Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-08
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from the Atlantic In an unbroken line,
two thousand miles away to the Pacific.
The manufacturing mining and me-
chanical interests of our country de-
mand attention as they do protection.
We are but the infants of day, while
Europe is the giant of a hundred
years. Can we compete with them ??
Can child compete with man ?
There employment is scarce and conse-
quently cheap. Here it is in active de-
mand and consequently renumerative.
If then the strong arm of protection to
orr infant manufactures and mechani-
cal productions shall be withdrawn,
the cheap products of European skill
will enter our ports. Their merchan-
disc costing less than ours will be of
fered for less. Every man purchases
where, other things being equal, he can
get the cheapest; this is the undeviat-
ing rule of trade. In such case the
home products of America will remain
unsold.
Factories, FORCES aud workshops,
busy wheels and flying spindles will
then stop. The blaze of the forge and
furnace on the iron hills of New Jersey
and Pennsylvania will then be extin-
guished. The busy hum of the facto-
ry and workshop will cease The wheel
will no longer revolve, and the flying
spindles covered with the cobwebs of
idleness will be forgotten.
Thousands of operatives, willing
hands and strong arms, will then be
discharged. Poverty and starvation
in the family, and stagnation in the
manufacturing districts will assuredly
follow But reverse this, let the gov
eminent build bulwark of defence
around her manufacturing interests,
reserve the American field for the
American mechanic Make our coun-
try self supporting, self sustaining; and
while at the same time revenues are
collected from the manufacturing inter-
ests at home to cancel our national OBJ.
legations; an import duty of sufficient
weight be imposed upon foreign pro
ducts seeking our shores as market
for the disposition of foreign wares.
Why purchase four hundred millions
of silks, satins, linen, woolens. hard
ware and the like from Europe every
year?
Why should this continued outflow
of four hundred millions yearly con-
tinue to go on. believe am safe in
saying but for the great productions of
gold, silver, lead and copper mines we
could not pay this sum. This nation
in its dealings with Europe, is like one
vast co-partnership, we must act in har-
mony to be successful.
Europe annually purchases from us
corn, wheat, oats, cotton, tobacco,
rice, sugar and hemp, amounting to
about three hundred millions of dollars.
We buy from her four hundred millions
of her manufactured wares and fabrics,
consequently the debt against us is at
least one hundred millions per annum.
Let us do our own manufacturing
and instead of millions of gold going
out of the country to pay and support
European establishments, Europe will
send yearly to us in gold the three hun
dred millions for our own wheat, cot
ton, &c.
We are better able to compete with
foreign manufacturers to-day, than we
were ten years ago. Continue the pro.
tective system and give us additional
protection, and in ten or twenty years
our home industries in the mechanical
and productive arts, will be so far adj
vanced that the child of to-day will
then be full grown man, fitted for
competition. Thus we would protect
the capital invested in these home man
ufactories, while at the same time we
protect the laborer and artisan, insur-
ing to the industrious but poor me-
chanic food, clothing, shelter and home
Then labor will be abundant then
laborers and mechanics will be sought
after; then, too, will be reversed the
lines of Burns:
eve beg our brothers of the earth
To give us leave to toll.
Here will industry meet her reward.
Here to our shores will the hard work
ed oyer-crowded and poorly paid mill
ions Of Europe come, and seek, with
the certainty of finding, that protection
and success which they cannot find at
home. r VII
Thus millions upon millions will be
added to our national wealth. Thus
prosperity like mighty stream will flow
through our land, giving peace and
plenty, blessing the hard worked me-
chanic, his wife and little ones Thus
will capital itself be rewarded. Thus
will millions be added to our producing
population. Thus will factories and
FORCES, workshops and mills spinning