The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-03-07

The following remarkable and threaten.
ing article against New England selishness
is from the Pittsburg Commercial, q high
protectionist and Radical reconstruction
organ. 1t furnishes the first mutterings
of a storm that has long been brewing,
and cannot come too soon. The CONNER
eiat says:
The unpatriotic s%elishness of some of
the New England Representatives in Con>
gress is somewhat trying, and cannot but
result sooner or lather to their own dam.
age. The protective system. compare
lively inadequate and shifting though it has
been, has created the prosperity of the
New England States; and now that they
are growing somewhat confident IN their
position, some of their Representatives are
constantly on the alert to secure special
advantages for special branches of indus
try in which themselves or their nelghbOrS
are Interested. For such a purpose they
frequently show themselves ready to aban.
don protection as a principle. A g%laring
instance is found in the proposition to DIS
criminate in favor of Boston rolling mills
by the admission Of English scrap IRON
Another is the fifty cents coal clause, to
which we called attention some time ago,
and which was changed in the Senate and
now replaced by the House. \ more un>
reasonable and damaging one, is the clause
IN the Senate bin allowing drawbacks Of
the entire amount Of the duty paid on ma
terial used by certain articles manufacture
cd for export. This is in fact offering a
premium for using foreign materials, and
Is al abandonment ofthc principle Of pros
lection. Nor is 1t the least necessary as an
encouragement to expectation. The man.
Colts pistols-or some body else's mach-
etts BY their " showing carrying on a
considerable export trade under the exist
Ing tariff, and control for their articles
South American and Mexican markets.
What reason is there, then, ia giving to
them the premium they demand? Again,
what they ask is neither more or less than
4 bounty on their exports. If the princi-
PIE ofbounties to them Is correct, it is right
to give bounties to every other exporter of
home productions. If the maker Of a
shovel is entitled to a bounty for sending
It to South America, why shall not the
maker Of a buskel of wheat have a bounty
for sending it to New England? Our
New England Congressman are not pre-.
pared to follow out, to Its legitimate re-
suit, the policy they are attempting for the
advantage of few establishments in New
England. These gentlemen should he
contentcd if the Government secures to
them the home market and this being
done By aid ofthc middle States, it is worse
than ungqnerous for them to strike at the
great iron and steel interests, as they have
attempted.
Gentlemen from New England, let The
rising, struggling steel manufacturer have
the SAME chance III itsyouth as had scythes,
shovels carpenters tools, cotton, de-
Cease to strike at the Maryland coal trade,
and send no more Of your Parthian arrows
at the iron interests of Pennsylvania ed
Ohio. Be honorable; be consistent.
1t behooves the people Of New England
to hold their Representatives to their duty
in this matter. We warn them that they
must be more Just and less selfish. The
time is not far distant when the Middle
States, uniting with the west and south,
wW yGVe the p0wer To make tie tarifS.-
The west is rapidly learning the advanta-
ges of protection to the Industry Of the
country. The Middle States know it al
ready. The 0n-to-be-renoyated south
will be an apt scholar. Wemay be taught
to follow the selfish example you are try
ing to inaugurate. Some pleasant winter
you will awaken to the fact that a protect
i've tariff, with discrimination against you.
such as your members are trying to make
against US, will set your mill owners to
carrying their machinery, instead OF their
goods, to spin and forge on the shores and
prairies west Of the ~Alleghanies and the
Mississippi.