The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-18
How the People are Robbed for the
Benefit Of Special Interests.

The Washington correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Commercial shows by what sort
OF bargain aud dicker the people are made
70 pay enormous prices for the necessarics
Of lifc:
The ingenious feature Of the bin Is the
mauner in wlichSpccial Interests have beeu
protected by &c.. This can best be explain
ed by actual illustration. In the whole
United States there Il just one nickel fac
tory. employing n capital OF say " hum
dred thousand dollars and a force OF about
fry workmen. Is Sc located in New Jer-
sey. The proprietors of this establishment
20 10 their New Jersey Senators and say
10 them that they must K. protected.
The Pennsylvania Senator's say ave can't
vote 10 protect such an interest ms that all
We want is an iron and coaltariH.' Very
well,' SAYS Jersey. III you don't protect
my nickel flctOry, I'll vote against your
coal mines and iron factories And so. Ia
order TO get the Jersey votes. q tariff of
forty per cent. Is levied on nickel.
Now 10 happens that nickel Is a material
extensively used In this country. forming p
large ingredient IN the manufacture ofGer-
man silver ware. IL would take n hundred
such factories ~ that In New Jersey to sup
ply the demand, but iu order % protect
that one factory the price OF everything
into which nickel enters j. increased forty
per cent. 10 every consumer Ia the United
States. Aud this, fOrsoOth, is protecting
American industry. Take another llustra-
ton. There Il one place In the United
States where the stone used for grind,tones
j. found and dressed. 10 is near Cleveland.
Ohio. II would require ffty such q~uarries
10 supply the demand Of the country. But
this american industry mustb be protected,
aud In order 10 enable a single establish
mcut 20 reap large profits, q tariff Of ten
dollars a ton Is put Upon the grindstoues
that come from Nova scotia. II you don't
put that in, saws the griudstone member,
I'll vote against the bill. All right, SAYS
New England, II you'H swallow the rest OF
the bill, we can afford that. And so il
goes
We ask the Commercial, If the two Rad
zeal Congressman from Cincinnati-IIAYs
and E~GGLEsroN-arc not the Jealous sup
porters Of not only this system but Of thcsc
very Instances OF public robbery Of their
own constituents so plainly specified by it.
intelligent correspondents Is there any
thing in the nature of the general Drin-
cipics of Radicali>n. on which those and
other members Of the party were elected,
liucluding orr own Gen. S~CHENCE.J which
requires Western Rcprcseu Western
interests Representative, if you plcase-to
give support % Eastern tradc-mouOpolies.
which are 50 r]uinously oppressive of the
special Interests Of our own people in these
two western Districts?
Would it be charged upon Radical Con-
gressmcn from southern Ohio. should they
break from the drill of New England pro-
teetion-robbcry and plumber and direct all
their zeal and labor, to resistance and the
defeat of the system, that they have turned
Conservative or become Apostatcs 70 party
welfare aud integrity :
SO far rs we have noted, all the Radicals
In Congress, from Ohio, have been aud
are, rs much the supporters Of the New
ERgland monopoly system, ~ II they had
been chosen directly from Yankee districts.
in, Rhode Island, Massachusetts,. Maine. &C.
by Yankee votes. Can Western interests
aud common sense tolerate such inefiible
recreancy?