Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-02-23

" hlle IN 81. LOUIS, the speaker had learned that
the cost of pigiron in Missouri was only S225o per
ton. This iron brought from $40 to so per ton in
the market and the iron owners were rolling in
wealth at our expense Take of the duty on iron and
the additional railroads which would be built there
by-would employ more men than now live upon the
manufacture of iron. Take on the duty on iron and
the increased number OF ships built and manned
would employ more men than are employed in al
kinds Of industries benefited BY the Tariff
THE SALT NABOBs
The Onondaga salt Company was a fair specimen
Of the present system. JLr. Commissioner Wells in
his report Of last year shows that this Company uu
der oath admitted that they went into business in
1861 under our blessed tariff with capital of one hun
dred and sixty thousand dollars and so rich was the
culture that in FIVE years they distributed dividends
to the snug little amount Of four million snd i've
hundred thousand dollars and then had four hundred
thousand dollars, on hands for repairs.
Now this kind Of business is dignihed by the name
Of Protection The speaker thought robbery would
be mere appropriate name.
Tariff Rss0lts
The results of this kind of Legislation has been
TO send prices to the moOn Rents, fuel, cloth
ing, everything the poor NAH needs to keep him
from the cold, are more than double in pricp,
whilst the average increase in the price of labor.
according to Mr.. Wells report has been only 81
per cent. Every tool the mechanic uses, from
iaek-BHife To 81 steam engine is doubled In
price. Every Implement Of the furmer, from a
rake to a reaper, is the same way.
HO1r It Helps Tie Farmer.
The ProtectiOnistS claim that a high tariff
helps the farmer. But what are the factss We
have had for eight years the highest tariff ever
known among civilized nations; but to-day
wheat is selling for less money than for twenty
before, and the farmers are Slaughtcring their
fine-wool sheep to fatten their hogs. Take the
export of wheat to Great Britain for ive years
preceding this tariff and compare it with the
five succeeding years, and we find a decrease Of
81 per cent five don't trade with country
that country won't trade with us. Commerce
is simply an exchange of articles. 1t is true we
have imported largely certain kinds of goods,
but we have paid for them i'm United States
Bonds, and We are now nearly at the end of that
string.
olr ssfieHlifrIi Interest,"
dations'0i all on. iifosperlty. 5Fhsu theg suI-
fer, all suffer. Why then should they be plum
dered ut every turn in order to fatten a few
hundred iron masters and few dozen salt and
lumber lords
( According to the census of IstO only 7O,lOG men
all told, are employed i'm the various forms Of
iron manufacture, and only 10000 men, women
and children in the manufacture of cotton.
WOODEN and other textile fabrics. Even sup
posing Free Trade would throw out of employ
ment some Of these persons. would it not be just
as well or as cheap to pay them full salaries to
do nothing until other industries should offer
them employment
The Tariff, however, does not protect these
people, but simply the capitalist who employs
them.
It is all nonsense. however, tu talk about
running these industries. With cotton and wool
at our own doors. cheaper than can be had
anywhere else in the world, and iron, coal and
copper in purity. and abundance, absolutely
unknown elsewhere on the globe, it is the
height of folly to say that we cannot compete
in our own markets with nations who live
across the ocean, 1900 miles away.
Pupsr La5Of.
The protectionists claim thar Free Trade
would put our workingnen ON a level with the
pauper labor fEurope, and therefore they want
a high tariff to prevent it. If they are honest
it this, would it not be best to put the tariff on
the laborer. a tax ola hundred dollars head
on every emigrant would keep out many of the
thousands who are coming here and would
tend, Of course, 10 make laboreTs scarce and
wages high. If Greelly, Kelley & Co. are in
earnest in this argument, they ought to raise
the cry of ~down with the Dutch and away with
the Irish"
No, no, this talk of fpauper labor and protec-
ton 10 American industry is a fallacy or a falS-
hcation from top to bottom, and the people are
finding it out, and will soon make an end of il.
Everybody knows we need l8borers and that
we can give abundant employment to an the
hardy enigrants that Euroqe can send us
Hot House Culture.
II is not time To stop this hot-houSe culture
and let things grow as nature directSs I sup
pose Won could grow oranges here in Champaign
for the whole state of Ohio If "a duty high
enough was placed ON that fruit, but would il
be wise to raise oranges under glass at $500
piece, when we can import them frOm the West
Indies at hSe cpntSs The whole theory of the
is baSe,l upOu artificial scarcity.
not abundance, II they had been with the
hildren of Israel i'm the Wilderness when God
cent mamma freely every night, they would have
1etetiOned Hoses to stop the mannaS falling, So
Is to protect the home industry or the Jewish
lakcr. No! no, If manufactures can't live
Without this Kind of protection. let them die.
e h0UntieS are necessary and wise, lct us pay
hem out Of our state and city treasures ond
Ollect the money for the purpose by direct tax
tion. Then when v5 pay ~ a ton on pig iron,
o build mp interests i'm that article, we shall
,now that it goes directly To our own people
md not 20 Pennsylvania
4 Rsrssss 7FriF.
But. inquiries the Protectioui>t, bow ur,. we. tu
aise our revenuee simply by pluciug; 10 maiu- r.
upon ARTICLES which we DO not produce at r~-
hen, the tax all goes TO the GOvenmeu
lOnOpOlies.-The greater-paff or
ONES nom articles -alfeady. Three-i r.
lrif reostpts ~ gear came nom thirta.-. 81
riteles- This year Nr. Wells estimates ~ = "
sNenue AT one hundred and eightymiIi0ns- n.
$ follows; From articles Of necessity such,i
er, iron, tin, clothing. cual, salt, lesthcr
Ike forty-thFce million dollars. Frnm ariio.
Ixury and comfort, such as liquors, wines. 81
,reign huiis and nuts, teas, coffee, tobacco
nan sugar uaOlasses, and the like ssycnty-siN M
ON dollars From articles such OF silks lianei
1tton, and woolen goods, &c, dity-iour million an5
We hundred thousand dollars. From unenumcraie
'ticles, seven hundred thousand dollars. From fur
iures fines, &c. i've million eight hundred ihous-
ld. Now our suplus revenug, lrOm an sources for
c current year, O. estimated at one hundred and
renty million dollars. It viii, theaei0re. BE- scln
at we could az once strike "a an the taxes upou
ticles Of necessity, and then have seysntysevcn
illion dollars 30 apply on the national debt. The
,neral thought, however, that that amount is mere
an we ought TO pay, and De wuuld take tliriy miI-
N dollars Of and strike on the most obunxious OF
internal revenue taxes, which would leave those
ON Incomes liquors, tobacco and a few STAMP
ties. We can DO this ana stiu have any million
liars TO pay ON the National debt.
rhc duties upon, Tea, coffee, sugar and pepptr
Ids a revenue Of nearly dUy million dollars ana
t Mlls SO lightly upon the consumers tAat it coste
n person only four cents Per week. Asthe matter
vs. stands We pay more tax up0n The boots sra
pes which We wear, thaR upOR the g1pr srtftle-
.ea, coffee, sugag ana pepper. Without TAX 0u
sc articles sht incomes, a Free Trade Tara f.
peaai6te, and therefore when you hear a man tails
akins on an the tax on these things, ron NAV
DIV that he IS a PrDtocti ti0uisL
he General clasgd with am appeal for ,hc laugF
hts Oi ali and claimed that &C. Is only hy freedom
squalty among an the States. tbat we can ire.
We the Onion and our nationality,