The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-09-02

"a duty levied On articles imported
which can be and are produced in
this country, amounts to tax upon
those articles raised or produced
here, and ought not to be imposed.
But articles which cannot be raised
or produced here, should be taxed
as much as possible so as to make
them furnish the revenue" That IS
free trade, as taught by Mr.. Perry, a
paid agent of these foreigners, and
as we have received it, it truly IS
Democratic. ought to have voted
to reduce the tariff oD sugar, under
this rule, as it can be and is produc-
ed in this country; but handn't be
come fully posted yet, and conse-
quently put my foot in it a little.
Yes. But you was not always 4
free trader, Mr.. Dickinson, were you?
Oh! no. That is to say, not exact
ly. In old Wing times we used to
go for a revenue tariff with inciden-
tai protection, and as late as 1868,
our national convention saddled up
on us n sort Of tariff resolution, like
this:
A tariff for revenue upon foreign imports,
and such equal taxation under the Internal
Revenue laws, as iCW afford incidental pTOtec-
tiOn to domestic manufactures, and as will,
,cithORt aaDGirjRg tie reUeRue, impose the least
| burden upon and best promote and encourage
the great industrial interests Of the country.
But the entire issue, in that cam
paign, hinged upon green backs,
which didn't win, and we 50 COM
pletely lost sight of that resolution
that we never recall it if we can help
1t, except in Pennsylvania where it is
necessary to keep the Jackson vot-
ers straight. But free trades the
thing. Fact is, I amt sure but free
trade in everything is the right doc
trine. Free trade in naturalization
papers is good, l know. Although
free trade in confidential circulars
ought to be restricted. 1t is good
for one, but if all the candidates
were to indulge in it, it would not
prove profitable.
Then you arc a confirmed free
trader.
D1cK1NsoN-Yes, sir. This is a
Gland of liberty and an Asylum fol
the oppressed of erery nation >
with the exceptions before stated
And if they don't come here to asy-
lum, We asylum them there; for we
encourage their manufactures, by
advocating free trade, and we estab.
lish a market for them by enforcing
it, and we confer untold blessing;
npon the countless Iaborers of Eur
rope. Yes, sir, the wings of the
American Eagle are expansive, sir
extending from the icy coasts O
Maine to the golden sands of Califor
MIA. And when it makes an efort
to spread itself, it rises above the
peaks Of the AHeghenies, and seek
ing an immaginable perch over the
waters of the Atlantic, sir, it covers
with one wing the giant Republic Of
the new world, and with the Other
gathers under its protection the Mo.
marches of England, Prussia, and
Belgium, whose crushed and starv.
ing workmen are engaged in fabri,
eating goods, or forging iron to un-
dersell the upstart manufacturers
who cannot compete with them fol
the possession of our market, sir. 1t
is sublime thought, a glorious in :
spiration, sir, to be able to furnish
the country with cheap goods, under
the benign influence Of free trade,
The men of means are enabled to
obtain supplies at nominal rate
sir, and the expense of living is re-
duced to the lowest point,so that any
body can purchase who has money
If our iron mills stop let the employ
ees 90 to work in the cotton mills
If the cotton mills suppend, let then
go to the glass works, and if they
break down, let them work where
they can fiud employment and a
whatever wages they can get, fo
hasn't the American eagle under
free trade direction, extended tc
them cheap clothes, cheap iron
cheap glass, cheap everything, sirY
Cheap wages and no,bread, he
might have added. But he paused
in his gyrations, and apparently self
convinced and unapproachable, h,
seized his head covering and left u;
for the present.