, 1866-02-22

rnl & Co. have only to shrek ont 10 Congress
ave asc losing money /" when presto, on
comes another big tariff upon the broad backs
of turner's, and you have made It all up again.
So perhaps you will be On the safo side after
all. Congress + apparently nothing but
machine which Morrill, manipulates, to enable
nd IN f 70 ro9 snf Raoe ssa IT. bsy
little else to do to please Yankee man
# tariff Is 50 good thing, why not have
tariff to protect rs Of Tho West against tho
Easts If manufacturing West Ia 50 Fery de-
sirable, Why don't these Eastern mcn come
there It Is settled business. To finally es-
tablish the system here. time is necessary,
and We must make numerous and expensive
blundcss before the thing Is fairly going.
While We are doing this, We Western mani
faeturers must be 'grotee.ed;" Csrtainly
for the goose sauce for the ganders The pco-
pie have to foot the bill after ALL,
To man Of common sense, It is painful to
see how Western man look after and protect
their private interests, compared with other
sections. Plenty OF. old Hunker Wings
among "a, like your correspondent, Pro
that tariff, eating out our very
wood and drawers Of Water for a protected
class continually shriekins out for more pso-
tection, Is best Tor us. Then we have an .As-
rlcu1tura1 Bureau, spending millions for
nothing. It's head Is Pennsylvania who Is
not only notoriously ignorant Of agriculture,
but Of bis own language. What has be done
for agriculture since be was appointed In 1867
Gun anybody answer! Is there not q sipylc
farmer In all this broad land, devoted mainly
to agriculture, at to fill such post usef1llyr
If not, abolish the Bureau aud saEo the ex-
pense. The present incumbent has not even
had the brafus to Inform farmers what are
their true interests in this matter, or any
other, but, II anything, is in collision with
those whose interest and br,sfness1t 1t Is to CON-
pei Us to buy dearest and sell cheapest.
Nobody seems to stand BY US. Doubtless
because We fail to stand BY ourselves, Half
our Western Congress1nen, Or more, are New
same prejudices and willing to see their con-
stitue1ts feeced. The Committee of Ways
and Means who recently met the Canadian
Committee didn't seem to know there were
any West. Bounties for Yankee Goldfish md
boLntjes for Yankee manufactures was all
they cared about, How long shall this last,
oh Western farmerss It's Tor you to say.
Yor have the power In your own hands.
There arc three great Interests In this ma
tion-,agriculture, manufacture, commerce.
standing Ii Importance Ii the order I hnve
named. All ought t0 have fair chance, all
are sufficiently established to maintain them
selves. No Que Of them ought to hesystemAt-
ically plucked md plundered, as agriculture
now Is, because It Ia the most important, and
can be nade to bear II by such aophis1cal
arguments as Protection and his fellows
adTance. Fully twenty-odd OF our
Half Of the remainder directly OF indirectly
live on the bounties obtained by unjust and
improper legislation from those engaged In
agriculture, aud few thousand employers,
like the few; thousand shareholders who
lately turned this nation upside down to sub
serve tletE interests, add millions yearly to
Their already accumulated millions. Bnt this
thing cannot last much longer. The public
at large not only will not submit to #, but
they cannot possibly aEord 1t. 4 crisis was
feared last year md will not much longer be
STAYED of. If fcnc-half the money taken indl-
rectly out Of the pockets Of our people by
tariffs was taken directly by open taxation
and squandcred by individual members Of the
Government, or distributed annons few
stantly. Yet The present condition ia very
little ifany better, and is continually growing
WORSE The Anti-monopoly Convention which
met on the 9th Inst, In Tazewell county,
Illinois, saw the point plainly when they pass.
cd the following sensible resolutions, among
others:
WHEREAS, The duties under the present tariff
operate uDeq1aly md oppre. elyely upon the great
mass OF people, and lend to foster and perpetuate
monnpoifcs by protecting o1h t3ass Of industry nj
the expense Of Others, thus comforting favors upon
portion Of The people nhien afe denied to the
gfraef number, who are tins suhfected 10 the Dur
dens Of unequal taxationi therefore.
Lts0lrtd, That we are 10 faEos Of the reduction
and femod1lytng Of the whole tariff system, and. IT
preserved, The adjustment Of the same 10 trnc
revenue standard, doing the least 1n}a.tee to The
people, and at the same time tuIn1shIng revenue to
tbe Goycrrment.
Ekeotrfd. That We arc opposed to eurh fystcm
Of taxuttou or import duiiea as shall enrich one
class ut cizens or section Of the country, at tho
expt nse OF any other.
Ktfdsed, u hat re earnestly urge our Senators
md Representatives In EonRteHs 10 ase thelt best
cdotts 10 procur an early reduction or tho duties
lee1ed under The prereut tariff.
So. likewise. did the Autt-AIonopoly Con-
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