The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-04-15

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Give ne . toot hache, or sore ~yea,
IN preferences 20 such kan. OF pies.
The farmer takes his g.iarliest fruit,
They leave the hp.i to make us cough,
Tlen ON q dirty cord they re strung,
Ana rom some chamber window hung
Hni 1ne s Sa naa for ao the pies
Trad r o.. my eorns or tell me isss-
Oux Exnoxss e Iron go Sssel. q.
It has always been q favorit
policy with the propagandists o
free trade, that protective tarit
increases the cost of manufactures
goods, and therefore limits tn,
exporting capacity of the country
The great trouble with this doc
trine is that it is not true neithe,
sound in the premises nor logica
in the deductions therefrom. Pro
lection always has stimulated tn,
growth of manufactures in AM
country and encouraged compe
tition among domestic producers
It was under the most stringent
protective tariff that the world eve,
saw-a law that built up the wooler
industries of England, and it is the
abandonment of that protective
policy which is, in that country,
tearing down the solid growth il
made under 200 years of protection,
and allows American woolens to
find a ready sale in the markets OF
London Not only wooden fabrics,
but a score of other manufactured
goods, like cutlery, which have been
protected in America, are driving
the English made goods to the wall,
even in the English market. A
country that is devoted mainly 10
agricultural pursuits and the min
ing of the rough metals, especially,
must adopt protective policy to
utilize it's products and create a
home market for such of its pro
auctions as are too bulky for long
transportation; and if, under such
a policy, manufactures are built up
to the extent that they are indie
pendent of the foreigner, OF, better
still, enabled to undersell him in
his own markets, it would, even in
the height of prosperity, be suicidal
to abrogate the enactments under
which success has been achieved.
AS well might the government, on
a clear day when the waters Of
Lake Michigan are quiet, decide to
pull down the break water at the
mouth of Chicago River, as to de
stroy the barriers which confine
in American made
goods to the American manufac-
turers, and allow them, in compe-
ting with each other, to bring the
price of goods to the minimum
point, rather than permit pauper
labor on poor food to contend
against the well paid and educated
industry of our own country. If
duties are not high enough to be
increase them until they
are SO, and let farmer and mechanic
alike reap the benefits, the one of
quick cash, home market; and the
other of wages sufficient to enable
him to live like a man among men,
and educate his children to better
position in society than he has
himself attained.
Although the past year has been
one of comparative hardship to
American manufactures, yet COM
parison of the expectations of our
domestic manufactures with the
previous year will show the foothold
we are gaining in the markets of
The world; and it ought to be proof
positive that any measure looking
to a reduction of our productive
duties would at the present time.
Of all others, be taught with mis-
chief to our national industries.
The Bulletin of the American
iron and Steel Association, in its
asst number publishes table show
ing both the amount and value of
manufactured goods into which iron
md steel largely enter, which have
been exported during the past two
rears. OF agricultural implements
.he number exported in 1872 was
b, 46S, valued at S1,765,O78; while
n 1873 the number was 37.O53,
Talued at $2,513, 9S2. In 1872 we
SO, $50 cwt. of pig iron,
ralued at S72.8 1S; but in 1873 the
exported was 1S0,436 cwt.,
7alued at S414, $40. OF boiler plate,
We sent abroad in 1872, 6O3 cwt.,
7alued at S5,O41; but the next year
,ur shipments were 2,23S cwt.,
worth $14,519 OF car wheels, our
exports were, in 1872, 1873, against
2, 274 in the succeeding year. OF
locomotive engines, we seat abroad
IS in 1872, and So in 1873. Nails
md slnlases constituted large fea-
.re in the expectations of both
years, being 5,325, O35 pounds in
1872 and 6,S18,671 In 1873. The
,n]y two items in the entire list
which were more largely exported
n 1872 than the succeeding year
IRE railway bar, or rails, and sheet,
,and, and hoop iron
It is only during the last year
hat the American manufacturers
AVE been able to control the home
markets point which has been
only by the protection of
American industry. If its efforts
nave been to accomplish such re-
,ults, what would 9 continuance of
. healthy and firm system of pro-
,ection for O number Of years de-
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