The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-03-07

THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 7.
TINE baIr1sR roLIcy.
TIN short, sir, ~ have been too long sub
jeet TO the policy Of tho BRitiah merchants.
1t Is time We should become little more
Americanised. "-GEx. ASDRsw Jackson.
ssThe home market ID FIRST in order, andpara.
mount in importance. The object OF the bill
before us, is, to create this home market, and
70 laythe foundations of . genuine AnE.IcAs
PoLICYn HBut this home
market, highly desirable a. it is, can only be
created and cherished BY PRorEcrIoS by our
own legislation against the inecitGbls prostra-
ton Of our industry, which must snsue from
the action Of foreign policy and legislation.
--HKSRr CLAY.
In these extracts, our readers win not only
see what our Fathers regarded - British
Policy, and what as American Policy, but
how the greatest aud most popular of our
statesmen stood upon these questions, before
the Decentralization, brought upon the coun-
-tyby slavery and Calhoun, had utterly cor
rupted our politics and subsidized our politi-
cal parties.
In order to show from another stand point
what is British Policy, in our day, We quote
from work entitled "THr FuTuEr," by A.
Alison, published in London in 1852; which is
devoted to magnifying the glory Of Great
Britain, and advocates FREE TRADE a.
the means Of securing her permanent superb
ority. Mr.. Alison insists that Free Trade
viii stimulate and increase the production of
grain in England, while it viii enable her to
manufacture cheaper than any other nation
in the world. Hence he insists that England
can well nigh supply her own food, while she
- at the same time can supply manufactured
articles for the entire world. He says:
''As regards wages, we have nothing TO
fear for such is as low in England as in most
countries, especially if We recollect the work
given
"If England adopts universal Free Trade,
and the other nations do not follow, she will
become the cheapest country in the world,
and the only one where manufactures can be
produced for export"
ain America, wages are high, owing to the
inexhaussible supply of vacant land. For
this reason we are Of opinion that manufsc-
lures cannot flourish in America without q
high tariff to protect them"
America may be obliged to cease to man.
ufscture. An infant Nation possessing soil
only partially settled, has not arrived at the
point where it can divert its attention from
agriculture 10 manufactures. And every one
knows the disadvantage America labors
under, is want of accumulated capital"
Hence Mr.. Alison concludes that the
Americans will be constrained TO abandon
manufactures, and instead, will be obliged
''to send us corn, [grain] and take our man-
ufactures in return" Mr.. Alison is Brit
ish Free Trader, and was impressing upon his
British readers the advantages Of Free Trade
to Great Britain; and inssts that it will destroy
American manufactures, and constrain the
people Of America TO devote their entire and
exclusive energies to the production of food
to supply the British manufacturers, who
thus have the population of the United State
wholly at their mercy. And Mr.. Alison
logic is sound, for protective tariff is to
day the only thing that stands between u
and that result, and upon that follows legiti
mstely and inevitably direct taxation an,
universal ruin to all American interests.
THAT is British Policy in our day; and nov
let us see what was British Policy in TIL
days of our Fathers We make another quo
tstion now, from speech of Henry Clay
delivered to the Senate in 1882, in which b.
contends that British Free Trade now, origi
mated in the same motives that prompted th
British Colonial Policy, and quotes in sup
port of his proposition, British writer o
1850, who seems really to have possesse,
the same spirit in regard to America that Mr.
Alison, from whom we have quoted, exhibi
lad in 1852.
Henry Clay said;
E"But have said that the system nominal,
called free trade so earnestly and eloquent
Iy recommended to our adoption, is mer,
revival of the British colonial system, forcet
upon us by Great Britain during the exist
ence of our colonial vassalage. The Who'll,
system is fully explained and illustrated in
work published as far back as the year 1859
entitled the trade and navigation of Grea
Britain considered, by Joshua Geo. with ex
tracts from which / have been furnished b
the dilligent researches of . friend. II vii
be seen from these, that the South CAROLYN
policy now, is identical with the long
ished policy Of Great Britain, which remain
the same as II was when the thirteen colonie
were part Of the British empire, in that wor
the author contends:
First, that manufactures In American colo
MES, should be discouraged or prohibited.
"'Great Britain, with it's dependencies,
doubtless as well able to subsist within itself, q
any nation in Europe. We have enterprisin
people, fit for all the arts Of peace and war. W
have provisions in abundance, and those Of th
best sort, and able to raise sufficient tor doubl
the number OF inhabitants. We have the YER
best Of materials for clothing, aud uaat nothing
or buf ~ hat "
have ut home, might have from colonies
90 that we might make such intercourse
trade among ourselves, or between us and then
rs would maintain vast navigation. But W
ought always 10 keep g wstehful eye GU
colonies, to restrain them from setting up any 0
the manufactures which are carried on in Grea
Britain, and any such attempts should be crushe
In the beginning for il they are suffered to gre
Pages III. So.
"'0ur colonies much In the same state Ir,
land was in, whom they began the voollen MANI
factory, and rs their numbers increase, will IA
upon manufactures for clothing Themselves, If dr
care be not taken to 6nd employment for them,
raising sach productions as may enable them I
furnish themselves, with ell their necessary
from u.s."
Mr.. Clay quoted numerous extracts fro
British writer's, and British statutes BY Pa
lament 70 the same purport
the propriety Of the terms, British Polly sr
American Policy, as applied to FIRE
TRADE and PROTECTION, in the pa
and in the present.
The Free Traders propose utterly to igno
the great advantages which the God
Nature has conferred upon this country
avoid all legislation to develope the resourc
of our own land, and to diversity the emplo
ments of our own people. They simply pr
pose to let the people of our country cultiva
the land, and send of ito ~ products
exchange in such markets - they may iu
and at such prices as may be offered, for t
manufactures of other people. in exact q
> cordance with Br'i>h Policy towards US
the DAYS Of our C',.'rial vassalage. and
subservience to declared interests
NBrifsh capitalists lr own day.
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