The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-04-07
WHOLE NO. 1895.

sented, they must become ttlers Of the
soil, in competition with cur already ma
merouS farming class, aud further aud
rulnous reduction in the price Of farml
products must be the consequence.
But if our public policy shall be such
as to encourage the establishment Of
manufactures for the development OF
our unequaled mineral and agricultural
resources, by which the manufacturer
and producer, the eater of bread and,
the wearer of cloth, the workman ia,
the mill and the plowman in the Reld,
shall be brought 10 close proximity the
one finding ready sale for his wares and
the other for the psoducts Of his farm,7
with mutual advantage to each, without
4 paying railroad or ocean freights, ware-
house or commission charges, with
constant work and full pay for all, upr,
system of diversified employment,
then will tho great West increase in
prosperity and happiness, wealth aud
gre atness, as she never did before. In
his letter to DR.. Coleman, Of North
Carolina, written about the year 1924;
General Jackson used the following
language, which stands as monument.
to his stsong common-senso and his de-
votion to the interests Of all thepeopls;,
81, I,yll ask what is the real situation Of tho ae-
| rloulturist2 Where has the Amorican farmer
market for his surplus products? Except for
| cotton, he has neither foreign nor homo
\ market Does not this clearly prove, when there
! ig nOnar[et other MT nDnne abroad that fbarta
1 is too much labor employed Ia agriculture, and
! that the channels Of labor should be mulup1iodf
/ Common sense points out az once the remedy.
| Draw from agriculture the super-abundant labor
] employ II in mechanism and manufactures
1 thereby creating home market for your bread
stuffs and distributing labor 10 q most profitable
account, and benefits TO the country viii result
Take from agrieulturein the United States 09Oss
! 900 men, women, and children, and you at once
give home market for more bread5tuffs than
all Europe now furnishes u.s. In short, sir, we
have been too long subject 70 the policy Of the
British merchants. 1t Is time we should becofa6-
little more AmericaniZed, and, instead of feeds
ing the paupers and laborers,of Europe feed our
own; or else, in short time, by continuing cur
present policy, we shall all be paupeTB oursel
Nobler or truer words could not be
uttered, and they are quite as applioa!{
bic TO the condition of tho people Of
this country to-day as they were whehg
written. Under a free-trade policy the
Mississippi valley must look to a for-a
eign market for the sale of her surplqa
produce as well as for the purchase Of.
most of her manufactured atpplies,i
which will build up an immense carry
ing trade to and from the Atlantic sea-
board, and which must act as cons
slant drain from the pockets Of railroad
CORPORATIONS. And I have a slight sus-
picIon that gentlemen on this floor who
manifest their love for the farmer BY
characterizing existing tariff laws a. =
Oppression and robbery to him are
actuated by still higher love for the
interests Of railroad monopolieS. There
is, in my judgment, no policy which 50 .
effectualIy withers and blights the far,
mer's hopes, none so pernicious and
poisonous to the root Of his prosperity
and happiness, as that indicated By the
| free-trade movement. 80 -,
1 AN AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTUkIya'i 3
DISTRICT. ......,..Ev
Mr.. Chairman, l have the honor to
represent a district in which miniu1s
manufacturing, and agricultural intsrTY
ests are pretty equally divided 8 and
while am personally interested aud
engaged in the latter / have no pprrl
sonal interest whatever in the two fot.o
mer; and while l am the friend Of
every industry, SO long as | remsin A.
member of this House it will be nay
special care to cast my votes in the ip-
terest of agriculture above every otheb1.
as being the leading aud india pensablO
industry of the land. & ....3 Eya.TAe
am aware that the impression pEesy
walls in some quarters that the tariff haa
enabled iron-masters to make enoEo.
nous profits and amass fortunes at thee
expense of other industries. And while
will not undertake to speak of the
success of those in other parts of the
country, I undertake to say that in my
own district, during any past period on
ten consecutive years, there has besn a1.
larger proportion of failures among
iron.men than can be found among
any other classes of business men, .qsg
Probably there is no other iron dis-u
trict in the United States where labor
is so fully and literally paid, aud GER
tainly none where capital pays snallAt
per centage. That some Of our furnace
men have become wealthy is true, but
probably it has been more from the
! purchase of iron and coal-lands beforgr
! their true value was known than from
manufacturing, Reduce the duty on
pig-iron TO 81, aud on scrap to Sc, as
the bill under consideration proposes,
: and number of our furnaoes.- must
stop, unless a corresponding reduction
on labor can be made. Reduce il 70.
! S3, as Mr.. Wells proposes, and nQtrar
t single furnace in the district could, be-
: operated, .. -..s site
a OF course the 130, 900 tons of Pig
iron manufactured in this district is
e but fractional part Of the amount pro-
5 duced in the United States, and if the
u furnaces were all closed it would make
y but little difference to the country at
t large;. nor would it be Of any great
d Importance to the proprietors, who are
$ generally men of means but to largo
u part of the farmers of the district, who
IS rely upon these establishments for .
b market for their produce, the difference
s would be very great but 10 none 80
: great as to the 40, 900 men, women and
le children who depend upon the labor
rs performed at the furnaces for their