Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-02-18

forests, and commanding towns all
through the west, in all of which
the manufacturers, to meet the de-
mands of commerce and agricultu,
ture, keep steadily in motion the
wheels of their unnumbered shops.
All over those broad expanses sweep
countless trains, drawn onward by
the power of steam, and the shrill
whistle of the motive power echoes
and re-echoes from every hill and
through every valley, ,and yet beyond
all this net work of rail roads and
telegraph lines are mountains of
silver and iron and valleys of gold.
Turn off the wheels of every iron
furnace now in the east, discharge
every man, if you please, and not
one need be idle a week, nor need
one become "tiller of the soil"
The west is great enough for all.
Give us cheap iron and cheap lum'
Der, and if England can furnish it
cheaper now than we can make it,
let us, the American western farm
ers, send our crops to England to
feed her laborers, and there exchange
our wheat, corn and meats for the
products of their hands, and then
while the masses are engaged in
more profitable occupations here,
will the American farmer prosper,
because one half the number of
pounds of his varied agricultural
machinery being double priced iron,
millions of dollars, because of the
"high tariff on that article alone
enters the pocket of the already
millionaire Iron Master, without
benefit to the farmer, thereby in
creasing the wealth of the great
Iron King by adding to the cost of
every article into which his sPro-
tected product enters will be saved.
Strike off from the farmers limbs
this fostering, ssdcvouring and de
stroying enemy to his prosperity,
and you at once relieve him of at
least one half Of his expenses for his
machinery, you enable him to buy
much more fit for the same amount
of money, thereby create a much
greater demand for such machinery,
greatly increase the number of hands
necessary in its manufacture, add to
the consuming millions of his pro-
ducts, open, also,a direct trade with
England,and again, thereby, increase
the demand for his products at an
enhanced value, and all without
stopping a single month Or adding
another man to the list of home
producers, but, on the contrary, ad-
ding to the list of the consumers
as now compared with the produ-
Cels
Here then commences the pros
perity of the farmer, and as direct
result, also, the prosperity of the
manufacturer, the mechanic and the
merchant, as well as the day laborer
, 'sBut, some one must suffer, SAY the
!, Protectionists, yes, some one will
, suffer, but that one cares not fol
you nor for me, so long as we are
pouring into his pocket from oul
muscles, blood and bones the mil
lions of which he now can boast
and by means Of which he to-day
controls the legislation of you
country, and mine, in behalf of hi:
special interests, which still add to
his already plethoric purse. Yes, i
does hurt somebody.
But that sbody'' is not you no
me, not the farmer, the mechanic
the merchant, no, no. That person
is the "Bloated" Iron King only
not the men who toll for him, bu
, only the man, the King upon hi
, throne, himself, and he alone, Of al
who stand at his "works,' ''is the on,
bloated, though he is from western
. revenue, who cries out "Give M
protection Give me protection, or
2 die" caring not how many NOR
: may die from the effects OF the pro
: lection granted him.
+, But without generalizing furthe
in this article let US present a fey
figures as the basis of any fu1the
: calculations you may desire to max
on this iron question, showing wha
t effect "High Tariff on iron ha
upon the people of Ohio, and th
D west generally.
I think when say that four ton
t Of iron is annually used in OHIO 70
). every square mile of her territor
t that the estimate is low one. T.
those, who have never thought o.
e this subject, the amount may seer
: large. But into what does it no
: enter It is found in our roads
3 machine shops, buildings, mills, en-
. gines, bridges, cars. wagons, bug