The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-07-16

Iery alone InlS is JUST Wnat lJJ, 0IS persons
will say afterwards; that is If the 200, 900
tickets are sold, and if any distribution is
made.-Anaerican Agricu1turist
What Protection has Accomplished.
Listening to the everlasting grumblings
of the free-trade theorists, one would be
lead to believe that the policy of protection
had never yet accomplished anything
either temporarily or permanently for the
cool of the country, nor ever could. New
ertheless, whenever we revert to the his
tory of legislation, from the foundation of
the Union until now, we find abundant
proofs of the vast advantages which the
United States have derived from high
tariff enactments. For instance, if any one
will be at the trouble to examine the official
report of James Guthrie, President Pierce's
Secretary of the Treasury, as made for the
fiscal year 1s44-45, the following very sig
nificant statement will be found
"Let it be considered that we manufac-
ture all our furniture, all our carriages,
wagons, steam-engines, machinery for our
factories and machine-shops, most of our
leather and shoes, boots, hats, door butts
and bolts of all descriptions, bells, balances,
buckles, brads, wood-saws, horse-cards,
castors, curtain pins, curtain bands, metal
cocks, Jack-screws, curry-cOmbs, coal-hods,
cendlesticks, gas fittings and burners, cof-
fee-mills, caldrons, heavy edge-toels, hay
and manure forks, gimlets, hat and coat
wardrobe hooks, harrews of all kinds,
hoes, hallew ware, plains, nloughs,
sad-irons, tailors' irons door-knobs, furni
ture-knobs, brass kettles, locks of all kinds,
iron latches, lines, lanterns, lamps, levels,
lead, cut nails, clout nails, pins, pumps,
punches, pekers, sand-paper, rulers, iron
and copper rivets, ropes, rakes, oil-stones,
wrought-iron spikes, wood-saws, door
saws, dOor-springs, window-springs, steel
yards, scales of all descriptions, steel and
brass scales, trowels of all descriptions,
spoons of all descriptions, thermometers
tacks vises of all descriptions, axes,
wrenches of all descriptions, iron, brass
and copper wire, with long list of other
articles, to the exclusion of the like articles,
from other countries"
This is the more valuable as being DEM
ocratic, free trade, admissions and testi-
mony. What a prefuse variety of the ne
cessaries of life does the foregoing para
graph represent as produced by home in
dustry for home use, with goodish mar
gin for expectation to foreign countries -
What vast number of laborers, artisans,
and other employees must earn a livelihood
by the fabrication Of such numerous list
of articles, entering into daily consumption
in all parts of our widely-extended coun-
try! What contrast does such diversity
of productive forces and internal resources
offer to the pinched wants and calling in
sufficiency of the days which tried mems
souls-the days of the Revolutionary era,
when cur patriotic forefathers marched
barefoot through SHOWS, leaving behind
bloody tracks! What an advantage it must
be to be thus independent of foreign ma
tions; to be thus able to retain within our
borders the vast sums that otherwise would
go abroad to purchase and pay for indis-
pensable articles of constant use; to thus
utilize our own immense stores of coal,
iron, copper, and other metals and miner
ais! What blessing it must be for the
farmer to have raised up, almost at his
doors, at least within the boundaries of his
own country, such a prodigious number of
neutrality-suspicious. who produce nothing
he grows, and who, while consuming his
crops at prices which leave handsome
margin for profit, in general, help supply
him with needed commodities, implements,
and utensils at cost which, as the years
move on. gradually progresses more and
more nearly to the cost of the raw mate
rial.
Here the free trader frowns and says
No., dogmatically and emphatically.-
To his eyes there is no real, genuine,
healthful, prosperity in a system which
creates and fosters such results. The free
trader would repeal the laws which have
made such surroundings practicable, and
let in upon us flood of foreign products
to be purchased for a season at lower prices
than now; and then, when the fires of our
have been extinguished; our FORCES
enforced into silence; our Inachine-sheps
Improbable; our mines left to
darkness, solitude, and ruin, and the labor
ers who therein found employment and the
means Of subsistence dispersed in all di-
rcctions, to till the soil or crowd the ave-
nues Of other occupations; and we left, as
a people, helpless before the grinding exac
tons of transatlantic monopolists, who will
not buy five per cent. of our annual grain
crop, and not any of our turnips, potatoes,
beans and other bulky products Of the soil
SO prcfitable-thus, we say, the
free trader will be ready to inaugurate
hurricane of hand-clappings over the Para
disc Of his utopian imagination, thus re-
duced to practice. Who wants to see such
q day besides the emissaries of English
capitalists, full of mercenary instincts?
Chicago Republican.