The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-10-19

require Judge ID or this patriotic league
to tell them that. They know that they
are taxed and why they are taxed. They
have been forced to partake Of the luxury
Of Democratic war. But let me tell them
4 that if the annual extraordinary expenses
growing out of that war are deducted
taxes to support the Government are less
than before the war AS this league is
composed almost entirely of British man
ufacturers and persons engaged in the
foreign trade, it is humane and disinter
csted charity cannot be long misunder-
stood. In warfare it is generally safe to
do the very opposite of what your enemy
desires you to do. The free trade league
the organ Of John Bull in this country,
is not, in my judgment, a safe adviser for
the American people to follow.
Without being high tariff man, or a
protectionist in the proper sense of the
word, believe the true policy of the
country to be, IN adjusting tariff, that
which shall give you enough revenue to
support the Government, and at the same
| fime afford incidental protection to tho e
branches Of industry that can be as wei
prosecuted here, as in any other country
were labor on 1he same basis. The plat.
| form laid down Dy the Democratic party
at the last National Convention held in
| New York in 1868, and which nominal ed
Seymour and Blair, does not widely mis-
represent my views on this subject. TIE
following is their resol7tion:
ResoIged, That the interests 81 the
country require such tariff for revenue on
| foreign imports as will afford incidental
|
as will without impalring the revenue,
impose the lowest burden upon and best
promote and encourage the great indus.
trial interests of the country"
shall be glad to know what Judge
DoOittle thinks Of it. It is but three
years since this platform was needed, but
hat is a long time for some men to re-
main inconsistent.
| To place duty on tea, coffee and trOp-
| ical fruits, with view to encourage their
growth, would be the highest of folly,for,
| though you could grow these articles in
hot houses here, the expense would be so
enormous, that you had better employ
| yourselves in growing something that Is
! idigenous to the soil, and exchange it with
those countries, where tea, coffee, etc, are
indigenous. But ifyou could grow tea,
coffee, and hvsOn just as well here, and Of
as good quality as China, Java, Cuba, or
Brazil, and the only question was between
well paid labor here and the slave labor
Of those countries, would say discrimi
nate in favor Of your own laborers. But
it is not necessary TO f@rce nature in this
tariff question. I would not encourage
either by protect on or otherwise, any in.
dustry that our soil or climate was adap-
ted 20, but when it comes to manufactur
| ing cotton and wooden goods iron and ali
the manufactures of iron, and many other
articles, we know that we have all the
natural advantages Of any other country
! We have the raw material in great album
dance, the best cotton that is grown in
the world and the best iron ore, most
genial climate, and the only obstacle to
competing successfully with ether nations
is high priced labor and capital.
Wig send our cotton abroad at 20 cents
per pound, aud bring it back in man.
uiactured state at one dollar per pound !?
The was time when England was guilty
of Us great folly as we. Two hundred
and fifty years ago, Holland disputed
with Great Britain us to the supremacy
of the seas at the same time she bought
largely OF England her raw materials, and
returned them manufactured and greatly
enhanced in value, so that the Dutch
were in the habit of saying that the Eng
lish ''sOid them their whole skins for six.
pence and bought back the tails for a
}, shilling" But they had some true polit
Cal economists in England about that
time, who taught them how to Guido the
Dutch without fighting, and how to set
to work all the poor of England, and to
the policy then adopted, over 900 years
ago, by which the manufacturing and
shipping interests were protected by her
laws, is she indebted for her vast wealth
and prosperity,-a degree of wealth, pros
perty and power that now enables her
i after enjoying protection for more than
200 years, to discard it and invite other
nations to join her in proclaiming free
. trade. Ii can we'll be understood why
| Old England is in favor of free trade
With 200 years of protection and during
a portion Of which time she would not al;
low her colonies to manufacture so much
as "hob nail" she has built up great
system of manufacturing industry that en-
r ables her, by the help of her skilled and
F cheap labor, labor saving machinery and
r cheap capital, to defy the world Of Ia
Dor saving machinery alone, it is estima
+ ted that she has what is equivalent to
the labor OF 500000,000 men. Having all
t these advantages, she may we'll now de.
; sire that other countries of the world
should open their markets freely to her,
as she well knows that she Is playing
f the game of "heads win, tails you lose. .
For the same reason that Old England
is in favor of free trade, New England is
8 fast becoming SO. 1t is popular IN great
many places to abuse New England, and