Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-10-09
KELLEY.
HIS VIEWS ON WOODS TARIFF.
nial the Crowning Glory of our First
Century-General Considerations.

tempt TO resist the tendency and Drift OF the
age. England herself begins TO realize the sad
mistake she made when she failed TO conffne
freedom of trade with her ports to raw mate
rias and food. On the Sd of last month Mr.
Ernest Seyd. before the British Society Of Arts
in London. reiterated his belief in the abstract
doctrine of free trade and said:
"I Will admit that the increased imports are
due partly TO foreigners forcing goods here; but
there is this year already falling of 10 the i'm
ports. / will further admit that our habits are,
perhaps, too luxurious. Although an thor
ough free trader, am aware that such luxuri
Gus habits cannot be checked by mere moral
suasion, and I am of the opinion that unless
there is soon a better balance between our i'm
ports and exports. there is really no other
method of efIecting this than by partial return
| TO protection.
Here is a pamphle. with which the British
Islands have been flooded within the last few
months. 1t is Lord Bateman's plea for limited
protection or for reciprocity in free trade. Let
me read the closing paragraph:
~ appeal TO the common sense and to the
patriotism OF my countrymen, and II they are
convinced how great has been the fallacy OF our
! free-trade policy without reciprocity. 1t is for
them TO say, as 1 believe sincerely they will
a
lection is not the true and simple solution of
our present difficulties, and Will tend TO re-
trIeve our losses. increase our revenue, tighten
our burdens, bring peace, contentment and en-
ployment TO our working classes, and teach
| then, and us to bless the day which restored the
old policy and the old watehword OF protection
TO native British Industry. "
The cotton lords OF England are demanding the
protection of their investments against the terri
BILE competition from India. Let me read you
some extracts from the London Times, premis
Ing that the British Indian government,
In order 10 raise adequate annual
revenue, has been compelled to impose a
duty OF Eve per cent. on cotton goods imported
into Indian ports, and the British manufac-
turers are demanding the repeal Of that duty.
"There was scarcely a town in our manufac-
turing districts which was not represented. .
Their wish TO preserve foreign market for
their goods is natural enough, and, within de-
cent limits, pralseworthy enough. We can
scarcely say much for them when they ask not
only that Indian finance shall be regulated for
their own convenience, but that the export
trade OF India shall be Kept within the bound
| they wish TO assign TO IL, and shall be crushed
out OF existence when 1t intrudes itself as their
rival 1t is a strange Thing, we cannot help
which proceed, in the case before us, the attack
| on free trade. -
Ihave here slip from the London Saturday
Review on the French Exposition:
srThe first exhibition was held at London. and
was avowedly intended to be a sort OF conseera-
tion OF free-irade. The new exhibition is to be
held at Paris, and is conservation OF protec-
ton. Conquered France has at last conquered
Its proud captor. Prince Bismarck has just is
sued manifesto through one OF his organs, IN
which he explains his new financial policy. 1t
| seems that he has been rneditating over the
financial system OF France; ard Is lost in ai-
miratIou a what he finds to be its basis and its
! method. II is through protection that France
pays the interest on the nilllisrds which he car
| RED of. lie thought that be had crushed
France pecuniarily, aud he discovers that
apparently she IS not crushed at all Her
| n rational and local taxation now amounts to
about fI50, 600, 900 a year, and the Chamber is
| gaily embar1Ing on new and vast schemes for
railways, canals, and improved military
| Organization. How this IS done is the Ques; lon
which Prince Bismarck has seriously asked
| himself, and the only answer he can discover is
| that It 4. done through a system of wise and
| bold protection. He therefore invites his
eountrymen not TO be above Initiating France.
CENTURY.
In eharacterizlng the last quarter OF the first
century of our existence the chairman OF the
Committee said.
alt marked the most extraordinary epoch in
our rhistory-distingushed for its extinction of
sIavery-the greatest civil war of any time, and
| It's consequent decentralization and stimulating
effects upon values, and the vicious legislation
which OF necessity followed.
our great civil war and the extinguishment
| of slavery were memorable events, but they do
not characterize the period alluded to. The
crowning glory OF that century of American
history centered in the display of machinery, the
most wonderful that man had ever beheld; in
the products of genius, taste skill and industry
ii was IN the habits, manners and apparel of our
people, who gathered there by millions, and
| who, thanks To the general principles OF the
protective system, presented To foreign
| ers an undstinguishable mass, so that they
asked, ''where are the people, the artisans.
| the pGysdls. the IaoorerS2'' This exhibit OF
| the developed resources OF our country, of the
| skill and aItainmeuis Of our people, of the IN
fuence of self-government upon the social habits
of people, was the crowning glory OF the first
| century OF our history.
FALLACY EXPOSED.
The theory he attempts TO enforce is false. II
| is that duty imposed upon any article is, as
| have already said, not only added TO the price
of that article when imported, but adds Itself 10
every like article produced in the country
of consumption Now, II This proposition be
true, 1. In common with most Of my country
| men, am Ike the client who cried in court be-
cause he had not known how badly he had been
Injured until he heard his counsel state The case
II this theory be correct, which 6eny, our farm
ers have been robbing and plundering me and
all other dwelers in cities and towns until 1t is
no wonder we are so poor and depressed. have
prepared table showing the amount of wheat.
barley oats, potatoes, corn and rye raised in the
country in 1877, the amount exported, and the
rates OF duty oD each, and the amount OF tax
imposed on the country at large by the farmers,
| il II be true that the import duty increases the
price not only upon the imported article but
| upon the product OF the country. On wheat
alone they stole SO, J91, 2I2 50 from us Did you
know that? Upon barley, -. i62, ,0SO 60; on rye,
-, ,gs7 3OO potatoes, s2I, SD, jJ2 so; on oats
SO 2i, 5S7 20; and on corn, s126 $50, 9is 2O max
ing in all $3.50, 100, ,6s1 3j-enough TO have paid
the duty on all the assafoetida taken by farmers
wives since the country was first settled, and
| upon the annual consumption of all the articles
| the chairman OF the commit ee supposed sgd
ney Smiths farmer was going forth TO pur-
| chase.
| GENERAL COSsIDERATIoSs.
A tariff is not a matter of Inspiration. 1t is
| a thing OF slow growth and of adaptation to the
extent, resources, and development Of a coun-
try Switzerland, with her few miles of terri
| tory, her snow-capped mountains, and her
| lakes, enriched with no native resources in
| the way of metals. may need free trade. But
10 is not adapted 10 a young and sparsely- popu-
| lated country which extends, as ours does,
| from ocean to ocean, embraces all climates, is
more richly endowed than any otner country
| with soil and climate for varied agricultural
| productions. and is still more richly endowed
| with minerals useful and precious, and whose
people, having been trained in the Industrial
centres of all countries are in the enjoyment of
| schools of art and science such as the mag
| nificent one founded by the munihcence OF the
venerable man who does me the honor to listen
| 10 me (Mr Peter Cooper. which, with its
| stores of literature, its motels, its drawings,
| its scientific apparatus, and other educational
appliances. is open 10 the poorest child of either
sex in the country.
Such a country needs a protective tariff that
will enable its people 10 employ whatever facul-
| ties Heaven has endowed them with; the feeble,
with a taste for art TO embellish our produc-
| tions and adorn our homes and public halls; the
vigorous and enterprisins, toexplore our noun
| tains and develop their wealth; those with
mathematical and mechanical gifts. to advance
the arts and industries and carry them forward