North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-01-08

"a Tariff sufficiently high to afford ade.
quate protection to manufacturing indus
try would greatly increase the amount OF
freight to be handled .:.and that would inev-
itabIy cheaper transportation, both by
water and rail. Chicago Journal.
THE present tariff is the highest ever
enacted in a civilized country. 1t don't
afford adequate protection what sort OF
tax on the products of the consumers OF
imports in the opinion of the evening
luminary, would SUFFICE? Most people
think that sixty to one hundred per cent
of a tax on the earnings Of consumer is
as high as human nature can well bear, or
the rapacity of special interests infiict.-
BY the way can any notion be more crude,
irrational or absurd than the conceit that
railroad freights are increased or cheapen-
ed by heaping additional taxes upon the
products of the consumers of imports p
Chicago Tribune. ..
The protectionists are evidently follow
ers of DR.. Sangrado. The more they ex.
haust the resources Of the country by their
tariffs the more they cry out that the trou.
bic lies in the tariffs not being high
enough. The method of practice of the
celebrated physician to whom we have re.
fered, is described as follows in the His.
tory Of Gil Blass The Doctor is called
in to see the Licentiaie Sedillo. "What is
your diet? l live pretty much upon soups,
replied the cannon, and eat my meat with
good deal of gravy. Soups and gravy
exclaimed the petriied doctor upon my
word it is no wonder you are i'll high
living is poisoned bait-you drink wine
l warrant you? Yes said the licentiate
but diluted. Oh finely diluted, 1 dare
say; this is RIGHTEOUSNESS with ven.
geance! Sangrado then sent me for q
surgeon and took from him six good por.
ringers of blood, by way of beginning, tt
| remedy this obstinate obstruction. He
then said to the surgeon, Master Martin
Onez, you will take as much more three
hours hence, and tomorrow you will re
peat the operation. 1t is mere vulgar err
ror, that the blood is of any use in the svs
tenn the faster you draw it off the better
When the doctor had ordered these fre
quent and copious bleedings, he added ;
drench of warm water at very short inter
vals. We set on the kettles in hurry
and as the physician had desired as above
all things to give him enough, we begar
with pouring down two or three pints a
as many gulps. An hour after we bese
him again then, returning to the attacl
time after time, we fairly poured delus'
into his poor stomach. The surgeon, OF
the other hand, taking out the blood al
we put in the water. we reduced the ole
canon to deaths door in less than tw,
days.
The consumation does not in the leas
shake DR.. Sangrado's faith in his owl
practice, but he attributes it entirely t
having been too lenient with the lancet
and too chary of the warm water.
The Sangradians have got holG Of Uncl
Sam, and are employing the same treat
ment toward him. They cut off his whole
some nourishment-"These excessive i'm
portations are your ruin r'-then com,
drenching and bleeding and purging, il
the shape of tariffs and tariff amendments
After having destroyed several of th
most important industries of the countr,
by their tariffs, with undisturbed equa
nimity, the Sangradians turn around an,
tell US that the catastrophe is only the re
suit of the tariffs not having been higl
enough.