Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-12-10
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DaAuk 4ssey,
Tho above dyspeptic title appear
ss the heading of \ very dysrertic ar
ticlc in the Ch'cayo Tiba1, Of Dec
3. The innocent cause OF this distrib,
was the circular and blank petition
OF +. b. Ward, the latter of which W.
give in fall in another column. 1t il
the last request, that Congress shall
adopt such measures : as shall
tnrn the balance of trade in OF. favor
that our coin may b, lett a. home as
means OF resumny spcsie payment.
70 which the T,'ib,Gas pays its ira'c re
spects. In this request, SO very III.
propos, and so very mnc,i needed to
be granted, the Triba4- iisterns the
fcatrres.' and recognize the oaol
Of a full blooled African OF colossal
rroportions.' ut Simply means, says
ne T.5ans THAT Mr. Ward wants mar,
'~W"
Never was a mad bull m ore sensitive
TO the fiannt of y strip OF red, than the
1r.b"ae is to any suggestions for relic
VII & the burdens of the county and
especially the burdens OF the industrial
classes. when uch suggestions can be
construed into any proposition to re-
wise or regulate the tariff. To the
Tt,5un, the word tariff means every
thing wicked, abominable and satanic.
To the Tribune trade is every thing
and especially trade that shall bring
money, people and power to Chicago,
trade that shall build up some great
rich and populous city;-but that hind
OF trade and i, ,!ustry that is produc
tive, that gccs Is build up in every
80 ola few niles little local cen
&c 'ifiusing over the whole country,
prosperity wealth and local power,
10 noth.ng,--l, not 10 the liking OF this
.rost imitator OF European civilization.
this self-constituted exemplar of po-
litil.:l wisdom
y " York and Chicago are inter
este ! in keeping the balance of trade
against lis SO as to insure a continu-
aa:a Of the tran sportation Of Ameri-
c.n agricultural products from the dis
tat western farms to European mar
kc.a. Ira lie of this kind must center
i'll certain places and build up great
cities, which, as far as the industry of
great classes are concerned, are leeches
npon the body polite Chicago can
MT afford that Iowa, Illinois, Nilsson
ri and other Western states shall es-
,s,lisa Factories, Foundries. Machine
shops and ether industries, because
these states could then be supplied
with the greater par: Of their wants,
and have sale tor their agricultural
products, within their own borders
Chicago commission merchants would
cease to grow rich out of the hard
earnings OF the western farmer and
eastern consumer, and Chicago would
cease TO be the great central entire.
pot IF commerce which she now as
snmes to be, and the importance Of
which she is striving to augment. The
lr't"ae is supported in the main, by
lie business men OF Chicago men who
r't their living, and grow rich and
naughty, with the profits of this car
'yi,.g business between the East and
the West, and We ought not to expect
That it willhave any sympathy with the
laborin,, class of the country. We
Fnow that it has no such sympathy,
Tut that all its interests and instincts
are in unison with those of the impor-
ter and midale-men of the large cities
with a large proportion Of whom, if
the industry OF the Nation 4honld be
protected and tostered, we coald very
well dispense, to our lastin: benefit.
With the dimination of the number of
traders AMI importers, stoc,; i,tbers,
spectators, the Importance otthe large
cities would be curtailed to the inter
csts of all, political and commercial
power would be more fully d.stribu-
ted, and labor return to its position Of
responsibility and honor.
The Editor of the V.nson Lg0le made