The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-07-16

ties, epeOWAakious and losses thuf arUse from
the distance of her markets, the range Of
her competition, and the impossibility Of
foreseeing the fluctuations of demand and
supply in industries which were subjected
to competition with all the world, and in
which most Of the facts necessary to arElXe
at sound Judgment werc unknown. Had
our markets been at home, the shortness of
a crop would have increased its price, and
the producers would not have suffered. But
our markets being abroad, tie supply in
Europe might be most abundant when ours
was least 50, and thus poor crops would
combine with low prices to ruin the farmers.
North and South were each knit to Eng
land by the ties of trade, but no ties Of mu-
tual commerce bound them to each other,
or neutralized the rapid tendencies to dis
union, which arose from their different modes
of industry. Planters sneercd in Congress
at the poverty of the Northern mudsills and
greasy mechanics. Philanthropists, who
were not economists. denounced the waste
fulness and cruelties of slavery, and yet
many Of them ignorantly opposed, and still,
like Garrison, Phillips, Beecher, and other
abolitionists, now oppose all measures de-
signed to ensure higher and freer nation
al industry. All our railroads pointed and
still point to Liverpool, instead Of as in
France to Paris, in Prussia to Berlin, and
in Russia to St. Petersburgh and Moscow.
All our alliances were abroad, all our strifes
and chickering's at home. We gloated over
a ship a. something glorious, and denounced
q furnace or factory as something contempt
IDLE. Every acre Of soil, North and South,
was growing poorer every year, except in
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, where the most adverse
and malevolent legislation could not wholly
prevent mills and furnaces from springine
up, and where consequently the nearness Of
the farmers market enabled him to prac-
tice rotation Of crops, and so to manure and
improve his soils. 1t was wholly owing ia
these industrial misgovernments and ex
bausting and impoverishing systems Of in
duStry, that the different sections Of oul
country were prevented from having profit
able commerce and community Of Interest
With each other. There was but little trave
between North and South. The less they
understood the more they hated each other
and Northeast and Northwest, Southeas
and Southwest and again the Pacific State.
bad % little in counmon, that Vallandigham
in 1860, proposed division into five con
federacies, instead Of into two. Our dis
severed and discordant condition was like
that Of the petty German States before th,
establishment of the Zollverein. These dis
organizing influences eliminated in 1866
! in secession, rebellion, civil war, the los
of . million Of lives, and five thousand mil
lions Of treasure, and at last the re -soIder
ing of the Union and the establishment O
one divided nation, through a resort to tina
protective policy whose abandonment by To
North had dissolved the Union. Tha
policy has increased our revenue five-fol'
in nine years, and, but for that, we shoul
have stranded on repudiation long since
Who suppOses that with free trade tarii
raising only the $40 100000 Of revenu
that suf6Ced for tie expenses Of the gov
eminent before the war, we could hav
avoided another breakdown in our fnar
ces and permanent dissolution Of tn
Union? Compare these illustrations Of tb
tendency Of the protective policy toward
emancipation and peace 10 Russia, and Q
the competitive policy toward slavery an
war in the United States Ponder ther
well. And then let the American peopl
vote to restore the source Of their calamities
if indeed Judgment has fled to brutis
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