Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-05-18

| And dew svslis in the bluebells
! Above hillside grave.
JoHN HAr.
DrinkerhoH's Harrangue.
| The Free Trade Missionary, Gen
BrinkerhoE, sent out among the saw
ages of the west by New York i'm
porters, (who have . perfect hate TO
American manufacturing because i
prevents them from is.porting the ar
t,cles made,) to show to No the beau
ties Of Free Trade, spoke the piec'
he has spoken thousand times be
tore, and will keep right on speaking
20 long q those importers will pay
him tor it, ct Hams Hall last weel
Tuesday evening As it was tn,
night Of our publication we were toe
busy to hear him, but 60 to the re
port made for the Press which O
course does him no injustice:
! The reporter starts out by saying
there was . large audience. We
have heard several who were there
say there were Not two dozen in the
hall beside students. Our town peo.
pie let him alone severely, even the
Democrats refused to attend, al.
though 20 fiercely urged by the Press
The highest estimate We have heard
put upon the audience was one hun.
dred. So 1t will be seen the report.
er was disposed TO be very favorable
to the speaker. He repeated the stale
assertion that tie tariff is simply q
tax. This absardity these men keep
on repeating, although it has been
disproved . thousand times. But
they will continue to repeat it all the
same.
He complains that we "tax'' 50
many articles--over four thousand,
he says. We do not believe any such
number are ''taxed," tor the last Con-
gresa increased tho "free list" very
largely, AMI the next will increase it
still more. During the war wo were
obliged TO raise revenue wherever We
could. Now We are simplifying onr
revenue system and reducing the
number OF sources az fast As We can.
He said
1T is o rule to which the excep-
lions are lew that whenever duty
il levied upon IN article which we i'm.
port and also make at home, we en-
nance the price both OF the imported
article and that produced at h0me.--
This rule will be found strictly true
Of the great staples lumber, coal, iron,
salt, DC"
This rule will generally hold good
on the first imposition vi such duty,
but results in ch.apening both the
foreign and home manufactures to
compete with the foreign, aud we are
confident we are to day obtaining all
the above articles cheaper than we
would do had shere never been any
protection. He said further:
Two million tons OF pig iron were
consumed in this country last year,
on which the people paid eighteen
millions Of dollars tax, one million Of
which went into the treasury and the
rest into the pockets OF the iron mas.
ters. On the three items OF pig bar
and railroad iron we pay annually
forty.fus millioxs OF dollars of which
fvs nsillsoss reach the treasury. Penu-
sylvania yet The rest. So with the
tariff Oh leather"
We think he has that only half
large enough. We think there were
tull tour millions tons of pig iron con-
sumed IN the country last year, the
majority OF which was produced iu
this country. He claims. that his
home product cost the consumers the
amount OF the duty more than the
same quantity Of imported iron would
have done. Suppose we had called
on foreign iron masters for this i'm
mense amount OF pig iron, does any
man IN his senses suppose 1t would
not have enhanced the price OF it
Let our production OF iron be cut
off and what airs the foreign iron
matters would pus on. Prices OF
their products would advance ct once
and soon We would be paying them
more than we now pay our home pro-
ducers, and be obliged to send our
agricultural products or drain our
country Of its gold TO pay for it. Blu,
this very desirable result tor the own
ers of Mr.. Bnuksrhoff would be At.
tanned:
They would have tho importation
Of the iron and the expectation Of our
products in pay tor it, and that Is
what they want aud seek TO attain at
whatever cost to other interests. But
here comes stunner to us, from Gen.
Brinkerhotf' . harangue:
"rhe Republican in Iowa City had
recently quoted statement that the
effect OF the tariff had been to cheap
en- salt, and enable it to Le sold
cheaper than in 1860. That state-
ment wAs aimply false, . the speaker
proceeded to prove by quoting from
market reports, showing that salt was
now double what il was IN 1860.
As with salt 80 with :ron and many
other articles, the effect has been TO
send prices to the moon."
In opposition TO this positive state
ment We plsce the statement Of Hon.
Geo. Gesidis, Superintendent tor the
State OF New York OF the Onondago
Salt Springs, made to the N. Y. Tr.-
bune Jan 9th, 1871, an official state