Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-01-18

ships, and take back fabrics wrought in
English shops. - -
IL would be useless 10 waste time and
paper TO show that England has always
adopted policy by which she built up
her home manufacturer, at the expense
not only of other countries, but to the
injury and expense of her own colonies;
knowing that by this policy she is ma
king her own immediate dependencies
wealthy and powerful.
The free traders try to make us be-
lieve that we derive much benefit from
the English for the sale Of our bread
stnffs, pork, &c. A writer says Chicago
alone often sends off. in ten days, more
grain and -four than England has taken
from us in each year, on the average
for twenty years past, and the grain ex-
port from that city in a single day often
exceeds what England has bought of us
for whole year. ~
la 1860, the total products. of our soil
were 81, $50, 000, 900 in value, and our to-
tai exports Of those products were $272,-
282, 873, about one seventh. Taking out
-FOUR cotton exports and our home mar
kets and consumptionswas tacenty times
as great as our exports to all foreign
countries. 1t can be safely estimated
that the New England grain market is
worth to the Western grain grower more
than that Of England. u
Is il not high time that statesmen
should lay aside their peculiar notions
and prejudices, and legislate for the ben
eft of the whole country, instead of for
any particular section, by adopting lib
eral and patriotic principles. We should
act upon the principle that what is for
| the benefit of one portion of our coun-
/ try is for our common good aud we'll
! fare. We import goods from England,
| France and other countries; the raw
material for It's product, and in many
eases, at least, part of the grain that
feeds the manufacturer, has to be first
shipped to-the sea, and then compelled
to cross the. ocean, and the manufactur-
ed cloth has to be reshipped to- New
York, and then again distributed
throughout the West. What nonsense.
How ridiculous to think that any intel
ligent patriot and real friend of his
country should advocate snchsa lpelicy,
The true policy Is to bring the market
to our. own doors by building mp manu-
facturies in our own immediate vicini-
ties. By this plan you not only create a
market for your wheat, corn and pork,
but for your butter, eggs, poultry, and
many other articles that you cannot sell
where there Is no market now, and at
the same time give employment to
women and children and mssrY that
would otherwise be idle. You assist in
building mp towns and cities, your farms
will increase in vaIne, and the result will
be good schools, churches, good roads,
and in fact universal prosperity and
happiness. How long viii we remain
blind to our own beat interests2 y
4 Let US rise above party, and above
sectional prejudice. Let us become pa
triots and Americans, not Northerners
or Southerners, Easternerners or West
erners. Letus enact not only protect.
i've tariff, but prohibitory one, if neces.
sary, in regard to- everything that can
be produced in this county, and soon
we shall not only have New England
manufactures, but they will be dotted
over the entire country aseE B.