Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-20

Thus the importer can pay the Govern
ment forty per cent. gold on the first cost
and seli the article for 80 whereas the
American manufacturer pays much less for
the support OF, his Government, (many
articles Being exempt from inEernal taxes),
and makes the consumer pay$2.94. Whi&h
Of the two is the greatest public beneffac-
The American, Screw Company affords
an example of the benefit the people at
large derive from class legislation 1t was
asserted in Congress few'days since that
.iG was the most monstrousa and gigantic
monopoly that this country has ever seen,
and the stockholders had made enormous
fortunes. The dividends were from thirty
to forty Cper cent. semi-annually y, and st1e.
stock was two hundred or three hundred
per cent. above .par-that the company.
bought off an English company from send
ing 20 this country, paying $40,0O0 year.
r The duty alone at this time is over one
hundred pereept; gold, andC yet with this
lenOrmous protection, finding screws, still
coming into the market. the makers have
asked, and the Senate bill gives them still
tChigfier projections. Would not the country
|, be benefited by the importer paying the
one hundred per cent. duty, instead of rais-
ing price ito the consumer, and adding
to the wealth of the few stockholders, by
tshutting soat foreign screws altogether :.
l., The greatest good to the greatest number
should be the ruling motive with all leg
[ islators. sEsE s sss @HSa e
r The agricu1turalIi is unquestionably the
paramount interest -of the country, and
must continue, so to be so long as we have
| so much rich,s uncultivated land. When
we become crowded, like the old countries
/ of Europe, we shall of necessity manufac-.
ture such articles as our eircumstanee ees
favor. There are now many things, Of the
coarser kinds, on which transportation is
expensive, that need no protection, and
there are Others in which foreigners possess
advantages over us for making, which ecan
be imported, and after paying The. GoNerm-
fment thirty or forty per cent. duties be
Sold twenty-five per cent, less than we can
make thena. <EkAE Az44}
+ If given number of days labor at our
mines will produce gold enough to buy a
| ton ofsiron that would cost double the
number Of days to mine, where is the loss
i In exchanging the gold fer the iron, even
Ithoughiti is thepnoduct of the paupef labor
| of England, and more specially If the Gov
eminent gets handsome duty on it?
T. "COmmerce,o says an eminent writer,
wants and contributes to the wealth of all,
and is to the general commonwealth OF the
civilized world swhatrthe daily intercourse
tof Ordinary life ais~to <pFivate society, or
rather what air and food are to our bodies"
Suppose we make ourselves independents of
the world, make and grow all that we re-
quire at whatever cost, close our ports, let
our ships rot at the docks. our sailors, ship
wrights and smiths be thrown out of en-
ploy pent, in short, bess wise asrthe- Jap
anese have beenf ii
ON the other hand, suppose we take ad=
vantage of what nature, has done tor us,
turn our labor into channels that Will pay
best, buy where we can buy cheapest (keep-
ing in mind always that the Government
must, have twenty-five per cent. on our
purchase), cheaper the cOstot our clothing,
hardware, crockery, &C., so that our farm
ers and planters can produce wheat, corn,
bacon, butter, cheese cotton, rice and
tobacco. at twenty-five per cent. less cost,
we shall thus be enabled TO command the
markets of the world. = -s---- y - 49, -