The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-08-24
PROTECTION vs.. FREE TRADE.
To the Farmers, Mechanics, Laborers,
and ali voters of the Western and
Norih- western states,
CONCLUDED.
RX K q WARD

81 am IN favor OF National BANK. 1
am in favor of the internal improvement
system, and high protective tariff"
In the admirable works of H. c. Carey,
we. find the following pertinent sentences
'FThe object of protection is that of dimin
ishnig the distance and waste between the
producer and consumer, thereby enabling
the producer to grow rich and bee ONE a
large consumer, of cloth, iron, etc. Ireland
the type Of this free trade system, has mil
lions of her richest lands as yet untouched
that would alone, if drained, yield food for
the whole population.
''The land owner of India has been ru-
ined. The immense body of village pros
perity, that but half a century since existed
in this country, helping and governing,
themselves, has disappeared.
The land owner Of Portugal, the co nti-
mental colony of Great Britain, has been ru-
ined, and with diminished value of land
there has been steady deterioration, until
the name of Portugal has become almost
synonymous with weakness and barbarism."
What do you think of the policy of buy
ing an annual average of $50, 600, 900,
worth Of silks, laces, and other tinery from
nation that takes very little but coin in
payment or of buying 1915, 100000, worth
of wooden goods goods, to be paid for in
corn at Is cents per busheI, paying so cents
per bushel to get it to the seller of the fine
cloths and silks; Or the policy of buying
from $40, 900, 600 to $50, 900, 900 worth of
iron and steel to lay down over the great
coal fields and vast iron mines Of the Uni
ted States?
The people of this country are now act
ing upon the principle of the old gentleman
who had family Of grown up sons and
daughters, whom he was unable to satisfy
with his ordinary income; he mortgaged his
farm to the storekeeper for its value. and in
three or four years traded out it's value in
silks, laces and fine cloths, brandy, wine
and cigars. When his mortgage was traded
out, he and his worthy representatives were
obliged to leave the farm, bankrupt and
ruined. Then nothing but hard work and
long suffering would make amends for their
previous folly.
By carefully fostering our resources, we
can easily pay the interest and principal of
our great National and State debts, carry on
all our national improvements and become
soon the first power on earth. While, by a
wasteful or free trade policy, we shall lose
all the advantages of our gold product
mortg age our lands to pay for silks, laces
cloth and iron; rob our farms of their fertili-
ty, by cropping them continuously for the
benefit of Europe and European farms;
build up and increase the vast individual
and national wealth of England and France,
who are our enemies and competitors, whilst
we impoverish ourselves. If you are pre-
pared for this, go in for free trade If you
want to be alternately prosperous and then
bankrupt, continue the vacillating policy
that has characterized the legislation of the
United States since its existance as ma
ton, and you will have it. But if you wish
to be permanently prosperous, with an I'M
failing and steady market, bring the manu-
facturers into your Western States, near
your own homes, carry your own wool and
9th er products directly to the manufacturer
and make your own exchanges. Set up
yonr sons, Or neighbors' SONS, in the bust
ness of producing manufactures for your
ewn use Follow this policy, and in a few
years you will have the surplus wealth Of
England and France transferred to America.
Adopt free trade, and your fate will be SINH
lar to all other free trade ountries-Poverty
In the preceding pages have endeav-
ored to show, by the best possible human
evidence, that the experience of this and all
other nations, is, that when nation fosters
and protects its own resources and interests
through its national laws, the nation pros
pers. lifts laws are so framed as to give
other nations the advantage, either through |
their superior skill, cheap labor, or cheap
and abundant capital, it suffers Tha
when nation separates by great distances
the producers of raw materials from the
consumers, the producers practically pay
the transportation, and become poor, while
a few torwarders, traders, and carriers be-
come rich at the expense of the producer
and consumer. That when nation diver
SHES It's means for the employment and
utilization of all its laborers; prosperity and
wealth ensue, while the nation and people |
who confine themselves principally to one
employment, become poor and dependent.
That the prompt payment of the interest
and principal of our national debt depends
upon the general prosperity of our country
and any system that tends to its impover-
ishment endangers that great and honora-
bic obligation of the people of the United
States. That the experience of nations has
taught us that the vast exports of the pre-
cious metals and State and national bonds
to foreign countries to pay interest and
balances Of trade against us, is fraught with
the most serious danger to our future finan-
clal condition, and that there is no possible
remedy for tie mischief likely to ensue but
high protective duties on foreign commod-
ties; That the heavy cumulative taxes ard
excise on nearly all kinds of American man
utactures, leave too small margin bet wen
internal taxation and the custom duties on
imports for adequate protection, and that
foreign imports will food the oountry,wh5s
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