, 1866-02-22
Another Letter from t0ccldent.s,
f,hfrArr Tr}hupa.


Tour correspondent Protection has favor
itc question to PROFOUND 10 the farmers the
West, somewhat after this wise: Would you
not rather give two prices for one thing, say
manufactured goods, t1at you want 10 buy,
for the sake Of getting two and an eighth or
two and quarter prices for another thing,
say provisions, that you want 10 sell? And
this lie prapounds With an cxu1tatlon mud q
repetition TINT would seem 10 show he consid-
cred II unanswerable. Like yonr witty cor
respondent, Air, Johns, with the lottery
swindlcr, the farmer will say "ycs" in IN IN
staut, If you will let him see the little joker
llsst. AS 1t now l., VIC pay the two prices for
what We buy, md to say that We get anything
like fair show In return for Our money In q
dishonest insult to the understanding Of every
man Of common sense.
NeEer were prospects so poor for farmers rs
at present. Ground down with tariffs which
discriminate against them mud In favor Of
manufactures, everything they buy must be
bought at Two or three prices, while every
thing they have to sell il going at half price.
Corn IN the country Is now worth twenty
cents busAe1 IN gseenbaeks, or thirteen Cents
in gold, and everything else In proportion,
and continually going down. The farmers,
consequently, find their candle burning at
both ends, and themselves between the upper
and neither miltstones, to further enrich the
already enormously, wealthy manufacturer
una railroad shareholder.
The editor Of the New York Tribune, al
ways protection-shrieker, seeming to fear
that the pockets Of his clients, the mannfac-
tMre5s Of the seaboaTd, arc III danger, and
that the people Of ste West are getting their
eyes open, addresses to them In a 1ate issue
the following infantile md absurd argument: !:
=. F..l
waste and marvellous folly Of -FOUR trade with
England. You send grain 4 800 miles to mar
ket, taxed from point to point along the
whole line With railroad fright, warehouse
charges, propeller freight, insurance, elevator
charges, canal tolls, brokers' commissions,
shipment oFer the ocean, aud the successive
to tic months Of the splnnefs aud weavers
whom It Is .yonr joy to feed. What pay do
3ou getf Back comes to you eloth, loaded
at every step Of Its journey to Iowa with the
same fxactions and expenses. Every
yard of cloth, every package of hardware,
every bar q @ i5s4 imported from ROM, England,
purchase, qulntuplcd In value By n,anufac-
turing processes.' To which FOOLS argument
none but fool could fail to reply: certainly
yes, u so; certainly no, If not. Il foreign
1mportations are such terrible matters, willy
waste SO much fine rhetoric upon 60 rulnous a
ElulCEks t&aiE Au+ uEkAEf LIZ EAuAuF WHO
propdunas the abovc absurdity be gentle,
harmless, protective tariff mononlaniac, the
tool of more designing men, OF knaVe him.
self. None but knaye would use such an
argument tn an honest cause. II the Iowa grain
grower can make money by going through
the terrible process he here describes, In
Gods name let bin do II in peace. Il he
can't be won't make the attempt more than
once, and there would be Rn end OF IT,
Thefact Is, that never were farmers pros
pects more gloomy than at the present time.
Nothing they can raise promises to pay ex-
ccpt hogs, and the cholera ls killing them all
otl. On the contrary, never were manufac-
turera more busy than now. Owing to the
demand for the army the past four years, aud
| tho naked condition OF the South last year,
| the domestic demand conld not be supplied,
and ID 16G5 about two hundred millions OF
dollars worth had to be imported Of manu-.
| facturrd goods. They are In q continual
rrowI about this, Petitions for more tariff,
to prevent possibility of o recurrence OF
such "tteason," as the mild d-manneted Gree
Icy calls IT., are flying into Congress BY hun,
dreds, and factories thousand feet long and
| more are going up au over the scaboaId.
| Don't lose your senses, Eentleneus 1hls
| thing: will soon settle itself. The great
Vest. TINT you haye 10 system
atically robbed according to- Law,
won't have much this year Tor you
| to rob. Your already immense factories pay
Ing 50 md 100 per cent dividend annually, are
| large enough i; son may make bad specula
| tIon.i You can only steal from our farmett
| what they have-hot what they haven't, Bui
| thcnt you know, If the speculation should
| turn nut badly, you and Greeley, Carey, Nor