The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-29
"A Correspondent who has Taken Mr.
Turner'S Place.
..CA5liEl stHI Kryuru 1nl,, OCH 1900

kEYsEN, July 18th, 1857.
4 Editors ln,clligenccr. @
Having noticed with no little pleasure
the agitation Of the important question
+ which has been so ably discussed by your
5;sefand Mr.. Turner, I cannot refrain from
accepting small portion OF your space
(which has been so magnanimously offered
/ In the interest OF intelligent research. MOI
!; would / attempt this article only for tht
fact that Mr.. Turner has declined any fur
3 ther discussion.
You say, that Mr.. Turner assumes thai
( somebody must be cheated by the tariff
4 He has n right TO assume that which seemI
Z go easy OF proof. The farmer is cheated
.rby tariff, beyond all doubt, II
seems 10 me. How Is lie cheated
Z He is cheated by having to pay tariff
J, rates ior what he buys and taking free
\ trade rates for what he sclls. To understand
) this last proposition, you must observe the
Z lact that the marketable value OF all arti
cles, not protected by tariff, is governed
/ by the inexorable law OF supply and dc.
\ mand the world over, while the prices oil
articles protected by tariff is made BY the
relations between supply and demand in
that country alone herethey are projected,
sheltered from competition with the world.
e You draw IN affecting picture Of the farmer
and the artisan living side by side in the
z conyenient exchange Of commodities for
their mutual benefit. But tell you that in
\ this country the artisan OF the North and
. the East standing by the side OF tho farmer
of the South and the West is as the vine
which clings to the tree, and chokes it to
q sickly vitality.
5s,t The artisan says 10 the iarmer II Won
: don't take SO much for Your wheat, | will
buy from foreign market.
4 Nov, what does the farmer have to saw /?
:.Just about this, viz: "Well, your article, it
seems to me, is very high, and could buy
cheaper in England il you would permit
Eme, but rs you won't guess will have TO
submit 10 the Outrage"
MIR. Editor, Gun you conceive OF a strong
mutual attachment growing up between
two people when one OF them is con.
stantly harrassing the other in this man.
Gner. - p, ~ !, -
~ The Chicago Inter. OCEAN, in speaking Of
ID%W. Voorhees, speech in defence OF the
tariff commends him by saying that he had
/: learned well the doctrine OF Americu for
I the Americans. II seems to me that il il
had said he had learned well the doctrine
! OF America for the manufacturers it would
have been II great deal more applicable.
,s;&s You also state it as rule OF political
economy "that the closer producers of
every: kind can be brought together, the
; less their losses will be by intermediate
scbarges.n
US a Very sound doctrine, and one which
mo one will dispute; but the iuxtaposi,ion
alluded to i'll this rule means simply the
scheapness Of access If the ocean was wide
enough SO that the manufacturers OF the
odd World could not afford 10 ship their
goods across and still compete with our
manufacturers, there would, you will nd.
mt, be no kind Of tariff laws. Now,
\ lake it that it Is plain to be seen from this
Stliat instead OF bringing the manufacturers
Y closer, it virtually pulls them further away
10 lay protective tariff. A boy would
walk ten miles to circus il he could get
IN Tree, but il it was in his own town, and
the tariff ut the door was too strong ior
min, does 1t not virtually send the circus
to the North Pole, SO far us he is con.
No good rule Of political economy can
I ever be found which will sustain the tariff
laws. The rules which it looks to for it's
3iloundationare more like these viz. Rule lst.
sihe more labor any country can furnish its
:ihnabitanls the better the condition OF
I those inhabitants. lit might be well to
remark that this rule has been somewhat
shaken by the fate OF the Nation which
compelled its people TO build the pyramids.
Ru!e End. The less labor saving ma.
Shinery used the better the condition Of
humanity. Rule Sd. II the world Ind
been more sterile and less fertile the con-
sditiou Of humanity would have greatly nd
Syanced in civilization, wealth etc.
=i n. B. CARsKADoS.