The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-04-19


bought at the price of a New Jersey peach
orchard or New England pasture by the
acre. H Where is the manufacturing mo.
nopoly2 Capital from abroad and skilled
labor are more than welcome. The pro
lection of law, national pride, and every
social interest, invite competition and sun
mons capital, enterprise, and skill, tc
share the dividends of mechanical indus
try What is more delusive, then, thar
this cry of monopoly when all the avenues
of trade on our own soil are alike open to
every capitalist or free tarde croaker, ma.
tive or foreign2 10! u4 r..frws,.... ,r4 &,
'H sfrTHE PROPOSED ANTIDoTE.f = ,u...
/ turn to the antdote of monopoly--free
fgrade--most wonderful panacea for ma
tion'sills, as if the physician, prescribing
| in sick ness, ever took his own medicine.--
1t is not France, her annual tariff duties
being next amount to those of Great Brit,
ain, which aro Sl2O. .OQO, 900 annually; more
than double our own;as a term applied
4 tonly pathological petty larceny; nor does
!, the real free trade, as illustrated by Portu.
gal, Turkey, and nations Of lower rank
present those attractions which should
swerve us from onr national policy In
the decline, not less than i'm the rise and
progress of nations, we have enforced the
wisest lessons of politial economy and
warnings in the memory nt those wears
which mark the eras oflS37 aud 1856, un-
der rule which brought low prices, little
demand for labor, and bankruptcy in our
country. 3...t .,z.-.B .-ssfar.ss, ...u-rfrtr,.
Free trade maxims and theories may be
politically sound as between States under
4 one Government with Joint liabilities and
/ common interests and motives t. expan.
sion; but can we put them in pratice2
q answer no; involvinga breach r.rH.
! -i.y'A breach of faith To the einployers.o o
] eight hundred millions of capital which
! has been invested under the implied
4 pledge of protection such rs a tariff affords
against the inundation of the country with
foreign goods. 3n1ni. ss h's"iIo -j-r.aI'
1T is the policy inaueurated in the pre-
amble TO the second net passed byth tirs
Congress, that IL "' t.Fn@Ft-nL ,f.nf+g
"Whereas lit is necessary for the support
of Government, for the discharge of the
debts of the United States, and for the en-
couragement and protection of manuinc
lures, that taxes he laid on, goods, wares
and, merchandise imported.'ii ara.. r.t.
i Washington, i'm his homesppn. signed
the protective law; and the enation has new
er had free trade President, but rather
received those moulding influences by ths
authority ofthe great names pledged tc
manufacturing interests, leading to q de
velopment that for the last fifty yearstheil
growth has been double that of orr poprI-
lation. .....r 3l .-... i.. ..nt.r-l.s. 7..f g..
- IA a.iaan of au ~ an r-ap apnrauad- mali
lcv would involve reducing of 0ir opera
tive, the workars ia iron. leather. and IL
the cotton and woolnn mills, proximatel,
to the standards of foreign labor. Tha
plane 0fthe operatives of the Old Worlt
which represents hundred million peo
pie is far below ours in diffusion of intel
ligence and the ipromotion of comfort anC
morality. Our ten millions would hav,
no adequate power to draw up tous a hun
dred millions wanting in the versatility o
our people too poor to einigrate; and the
alternative would be presented i'll a de-
mand memorable as death to sink to pow
erty and discomfort to seek another EN-
ployment. Mercantile. or professional lif.
would furnish but few openings, and skill
ed labor could only betake itself to agri
cultural pursuits. What arithineticc0u
then compute the years of apprenticeship
and dear experience wasted by millions IA,
noviceS? Where the scope for mechanical
skill and inventive genius so necessary to
develop and employ the varied gifts of The
race? The delicate artisan, with untrain
ed muscle, then comes into competition
with brawney workmen i'm the field, ant
transferred from.a, profitable consumer tC
producer, there follows oyer production
and a glutted, worthless market.
8. 1t would deprive the nation of that
cheap method of collecting revenue which
by the concurrent Judgment of the wises
Governments. is the least oppressive and
I'offensive to the people. II would destroy
by a safe Judgment, two thirds of the pro.
duct of our manufacturing industry, a
mounting to $1,000. .000,0 600 annually, ant
deprive the Government of not less thar
fifty millions now collected by excise duty
leaving no alternative but repudiation or
direct taxation on real estate more oppres
sive than has ever been borne by any ma
ton in modern times,
i A. This dispersion of skilled labor, sur,
to follow unsuccessful competition will
cheap capital and poor paid labor abroad
Z, and the closing of manufacturing estah
4 lishmepts, would present to powerful ma
tions salient points of attack, and greatly
lessen our security.
With asmall army. and facilities furnish
ed by furnaces in full blast, manufacture:
in good order, and abundant workmen, W.
established our promptitude and ability Il
build navies, mold and mount guns, equil
and clothe regiments with such facility tha
our success in the rebellion was early as
sured; and the failure OF the rebels n
plainly toreshadowed i'm their want of fur
naces and factories, on the closing of thei
ports to unfrendiv nations. .nfs
In foreign war, without that proper ma
tional independence which is our birth.
4 right, commerce vexed, skilled labor dis
persed, great establishments required to b,
built, and capital timid. oar ruin would b,
4 effected. Therefore, hold prospered
diversified industry as placing proud anG
unfriendly nations under cheaper ant
not less salutary restraint than the pres
ence of a mighty army and navy. The
historian of Napoleon illustrated this phi.
losophy thus: Protection, the industrial
creation of Napoleon, was the most pre-
cious and principal cause of hisconquests, y
Ia policy which is now approved by the
| Emperor of Russia. ..l9ar.r