Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-09-12
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Ihe HarlS machines are warranted 10 De
equal in every respect to the original ma
chimes made In this country, as the Paris fac
tory is affirmed to be ''ftted UP with the
very best American tools, and worked by the
most capable American mechanics They
are the same tools, worked by the same me-
chanics, that have been employed In making
the same machines In this country. These
American mechanics do not carry their skill
and industry to increase the wealth of France,
because they prefer that country to their
own, nor without securing at least as good
wages as they could get in the same business
at home. Nor is it credible that steam or
water power can be had cheaper In Paris
than In Boston. Neither are the means of
subsistence more abundant there, for it is
known that we send both provisions and
breadstutfs from this country to France, and
could send more if 1t were not that the tariff
diverts labor from agriculture, and makes all
the clothing and implements Of the farmer
twice as costly as they ought to be.
The tariff is the only reason why these
machines, being sole an American invention,
are no longer made in this country for the
supply of the whole world, by American me-
chanics, using American water power, burn
ing American COAL working American iron
and copper, and subsisting on American
food, and thus adding all the profits of the
| ted States. If it were not for the tariff, the
prices Of iron and other metals would be
equalized IN both continents, in little time,
just as certainly as the ocean RECEIVERS its lev
el after the flow of the tide.
The sewing machine inventions are un-
doubtedly patented in Europe as well as in
this country. Therefore our people may be
assured that the only reason why No. %
machine, which is offered in Paris for less
than fifteen dollars IN currency, costs above
fifty dollars in New York, is to be found in
that policy, now announced to be distinctive
ly the Republican policy, which under the
name OF protection imposes numerous duties
on iron and other metals, and thus makes it
| impossible for our skilled mechanics to make
sewing machines, or moving machines, OF
| build ships or engines, IN competition with
| foreign nations. So oppressive and ruinsus
is this policy, that it has already begun to
drive American mechanics to France and
England too see work and bread.
For, the sewing machine is not solitary
instance Of the tendencies of the tariff, and
Its certain effect to drive manufacturers out
of the country. The mowers and reapers
are going the same way. We heard of an
instance in point the other day A merchant.
from Brazil had occasion to purchase large
number OF moving machines. After making
careful inquiries and calculations, he came
to the conclusion that he would buy fifty ma
chimes in New York to supply the most ur-
gent demand, and would then 90 to England
to have the remainder built there, without
the impositions of the American tariff. IF
he can make saving anything like that eff
fected in the case of the sewing machine. he
will save small fortune by his enterprise.
We may be sure that countless number of
enterprises viii follow in the same direction.
The iniquity of a protective tariff will pres
emily become apparent to orr sewing women,
who have to give above one hundred dollars
for machine which the seamstress in Paris
buys for fourteen dollars in gold, or about
twenty-five in our currency because it will
be found that the latter, having 50 much less
to invest in her machine, will easily under
bid the former IN the price of her work, and
our market will be filed with ready-made ar
ticles from Paris 1t will even pay to send
materials of American production to be made
up in Paris, by American machines made in
Paris. Step by step these fatal injuries must
extend to every branch of American indus
try, if the workingmen of America do not
combine to deprive the Republican party of
power-that party which attempted in the
Congress just adjourned to impose upon the
country tariff still more ruinous to our in
dustry, who did this, as was proved at the
time, with the most corrupt motives, and
whose only object now is to keep the south
ern states out of Congress until they can fas-
ten this course upon the country-f the
workingmen of America do not unite to hurl
this party from power.
Our people could pay, twice over,b open,
taxation, all the revenue that the govern
ment derives from duties on materials and
subsistence, if they were allowed to purchase
all such articles at their market value in the
place where they are most cheaply made
We could create and export the means of
payment ten times over, with our cheap
lands, if we could have our means and i'm
plements at their proper cost The country
could pay its debt twice as easy, and grow
rich all the while twice as fast, if only Its in
dustry and its trade were free. But they
will never be free while the Republican poll
ticiars hold power for these are desperate
ly determined, as they openly declare, to
consummate their iniquitous and ruinous
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