Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1870-09-08
The Tariff nnd rl,c west.

We never como SO near getting mad 'o4i
paper as when we talk about the Federal
Tariff. The idea that in the West; there cSn
The found respectable number of-intelli-
gent .hfeh wAo fA<bt : high f<s4sctivs tariff,
is something We cant understand. Here is
the wlstbay yfng strib6te to Nsw BDkiaA6 a
\ the rate Of millions Of doliarScvery year,and
for What . sSNelAas near - vc can1 get tat
| u for the purpose Of assisting wealthy
capitalists 10 make hfy per gent diyidepds!
lthis,tribute from prihciple, end We axe Civ
en- 10 understand that the eniirerepublican
4 party Of the West advance the sane, reason
for advoca ting protection. We don't know
Of but single parallel caSe of downright
folly, and that is found in The democratic
pa1sy 9pp0sins. negro suffrage from s' princi-
i 1.-THE City Council of Clinton should levy
i q Tax Of ten per cent on all the real and
personal properly in this city, and pay the
amount thus raised To- the owners Of the
saw mills here, in order to protect them
from the competition Of Chicago lumber d al.
crs-the whole community would CRY out
against il, and not one, -of.-the councllmen
/ who voted for such q measure could Nagain
be elected to any oficsSwiihin the gift of the
city. Well, these New England cotton
mill say; they cant compcie with the En-
glish facteries, ana -stfaightway Congress
levies tax on, the people Of the West Of
about twenty per cent Oh everything they
but that could by any possible means be
made or grown in any county outside the
United, States, and pay the amount over to
the New England manufacturers! fof1 Il
And the very mcATwho are thus taxed for
smother benefit, will throwsup their hats,
shout, cheer and vote for the very man who
helped to impose the tax. Z 'sas s6
But says one, If you withdraw protection,
the New England factories will be closed,
the owners become paupers and the operas
tivcs sterve. No such thing. Those eastern
manufacturers have made enough out Of the
west 10 permit them to live in atiiuence the
next half century, and operatives instead of
starving will come west where factories
would be in waiting for them. Get rid Of
the high tariff, and the producer and con.
sumer will be compelled to get nearer to-
geshcr, and this will bring every descrip-
ticn Of manufactures into the Mississippi
Valley. Who says nay s9 ,sF i
The. AaLoxB isby, Jndge Thaycr, Of
the Clinton Age, in his issue Of the
10th August. In the statement that
because the West, not being extern
sively engaged in nlanufacting, is pay
ing tribute to the East, which is the
great ] manufacturing region Of the
United States, the advocates of So
called Free Trade forget something
very essential to be remembered in
this discussion. If, with tariff, the
West pays tribute to the East,
then the thing forgotten is, that, with
out tariff, the East and West, must
pay tribute to Europe. It matters
but little what beautiful theories are
propounded, the fact remains un-
deniable and uncontradictablc, that
without tariff the United States
cannot manufacture goods at the same
money price that they can be manu-
factured for in Europe, at the present
time. There is no truth in American
political economy better established
than that Democratic Revenue Tar
iffs have always wrought disaster to all
our American manufacturing inter-
ests, closing our woollen, cotton and
iron mills and mines, throwing the la
borers oft of employment and en-
falling many evils on all classes Of So
ciety, This can be quietly ignored,
or inferentially denied by advocates
of No-Protection, but the pages of
History are open and the facts writ
ten thereon arc inerasable. -.e.#.s
This question Protection or No
Protection, is not a question of di-
versity of interests between the
East and tho West; and all good
men must deprecatc The attempt that
is made by many to narrow it down
to this false basis, for party, or other
ulterior, purposes. It affects, the in
terests Of the. whole Union alike, the
interests Of the West, the East, the
South and the North,
Let us look moment, at an idea,
that is lost sight of, to some extent,
in this discussion, by the Age, and
other papers which take that side Of
the controversy.
They assert that the object and
effect Of the Protective Tariff is, to
increase the profits of the manufac-
turers Of the East. Ifthat is the case will
not the same Tariffoperate to increase
the profits Of the manafasturara of the
West? we echo the. closing inter-
rogatory of the Age, aWho says
nay"F When it is. recollected that
sinstlie States of Indiana, Illinois. Wis
! consin, Missouri, Iowa and. Kansas,
there are nearly 500 manufacturing
establishments Of woollen and cotton
goods, the idea that the. West is
wholly dependent upon the last for
goods, may be disregarded in part,
at least. It'll Il aese nx
No one need discuss with the Age
the elementary proposition that man
ufactorics benefit communities where
they arc located, and stimulate all
other industries. The Age is per-
fectly familiar with all this, and has.
done noble work in calling capital
to- Clinton for investment in. manu-
featuring enterprises, aud it has lately