The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-09-20
From the New y ork Express
The Maine anu Vermont cleo.
tiOnS.

The Radical press aud the Radical
speakers are making the most of the Sc cleo
tons as Stgas Of tie TINS, when they are
If the people take into consideration the
real facts.
The Reciprocity Treaty has been recent
ly abolished, under which Maine lumber
Was competed with 10y lumber from
Fredcrckstown, St Johns the Miramich ;
&c, &c, and the Maine fisheries and tslN
crmen had severe competitors in Nova
Scotia, Prince Edwards Island and New
foundland British fish from the provin~
ce> now pay duties, and are no longer free,
and the Maine man makes the rest of
mankind now pay extra for his boards,
and clapboards, and jcists, and shingles,
and lumber Of all kinds, as well as for fish
an extra paid principally by the poor,
Name, too, has now great manufacturing
establishments, such As those of Lewiston,
where from 30 to 800 per cent are paid IN
toaHti,S BY the rest of mankind to keep
them IN motion.
Vermont, too, mainly under the protec-
ton of Mr. Morrill,, the chairman OF the
Ways and Means Committee, has continued
to secure to herself many bountics as our
intcrnal'as we'll y on our external taxation.
The duty on sugar is enormous, AID we
ray very dearly Tor it, while Vermont Is
now about the largest sugar producing
State in the Union Louisiana being near
~ destroyed J, and her great product of
maple sugar has lttle or no internal taxa
ton upon it, The marble of Vermont is
now made a monopoly of-the Carrara
from Italy, and other marbles being i'm
ported but small quantities, or nearly pro-
hbitory duty having bee.. land upon them,
in order to protect Vermont. Ncrmonters.
too, look to an enormous bounty protection
on wool, promised them in the next Con
gress, whereby the cost of our coats being
at present at least SO cash in bounty To
Massachusetts manufacturers, will pay
some thirty or forty per cent. more to the
wool growers.
These States, with such temptations and
brides, have had created in them powerful
interests and powerful men, who govern
aud control the politics of the State. The
monopolists can afford to give them $780,
00o to $500 900 to control ali election.
The good people OF these States think they
are voting for, 1.-The negro" when they are
monopoists $40 additional costs to their
coats, and three or four cents additional
per pound for their fish. aud So to SO
per thousand for the boards to build their
houses and their barns. Hence We see
the motive> power that carries these New
England States.
The mouopolists of Pennsy lvania have
like temptation to buy up Pennsylvania,
and they may succeed in doing it. in part !;
but this will not alright New York from
itsprorriety These lie insylvania nonopo
lists abrosated the Reciprocity Treaty, ex
GLIDING coal from Nova Scotia-which can
be bought at our doors cheaper than Penn
sylvania coal-and they have a most enor
nous and outrageous bounty on iron, upon
which they are iattening and rolling in
wealth. Such motive powers as these are
hard for the common people to fight
more especially when 1.-The negro is III
them, aud the white man ont. Hence, aS
Pennsylvania has like Radical motive.
powers as Maine and Vermont, she may
travel like road--but Tie great battle is
not in bounty protected States, but the
Free Trade States, like New York, and the
great States of the West. We use coal
and iron in New York in great quantities
but our merchants here are too proud
to fatten and batten upon coal, the necessi
ty Tor the poor or upon iron, the necessity
for all The West has like free interests.
and despite the negro, these free interests
will in the end prevail New York is the
great battle ground especially. five car>
ry majority of members of Congress
here. and elect Hoffman for Governor, we
are all right, and the ball will thea be ir,
reversibly rolled in the right direction
- 90 <~o*t ss -