Year: 1875

iSHciLZed Lu6OT


is something that has had too little encourage
ment on American soil. If we expect to take
that rank to which our destiny as a nation en-
titles us in the production of skilled workman
ship we must pay more attention to it in the fu'
ture than we have been doing in the past. Look
around US and see the conditions that tell US our
duty in this particular. Our revenues are down
to low water mark. Our commerce, our manu.
featuring interests everywhere, our agricultural
interests are suffering from depression. The low
ebb of our revenues may be accounted fer to some
extent by the financial crisis that scorches every
body's pocket and hampers business operations
everywhere. Our manufacturing interests suffer
in no inconsderable degree from the same cause.
Our agricultural interest is depressed mainly be-
cause the market in most instances is too far from
the farm. Congress is now tinckering at the
tariff, whose proper adjustment and successful
operation will do great deal towards relieving
the depression and distress in all the departments
above considered. While it is at this work it
would be well enough for it 10 do something to-
wards furnishing better protection and thereby
more adequate compensation to skilled labor
-England. France and Germany support each a
population almost equal to ours on territory tnut
is not larger than New York and New England
combined. France has been able to defray the
expenses of more wars and support more national
glory in the past than any other of the European
nations because she has studied we'll the protec-
tion of her manufactures and particularly that
portion Of them requiring skilled labor. No man
in his senses-6t to be outside of lunatic asylum
was ever favorable to free trade. No nation
has ever practced it. No nation that under
stands its interests ever will. What Congress
should do now is to readjust the tariff in such a
shape as to favor the manufacture in this country
of many of the finer and more costly wares and
fabrics that we obtain from England, France,
Germany, Belgium and Scotland. This will be
taking good step in the direction of furnishing
a preventive against the recurrence of the inan-
ca depression that effects all classes of society
and reaches every department of life. 1t will
start the nation on the road to fabulous wealth,
because it will eventually succeed in keeping in





annually send to Europe for these articles. And
if the South and West are wise in their own in-
terests they will leave nothing undone that will
assist in bringing the establishment of new man.
ufactories to their midst. If the West had New
England's spindles, looms, forges and vast ma
chinery she would not be spending her political
energies over fruitless attempts to secure cheap
transportation for her agricultural products to
market. The establishment of new manufacto-
ries of the character indicated could be COM
menced on small scale and tie profits of the
business could be applied every year or two to
the enlargement of it., until an establishment
commenced in a small way should become man.
moth in its proportions. This is the way that
New England began her shops. Now behold her
sending her productions around the globe.


The eyes of two sections of the country are at
the present time fixed upon Baltimore city
Those sections are the West and New York city
This is because in view of operations of the B. &
o. R. R. Company and N. G. R. R. Company and
the natural advantages and peculiar circumstan-
ces surrounding her at this time she is destined
to become New York's rival and great CONNER
cial mart Of the world. Let her then do some
thing herself to push herself to the rank of the
f"st city in America. Let her eptorprisiHg mil
leaaires at once put IN motion enterprises for the
purpose of making her a great manufacturing
centre and let the energies Of the movement be
devoted to the establishment of manufactures to
furnish the best materials that can be purchased
in the markets of Europe. Let this be done and
Baltimore will start on career which in quarter
of century will enable her to outstrip the great
commercial mart of the American continent
But Congress must give its aid by judicious tariff
laws