Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-04-22

others of that school. Jefferson said
"The manufacturer should be at the
side of the farmer that "manufac-
turers are now as necessary to our in
dependence as to our comfort" Ham.
ilton said that: "the independence and
prosperity of a country are materially
connected with the prosperity OF its
manufactures" Franklin said that
industry, in all shapes, in all instances
and by all means, should be promoted
But by the foreshadowing in con.
structing his cabinet, it is feared the
President takes a different view Of
this question. a merchant may have
a distinct interest from that of his coun-
try. He may thrive by trade that
will prove her ruin. A single mer-
chant in New York has imported a
larger amount Of foreign manufactures
in the last quarter OF a century, which
ought to have been produced by our
own citizens, than all the breadstuffs
we have sold to England. He was
the first man selected by the Presi.
dent tor his chief minister of finances
the Secretary of the Treasury. This
is ominous Of evil to our home manu-.
facturcs. The free trade papers have
rung withinv ectiye and rldicule against
such men as Sprague, Cakes Ames and
A. B. Ward, who have exhibited as
high degree of financial skill and
ability as the New York importer-dit-
| fused vast sumes of money among our
own working people, and developed
in them arts, and sciences, and genius
worth more to the nation than the ten
largest private fortunes in the city of
New York. Hundreds of the most
skillful mechanics, machinists and
manufacturers are graduating from
their factories annually, and diffusing
themselves all over the country to i'm
part their knowledge to thousands
who will use it not only to build up
magnificent homes for themselves, but
also to build up a wealthy, powerful
and grand country.
Can it be polite, in any point OF
view, to make the United States de-
pendant On any nation for supplies
necessary for ease, comfort, accommo-
dation or defense. The great abun-
dance of money where manufactures
prevail, and its great scarcity where
they do not exist, is strong pres1mp-
tive evidence of their favorable III.
fiuence upon the prosperity of COM
munity.
1t is not, as some may suppose,
that your correspondent enters the
list as an ar,ful and ingenious writer
in championship for the manufacturers,
for he cannot number among his friends
one who owns factory, or dollar OF
stock in one nor does he write ad cap-
tendum to tickle the tancies of manu-
facturers, for they are generally intel
llgent, and probably better posted in
the statistics which he has presented Ill
his several communications than him.
self. But he says, with Henry Clay,
in his first speech in Congress after his
return from Ghent: Il would now pro-
tect and encourage the home manu-
features, not so much for the benefit
of the manufacturers themselves as for
the great general interest of the whole
country" These fervent appeals, there
tore, are not made alone to manutac-
turers, but to fame $, mechanics, mer-
chants and professional men, all OF
whom would share largely and liber-
ally in the prosperity that would flow
from an enlarged, spirited and pros
porous manufacture throughout the
country.
Respectfully yours,
ALFRED DrTcu.