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

sell you back the sails fora shilling"
| Those who have observed the signs OF
the times have not failed to notice chat
New England is just drifting toward
rec trade, and for the same reason thai
old England is becoming so, though |
should say that old England is not rec
trade in ali things, as two of the products
"f agriculture III this country are taxed
numerically by hei, namely, whisky and
tobacco. New England has large accu.
mutations of cheap capital. The result OF
her industry. She is filled with skilled
labor, and now has a vast amount Of la
hof-saving machinery, while she has de
rlVrd all these from the system the govern
ment she has heretofore adopted. She sees
win regret ihat system OF manufactures
growing up in the South and West, and
y that continues, her supremacy IS at
Il" end, and she knows it. She would
gladly adopt free trade oday, if she
could thereby stop the further increase of
manufactures South and West. It would
ne well TOR those who think that the tar
II is now maintained to benefit New Eng.
land, to examine the debates in the las.
Congress on Schenck' s tariff bill. Though
1t was discussed for months, YOU found
no New England man taking part in the
discussion, or asking for projection. Gen.
butler Inadvertently declared that he
lid not want to see manufacturing grow
lnG up u the West, and in his recent can
VaSs III Massachusetts,, though very large
y interested in manufacturing, he openly
advocated tree trade. Mr. Edward At
kl2s"n, ot Boston, aIso,a large manufac
turer, and the aversion of Gen Butler, is
writing and speaking ably in favor OF
free trade.
While New England members kept
silent IN debate ON the tariff question,
hey did not hesitate to say freely in con.
versat on that if New England could
have her raw material free Of duty, she
would ask no protection whatever. 1t is
as western man, that | desire TO see dis
elimination In favor OF home production.
L well know that there is no part Of the
Unted States better adapted to manufac-
turing than Wisconsin I question wbeth
CT here is any state with the same amount
or available water power. The Congr, ss-
l"nal districD which recently represent
ed is traversed by four large rivers, the
- O'''i@A1 VIZ Si1' JpCW's VIC DldCA am
he Wisconsin rivers, which are confirm
Gus water powers from their source al
most to their mouths, to say nothing OF
their tributaries. We have a most
healthy and invigorating climate, and a
most fertile soil, producing all the neces
sarles of life in the greatest abundance
The raw materials of WOOL cotton aud
iron can be laid down more cheapIY than
in New England Why should we stard
idle, and allow other states to draw all
our wealth from US? The experience OF
other countries has been, that where
manufacturing towns have been built up,
the lands have been quadrupIed in value,
and market brought to the very door
of the farmer nste4d Of wearing Out
grain felds with successive crops OF
wheat, and sending it to q distant mar
ket TO be consumed, and paying three.
fourths Of its value to the trans portation
com panies, it is we'll to consider whether
you had not better diversity your employ
ments.
While | utterly disclaim that am in
favor of high tariff, or any tariff that
the revenue necessities of the country Do
not require or that am in favor Of pro
tectin9 any industry at the expense OF
any other, it may not be improper to in
form you how it was that our system grew
up in this country.
President Washington, in his first in
augural on the 9Th of January, 1900, said
The safety and interest of the people re-
quire that they should promote suck
manufactures as tend to render them IN
dependent of others for essential, parCicu
Iarly of military, supplies"
Congress, in 1871, acted on the sugges
tions OF Washington and passed an ac'
imposing duties, the preamble of which
was as follows, "Whereas it is necessary
fer the support of Government, for the
discharge of the debts of the United
States and the encouragement and pro
lection Of manufactures, that duties be
laid on goods, wares and merchandlselm
ported" In message five years later
Washington said, Congress has repeated
Iy directed their attention to the encour
agement of manufactures.
The object is of too much Importance
not to insure continuance of these eff
forts in every way which shall appear
eligible. Judge Doolittle is in the habit
of telling the people on nearly every oc
casion that he learned his Democracy
! from Jefferson and Jackson. Well, JET
ferson in bis first message in 1902 said
that "to cultivate peace, maintain com
merce and navigation, to foster our fish
cries, and protect manufactures adapted
to our circumstances are the land marks
by which to guide ourselves in all our re-
lations."
At a subsequent day in 1915 in letter
to Benjamin Austin 'that to be independ
ent for the comforts of life, we must ia
bricate them ourselves. We must now
place the manufacturer by the side of the
agriculturist."