The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-12-05

cans are not used to debt. They never
liked rent; they know nothing of tithes
or fines, and they have always associated
high taxation with despotism, oligar-
chies, and Established Churches. The
Union is most laudably, and tnus far
intiexihly, determined to pay it's debt to
the last dollar, but this can only be done
by distributing the burden as evenly as
possible. That is evidently the leading
idea of the tariff, and we are not sure
that it has not been carried further than
could be prescribed by the financial cum
ming of these older countries. Equali-
ty, however, there must be in the United
States in finance, as In everything else;
and it is sought by enveloping every body
every consumer, every producer, every
manufactures, every master, every man,
every article made, and every material
with which it il made, with u uniform
atmosphere of financial pressure. The
pleas for exemption, which In this coun-
try have acquired sort Of sacred char
acter, in favor of the materials of indus
try are not listened to there. The only
inequality-and an inequality it Is on
the very face of the tariffs found In
the immense duties upon all imported
goods, out of all proportion to those of
home manufacture. We beg the Amer
leans to do Us n small tritlc of justice in
this matter. There is not a murmur of
complaint in this country at the excess
I'VE weights with which our industry is
cloggcd at the American Crstom House.
we see they arc resolved to pay their
debt, and therefore it is that our manu-
facturers quarrel not with the means
thought necessary for the purpose The
American manufacturers themselves
neither follow our example of patience,
nor remember the loud complaints made
by their own fellow citizens. now n
quarterof n century since, against the
British Protectionists. For years they
supplied the League with its most tell
ing 1acts-the quays of New Orleans
covered with mountains of corn and
pork, ana the harvcsts of the Mississippi
| allowed to rot on the ground for want of
1orelgn consumers. There must he ieal-
ousy rs we'll as selfishness, it was said.
i'll the laws which stood between the
mouth that hungered and the food that
went to waste-which parllyzed at once
the hands of the Manchester artisan and
the American settler, brothers in blood
and friends in need butfo our sliding
scales. All this, apparently, has been
forgotten In America, and the manuiac-
turers are crying out for downright pro-
hlbltlon and absolute protection, withou;
mincing the matter or Disgusting what
they want.
So all the old familiar talk Of Protec-
uonlsts Is now heard i'm the States as II
IT had never been heard before, as if the
grievance was one Of purely American
origin. How can they Manufacture,
they ask, ut a profit, or to sell Mt all
against the produce of American manner
iaborD Just us our farmers used to he
told OF continents of ineXhaustidIc fer
tility, cultivated by peasants or slaves
living themselves in worse habitations
ana upon worse food than our own
horses and cattle, SO the American man
ulacturers are now told Of European fac
tories III which crushed and famishcd
huitl1aaes struggle and perish in the at.
tempt TO clothe the human race. and
supply it with all its wants for nothing
As we are not now impugning the rigor.
or the United States tariff, we shall con
tent ourselves with Observing TINT TO In,
English eye its differences in favor @
the home manufacturer seem all bu
prohlbitiVe, and we can only wonle
how our own people can force their GOOD
into the United States i'm the face of sucl
dlscouraSement. But the American
manufacturers don't understand VIII,
foreign produce is to be Admitted at nj
If they are themselves taxed. or VIII,
they should he taxed if they are to be al
so exposed to competition. They ar
: quite sure, they say, that they canso
see the good to the State of armies {
men collecting taxes on cotton an,
other thing necessary to thes work. =
Labor itself at all events, ought to b
r untaxed. Nothing can be more natura
than such remonstranccs, unless ii b
added thateverybody must bear it's shar
OF the public burden. But, however tn
controversy may fare in the Unite
7 states, necessity leads only to one con
: ciuslon-that 50 long as the Union pei
: sists IN its present honorable desig
, everybody must bear its share of tn
! burden, and the tariff, therefore, mus
| be thoroughly purgcd from protection.