only be realized by tke early promotion
and steddfdSt protection Of american in
dIstry.
The action of Legislatures, both State
and National, will hereafter vitality af-
feet our industrial interests, and it be-
hooves all the people to look closely to
their welfare in these mntters,
Our system of finance will hinge
upon our policy in commerce. Indeed,
the great question of the government,
for tho next twenty years, will be that
of HI1H on Low HARIFP.
( Believing thus, we have organized
this Society, to disseminate practical in
formation and arguments ON this sub
ject among the citizens of Northern
Ohio, to the end that the popular opin-
ion may be intelligently formed and
effectually welded for the greatest
good. =