The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-05-30
JACKSON, OHIO, THURSDAY, MAY 30 1873.

Is it the Senators and Representative
from Pennsylvania who have not tn
courage to antagonize the Industries ant
interests of their own State? Does MI
Clarke, speaking from q Boston pulpit
mean to convey the idea that Massachus
cites has been injured by this war tariff
and injured by the votes from "Pennsyl
vania and elsewhere" forcing this tariff
upon her? If Mr.. Clarke were instructed
and intelligent on this subject, as maj
should be who assumes authority upor
it, as a minister should doubly and trebly
be who goes out Of his way to rebuke anC
rectify those whose study and business
and profession it is, he would know tina
for fifty years there has not been a tarif
levied for the protection and develop
ment of the iron interests in "Pennsyl
vania and elsewhere" that did not receive
the vote of every Senator and Represen
tative from Massachusetts,. Daniel Web
ster, Rufus Choate, Honest John Davis
John Quincy Adams, Mr.. Winthrop
Charles Sumner, II enry Wilson, Mr.. Hoar
ST., and both his able and accomplished
if somewhat crotchety sons, Mr.. Bout
well, Mr.. Dawes, Mr.. Hooper, Governor
Rice, and the entire long list, have voted
steadily, strongly and uniformly for q
protective tariff, including the war tariff
when it came; and sometimes for tariff
much higher indeed in the rate Of duty
than this war tariff which the courageous
Mr. Clarke attacks with his sword of the
spirit. Granting that these men, one
and all, are arrant towards, what had
they to fear from Pennsylvania What
harm can the iron masters do to Senator
Dawes or Governor Rice, that they should
not dare to say their souls are their own
"What have they to gain by n moments sin,
To weigh in the scale wi;a their innocent
years 2"
| l should think that the whir of the
mill wheels of Putsfeld under his win
dows would be louder than the roaring
of the forges of Pennsylvania in the ears
of Senator Dawes.
If Mr.. Clarke had been willing to pat
ronize the Bible by taking a text from it
instead of the newspapers, he might have
learned to correct the optical illusion
arising from the respective localities of
notes and beams. 1t is amazing, it gives
US new revelation of clerical possibili-
protected cotton mills and wooden mills
at Lowell and Lawrence and Fall River
and the protected carpet factories at
Clinton and Lowell and Worcester, and
the numberless other protected handi-
crafts in all the valleys and by all the
watercourses Of Massachusetts --handi-
crafts which have made that lovely,
beloved, and exasperating old State, SO
rich and prosperous and powerful that
she can shed her reformers like water
from ducks back, and sail along stead
fast and stately under a shower bath OF
self conceit and wrong headedn ess that
would sink forty fathoms deep weaker
commonwealth is amazing to see how
those enormous beams elude Mr.. Clarke S
vision, while the mote of pig iron in the
fraternal eye of Pennsylvania elicits such
disapproval and disgust that he must
stretch forth his priestly hand across
three States to pluck it out.
| have before me copy or compilation
of the existing tariff laws passed from
time to time, with their various modifca-
tions and changes for more than half a
century. 1t is not a thrilling narrative
Mr.. Clarke could lay it down at any place
without counting the minutes before he
should be able to take it up again. l
will not say that even l myself left to my
own unassisted reason, should not have
surreptitiously skipped a page or two
here and there. But with the aid of two
experts in the tariff, citizens respectively
of the two largest manufacturing States
of the Union, l have gone through the
whole, line by line, and l find that of the
entire law, four lines out of every five
contain in some form protection in
favor of some industry followed in Mass
achusetts, and that out of all provisions
of law containing especial Determinations
intended to protect American industry,
five lines out of every six contain some
thing of interest and value to Massachus-
etts In short, Massachusetts, has built
mn how ,aolth md hor Ol1tO Of mo
ufacturing industries that have waxed
strong under the shelter Of a protective
tariff Among the listeners to this shall
low and shameless sermon there may
well have been some solid men of Boston,
the web of whose fortunes was woven in
the carpet looms of Massachusetts,. Did
no little monitor thump in their bosoms
while Mr. Clarke was bringing his railing
accusations against the brethren of Penn
sylvania? Did no still small voice whis-
per in their ears that the reason why
most of us cannot afford the Wilton car
pets which our souls long for, is that they
are protected by duty on the foreign
article of the same grade OF 40 cents per
square yard, in gold and in addition
thereto 35 per cent ad valorem, in gold
thus practically doubling the price of
Wilton carpets to the American purchas
er and booming us to ingram forever ?
For what is true to Wilton is in chief
measure true of Saxony and Aubusson,
and Administer and Tournay and Brus
sels-all of which are manufactured to
great profit in Massachusetts, under the
influence of these enormous duties. How
virtuous, how exemplary, how salyed in
conscience before God and man must
these rich carpet knights have felt as
they sat in their comfortable pews and
heard thecrack Of the clerical whip laying
the forty stripes save one on the backs OF
the depraved iron masters of Pennsylva-
mia With what fearful looking for of
Judgment and fiery Indignation must the
stockholders of the Bigelow Carpet Com
pany haye witnessed that first tentative
tilt against the tariff, and with what
delicious sensation of relief must they
have seen their discreet shepherd judi
ciously lead his flock beyond the green
pastures of Worcester and past the still
waters of Clinton, to dash himself into a
thousand pieces against a beetling mass
of Keystone pig iron. Like Moses coming
down from the Mount. so doubtless the
wist not that their faces shone with
delight, as they eagerly followed the trail
of their pastor into the Pennsylvania val
leys, beat their breasts black and blue
over the iniquity of the doomed iron
masters, and rent the April skies with
their fraternal wailing, Lord have mercy
upon them, miserable sinners! u
But l find one paper quite too short to
set in their proper light the rank and
radical untruths which Mr.. Clarke i'm
posed upon the congregation, but which,
if l can prevent it, he shall not impose
upon the American people. l shall con-
tinue the exercises another week.
GAIL HAMILTON.
A witness, in the course of her exam
ination, in a murder case, said there was