The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-10-29

: will not abolish custom houses {
q custom house charges, as those ,
!, you who have imported cattle {
sheep from England or horses frol
S France, can testify. You know yer
d well that the duty Of % per cent.
f by no means all the charges whic
are exacted; and the abolition {
/ this % per cent. would not abolis
t all the other charges.
/ do not believe that it is the mis-
sion OF the United States to be th
: "hewers of wood and drawers Q
water' for the European nations.
believe that we have separate an
independent mission and destiny. j
we will protect our own industry, i
a very short time European capita
will be seeking investment here il
manufactures, and all the industrie
OF Europe will be dotted over ou
J broad and fertile land. 1t will the
require all that the soil will produc
to maintain our own population.
[ was very frequently assured
when in Europe, that if we woult
adopt protective tariff, and not re
peal or modify it for a period o
twenty or twenty-five years, mil
lions of dollars of manufacturing
capital would seek investment IN the
United States; that the great abun
dance of raw material in the vegeta
BILE and mineral kingdoms would en-
able the manufacturer to obtain thu
raw material at lower rate her,
than in Europe. Then, too, he coult
procure braesdstuffs always just The
amount of transportation less thar
in Europe, whilst he could furnish
the manufactured article cheaper to
the consumer than the latter could
possibly now procure it, and at the
same time obtain better price for
his breadstuffs than at present
The Creator never placed man MOI
animals, nor plants in a country
where eXistsuce would be very prob
lematical. If he had intended thai
we should feed Europe, why give u:
the vast formations of gold, silver
copper, lead zinc and iron ores
Why give US inexhaustible deposits
OF lime, coal and sand ? Why give
us everything in so much larger
quantities, if we are to feed tn n
across the ocean, and they to manu-
fscture :or us2 So long as we ship
our food to them, and import the
products of their industry, SO long
will our natural resources be unde
veloped. England understood this
matter long ago; she prohibited, un
der very severe penalties, the expor
tation of wool from her kingdom, ,and
encouraged by every possible means
the immigration of Flemish ard 9th
er weayers and artisans of variou;
kinds. Whilst she prohibited the
export of wool and encouraged i'm
migration, she at the same time very
rigidly prohibited the importation o.
tarv articles which would come In
competition with articles which sht
was manufacturing. Even to day, i
any person sails for England, and ha:
a copy of Byron or Moore, or any
other English work reprinted IL
America, in his possession, the po
lite custom house officer at Liver
pool or Southampton will consign il
to the flames before the eyes OF the
owner; at the same time he will tel
him that he admires has taste fol
English literature. but then he must
get it from the British and not the
American press. This is specimen
of John Bulls free trade
For many generations to come
labor must command higher price
in the United States than in Europe
Labor will be higher here than there
until this country is so densely set
tied that all industrial occupations
will be fully supplied then, and
then only, will labor decline in price
so as to compare or be on leveI
with labor in Europe. Europe can
now manufacture cheaper than we
can, because she is prepared to man
ufacture, whilst we are not she has
all the buildings erected, all the ma
chinery constructed and in place ;
she has all the skilled labor requisite
to carry on all kinds of manufac
lures.
Those who attended the exhibition
of wooden manufactures in Chicago
in 1868, aud in Cincinnati last Au
gust, can testify that we, here in the
West and Northwest, can manufac-
ture as desirable goods in as elegant
styles as they can in Europe. Now,
what we want is to prohibit, by some
means or other, European manufac
lures from being thrown upon our
markets. We are Europe's best Gus.
toners, and if We discontinue our
imports-which have exceeded q
hundred millions of dollars annually
we will soon find these European
manufacturers locating in our midst
and supplying us with the skilled
labor requisite to produce the most
complex manufactures. a home
market for our products is always s
better one than foreign market. II
wheat is worth Sl.50 per bushel in
Columbus, it is better for Franklin
county farmers than if il is worth
SI.50 only in New York, and Frank
lin county farmers be compelled to
ship it to New York to obtain that
price.
As a first step towards the devel
opment of our natural resources here
in Ohio, the Legislature ordered {
geological survey to be made. Many
have asked me what will this survey
amount to? 1t will amount simply
to this, viz: We wiu knoao achat min
eral resources zoe have and uhere to
find them. 1t is like a merchant OF
farmer taking an account OF what
property he has or owns, and seeing
what shape it is in, and ascertalnlng
what he can do with it--how he can
make it available. Then there is an
aqric,atural surrey connected with
the geological survey, what Will II
amount to? A knowledge of soils,
subsoils and substrata constitutes
the science Of agricultural geology.
The objects of agricultural geology
are: ~
First. The classification CT soils
on sound and accurate b!ssis, and
the establishment Of some general
nomenclature of them, instead oI
that confusion OF names, which rem
ders it almost impossible for the cul
tivator of one district, to kaow the