The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1868-03-14
The effect of the Radical Finan-
ciaI policy upon Emigration.


Tt would seem that when influential
Radical newspapers brand their own par
ty with corruption unparalleled, and
charge to their own party the ills with
which the industry aud business of the
country are afflicted, it were time for the
people of all classes to unhesitatiugly
condemn not only the policies of the
Radical party but the entire party
Politicians and editors are apt to give
evidence against themselves, except as a
last resort, to gain the sympathies of the
people on the questionable merit of ac-
knowledging their own crimes.
The Chicago Tribune, the recognized
Western Radical organ, in discussing the
causes that have recently checked Ger
man and Canadian immigration to the
United States and actually turned them
back in some instances to their foreign
homes, makes the following home thrusts
at its own party's mismanagcment-to
call it by no harsher name
"Hence we ask, why is the tide of hu-
manity formerly flowing hlther arrested?
Why, when the transit is so easy, the
fare so cheap, and the required time so
short, should Canadians no longer avail
themselves of the advantages which our
country is supposed to offer? We an-
swer: Because our legislative folly has
neutralized those advantages and made it
far more profitable for Canadians to stay
at home. Take, for instances, the case of
a thrifty farmer anywhere in Canada
West. He has an unkindly soil and a
rigid climate. Possibly, he is dissatisfied
with the bastard royalty that is set up
over him. But why should he come
here? In Canada, as here, the markets,
in which he sells his leading articles of
produce is governed by the demand and
supply in the markets of Europe, where
his surplus finally goes. But he can law
fully buy where he sells. For him there
is a tariff of about ten per cent. on i'm
portations. His beef, his pork, lard, tai
low, wheat, corn and -four net him, in
many articles which his industry and his
household require, nearly twice as much
as they would yield him here. He has
our prices, at which he may sell what he
raises; he has Liverpool prices, with
charges added, at which he can buy what
he needs. He has cheap iron, cheap
woOlens, cheap c%ottons, cheap leather,
cheap groceries, cheap drugs, cheap
paints; aud if he is at all prudent when
he strikes the balance at the end of the
year, he is usually ahead. Here the
snare and delusion of "protection" envel-
op the industry in every direction, turn
whatsoever our Western farmer may
Our markets in which the prices of the
great staples are regulated are the Euro
pean markets. As they rise or fall, every
barrel of -four, bushel of wheat and
pound of pork in the West is sent up OF
down. But our wise Legislators have sci
up 4 barrier at every port Of entry, and
inscribed on it these words: You men
who till the soil, you may send out tC
Europe what you please, without let OF
hindranee; but you shall bring nothing
back that you do not pay roundly for
You shall pay the price in Europe; and
at this barrier you shall pay on your iron
for your plows, hees, reapers, hOrse-shOes,
and wagons, on your woolens for YOU
family, for your cotton of which your
sheets and shirts are made, on your
leather for your boots and shoes, on the
lead with which your house, barn anC
fences are painted, on your hundred un-
enumerated articles of ornament and
utility, an average of more than sixty
per cent. in gold; which sixty per cent.
or eighty odd per cent. IN currency, is In.
tended as a bounty to the iron master, the
owner of cotton mills, the maker of cloth,
and other stafs In the Eastern States
who erected this barrier and enacted this
law" In this fact we see clearly enough
not only the operation of hat robbery
called "Protection of American indus
try" but the reasan why Canadian farm.
4ers had ceased to come among us. They
can make more money in Canada; and
what is true of them is true in a less de.
gree of the Germans, who are looking
this way for homes. AS every able-bod
led emigrant is worth two or three thou
sand dollars to the country as soon as hi
foot touches our shore, we. in the West
are made to submit to an inquitious ar
rangement by which our chances of pros
perity are likened to a candle lighted a
both ends. We are made to sell at Euro
pean prices, and to buy at prices in Penn
s~ylvan1a and New England; and tina
fact is the reason for the existence of tn,
other fact hat immigration is falling off
whereby We have lost or are losing tn,
market of our lands, ia which so much o
u wealth consists. The most rapaciou
robbery ever practiced upon any peopl
since Austria gave up Lombardy, and tn,
Bourbon was driven out of Naples, is tn
robbery of the agricultural West by tn
tariff as If is to-day.
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