Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-06-23
COMMUNICATED.
CiMM NlCATED.
preteclOu 10 American Industry
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Protection 10 American Industry
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To the series Of articles, which you have had
the kindness to publish, tavorlnp protection
to American industry, have end vored to
prove by the records, going back to l>OS, that
this country improved, expanded, and decreased
more rapidly in power, population and wealth,
under high tariffs than under the policy OF low
tariffs and free trade have made the a>ccr,
tion and again repeat it, that when the patton
became depressed, trade aud commerce stag
| nant, lands and personal property largely de-
| preciated, the wages for labor cut down 10 q
| nittauce, the only means that ADMINISTRATORS,
| Congresses and statesmen could devise to re-
store public confidence, and reklndle the hres
| in deserted fOrges and furnaces, and reopen
| factories and other branches OF Industry. was
| to remodel the revenue system aud place II 90 a
protective basis. | challenge the best read and
best informed advocates OF free trade to point
| to a time in the history OF this nation, from
1908 to 1874, when it was more, or equilly Us
PROSPEROUS, under free trade as under tariff Sc
curing protection
! Ii there is virtue in free trade how is it that
il cannot be found in the industrial and fuan
cial statistics OF the country ''By their works
ve shall know them" Give Us the dates aud
the proofs, We champions Of free trade, whcu
YOUR "works' improved the condition OF the
American people |, is idle to cant and bustcl
about the beauties of free trade unless you cat
produce statistics 10 sustain YOUR beautiful
theory. 1t is easy to talk and max" assertions
but the Court" demands the proof before II
can render just verdict.
IF YOU undertake to argue the question OF
protection to IA ce-traler, he is sure to avoid
discussion as to what ii has done, or may do IN
his own country, but points to Eng land aud
other foreign countries to illustrate the excel
lent qualities of the free trade system Ii is III
evidence because Engand adopts aud prospers
under system of free trade that the same
system, 10 the same ratio. would benefit the
Uuited States. England has nothing tu gain
| by high tariffs she has enjoyed monopoly OF
trade and commerce. so long and so hrniy cs-
tablshed, secured by many years oil unchafged
and uninterrupted protection that It's necessity
| no LONGER exists Ii took a century OF high
| tariffs to place Great Britain above the neces-
sity of protection Give the United States a
quarter of Il century Of julicous protection, and
our financial. commercial and manufacturing
interests will become SO permanent aud SO IN
dependent that our people would not care h.
whether tariffs were high or low English
protection was permanent; ours t1uctualug.
High tariffs one year. aud low the next. Party
spirit in Congress would never consent to more
than five years OF protection and prosperity,
when the political dcmagogucS would begin to
howl about monopoly, unequal taxation, robbIng
the laborer, and other silly aud contcmpublc
charges, and down would 20 protection and
| down went the country. This kind OF lcglsfa-
ton has kept the country i'll constant cothmo.
tion-1ich and progressive to-day and poor and
depressed Tomorrow. 'Unstab!c as water. it
could not excel u. |.
MURDER IN BALTIMORE Last night, be-
tween IL and II clock, during a drunken
braw at the Sherwood house, Baltimore, Der
ry Amos, aged about thrly-fvc, well known
sporting character and gambler, was stabbed in
the left shoulder, and blcd to death i'll about
half au hour afterwards. Before dying, how
ever, he accused Sam Mcdonald OF doing the
cutting, and he was immediately arrested. Nc
Donald, who was formerly welI-kuuwn and
wealthy resident of Baltimore, Is said to be
on visit from Indana. The affair caus d
much excitement The father Of Sam. Nc
Donald was the millionaire, WIN. McDJuald.
THE HARVEST Our country friends have
been Justly engaged for the past week. and viii
be for this. in the harvest field. Many otour farm
ers have flushed harvesting, aud those who
have not will flush this week. Those sc have
talked with are delighted with the prospect of
large yield, especially Of the red wheat. 1t
| is said the white has not turned ont 50 we'll
| not near so we'll as was expected a few weeks
ago. Fredericksburg Ledger.