Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-10-11
TARIFF TARIFFlI TARIFFIlI

Protective Tariff cormorants. Thes,
latter rob the country of more money
and impose heavier burthens upor
labor than all other fraudulent ontcr
prise combined. The selections upor
this important question found below
we clip from tho Free Trader, month
ly publication that should find its way
into every nook and corner of thi,
great but easily humbugged country
PROTECT MY OATS
DwIonr, ILL, Aug. Is, 1871.
To the Editor of the Chicago Tribune:
Wo have just finished thrashing oul
oats. Notwithstanding the ravagc.
of the chinch.bug, our crop yielded
forty bushels per acre. We had ten
acres, and sold the 400 bushels to day
for twenty cents per bushel. After
paying for cutting, harvesting, and
lhrashing, we find that our crop has
netted us just fifteen cents per bushcl
No ono will deny the fact that such
farming as this would soon ruin any
man, provided he always raised oats,
and only received fifteen cents bushel
for them. Let us inquire into tho
present cause Of the low price of oats
In the first place, we have had 10
compete in raising oats with all oui
neighbors. Then, again, seven eighths
of the farmers in this vicinity raise
oats. SO they do all over Livingston
County, ttbis is the county where We
are saddled with debt of $50, 900 in
the shape of "School Reform Bonds
another species of the doctrine OF
encouraging homo industry,") and
throughout the States of Illinois, In.
diana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
The majority of us have raised large
crops; the demand is small, and the
prices low. Now, if we were the only
county in tho State which was rails.
ing oats, and we had not to com.
pete with this immense area of terri
tory, do you suppose that oats TO day
would only bring fifteen cents per
bushelp Never Furthermore, sup.
pose that every railroad entering Chi.
cago, except the Alton and st. Louis,
We're "boarded" by a customhousc of.
ticcr, and, if he found any other than
oats from Livingston County. would
not "permit them" to be warehoused
until the owners had paid duty ol
twenty cents a bushel, do you thinl,
the farmers of Illinois to-day would be
hauling their oats to market, and only
realizing fifteen cents a busbcl for
them ? No, never!
We have an immense rolling mill a;
Joliet. TO induce them to putt there,
Joliet subscribed $50, 900. To keep il
running, SO that Eve shall not be
ruined" (the exact words of one OF
the directors to the writer "we must
retain the present tariff Of 81 per ton
upon railroad iron" Have we not,
ask il n all candor and truth, the same
right to demand that the government
shall pay you and me twenty cents a
bushel to enable us to continue raising
oats, so that we "shall not be ruined"
us the Joliet rolling-mills have to be
paid bounty Of 81 ton to enable
thcm to continue rolling iron ? In
our case, the competition that We have
10 contend with is at home; in the
other case, the competition is abroad ;
in both cases, the result would be alike.
We demand Protection on our oats
Shall VIC have it?
Moral: Who pays the Joliet rolling
mills this bounty? You and /. How
Every carload Of oats we ship to Chi
cago we pay our proportion Of the tax
of $1,000 mile on steel rails; iron
cars 80 per cont. and the locomotive
is taxed 40 per cent. How shall we
put up the price of oatsY Simply by
not raising them, and we shall then
see tho desire of the Protectionist re.
allied, which is scarcity, and "the
sail would prescribe steam, the oar
would prescribe the sail, only in its
turn to give way to the wagon, to the
mule, and the mule to the foot. pedd!er.
Wool would exclude Gotten, cotton
would excludewool; aud thus on, until
scarcity yand want of every thing would
cause man himself to disappear from
tho face OF the globe"
PLowHoLDER.
CENSUS FACTS.
Tho advance sheets of tho census
report, Just published and forwarded
to the press and statisiicans by the
able Superintendent, Mr.. Walker form
volume of great interest. Its publ.
cation has been long delayed, by the
incorrectness of the census in some
localities and the loss of returns, from
others renderinge remuneration ncces.
sary; but, considering these causes of
delay, although fourteen months have
elapsed since the census was taken, the
publication comes as carlyas could DO
expected. In iullness, arrangement,
and accuracy the sheets now issued do
credit TO the superintendent. They
contain four tables, l., of population
by States and Territories, from 1870
TO 1870; H., ofpopulalion by counties,
1870 to 1870; H., population by
towns, school districts, cities, or wards,
native and foreign W, general ma.
tivity, 1850 to 1870, and foreign par.
cntage, 1870.
The first thought that these sheets
suggest to tho advocate Of the tariff
reform is in regard to tho population
of New.England States. Only two
States in tho Union show B decrease
of population since 1860, and those
are not States al the South, where the
ravnges of civil war have been great.
est, But New Hampshire and Maine
Tho population Of Now Hampshire,
326,073 in 1860, is now only 3lS,300,
and the population of Maine, 62S,2T9
in 1860, 10 now 626,9l5. In each of
these States largo manufacturing in.
tercsts exist, and the agricultural pop
ulation, If benefited anywhere by u
better "home market for their pro-
duets, as Protcctionists pretend, would
have been so benefited now had those
..,ls,,tte c,llo..od tho tar;H ~ 1SgI