Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-05-07
r. MAY Z, 1874.
BUY TIE BEST!-

my path is marked out. It is the path
and the path of honor. It is in the di
OF the performance of all our national
tlons Sir, know that before we rea,
cle payments we have hard and pei
long road to follow. I admit that it m
be well or wise to attempt, at single
TO reach the desired goal. But, sir,
| FesoluSely set forward; at each step thei
viii grow shorter and the task easier.
have said, Mr.. Speaker, that this q
Is, IN no sense, sectional one with me,
as my action is guided. But, sir, 1
that the duty of voting as l shall, b
more agreeable in view of the fact that
pens to conform to the interests of myo
uents.
We hear great deal said about pre-
to industry on this floor. Sir, am in
of protecting industry But have vet to learn
why it is less incumbent on US to protect the
industry of the millions who toll in the grain
fields of the West or the cotton fields of the
South than 1t is to protect the industry of
those who labor in the manufactures of New
England or the iron mines Of Pennsylvania
For many years, we of the West and South
have been taxed for the benefit of less favored
portions of the country. We have sold our
agricultural products at the prices which they
would bring IN the great markets of the world,
less the cost of getting them there. But we
have been compelled to pay not only the prices
of those things we buy, but large additional
cur own fellow citizens. Prices, consequent
ly, of all wo have to sell, have, for years, been
meager and low. Prices of every ything we
have had to buy have been extraYagantly
high. No wonder, sir, that trade is dull in
New York and Boston. The secret is plain
one, if you would only see it. We of the West
are your customers. We are too poor to bay
your goods. We have been selling at low
prices and buying at high prices, until we
have no longer the means to take our usual
supply. What are the consequences? Trade
Is dull in the great manufacturing and dis
tr1butlng centers; and, as a consequence of
that, prices of manufactured goods are coming
down. We of the West and South are at last
able to purchase our iron an d cotton cloth at
q more reasonable rate than we have done for
years. We have been selling our products low
for years. Now let US try buying our goods
low for while.
1 have taken the trouble to examine with
some care the market reports at Cincinnati, the
great central market of the continent, for some
years past; and, on the whole, it has had the
effect of convincing me that it is not for the
interests of those l represent that the curren-
cy should be inflated. I have arranged in tab
ular form statement of the prices of the
great articles of western production, as taken
from the Cincinnati Gazette for the 9Th Of
April 1872, and the 9th of April, 1873, and
the 6tn of April, 1874 I have also arranged
IN tabular form the prices of a number of man
ufactured articles which we largely purchase
in the West, taken from the same paper for
the same dates. l presume that other manu-
featured articles would bear about a proper
tionate price with those I have selected. The
following is the table: