The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-10-05
fRritiSh Free Trade"


weeks past, this week We really hope
that our readers have not neglected to give
this article a, careful perusal We have
published it in instalments purposely be-
cause we thought the generality of men
would be more apt to read it thus, than II
they had to take it all at once.
1t is full of facts and statistics on mat
Ter that is not generally SO well understood
las itshould be. There is hardly subject
in the whole range of political economy so
little understood by the people at large, as
this ,one of Tariffs and Free Trade. Nor is
their one more deserving of more careful
and candid study than this. Unpopular idea
of Free Trade. in the hands of the dernagogue
is. SO easily held up to the uniformed and
superficial reasoner on political economy, in
an attractive form, that it is no wonder
there are so many ready to clamor for Free
Trade, and against protection. t.s
To many, there is nothing to be seen or
said in favor Of incidental protection to
home industry, because the bugbear of the
Favored and petted manufacturer, 81 has
been evoked from heated brain, aud shuts
in completely the scope of the mental visual
organs. An intellectual friend of ours the
other day, expressed the hope that some
| body would furnish an article in favor of
Free Trade for US to publish as soon as the
article on British Free Trade" was com
pleted, so that we could give our readers
both sides of the subject. We have no OBJ
Election to publishing an article on Free
Trade if it is confined to facts and statistics
and not made up of senseless and lying plat
itudes about beauty of Free Trade in theory,
and the light of buying where you can bay
Eehe apest, and the Nervousness of building
up rich manufacturers and the misery OF
being ruled by New England manufactur-
ers and all that sort of thing. There is no
argument nor reason in that.
If anybody will go to work and proUe,
that it more profitable for the farmer to pay
the expense-run the risk, pay the insur-
ance, &C., of transporting his wheat and corn
four thousand miles to market, than it is
TO take it four miles, and there take the con-
sumers price for it, we shall be happy to
publish the proof. Don't evade the question
| by generalities but come to the point at
once 1t wont answer to say that he gets
bis clothes cheaper thereby. That is a
mere begging tn question. z-vs
The wheat buyer, the warehouse men and
elevator men, the ship owners railroad men,
and insurance companies all get rich in this
business of transporting crops to distant
market. And they all get rich out of the
farmers pocket. Not one Of them produces
or creates an iota of the wealth they roll
init all comes from the producing classes,
the farmers and the manufacturers. They
are the only producers, and should league
together for self-protection against the ra-
| making an insane warfare against each 9TH
er urged on by the false teachings of hair
Drained theorists.
Some of our intelligent farmers are crying
outagainst the incidental protection afforded
to American industry, by the present tariff,
and are almost ready to throw themselves
and the control of the government iuto the
hands of the copperheads because they pre-
tend to make Free Trade a plank in their
platform. They have to pay so much for
what they wear, to the manufacturing ma
bobs of New England, that they are unhap-
Ply. We can remember very well, when
farmers thought they were getting large
price if they got Csc pound for their WOOL
l0c for oats, 12c for corn, loo for potatoes
SC for eggs and 10c for butter and cheese
and 2!c for their pork Strong able bodied
men were content with SOC day 1t is
true that clothes were little cheaper in
those days, but did farmers get rich
in consequence. Five out of ten of the
farmers throughout the country had to
mortgage their farms to pay their ''store
bills" when the year came around. During
the last ten years, notwithstanding the 'hard
times" the war, the growth of New Eng
land manufacturers, and all the other evils
the advocates of Free Trade complain Of at
least one half Of the farmers of the entire
northwest, have paid off and cleared their
farms from mortgages of greater or less
amounts and w5have balances over, in
the Bank or invested in 1905 And yet
this is only the beginning of the good time
coming" when Wooden, Cotton and Iron
Factories are scattered at intervals all over
the broad prairies Of the west, all along the
shores of our Lakes and Rivers, which shall
become the great high ways of n-fowing
veal tn instead of being only convenient out
lets to carry off the wealth we so lavishly
produce.
Growth and Manufacture of Wool q
Editors Of the TeLegraph:-To an old set
tier of Kenosha Co. the increase of the
growth of Wool is a subject that strikes the
mind forcibly. If can conjecture from
appearances az we raze Ynou our Sbaa,,