The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-02-17
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We copy ~ editorial from the St Louis
7ymSs, edited b. Mahony . Huschiss,
thorough.going, Copperhead Free Tradsrs,
veuomously opposed to Protective
TanG Bat thsy sppreciala the Importance
of Manufactures in Missouri, and they ~
forth the benefits resulting from them hy
Aeas md arguments, that can neither Be re-
futed nor resisted.
How shall We get manufactures in the
west7 The dogma of tree trade IL, bug
where you can buy cheapest" and the fact %
universally admitted. thAs nanshctsred
articles can be bought cheaper in easiAnd
than any other locality. Hence FREQ traders
magnify foreign commerce, and advocate >
policy which makes US dependent on .
foreign market. And ~ long = their policy
prevails, labor and capital will be 50 much
cheaper and more abundant in England,
that their maxim, "buy, where you can buy
ehespest, (" will lead US to England 10 make
our purchases.
Now, for years to come, the United States
Government win have TO raise revenue OF
over three hundred millions of dollars. Our
plan ia to assess that revenue, or portion OF
it, on foreign imports that come in competi-
ton with our own industry, 30 as to burden
them, and thereby encourage and stimulate
manufacturing aud diversified industry in our
own country.
The result would be, that portion Of the
manufacturing capital and labor of Old Eng
land and New England, which depends upon
the Mississippi Valley for custom, would pull
mp stakes and come here and start manufae
tories in the midst of their customers, and
along side Of the wool, and the cotton
and the meat, and the grain, which they
manufacture and consume. And the effect
Of getting rid of the cost of transportation
and the duties. would be, to increase the
price Of the raw material Of iron, Of food
wood and cotton, and 70 decrease the prisl
Of the m manufactured articles.
How MAsUrAcroRIEs Assist THE FARMERs.
f--lf the people Of Missouri win inquire care
fully into the advantages TO Be- derived from
the establishment and encouragement Of Il
branches of manufactures, We believe that oul
State would in q few years be the larges
manufacturing State in the West, riyallinf
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania in the mum,
Der Of its factories and the value Of its pro-
ductions
Let manufactures be established, and the,
will at once stimulate immigration, retain a
home the money now paid to eastern and for
eign capitalists, and give additional employ
ment. to merchants, physicians, carpenters
bncklsyers, housebuilders, and africans O
all classes. The farmer will be called upoI
to raise more grain, more pork, and more
garden products, to sustain this increased
population.
The people of the West complain that the,
are compelled to obtain all their manufac
tured articles at the East; that the manufac
turing interests are controlled BY monopolies
who realize immense profits at the expense o
the agricultural interests, from which the,
derive no benefit
The first complaint is true, and willremaii
fact so long as we do not help ourselves, b,
erecting manufactures at home, and keep il
circulation here the money which goes Eas
and abroad.
That the second is not true, we will show b.
statistics taken from q letter of DIR. j. Nor
rell, Of the Cambria Iron Works, at Johns
town, Pennsylvania, setting forth the advan
tages which the farmers and manufacturer
of the West and South derive from them.
We commend these extracts to the careful
perusal Of all our readers, whe will be 70
CURED to answer whether it will not be 4
their own immediate advantage TO encourag,
every form of manufacture in Missouri
After exhibiting by statistical table tina
the cost of making rails is $50 Al per ton, h.
adheres to the assertion that 500 OF the wage
now paid for the production of every ton o
rails are expended in livingas soon as earned
and are distributed about As follows:
TABLE, SHOWING THE INDIRECT. TAX PAID N La
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