The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-10-29

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Ohio are now made thousands Of
IONS ofiron annually and so of other
In New York city are some houses
built of brick which were made in
Holland. They were brought to
New York by free trade. They could
make the brick cheaper in Holland |
than in New York, and consequently |
they bought In the cheapest market.
If this doctrine prevails, the farmers
of Ohio must quit growing wheat;
because in Minnesota labor S no
higher than it is here, and land there |
is worth s1,25 per acre, whilst hare
it is worth about 500 per acre;
therefore wheat can be grown more
than forty times cheaper in Minneso-
ia than It car be grown here. Now
We will undoubtedly be told that the
Dutch did not take the cost of trans
portation into account when they
imported brick from Holland; and
that We must take transportation
from Minnesota to market into ac-
count before We accept the doctrine
that Minnesota wheat can be placed
in this market cheaper than
wheat grown on 500 lands in Sene-
ca county. That is the point pre-
eisely; no free trader will tell you
how much freight you must pay on
your raw material; how much you
must pay on your breadstuffs to feed
the operatives abroad; how much you
must pay on the manufactured goods
all this is carefully kept in the
back ground.
Suppose that free trade becomes
the law of the LAND, then our cotton
mills and WOODEN mills will all become
/ things of the past; all our wool will
| gU u England TO De manufactured;
/ the grower pays the freight on it to
I England, or what is the same thing,
the Enlish manufacturer buys it in
market at the same price that he pays
fer English wool of the same quality;
the English consignee deducis the
amount of freight from the sum re
ceived, and then, after deducting com
mission from the entire gross sum,
returns the balance to the New York
shipper; he in turn deducts storage,
dockage, shipping and commission
charges, and then returns what is left
to the original shipper
Old Ossawatamie Brown, once upon
time, shipped a cargo Of wool to
England, and 1 have been told that
the charges for freight to New York,
insurance commission, drayage, en-
trance fees, inspection, recording, &C.,
&C., &c., and the same charges in
England, with many more, including
duties to the Government, city, and
dry dock company, left him just one
half Of the gross amount which he
received for the wool. He never
made another shipment; he made one
free trade experiment, and that satis>
fed him. Then we must pay similar
charges on the breadstufs we ship to
England to feed the operatives whilst
they are manufacturing this wool in
to goods, and finally we must pay
all the charges to import the manu-
factured product. All these char
ges, from first to last, are paid by
the grower and the consumer.
Suppose wheat is worth $500 per
kushel in England; you ship your
crop there; after paying all expenses,
you find you have just SLIGO per
bushel left. You have enjoyed the
benefit of a foreign market, whilst
your neighbor sold his wheat at the
nearest railroad station for 81 ,00.-
Are you any better of than he is?
You have enjoyed free trade, you
have sold in the dearest market, and
purchased in the cheapest; but you
have paid freight both ways, and
have not gained one red cent over
and above your neighbor, who sold
and bought at home. He has en-
couraged home manufacturers and
home products, whilst you have dis
couraged them. A system of free
trudv VIII not abUiish custom houses
or custom house charges, as those
of you who have imported cattle or
sheep from England or horses from
France, can testify. You know very
well that the duty of % per cent. is |
PFs hi ra ga&R@ess99gs means all the charges which
25 per cent. would not abolish afi the /
other charges.
| do not believe that it is the mis-
sion of the United States to be the
'hewers of wood and drawers of wa
.er" for the European nations. be-
ieve that we have a separate and in
dependent mission and destiny. If
We will protect our own industry, in
! very short time European capital
will be seeking investment here in
manufactures, and all the industries
# Europe will be dotted over our
road and fertile land. 1t will then
equire all that the soil will produce
o maintain our own population. {
l was very frequently assured, when ]
n Europe, that if We would adopt a c
tariff, and not repeal or
lOdify it for period of twenty-five
ears, that millions of dollars of man. =
featuring capital would seek invest I
lent in the United States; that the a
reat abundance of raw material in
be vegetable and mineral kingdoms y
'ould enable the manufacturer to OBJ 4
lin the raw material at lower rate t
ere than in Europe. Then, too, he s
ould procure breadstufs always just ! !,
lie amount of transportation less :
ian in Europe, whilst he could fur is
ish the manufactured article cheap c,
TO the consumer than the latter u
'uld possibly now procure it, and at >,
lie same time obtain a better price >, a.
T his breadstuffs than at present. b.
The Creator never placed man, nor Al
limals, nor plants in a country VI
here existence would be very prob II
matieal. IfHe had intended that h. ;.
should feed Europe, why give US
g vast formations of gold, silver, to
Lper, lead, zine and iron ores?- pc
hy give US inexhaustible deposits aT M
lime, coal and sand? Why give ~ ~
everything in so much larger of
antilles, if We are to feed them is
ross the ocean, and they to manu-
,ture for Us? So long as We ship a@e @
r food to them, and import the be,
oducts of their industry, so long DIR,
Il our own natural resources be be
developed. England understood
is matter long ago; she prohibited, SCI SCI
der very severe penalties, the ex- 1sl
rtation of wool from her kingdom, to