The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-12-23
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TO FARMERS.

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The following historical picture, painted
IN 1883 By a master hand, is commended
to tie attention CT the Western anG
5 aIfhe.u farmers, who are now listening
lie arguments and, eaissaries OF the
n gYo,-k and Boston Free Trade Leagues
re trey nlty see plainly deiineated the
etiects ct a Tree trade policy, foIlglRatlne
III political treachery, and eliminating IN
national fankruptcy and civil war.osI hey
are NV inylt,d d, BY the Free Traders, to
ahandun the opposite poEcy lnaugurated
By the aIorrill tariff of 1861, which re-
vrve~ais 7.sfry, sustainedthe Government
during : e war. suppressed the rebellion,
and though Inadequate to the changed
order of fittings, still preserves the iceun-
try from the bankruptcy and ruin so con-
fleutly predicted for it. Let them com
pare wi.hsthat scene from hi spEy the de-
scrirtio.f of the results of our present
pars;alE PROTECTIVE tariff taken from Sthe
re, ort OF Special Con- missioner Wells for
the year 1869, who is claimed by the free
traders IS one of Their friends and cham p
ions. -4-a
'sCivil;zad comr- ties, which have
obtained that free13m of domestic in
tercoI,rSe -glich we S. eorely need, follow
the aivsce Of Adam Saith, in exporting
their 78ol and their com. in the form of
cloth. at little COST for transportation,
Thus France, In 1855, exported silks and
cloths, clothing, paper, and articles OF
furniture, to the extent of $500 600, 600.
and yet the total weight was short of
City taousand tens. requiring for its trans
port but forty ships Of moderate size, and
the services Of perhaps two thousand
persons, Bartarc = and semi-barbarous
count SeS. ON the 3trary, export their
conlsaditss in tne rudest state, at heavy
cost for transpvrtatioa.F India sends the
constituents Of ctoth, cotton rice, and
indigo o exchange in distant markets
&C. he c nth Itself Brazil sends raw. su-
gar across the ocean to exchange for that
which has been refined. We send wheat
and Indian corn, pork and -four, cotton
and rice, fish, timber. and naval stores,
to be. exchanged Tor silks and cottons, pa
per ard china ware The total value of
these cammQ5.tias exported ii 1856, high
as were then the-rrices.. was only S230,-
O49.0jD: and vet the american and for
eiqn ships engaged n the transport were
of the capacity of SIX millions. eight hun
dred .nl twenty-five thousand tons, re-
curing Tor their management 40 less
tnan 96a, tto- persons. rps ~yrss
I'm the movement of all this property
there-ts great expense for transportation.
Nha-pays il !? Asl, the farmer Of Iowa
aod t,e viii tell yougthat he sells for fiji
ten cents AMI that, too, payable in pa
pes ga buSael ut corn, which, when re-
ca'yed in Man hester, commands a dol
lar; anu that he IN this manner gives to
the >upporl OF railroads and canals, ships
anl s.iiio~s, brokers AMI traders, no less
TIM ei95ti-fiue per cent. Of the ant,1tsic
ua3.sa ~ has prod,cts Ask him once
again and he skill tell you that while his
bushel ~ corn wild command, IN ianches-
ter. eighteen or twenty yards Of cotton
cluth, he is obliged TO content himself
withhttie more than Il single yard-eight
five per cent. of the clothing power OF
his corn LQying been taken on the road,
a. his contribution toward the tax i'm
posed upon the country for the mainten-
auc1 Of that free trade, which is the
sou II freedom We do mot at present
ncels4 e. So - 1ss%}4 80 E2.s 80
The country that exports the com
modify Of SMALLEST bulk is almost wholly
free fruin the exhausting lax Of trans
porfatien. At nayre, where ships abound.
ships being little needed for the outward
voyage, the outward treights must be
very low. a
The community that exports the
commodities of the greatest bulk must
pay nearly al the cost of transportation
A sc6-o Of ships being required to carry
from par ports tn lumber, wheat or naval
stotes ing epbs co-or.t lp cotton required
to par fti.sa single earge of -eIrth the
outward frsighti must always be at or
near h. cant which is required to nay
for ire double yrase, and every planter
knows 70 his cost how much the price of
hI> ten Is dependent upon the rate of
III the first Of these communities en-
yloy eats become tFoui day to day more
dive led, the various human faculties
hs-o. ses more and. more developed, the
Ii er O. combination tends steadily to
Ase. agriculture becomes more and
EcFe . science, the land more productive,
cnG society movement becomes more sta
Die and r-etNar.2 AMI the power to pur-
chase machinery If all kind, whether ships,
mills, ser the precious metals, tends stead-
IS - augment. In the last the reverse
81 thissis fpural. In the first the land
vieblsHmore with each successive year.
18th constant increase III the power of a
shell of wheat, Of a posnd OF. wool. to
a.ttyhases money. In the last the land
yIa' ~ less from year 70 ycfr, with. con
SAINT tendency TO decline in price of food
AN cotton The first imports the pre-
c..as m -ja She last exports III N.
Fwo years since we Were told tia tour
shipping already exceeded FIVE million
tons. and that we had become- the first
maritime power Of the world; and, Of
course, tn this great fact was to be
viewed a5eyl,ience OF growing wealth and
power Last year, however, exhibited it
At a stand and future years are likely to
shoW Il large decrease, ships having be-
e',n most ,tSpfefitahe. Mrre than four-
eth of the products Of Western farms
ana ) atllweStcrn plantations are, as we
have seen. taken for the support of rail-
reads aad, ships, anu yet The roads are
bankrupt, while the ships have done lit
tie more FOR same years past than ruia
the IN IN who owned hem Suel. being
the csse. it seems little likely that b.
means OF sailing ships We are to acquire
that control of The co5mmerce of the world
50 confidently promised. when, in 1876.
we were led TO abandon she policy which
looked to the creation OF a domestic com
inerce as the tru- foundation of a great
foreign one. H c. Carey's Letters to
Baciuaas, less.
z ss 1889.
within the last FIVE years more cotton
splndlcs have been put in operation,
moro iron faundries erected, more iron
sEetted, more bars rolled. more steel
male, more coal and copper mined, more
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