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


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away, you will find your Brutus'
corpse extended on the plain, and
from his gaping wounds will pro
trude fraudulent naturalization pa !
pers and confidential circulars. ]
SOME NAY think it strange that Mr..
Dickinson should be a free trade
man, and at the same time be found
voting against the reduction of the
duty on tea and coffee. Not a. all |
strange, The philosophy (f) of the
free traders is, that a duty on ialpoT-
tationS of such articles as we can pro- |
d,ce amounts to a tax upon what we
do produce, and therefore no i'm
posts should be levied on such ar
ticles. In other words, that English
or other foreign manufactured artic-
les, such as wooden and cotton goods
iron, nails, saws, edge tools, knives,
pins, cast steel DC, &C., should be
admitted free Of duty because we
can and do manufacture them. But
that tea and coffee and such fruits
as we cannot grow here, and such ar
ticles as we cannot manufacture here,
should be taxed, and heavily taxed,
too, because they would be the only
articles left upon which to raise a
revenue for the government. So
Mr.. Dickinson was true to the theo
ry of the free traders, when he voted
to add to the price of the poor mans
tea and the poor mans coffee, be-
cause they are not produced in this
country, but he forgot his instruc-
tions little when he voted for the
duty on sugar. 1t is little singu-
lar that the English manufacturer
wants Just what Dickinson is willing
to concede, that her manufactured
articles may be allowed to come in
free to break down our manufacture
ers, and then when that is accomp-
| lished, and our factories and work
shops are lying idle, and our me-
chanics and artizans driven out of
employment, up will go the prices,
and England reap harvest. If our
manufactures start up again, and
begin to ertcr the market at the adj
vanced prices, then down they will
crash again until manufacturing
here ceases, then up again go prices;
and so the foreign manufacturer,
with his free trade allies here, trai
tors to the people, will control our
markets, and monopolize the manu-
featuring business for this vast
country. Working men, farmers,
mechanics; are you, by your votes,
going to assist Mr.. Dickinson, to de
stroy the best interests of your
country, and your own personal vel
fare? Are you going to become al
lies of these foreign schemers, who
are looking to the advancement of
their own private interests even if
they are to be attained by striding
over the emaciated bodies of
starved workmen? We think not.
Then, when the willy and insinuat-
ing button-holer draws you to one
side, and palavers you with the idea
that it don't make any difference
who goes to Congress; it will be all
the same any how; and that he is
poor, and needs it, and would esteem
it a favor to have you vote, ETC., de-
mand Of him why he voted directly
against your interests, and the inter-
ests of the people generally-and if
it don't make any difference who
goes to Congress, intimate that you
will allow him to stay at home, for
it does make a difference, and par
ticularly to you. The poverty dodge,
when it is known that he was an
heir to the wealthiest estate in the
county, comes with bad grace. If
not possessed of enough ability to
manage his own business so as to
prevent it going to ruin, how shall it
be said of him that he is able to
manage the business of his constitu-
ents, and the evidence that he is not
is manifest in his disposition to
transfer the manufacturing interests
of our country to foreign capitalists
Beware of casting your vote for him.