The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-13

time, also, would give upon the naked ques- |
ton of free trade or profession, II now pre-
fifty thousand for the latter, as the true
American policy. No intelligent man will
dispute this; and il has been admitted ia our
hearing, by the leading men of the revenue
reform circles here, within the month past.
In common with almost all our large COM
mercial centres, there is concentrated here,
for the entire West, the strength of the free
trade sentiment of the community. If you
go from here into the country, to any
point of the compass, you find under the
silent influence of the coal, iron,
and other mineral beds, which are waiting for
development, mighty public opinion, that
looks to protection as the agency by which
these ores are to see the light and benefit the
nation. Around all manufacturing centres,
like Elgin, Joliet, Milwaukee, and scores of
others that could be named, the farmers, to
man, will prove by their experience the value
of near market to them, for both the
volume and variety of their products. In
little meeting in Cook county, at the recent
election, il was said TO one of the speakers
an Irishman, who incidentally alluded
to and commended protection senti-
ments-by half a dozen German farmers
who were present: Those are our senti-
ments. We do not wish to raise wheat
for Liverpool, but garden sauce for factory
at our next door. This was the way in Geor-
many, and we want that kind of market
here" Now, what is true of the county of
Cook is true of the counties of Central Illi-
nois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Missouri,
covering those vast deposits of mineral
wealth, the opening up of which will transfer
the centres of manufacture from the sea-
board to the West. Are not the fifteen fur
nsces but recently erected in the single State
of Indiana the d0dnt-c01treurS, as evidence
of the truth of this last statement? And
can you convince the farmers near those
furnaces, whose lands, because of their
proximity, have risen from ten and twenty
dollars per acre, in some cases, to two hun
dred and fifty and three hundred dollars, with
a home market for all they can raise, that
these new enterprises are of no benefit to
them? Some of these very farmers have fur
nished the labor or possessed the markets of
Germany, Belgium, France, and England;
and they know too well the nature of the
competition to which these industries by their
side would be subjected by free trade, to ap-
prove or support policy that would bring
the pauper products of Europe into competi-
ton with our own.
More than ever is it to be our mission
while we reach the manufacturing and mer-
camille classes with our regular monthly
issues of this magazine--to furnish to these
farmers, mechanics, and laborers thousands
of tracts from our press, for their enlighten-
ment and future guidance on this question.
We know from evidence in our possession of
recent date, from observant men in Europe,
such and much other effort will be needed to
controvert the influence of literature sent out
by contributions from our enemies, that our
countrymen may be converted to the faith
of British free trade 1t may be that In
the purlieus of our great seaboard cities
this work of foreign emissaries shall be effec-
tual. But let us lave the subject before the
nation at once and in definite form, and
the enemies of our industries at home or
abroad will speedily awake to the conviction,
1t is one thing to subsidize or silence a few
newspapers in the land and quite another to
induce citizens of the United States, or what
ever nationality by birth, to indorse policy
fatal to the growth and permanence of our
manufacturing interests. Is there evidence
of this assertion asked for? 1t may be seen
in the recent election, alluded to, in
our city. The so-called leading journal of
| the Northwest, with the banner of free
trade nailed to its masthead, backed by
money from the Stewards, of New York,
and British manufacturers, entered the
| lists, and was defeated in the most humiliat-
ing manner by protectionists, and - not
the least remarkable aspect of the case-by
Irish protectionists, upon whom for years it
had rained down its spleen and contumely
| We enter upon the conflict before us with
| 'uiA aoouAuuCO tAhb tAC pIihCiplOb Wo COAtonu
for are just; that they are to be presented as
| rights, to which Americans are entitled; and
that victory will be ours by the adoption, in
an overwhelming majority, of protection to
home industry as the permanent policy in
| American institutions. Will the politicians
of the country do the masses of the West the
simple justice to give them as the leading
issue in the next campaign, Protection 0S.
| Free Trade? ,|. .f..
|
| THE CASE FOR THE PACIFIC ROADS.
| From the N. Y. Tribune. #f .
Having set forth our entire concurrence
with Messrs. Boutwell, and Akerman in their
construction given to the acts whereby the
| United States extended aid to the construc-
ton of the only line yet completed of rail
road from the Missouri to the Sacramento
we are willing to give the companies a fail
hearing Here is their first bulletin
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Jan. ], 1871
Interest paid by U. s. on Its bonds to -
Accrued, but unpaid. SlTO95'3 81
Interest reimbursed by the U. p r. r.,
tion settled ........:.......,.. 14S4, ,s62 'ss
II. II. aganstthe Government, amount
ing to 5000 600 Observation-Disclosures. is 800 OOO'O
sl,7S4.s .s52 8
double the above). .............. s,4Ss, ,sO4'S
1t is safe to assume that this transporta-
wagon. 10 4O9, ,7lS Q
II the Government pays It's