The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-09-28
The Farmer and Manufacturers in
1863 and 1860, Respectively
To the Editor of the Evening post:

The Farmer and Manufacturer i'm
1863 and 1860, Respectively
To the Editor Of the Evening post:
The greatsobject of those who favor pro
lection and monopoly is to show the til
Ter Of the soil, that notwithstanding the
high price he has to pay for every manu-
factured article he uses in the year 1869,
he is still better off than he was during
the antiprOtective years, as his produce
will command more manufactured artic-
les now than it would have done before
our present monopoly. Mr. Greeley is
so sure Of this fact, that he gives it as a
conclusive argument in his Essay No. 10,
which, quote verbatim:
Most certainly do ! believe that the
prices of home manufacturers ESTIMATED
in labor or in farm products) tend stead
lily downward ; that hundred bushels Of
wheat or corn, and ton Of beef or pork
a load of apples or Of potatoes, viii buy
far more iron, or cloth, or hardware, in
1869, than it would have done in any an
ti,proteCtive era ofour country. Though
The money prices Of American fabrics
should range even fifty per cent higher
than those CT their foreign made rivals, |
hold it the true policy of our farmers to
encourage and prefer the homemade,
because they would thus advance their
own interest by charging, quickening,
and rendering constant the demand for
their products, while securing better
prices. for them
Such are Mr.. Greeley's ''certaia' con-
clusons 1 will state statistical acts,
which utterly and enphatically refute the
above asscrtions,and prove it a baIefaced
assumption, palmed off on a whole
people as truth. Here are the current
prices Of wheat and pig iron in August,
1859 and 1862 respectively;
August August,
Wheat, per bushel, in 1859 1869
N. Y white western 81 80 81 70
PIG iron, per ton, in
n. Y. "a co 40 90
One hundred bushels of wheat, in 1859
at 81 30, or $l30, would have procur-
ed as near as possible 1913 pounds Of
pig iron.
One hundred bushels o: wheat at the
present price of 81 IS per bushel, or
81 75, will buy, in August, 1869, in
New York, just 10 $40 pounds of pig
iron. or 1898 pounds less than in
1869.
The above prices are taken, for 1859,
from the Evening Post Of that year, and
for 1869. from the Tribune and Iron A
The duty on pig iron in 1859 was "a per
cent al rayoTem. The duty on pig iron
in 1859 is 50 ton. or so per cent ad
cQl0rem. -.--
How in the world the ''true policy Of
the farmer can be to uphold an iron
monopoly, when his hundred bushels of
wheat would procure for him 1,493
pounds more pig iron at tariff of a
per cent than 100 bushels of wheat can
get for him at tariff Of 81 per cent, l
leave to the farmer, who can read and
calculate, to Judge. 1t remains only for
me further to state that the price Of pig
iron No l in the Clyde, in 1869, was f2!
lis. Sd. No. in the Clyde, in 1859, is
f2 lis. Cd These figures and facts
speak for themselves, and need no com
ment from No MONOPOLY.
The Creation OF New ORices.
Governor Hayes and the Radical State
Executive Committee arfaign our Demo
cratic Legislature for creating new Off
ces! All the new offices that were Great
ed, were recommended by Governor
Hayes, or petitioned forby large pro-
portion of the taxpayers Of the State
Governor Hayes recommended the crea-
ton of many new Offices, which recon-
menda.ions were disregarded by the Leg
islature,- Among those recommended
by the Governor, and not crea ed by the
Legislature, were SO County School Sup
erintendents, and over 400 Registrars
under, Registry Law, which the Govern
or wanted the Democratic Legislature to
enact. So the salaries of all these Off
GERS were saved the taxpayers of the.