The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-01-14


have return cargo consisting in part of
wooden goods made from the finer woods
grown in the United States.
If in the absence IF duty on wool, all
the wool growers in the world should
send their wool to the United States, it
would put upon our manufacturers the
duty of doubling the value of those woods
and then sending them back to the .coun-
tries from whence they came. This would
give our manufacturers a wide market,
and would enable them to pay higher
prices for wool than could be paid in any
other part of the world.
If the municipality of Chicago should
place duty of fifty cents each upon all
pork barrels brought into Chicago, the
Chicago coopers would soon supply the
packers of that city with as good barrels
as they are now using, at the same current
rates, and that branch of business in Chi.
cago would realize new and important
impulse But on the other hand, if the
city, instead of putting duty on barrels,
should place a duty proportionatcly high
on slaves, heading,and hoop poles, the coop
erage business of Chicago would be Who'll
ly ruined, and dealers in those articles
would be unable to sell slaves, heading and
hoop poles, in that market.
Whatever influence that kind of legis-
lation would have in restricted field, it
would have upon the whole country
The great land proprietors of England
forced upon that government at one per-
iod the imposition of a duty upon foreign
bread stuffs Experience proved it to be
step in the wrong direction That
duty enhanced the cost of living Of the
operatives in the factories, created a
necessity, for higher wages, which lad to
go on to- the price of manufactured goods.
The repeal of the corn laws" was not
step in the direction of free trade AS
this duty helped pull down the manufac-
turers, so its repeal helped build them up
and also eventuated advantageously to all
classes OF agricultural employments,
shippers could no longer send off the
necessaries of life because they were high
er at home than any where else All
duties placed upon wheat, flour, beef
pork, tea coffee and sugar serve to increase
the wages of laborers mechanics and op.
eratives, and are highly mischeivous in
their effects.
Wherever manufacturers develope
wealth, land advances, and the products
of agriculture are augmented in value
and it is in such field that the agricult.
uralist finds the best return for his labore,
and the husbandman reaps his highest re-
ward,
The the statesmen of England gather
more laurels in the field of political econ
omy, than the statesmen of any other
country, may well be accorded. If we
dine in New York, San Francisco, Madrid
Constantinople, or st. Petersburg, the
cutlery we hold in our hands will have
upon it the familiar crown Of England
and trade mark of Sheffield. Political
economy in England has gained these tri-
umphs for the English manufacturers
But the world may look at Ireland and
learn what free trade with England has
for her and mark the result.
Ireland to be sure is politically allied to
but that does not vary the in
'tructive lesson which it presents. We
behold on one side of the channel manu-.
commerce and wealth, ON the
other poverty, and one incessant delving
for the raw material. -