The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-10-09
The Farmers MOyement-The
Tariff.

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tract rs follows:
Prices Of all manufactured articles
are too high ana Of all goods and mcr,
chandisr, while patcntccs OF patented
articles on THEN manufacturers, have Il
double monopoly, What is the rene.
dy2 1t is not, rs we pointed out last
week, to seek cheaper prices under II
system which makes high prices. II
IS not to get rid Of retail merchants,
nor Of middlemen Of any Kind, nor, if
if il please You, Of rings. All this talk
about rings and Middle men, who raise
up and keep up prices, on the ono hand
or lower and keep them down on the
other, is sheer nonsense and dema'
goguery, and the man who INDUCES II
palms OH a f]nlschood. To strike at
rings or anything else, is like cutting
Off the head Of the tabled dragon, nm.
der Il system which fosters their growth
they will grow again as fast IA cnt on.
The remedy lies deeper. BE assured
that all men buy rs cIIeaply rs they
can and seek all the advantages they
can get. The community only Is safe
when the can't obtain such unwhOIC.
some privileges, when they cant get
the power to Cypress.
In the tariff we find the great prime
root Of the evil. Strike the roOl and
the branches will wither.
The tariff is u scheme by which the
government undertakes, at its ports Of
entry to collect such n tariff from i'm
ported goods, as will protect American
manufacturers. 1t is II reversal Of the
natural order, that every man Shall buy
where he can buy cheapest, and aeon
p~uIsion to buy where he must buy
dearest.
If one have a hill farm and his neigh.
Dor Il bottom farm it will pay one to
raise grain, fruits, &c, aud the other
to raise hay, The first will exchange
his grain for hay and vice versa, or
both will do what is the same thing {:
sell in market and buy in market, the
one grain, the other hay. This on
the assumption that it pays one best to
raise the ono commodity, the other to
raise another
SO with nations, each should pro
tucc what il can produce to the best
advantage, and 5uy what it cannot,
from other markets. Suppose for in
stance that British cloth costs n dollar
n ward, and wheat n dollar II bushcl.
Suppose that American cloth cannot
be made and sold at Il profit for less
than 81 so, Il tariff of 60 cents will OBJ
viously exclude British woollcn The
farmer who gave one bushcI OF wheat
for one yard Of cloth, must now give
one and one half bushels for the same
kind Of cloth. He has expended the
labor necessary 20 produce one halt
bushcl more than if wooIcns were un
protected. Suppose the country to
use one million yards Of cloth, 1t has
wasted the labor necessary to produce
800, 900 bushels Of wheat more than
would have bought n million yards of
British cloth, and it only has 4 million
Yards Of cloth, at last. The labor OF
raising one half million bushels is
clear waste to the country. We have
given that rs u mere bonus 20 the man.
uracturcr to make something we
could have got for n half million bush
els less elsewhere, ard we have wasted
so much labor which ought have to
been manufacturing something we
produce cheaper than other countries,
thus adding their labor to the prodnc
ton OF exchangeable commodities.
Government protects the production
of raw iron, aud if only produced the
English manufacturer will ship iron
manufactured articles and undcrscIl
the American, who has to pay 4 duty
ON raw iron; 80 that II duty must be
laid ON manufactured articles and 80 it
~, not Il solitary manufactured article
but has u duty upon it. The natural
system is abandoned and an artificial
system substituted to which there is no
end. If iron il protected the nail
maker, the railroad iron makc:. must
be protected. 1t is all artificial, and
the money paid rs duty goes, not to
the government, but to the manu(ac-
turer's capacious pocket. Thus great
monopolies are built up, which iatten
on the people who get nothing in rc
turn for the extraordinary privilege OF
paying high prices, not to the govern.
ment, to pay interest and reduce the
debt, or be stolen, but to the New En-
gland and Pennsylvania monopolisls.
Government is beset by them crying
for protection to the strong, which the
weak pay and suffer, and find their
burdens grow yearly greater. All we
wear, everything we own, all we buy from
our merchants, is subject to this oner.
Gus duty, which is undermining the
prosperity OF the country. The mcr.
chant advances to. the manufacturer,
and we pay it to the merchant. 1t is
insidious and creeps on US like u thief
in the night W. pay every time we
purchase AN article and yet We never
suspect or think Of it.
!. We build y railroad to New York
TO get cheap transportation to a cheap
market where goods are imported but
government tax's everything that en-.
tcrs MO the construction of II railroad l
the iron, the rails, tacks, screws, glass,
machinery, locomotives. upholstery. ,
the timber OF which the cars aIe
made, thu coal burned for fuel, and w..