Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-02-16
HOW TARIFFS BLESS FARMERS.

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VIII not American farmers give earnest
heed to the following facts and figures.
showing their interest in maintaining such
"a Tariff on foreign manufactures as will
build UP and secure to them a profitable and
enduring home market? Gs q
The Cambria Rennsylyania Iron Works
PAID IN nthree years, for salaries, wages and
contract work, as follows
1860 .. . $907,05s 9I
+ l864....s. ........a..a ,399, 800 81 81
~ ISb3... ..-.4...-.. .-.4.@,...8 n, SD, $50 "a
These figures are taken from the returns
made to the internal Revenue Commission
hers. Nearly every dollar of those three
immense sums was expended for the sup
port of single lahorels and laborefs with
families See how large a portion of the
money went directly to farmers. The Su-
perintendent Of the Works, in his reply to
the interrogatories of the Commissioners
says: TIE population sustained By the
operations of our company, consume annu-
ally about 1000 head of beef cattle, 5000
head of sheep, and the product of not less
than 1908 head of hogs. Our whole con-
sumption of wheat -four is about 10000
barrels. Johnstown is one of the best
markets in the country for all kinds of food
Large quantities of the more perishable
kinds, such as garden vegetables, tutter,
eggs, fruits, &C., are brought from Pitts
burgh and other Western markets; as the
production Of the surrounding country is
unable to supply our demand. @
No wonder is it that farming land with
In tive miles of the Cambria Iron Works is
worth from $3.50 to $500 per acre. without
improvements And yet this same land
It the Works were wiped out by British
Free Trade, would not be worth cent more
than the average value Of similar Pennsyl-
yania land for agricultural purposes, which
Is $50 per acre. Such is the testimony of
one Of the most intelligent men IN Pennsyl
wanna whose character VIII give credit to
his statements wherever he is known He
also bears witness to the fact, which true
economists would anticipate-that the di-
rect influence of the Works, in making a
quick and profitable market for farm pro-
duets, and enhancing the value of the SOIL
is felt for fifty miles all around Johnstown
What a volume of teaching, farmers
there is in these figures and facts The
benifcent influence of the Cambria Iron
Works is, TO greater or less degree, the
influence of every one of the 730 iron pro-
ducing establishments. now struggling for
life In the United States. Each and all are
convenient markets for the sale, at constant
ly augmenting prices, of every product of
the soil, and in which the capital invested
in the farm doubles, trebles, and quadruples
by a silent growth that is sure, and yet taxes
not the farmers care nor his toll Agricul-
turalists there is no other class of men in
this country SO directly or SO largely inter-
ested in maintaining the life and increasing
the prosperity OF our iron works as you are.
And you should feel that the British impor-
ters and their purchased Journalists who
labor to destroy American Domestic Trade
and enthrone British Free Trade on its
ruins, and who seek to drive you from your
near and profitable Home Market to the far
off and almost worthless foreign market, are
your deadliest enemies, who insult your
understanding with their sophistry, while
they plan your ruin with their selfshness. =
Exchange.