Litchfield enquirer., 1866-11-15
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 EDITOR ENQUIRER Tn former communication said that American Laborers had neglected their own interests, in neglecting to sustain American manufactures. Our Railroad men have done the same thing, as will prove, and our statesmen have sometimes sacrificed Anericdn, not local interests to English cupidity. fs, .s,s .0. ,,.... :: ?, !
 In 1s36 we had a Tariff reasonably protective but it was arranged on sliding scale The duties laid on foreign products were to diminish annually and gradually, as they did, until 1S40 or A. when they reached 80 low point that our manufactories were idle (lnany of them,) or kept in operation on ly to preserve the machinery, and to sustain the laborers, even at runous oss This state of things also brought our national credit to ruinousy low ebb. @S;... ..s5,A - In 1842 Protective Tariff was adopted, our man. ufactures revived, and drove out millions of Brit ish manufactures, besides compelling Q great re- duction in the prices ofsuch as did reach this conn try. Agriculture, Commerce, and Manufactures fourished. The whole country was enriched by diversified industries under this state of things But the South, then controlling the Congress, and ever jealous of Northern prosperity, broke down the Tariff of 1s42, and established the one of 1s47 Again were our industries prostrated. Our wealth did not vanish at indeed but in 1850 we should have experienced the crisis which came upon us in 1857 if the gold of California had not como in to our relief In 1852 and 3, we exported $97 900 OOO ] of this specie to pay for goods which we should have manufactured ourselves, and at the same time have paid these millions for our own labor and ma terial. But our own labor had been crushed out by this free trade" policy. Let it always be un. derstood that fourths or more of the cost oi making Pig Iron is labor, and so with the bulk oi our manufactures. Many of these millions went, therefore, topay for foreign labor instead of our | own. @ !-a @,ta,. .... ,.
 Now let US see the effects of this policy upon the railroad interests In 1S49 and 5O the quantity of English railroad iron used in this country, was 100000 tons at $40 per ton, to which low price we had forced it during one season of protection Our Rolling Mills which produced fl, 900 tons annual y and were then capable of producing 70 GOO tons, were reduced to the average of 800 tons during these years. Our furnaces went out of blast, be- cause the market for Pig Iron destroyed by the stopping of the Rolling Mills. In order to save themselves from actual ruin, our manufacturers asked simply for protection against actual loss or enough to allow them $50 per for iron that was really worth one third more than English iron. But Congress refused to help our manufacturers, and permitted our foreign rivals to crush out com petition. England then stepped in for our trade, and before competition could again be restored tho price of Iron went up from $4O to $SO per ton. At these enormous prices, England supplied us with no less than tons of rails in the four years 1s51-54 Here were 5O,0OO, 900 of dollars at least paid to Foreigners for railroad Iron, while our mills were lying comparatively idle, and aey were remunerating themselves for any losses they may have sustained, if any, in the high prices they ob- tained of us. ..,. s',5t,.''.
 Our manufacturers could have been sustained at from $50 to s55 per ton, and with the protection which would have enabled them to do. this, home competition, and improved skill and maehinory would soon have reduced the price to s45 or $50 af ter which, there would be no such ruinous rise in the foreign articles, for our mills would then be ca pablo of supplying the demand 4. ',s's' ef
 Admit, you please, that foreign rails could still
 
 admitted that American rails (not made of old En- gish ones) are at least 5 per ton better to more important consideration, however, than the price, even, is to be found in the fact, that the ma king of all our railroad iron in our own country would SO augment the business of the country in mining ores and coal, cutting and hauling wood, constructing machnery-in the increase of trans- portation, in the transfer and consumption of Az ricultural products, in the greatly increased de4i mand for mechanical labor &c, &c. T repeal, the augmentation of labor in the thousand depart, ments of industry would enable our Railroad Cor-1 panies to pay few dollars per ton more for iron, even should it prove to be more expensive But it would not. What of the other great industrial in- terests, Cotton, Wool, Copper, Lead, Silver, Mar ble and Oil? Let all these be properly and suita bly, protected and encouraged, and our laborers would find abundant employment, our money would be kept at home, our farmers would find markets at their doors and we could pay our taxes more easily than we could, if we were sending our money abroad to pay for labor. ssiss Ha9I fIss
 Do our Statesmen, in Congress lcomprehend all these great interests, and rise to the duty of aid ing in the developement when. they sit in judg- ment over inc business interests of their c0nsttu ents. I1s.:szs sss z ls,5s H. j
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 p1r Judge Bartol of Maryland has ren- dered a decision in favor of the nsWt P0lice Commissioners,