Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-02-15
ACROSS THE OCEAN.
New Work 20 Liverpool per Steamer Palmyra :
y. G. COser's Daily journal.
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= MONDAY, Dec. 81.
Cloudy, Wild N. N. West, and the
temperature l4ild Speed eleven to
twelve miles; an hour, the wind OF
littl9 service as motive power
only steam az SLING. Voyaging grows
mouotonous End firing. Passengers
in groups reading, or talking-their
words coming with a jerk instead of
flowing as wsen the conversation is
annotated. Rae hurricane deck is
is TOO cold au:t windy for lounglng.
From our wiedows the sea appears
as che tall grGas of meadow when
| agi.ated by the brisk wind Naked
ness and immSnsity are pictured on
sky and ocean, and not even soil
tary milestone reminds one that man
has been allowed to finish the road
we travel. Tse Palmyra is the type
OF p caravan Upon q desert. But to
me there is aovelty and the poetry
of EMANCIPATION. | had read of
life ON the ocean wave, and now such
life IS more I'd JAN shadowed-it is q
reality.
Much beinglsaid against the Amer
lean tariff which "makes things so
dear in the States and holds up labor
TO So 90 q days when by having free
Trade things would come down a half
and labor be eqralized with England
--eay 10 to 20 cents per day"
Though not lnuch of friend to tar
ifs J. venture TO argue this question
from these propositions: British
seltishness asks for reduction of
the American tariff-why not raise
the wages Of labor in England to the
American standard, and then Amer
lea would need 10 tariff TO carry on
manufacturing and to necessitate
dear wages for their laborers p
America is tho larger and greater
country Of tha 1.-TWO, all considered
let Mahomet, iha lesser, 20 to the
mountain. America must refuse TO
be tho slave ofEhgland, even though
we have to support dear labor by
levying tariffs on foreign imports =
Abolish our tariffs, and we stop our
iactot jes--valued at several millions
OF poands sterling and furnishing
labor 10 eight millions of our people.
England woll6 reap q rich harvest
by the abolition Of American tariffs,
aud America would reap the whrl-
wind. But Americans in the fac
tories may farm the lands, raise grain
and wool and cotton, aud supply
England" is sand, by tidgety little
man vino for .. half hour has sou hl
to take up the free trade argument
Very true, remarked but our eight
millione Of faoiorymen are well paid
and in the business to which they
served apprenleeships. They would
make poor larlhers-poverty and de.
moralihation would follow to them
were orr faetdries closed, and wages
OF all work reduced to the British
standard
But ey abciisning American tar.
ifs and the reduction of wages tc
the English standard, the American
factories could 60 on"-ls said.
grant it, but by reducing the Ameri
can rate OF wages to o third Of the
present, our lands must fall as much
I and the business OF the country be
ruined for time, and there would
BIO bankrupts by the million, anC
9 ten years m:lsy clapse before the
country could, recover. Thereafter
matters nigh. 20 on well enough
again, though fortunes would be as
slowly acquired as in Europe. Al
for American Morality perhaps free
trade is our orsly door 10 salvation
But the cost 81 opening such door
would consumh the earnings Of an
entire generation. Still there il
clsmor for the trial and perhaps the
experiment will be made very soon
The rich can stand it, but debtors
and the poor will come to the ground
The rich will be ten-fold enriched
the poor ten-fold tasked and impov.
poverished. T:uo, we can then raisl
grain at e third present rates and
supply Europe. But Europe can
only consume SO much, no more
then what? Even the British mar
ket in Americas mnst then close, for
when OuP resources are gone we shall
DO such poor pay that even Britain
shall SORROW over the day of free
trade in America. But free trade is
an inviting fel{, Demagogues APP
peal for Il. TIC men Of short and
narrow views loak 10 free trade as q
remedy against the dear prices OF
goods. The manufacturers are being
looked upon as monopolists. Men
holding such views must be unde-
ceived, there is so way to undeceive
them but by tlial Of free trade by
act Of our Congress. In 1S36-4O a
downward sliding scale of tariffs was
tried, and the American factories
closed because English iron, cloth,
cott0ns Sud boots we're brought over
and cold cheaper than Americans
could make tbem, because factory
hands could not be hired at English
prices, thirty cents per day. But
soon our money ali went to England
except our paper money for which
ShOAC WIo nv EIl mOuc4 GUOu2n
in tho country 10 redeem tenth
part of il. Tho banks broke, and
then the eople elected new Con-
gress into powe" pledged for pro-
tective tariffs. Tic result was, speedy
delivery by ouI factories starting
again. The people have forgotten
this dear experience and must again
90 through witch it. Therefore,
though protesting | say let there
be made Just on9Emore trial of free
trade. l. will sobn seal the lips of
demagognes whS;teil the people that
these dear price. result from factory
monopolies who conceal the fact
that dear labor in America is what
is making dear prices.
Shall labor come down to a level
with European labor That's the
real question. Our manufacturers
can stand the charge, so can our
merchants; so cas the rich-in fact
! all can who are able to live without