Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-08-09
FREE TRADE WITH CANADA.

FREE TRADE WITH CANADA.
The Cincinnati Gazette says: ave can
find no reciprocal trade with . foreign coun-
try that will be so beneficial as with Canada.
The people are well conditioned and intelli-
gent, and their wants demand about the
same wages as those of our people; there-
fore reciprocity will not put our workmen
into competition with degraded class
whose wants are the most primitive and
their wages according"
The ideas above expressed are either true
and sound, or they are untrue and unsound.
Let US review the facts and logic, or the
therefore and see II we can ascertain the
exact character of this Industrial exchange
of commodities and strength of reasoning.
Weigh carefully in an even balance the
first statement: ave can find no reciprocal
trade with foreign country that will be
SO beneficial as with Canada" If this be
true, British guinea made by farmer of
Ohio or Tennessee, in trading with Cana
dian, is worth at least guinea and penny,
If not two guineas, obtained by ga recipro-
cal trade" with one of Victoriais subjects
in England When man or woman has
some product of labor to sell for gold,
grain or cloth, is it matter Of consequence
where the purchaser lives, and whether
rich or poor, black or white? In word, If
i. would be advantageous to Americans in
the United States to enjoy the manifold
blessings of frea trade with a few
subjects of the British crown in Canada,
why will it not be vastly more "bene6cial"
to have free trade with all British subjects
everywhereP Are not our citizens as COM
petent to make judicions bargains with
people who reside in England, Scotland,
France and Germany, as with any who live
in British provinceP The freemen of this
republic are competent to trade with one
another without protective tariff, over
thirty-ive or six States, and many terrific
ries; and the Cincinnati Gazette has the
sagaci:y to see that equal free trade with
the people of Canada will be "benefcial."
Consider the reason given why it is benefi-
cial. "The people srs well conditioned and
intelligent, and their wants demand about
the same wages as these o; our people,"
Here we have the rich cream of Republican
Craftsmanship. A mechanic who obtains
three dollars. day for his skill and labor
must not purchase any meat, butter, grain,
fruits or vegetables he may need Of farmer
or gardener who makes only dollar day
by his skill and labor, because the parties
are not alike CONDITIONED and intelligent :"
Did crazy brain, bent on reforming man
kind ever invent more stupid notion in
favor of equslizing the conditions and in
telligence" of American subjects, or
of persons who buy and sell among them
selves? How many generations of our
nearly five million blacks must live and die
before their condition and intelligence"
will come up to the English, French and
German standard, which the Gazette con-
dennis as too low for Americans to trade
with in safety? Has not your ,"condiLion
and intelligence" humbug been played off
on this country about long enough? Admit
that forty million freemen are sufficiently
well informed to trade with one
another without any federal guardianship,
and you concede the whole question.
Ali men of cultivated common sense know
that your paternal government il a cheat
and fraud practiced on homes Industry.
Your protective system ostentatiously puts
a halt cent in tie urn of labor with one hand,
while it clandestinely with the o.her hand
takes a double eagle out. This is plain,
palpable stealing under the cover ola law
of Congress. A few manufacturers of salt
&C Syracuse and Salina mako some eight
million bushels a year, which is sold cheap
er to Canadians in the Province, than to
consumers in New York where
the saltworks are in operation.
The rich manufacturers have a m nopoly
Of the four million consumers of salt, TO q
large extent in the State of New York. A
protective duty on all imported salt, enables
salt boilers to steal indefinite millions from
American farmers annually, who are the
largest consumers of salt, which they can
not do to Canada farmers, because Grants
party machinery is pogerless on the north
side Of the great lakes. It is 8 fair ques-
ton whether stealing from the people at
large, to give princely fortunes to those that
monopolize all the salt wells and springs in
the Union, is not an indictable offense.
1t is clear that forty million people must
have salt for their bread, meat, butter and
vegetables every day in the year. An In
famous Congress says they shall not have,
this indispensable salt, (snd as necessary
for all farm stock as for man, unless they
pay the price fixed BY a few greedy monop-
lists! In these facts the reader has "protec
ton" boiled down, and crys.allized to give
every body taste of the article. 1t re-
minds one of the salt named in the New
Testament which had elost its saver, and
was not fit for the dung heap" Every
man in Congress who voted for this rob.
berry should be tried and punished for his
crime.
GRAET'S CHAPLAIN,