Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1868-08-14
PROTECTION TO HOME I'm
DtSTRY.

We are happy to learn that the
breach which TO, merly existed between
the interest of the wool growers and
wool-manutacturers is almost complete
ly healed That breach was produced,
Ill the first instance, by ignorance of
the real merits of the tariff question J;
the wool growers, like the producers
OF other articles, falsely supposing,
many OF them, that any protection at
torded by Congress to the manufacture
mg interest of the country must neces-
sarily be injurious to the farming in.
terests in all its branches, inaSmuch as
1t would virtually shut out the farmer
from the foreign market, and, perhaps,
make him pay a higher price for all
manufactured articles of which he stood
i'll need
We have ever opposed this doctrine,
affirming that it is impossible for any
nation to be happy or Independent
which permits another nation to manu-
iacture for it all it needs, while the ag-
ricultural supplied the manufacturing
nation with the raw material and the
power, food and fuel to convert 1t into
articles tit tor consumption. We dem
onstratcd the fact that whenever such
a state of things existed, as in India
and Ireland, the agricultural nation was
poor and dependent, while the manu-
featuring nation, such AS England, has
become rich and powerful ut the ex-
psnse Of the Others
This doctrine Was snecred at and rid
ictled by that portion of the pres.
winch favored free trade; but the stub
born facts presented by the Chicago
w DOL Convention seem to have wrung
reluctant concessions from the free ira
ders, that completely upset their paste
board fabric and expose the imbecility
or folly of its architects. We quote
the following rcsaasGablc confession
from the Chicago EH NE Of yesterday:
The Imperfect -e,istics collected
by the association snow that in seven
Western States-Ohio, Michigan, In
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and
Minnosota,-the number of wooden
manufacturing establishments has in
creased from 259, with capital Of ST.
6l6,1i9, i'll 1860, to 557, with capital
OF s5,44S, 900, in 1868. OF these no
less thon 30 mills contributed to this
Exposition.
"All the speakers agreed that it is
for the interest of the millions of per-
sons living in the Mississippi Valley to
grow their own wool, and to have ii
manufactured as near their own doors
as possible; that to raise wool on the
pra;ries and send 1t to New England
to be made into cloth there, then to
send the flour and meat thither to feed
those engaged i'll converting the wool
into cloth, and then to pay for the
transportation of the clo,h back to the
West again, is an expensive operation;
that to raise the wool and have it man
on the spot where the corn
and wheat and the beef and pork of the
operatives are also grown, is a vast
say ing of money; and that the differ
ence between the two ways of doing
business amounts to very heavy boun-
ty paid by the agriculturist to the
Eastern manuiacturer-a difference es-
tlmated at,twcnty-tive per cent, bM zee
think i ,eW be proceed to reach nearly twiee
that SION.
The great object of the association
is to unite the wool-grower, the wool
manufacturer, and the merchant III
common interest, to the end that the
Western producer and manufacturer
may be able to absorb the entire IVES
tern market The ultimate sNccess.'of this
project caanot be probIepmttcak"-thteayo
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