Litchfield enquirer., 1881-10-13

have obtained. tables of the new census which enables. me to give you some of the figures
 In 1880 there were laid in this country, 900 900 tons of steel rails, into the prices of which entered the duty of $28 ton. Consequently
 the people paid over $28. .000, 900 on that one article. not a penny of which they need have paid but for that accursed tax. to benefit elev- FedcsnpAliesf Of this amount $l 500 900 came Eint0the United States treasnry. The protec-
 to receive SO much as that. They promised.
 you know, to keep foreign rails out entirely, to make, themselves, ali that should be re- quired but for some reason or other they
 rails. EsS EsOSe6t oasrI zRnt Ehsr people paid
 nineteen times more than the treasury real
 ized. Now when we come to look into the
 nature of it, is there man or waman before
 me who does not say that this monstrous sys ktemislupjyst, who does not say that it is arng hnfghfeous. III1I .s ,*ENHJSIliF
 Now having looked into the nature of pro-
 tective tariff, let us briefly examine the work ing of it. And, first, how does it bear on the
 farmerP It increases the price of everything ths faEpsg has to buy and dimInihses the price
 nail in your pig-pen without paying the
 protective duty, for it enters into the cost of
 the hammer. the nails and the boards You can't put shingle on your roof, or mend your |@eneeSer g4to,pesketa yen eaa'tdo a thing, q stm 1 step Without paysng tax -fot the Gbene- fit of few monopolists. You must pay twen- ty per cent. on lumber, lest Canadian lumber be brought here cheaply to compete with the
 lumber of Michigan. You must pay on every
 pound of steel or iron. You can't have a reap
 CT, mower, or even apoor, old-fashioned sickle
 without paying an artifical price. 0Hey aeGs. sslss upfeE thia system you
 not choose your own market. You cannot scheme is sskilfniiy devised to limit your
 market, to prevent your enjoying the benefits bfany psssible cempetitioEa Fer ne o1e will Sch dnless he can get bay for wfiat che sells, and..we have put up barriers to preve6 the price coming back for what is sent ~abroad. Buying and selling is exehange, nothing more nor less. When you give something you do not want for something yon do want that's selling;. when you receive something you
 want for something you do not want, that's
 buying. There can be no buying without sell. ing, and no selling without buying. But we invent. 2 ,soheme te prevent buying, to prevent goods coming back in return for those we send
 away, and we call it protection. | 
 And why, with perfect protection of Ameri- can ship building, can't Americans build shlpsi Simply be0a6sesthe likespFotection makes all Iahe materials that enter into ship so dear. The lumber, the iron, the sails, are 30 taxed, yes even the very ropes are so taxed, for the
 benefit of few Kentucky hemp raisers, that it is not possible to build ships in our ports with
 p'GIi This is system that eannot last. The
 country will yet open its eyes to the folly and
 enormity of it. You men of Berkshire will be as much interested in it's repeal as anyone.
 The Hoosac and the Housatonic Valleys will
 join in the shout for Free Trade and Free 6hipB.V TfNF0T TiETTT For thirty years have been studying this
 matter of trade and teaching it's principles to
 the young men of Williams. We are now in the twenty ninth class in Political Economy, and
 in all this time have only grown frmer in my conviction that men never interrupt trade unless they can make something by it at the expense of thosethey interfere with. sgg
 zs ls.In conversation, after the address,'E says the editor of the Courier, Prof Perry. stated that during the last twenty years the people have paid annually, on the average, in protec tive taxes. $500, ,000, 00O,s not one spenny of which has gone in the treasury: total fer the twenty years of twelve billions of dollars, or twice as much as the war of the rebellion cost the government. Formerly our ships carried four fifths of our exports and imports, now they carry but g trif1e more, than one seVenth.j II $ fGIEIS : l5 <4 %