The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1867-06-14
Proves too Much.


Bounty logic, by way Of illustra-
ton introduces the following figure
Of speech:
I'VE have seen in Iowa City,
when the city was the capital of
the State, long strings of farmers
wagons piled high with Indian corn
which the growers were vainly try
ing to sell at fifteen cents per bush
ell of shellcd grain. That same
corn, we are as sure as we are of
our own existence, would then and
there have been worth fifty cents
per bushcl had the Metals, Wares
and Fabrics required and consumed
westward of the river Wabash been
mainly produced at the nearest
points where Ore, Coal, Water
Power, &c, invited their produc-
ton.
So have we and We have seen
every farmer in Iowa paying his
proportion of the Pennsylvania
Bounty to rail road iron, directly
and Indirectly at about $50 per ton,
The tine was when railroad iron
could be obtained for about S335 per
ton, but in order that it might be
obtained more chcaply, the philoso-
rhcr of the Tribune and his friends
in Congress, imposed tariff to pro-
tect the manufacturer of the article,
and since then Western railroads
have paid S1s5 per ton for it, and
been compelled to ship it from Great
Britain at that, or suspend their
work.
Thus observing men must see that
the tariff did neither of the two
things predicted by its friends, i. G.
it neither reduced the price nor
stimulated its manufacture in guam
titles sufficient for the consumption
Of the country On the contrary it
almost always has t.s opposite ten
dency as in this instance. The
price of the foreign article being
necessarily advanced to meet the
tax levied upon its importation, the
domestic article will bear a cores.
ronding increase, and may still be
sold at less figures than the impor-
ted because exempt from the bur-
dens levied upon that. And to the
extent that such duties exclude the
c. y'. -
the revenue defraudcd. the domestic
manufacturer in the meantime ad-
ding the amount Of such duty to his
own profits.
This additional cost upon every
ton of iron laid down for railroads
between Iowa, and the sea-board is
but an additional tax on the prod
.scts of the west making increased
sates Of transportation necessary to
the several lines Of roads, for wheth-
or constructed Of this or cheaper
iron, they must make their tariff of
charges such as will replace the
cheap iron, with rails at the present
prices when need be. Thus the pro-
Queer must learn that the frelghts
have regulating influence upon the
markets, even though it takes him
a life time to do so, he in the mean
time voluntarily putting his sub
stance into the Golfers of the rich.
The best mandatory the world
ever saw is the rich prairie soil of
Iowa deeper, richer, by far than
the rich alluvial bottoms Of the
Nile f; but where this corn, wheat,
and other products, only grow by
thorough system Of blowing, plant
ing, and hoeing and for which, as
we'll to benefit the west, as the la
borcrs of the east, is needed the
cheapest a nd best route that can be
devised, instead of one where a
studded effort is made to ascertain
how much the producer can pay, for
such purposes, and not be ruined.
If the logic Of the tribune is good
why not adopt the theory as means
ofintroducing manufacture Of Wares,
Metals and Fabrics in Iowa, where
the articles for the support of the
laborcrs is produced, instead of do
ing this for New England, compel
ling her laborers in the work shops
to pay not only for food consumed
but its transportation to the east
ern workshops. This bugbear of
fighting OLD England when those
for whom we are taxed live in and
represent New England is the vcr-
Sicst hambug Of the age, and should
cease.
The sonhistrv of tho Tr;huna and