The daily gazette., 1878-10-28

eono W tho Iariners OF the country. To
meet their wants, the merchants are buy
Ing goods; manufacl urers aud mechanics
VIII soon be called upon for what they
make; their stocks of wooden and cotton
goods, OF shues, of farm implements OF all
Kinds, OF sewing machines, &C., will be-
In demand. They will pay out wages to
their workmen. These In turn will buy
food OF the farmers, and will set all classes
OF mechanics at work to repair or build
their houses. The connected wheels OF
Industry will be- set in motion-each will
AID the other, and the gain from our pro-
ducts sold will be multiplied hundred
times before their effects cease TO tell
upon labor and production. Thus we see
that when we tighten an unwise tax The
results are diffused blessings on great
scale TO every class and to every section
OF our country. 1t is true that the state
Of things i'll Europe made an unusual de-
mand for Our products. If this tax had
not been taken of, and but for the COM
petition of more than five thousand
canals boats, this European demand
would have been used 10 put up charg.s,
and many millions of bushels of grain
would have been kept out of market and
ev ry form OF industry wOulu have been
harmed. Those who wish to learn the
causes of our present exports must COM
pare the cost OF carrying this season with
that OF other years. 1t has been fifteen
cents for bushel of wheat by canal from
Buffalo to New York. This season, at
times, it has been less than five cents
The cost from Chicago to New York has
been twenty-five GEMS for bushel. In
the past summer II has been taken for
les than seven cents. The policy of TAX
ing charges off from commerce is not
only shown upon wa er routes-it brought
down railroad charges. In 1873 the Gem
trail road charged for taking wheat from
Buffalo to New York twenty -one cents
per bushel in the winter, and eighteen
cents in the summer months. This year
the road has taken it for five cents. Com
petition has led to railroad economies
and improvements, SO they can carry for
less, and all classes are benefited. While
the policy Of low tolls has done SO much
to revive business, not only in New
YORK, but all over the country, the re-
publican Congressional policy of making
IT cost more for an American citizen
to buy an ocean steamship than it CO. Is
the citizen Of any other country is ad-
hered to. This State cuts down its taxes
on commerce.; it increases the sale of our
products in for reign markets. 1t helps to
turn the balance of trade in our favor; it
starts the wheels of industry, and gives
hope to our mechanics and laborers. L
do not claim that low tolls have alone
done all this. Wra, short crops and other
causes have made foreign demand for
what we make and raise. But every busi
ness man in New York, democrat or rt =
publican, will say that putting down
faxes on our canal commerce to a nomi-
nal sum, together with the competition
thus excited between railroad and water
routes, has had much to do with the turn
of the tide of business in our favor.
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DUTIES.
Can we keep the markets that we have
gained for our breadstuffs and provisions?
We can five can send to them without
too much cost. Nay, more, we can widen
them if the government will not hinder
our efforts, for never before could we
raise or make as much and at as low a
price as at this time. We ought to be
able, therefore, to find new customers in
all parts of the world. We raise grain
and cattle and swine, and make cheese
at price so low that we can undersell
many people ON their own grounds, and
we excel in mechanics. II we DO this
we shall in little time enjoy prosperi-
ty greater than that of any time in the
past. We have cleaned out the channels
of commerce in our own state OF taxes
and abuses, and our products go cheaply
TO the seabOald. But here they are cou-
fronted by the government, which has
destroyed our ocean commerce and
which says that no American merchant
shall buy steamship in the markets of
the world to carry these products where
they are wanted. 1t Is this fact which
prevents sending our dairy products
where they could be sold at proht-uur
Consuls in different cities and ports say
they are wanted, but we have no COM
mercial Intercourse with them. Every
man of thought knows If we held to-day
the same relative position on the seas
that we held twenty years ago that we
should at once have prosperity in every
much we gain by taking taxes off of one
line of canals, it is clear If our merchants
were allowed an equal chance with those
of other countries, they would lind mar
kets for all that our farmers raise or that
our mechanics make. The class of men
who hope to make gains by the wrongs
OF our navigation laws is very small.
Those who build vessels for our inland
waters or for the cosating trade are barm-
ed. For home commerce is less when
our foreign trade is crippled. 1t does
not help the matter to give subsidies to a
few lines. These only grant to small
numbers monopolies of tue best routes
at the public cost. Subsidies will never
cover the ocean with competing ships,
looking for new markets ana carrying al
the lowest prices they can afford. His
tory shows that the nations which lead
IN the commerce of the seas control the
wealth of the world. European nations
| try to build up their trade by encourag-
ling their merchants, while ours hinders
those who seek to sell our products
abroad wherever they can find buyers.
Can it be that the farmers, the merchants
the manufacturers, the mechanics OF our
State will not help the democratic party
to correct this great wrong They know
and feel that their troubles are mainly
due to this cause. They know that II
we had competing American lines or
steamships running to all parts OF the
ocean our business troubles would disap-
pear. They know that II they send a
| Republican to Congress, while his views
may be right on this point, he can do but
little for he must oppose himself to the
body of his friends. They know that un-
til by some decided action they teach the
republicans that this abuse will no long
er be tolerated, that the laws will stand
unchanged. ......H.
REVISE THE NAVIGATION LAWS.
There is no other question involved in
this election which so. deeply concerns
ali as the correction of navigation laws.
| It is q Just reproach to the republican
merchants and business men OF New
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