The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-08-08
Free Trade ". Protection.


+ Free Trade W. Protection.
$ The issue is making whether freetrade
I is protection to the best interests of the
| Industrial classes of the United States,
or whether tariffs are essential to such
protection. If our taxes are paid, If our
debts is diminished, production must be
stimulated and increased. Will free trade
increase or diminish it Or will relief
FROM the burdens of internal taxation,
and dependence for revenue upon high
tariffs, SO far As. they may supply reve-
nue., diversity our industry and stimulate
production? bzA slsfs asfot ksaloss Il 5sasas
+ II production pays the taxes, the pro-
(duction of the country must be increas
ed, or taxes must be diminished. Inex
|orable laws must govern the whole mat
| tiers The Americas people must learn
lthese laws, and seek safety from bank
ruptcy and reputation wherever these
laws point. 1fto be dependent on fors
eign skill, foreign capital, and foreign
labor for our necessities, and upon a for
eign market for the disposal of our agri-
cultural products, is the surest way to
reach the root Of the matter and secure
safety, we must yet learn it. If to com
ell foreign skill, foreign capital and for
eign labor to come here and seek invest
ment or employment, or pay roundly for
the privilege of seeking our market with
their products, is the surest way to build
ing up our own independent industrial
interests, increasing our productive pow
er, developing and using our resources
to aid in the payment of our debts, the
people of this country need to learn it.
This is to be the gravest and most i'm
portant question to be decided in the
immediate future. Is free trade protec
ton, or is it not !? That is the issue.
The Free Trade League is seeking to
secure popular vote on that issue. The o
protectionists of the country must meet
this question suqarely-will meet it,
are organizing to meet it. Sophistries
salted with abstract truths, perverted
facts, and positive political falsehooes
are being widely circulated by the agents
and dupes of foreign Industrial interests,
who are struggling to retain exclusive
control of our markets. These must be
met with vigorous efforts, incontrove9ti-
ble arguments and facts, as industricusly
circulated and enforced among the peo-
pie.
If farmer is in debt for his farm, is
without capital, has no exterior resour-
ces, his mode of paying for it is out of
its resources developed BY his own la
Dor. Ee sells his produce where it will
cost the least to transport it in compari
son to the price he gets for it. The pro-
ducts Of lis labor and his soil pay for
his farm. His economy contributes to
his Independence. This is precisely what
Americans must do to pay the National
debt. We must make all available pow
er, within ourselves, productive capital,
mind, muscle, skill, soils, machinery,
mines, forests, focks, fibers, fisheries,
herds, &C., DC TO do this we must buy
as little that we do not produce, and con.
tribute as large surplus of what We DO
produce, as possible, towards supplying
other peoples needs. ets
Will protective tariffs enable US to do
this Or not? Such is the question We
believe they will. We believe that our
debts must be paid by the products of
our own capital. skill, labor, soils, and
mines. We believe it cannot be shown
that there is any shorter and surer road
to independence from debt than by this
means nor any shorter and surer road
to national insolvency and reputation
than the adoption of the free trade poll
cy of the Free Trade League.-Chicago
Republican. so asoy