The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-03-30
Tho West and the Tariff.

2he lone offf1e Aha6Sferl 1-fepiIbffcafl
press indicates trouble for the Repab-
lican party on the tariff question, un-
less that party shall repudiate the
heresies of the New York Tribune A
most bitter and Radical sheet is the
st. Paul D1,p1teh, yet it has the RI hit
idea in this matter, and gives warning
in the following mannc !:
Greeley lev said a truer thing
when, he declared that the tariff ques-
tion SIS the issue next in order
When he hears from the West next
fall he will realize the truth of his
prophecy more than he does now. The
people OF the West propose to accept
the issue, and if the Republican party
is not bold enough to grapple with the
question, and take the side of the peo-
pie, it must look for defeat.
How does that sound, Mr. Greeley,
for a Western thunderbolt, and from
a paper which out-lsadicals even the
Tribune? ~
The philosopher of the white coat
may be well posted upon farming-iD
Westchester county, Ibnt he has be-
come SO musty and rusty with eonfine-
ment in SO narrow a space, that he
does not know OF, or he cannoteap-I
preciate, that this a asst country in
nabited with thousands and tens of
thousands of the most industrious and
Woodworking people any country ever
knew. He does n1t eem to know, or
ne does not a r if he does know, that
these people get no protection from
the Government, but on the contrary
are robbed to pay those who do.
The farmers of the great West,
honest and intelligent as they are,
cannot be made the tools Of Eastern
manufacturers; they cannot be made
1 o themselves into slavery as a
mere party measure. -.,F
They are coming TO understand this
question more and more each day.
see how they were blnefited by a law
which enabled the Eastern manu!ac-
turer to charge fifty, or a hundred, or
two hundred per e profit ON his
goods, which profit tie farmer was
compelled to pay ahen he purchased
the articles for Use. 1t looks loo much
like passing a law that he should buy
al has sugar or coffee at u certain store,
and at just. such ratos,as the proprietor
OF the shop sees tit to fix. And it
has this eject. I'm
But tins Is not the only manner in
which he protective tariff operates
against the farmer. BY destroy the
market for foreign goods in tho Uni
ted States, II aids to destroy the market
abroad for wheat raised here, and
when there is no market for wient,
there is no price for it, and the farmer
suffers, just as the Western farmers
are. now suheriD g with the price Oh
their grain dowH-se low that they
cannot carry enoughlo town III their
great wagons toIbny II descent suit of
clothes. ~ Z n zafa3J - .r.fs4
Why don't these protecfionipeople4
propose. a law to protect thefiaruIers2
they furnish wealth. and greatness to
the country tn a greater extent tiIun
any other GLASS; vets Republican Con-
gress has zIisVer proposed to protect
them. On the contrary, they are tax
ed almost beyond endurance. -A.iagij
They pay tribute TO- the bondhoid-
er. 7'Ea8 iNi-H .nJ!-i - .,ia-
They are compelled to buy goods OF
the Easternem MANUFACTURED, and TO pay
such prices as he shall exact. Eo'i1
They have had their markets for
wheat almost destroyed. .u:r I'D ri '5c
They have been debarred the right
to sell where they can sell for ihust,
and buy where they can buy cheapest
and yet after all this tn re can be
found those claiming to be mericans
SO much under the influence OF tie
manufacturers that they have the
supreme infamy to stand forth as the
champions of a class oil nioneyed ais
.ocrats, who seek bS every movement
to grind down the masses, and wiingl
from the people their very lie, blood
There may he a wide difference be-
tween the POLITICAL parties in the
West but when il comes to a question
of this kind, where the farmers are ali
alike affected; there will he such Il
union OF sentiment and of action as4
wall settle this matter, of tariff, aud
woe unto the party which undertakes
to continue the barriers to frec trade
" 7. Democrat. "a 800