, 1876-01-08
IN EcnNnMfn aTllY.

TQT EGF4ESA JE&th OE4AAN tAo WA AALAo |
lived in Eew Jersey town a 1nnii who vas o
manufacturer OF machinery. He sold coffee
mills, small atenn,-ougincs, otc.. and tho bulk
Of his trude was with Chill aud Brazil. Ho
shipped Ills wares, nt low frcigl,ta md in
Auerican-built and in American manned
Blips, to these countries, sold them there,
bought with the proceeds copper and wool in
Chill mud coffeo md wool in Brazil, aud sold
these again in America. From the nature Of |
his business, lle soon bacan,s large buyer of |
uearly every sort of manufactured goods |
offered for salo in New York. The brazilian |
plnnter whom be furnished with tho mn
ohinery necessary to carry on the business Of
q plantation soon fc1l into the habit Of
ordering anything and everything he needed
from thia enterprising Yankee. Onco year
OF once in six months liz sent up long list
Of what he wanted It might or might not
contain ono or two things which this man
manufactured, but it comprised hundreds of
other articles, from set Of parlor furniture
to 30 many dozen papers of pins. Tho
planter produced only few Of tho haro neo-
ossaries Of life lie Ind to buy everything
else for himself, his family, Lis employees,
aud his Blnvcs mud he bought them NIL
through this manufacturer Of machinery, who
thus drove profitable trado in n thousand
nnd.one things outside his legitimate
business. The, orders which came
through his hands secured the employment
Of mnuy American workinymou, md the nu-
tunlly beneficial exchange Of commodities bo-
twoen Now York and South America became
greater aud greater. When alairs waro In
this prosperous condition, the War broke out.
Tho Protectionists," concoaiing greedy and
mistaken sclishnesB under the mask Of patri-
otlasn, stealing tho garb Of Hcavon to serve
Satan in, rushed through tin MORRILL, tariff.
One Of tho great objects OF that and Of Ill
our succeeding thrills WINS to protect tho iron
manufacture, the very business in which tho
hero of this ower-truo story was mainly en-
Rnged Aiark how it protected him.
The cost Of manufacturing was enormous
ly enhanced, and the price Mt which our
goods could be sold ndvanco1 in proportion.
Tho goods could no longer be afforded at my
thing like tho old prico. Foreign cotnpeti-
tors stopped in mud undersold us. These cus-
toners naturally turned to tie English,
French, and German trnderH for their no
tons, implements, aud ongiacg md house-
hold and plantation wants. Then, having
established relations with European manu.
facturers. they sent their general yearly or
lors to them. Tho Now Jersey mau strng.
gled on, selling less and loss md at loss
until pnsental Government finally "pro'
tected him into bankruptcy. Els works stant
idle to-day, muto protest against the eco
nomic sins Of the United States.
lie had brother, who scryod for some
time as his agent in Brazil. When biz
trade foil of and OF, Tho brother looket
about to see what could be done, HI
found TINT American sowing-uachinea coult
still be sold there. So ho cane to New York
: got the agency for ono Of tho great firms on
gagged in tho business. mil went back. Al
tho tasi0 md tho fluctuations Of tho cur
1enoy kept increasing tho cost Of hi
machines and decreasing Ills profits, he Anal
ly went to Scotland, bought n factory il
: Glasgow, md is now making tho mn
!. chimes thero to be sold in South Amerlc
which were formerly mEao III Bridgeport
Conn. Thus two great businesses were los
- to this country.
, Tho story Inns moral.