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Communicated.
For the Observer:—l well remem
ber the great contest of 1840. I wms
then a boy politician; discnssed the tar
iff question abont the seme way the
democrats do now: “Of cooree if a
duty of forty dollars a ton is paid on
pig iron, we consumers must pay it; if
fifty cents is paid on a blanket, we
poor folks have it to pay.” Then I
waa a staunch democrat. When 1
■iw Richard M. Johnson at Ackron
Ohio, then the democratic candidate
for vice-president, r >ll aphis sleeves,
show the scare from wouods received
at the battle of the Thames, and heard
him relate h>w he killed Tecumseh; I
thought, what a wonderful democracy!
I heard Gen. Harrison speak at
Wooster. I well remember how he
looked. An old man, clean-shaved,
h*ir combed straight down in front,
almost in a peak above his nose. He
looked feeble and wrinkled. Hie ar
gument was protection, for fostering
home industries, and for benefiting the
American labor. He had been a feder
aliet, and referred to the causes of his
resignation from the U. S. Army af
ter his tiiu nph over Proctor and Te
samseh in Canada. During that cam
paign I heard Tom Oorwia and Won.
O Allen, both of them giants in their
respective parties. I remained a dem
ocrat until I was able to buy go and oali
co at five cents a yard, and a good, all
wool enii of clothes tor ten dollars. I
then thought, jt that was the way pro
tection worked I would bereaf er be a
republican
I believe what Bob. Icgere-d nave:
“Tbe country that raises raw material
and cells it as snob, will alwnys b<
ignorant and poor. The labor to raise
raw material, is ignorant labor, bat it
reqnin-s intelligence to work it into
fabrics, into fashion and heanti'nl
shapes.
The greater number of industries,
the more intelligent the population.
Ordinary labor is always cheap. La
bor commands a price; as mind is mix
ed with n ufo'e; as thought is mingled
with effort.
To vote against protection, is to
vote for poverty and ignoranee in
America, and for wealth and intelli
gence in Great Britain.
When men pursue bnt one industry
tney become stupid.
When the industries ere diysrsified,
every part of the brain ia developed;
we have use for any sptitnde, for every
kind of genius.
. Protection hae made us ingenious, in*
tolligent and rich. It haa enabled ns
to have better homes, better elotbes,
better food and better sohools on nn
average than any other nation. 1 '
It will put a roof over the head of
every prudent man and enable bine to
educate his children.
The condition of the South at the
war, demonstrate# the nnwise policy
of strictly raising raw material. An
initiate population with incompetent
t< ackers and blatlar-skitt preachers.
Thos Hayden.
The doctor's history of the Coon
>kin campaign sf 1840 is quite inter
citing, yet somewhat strange in com-
I rehesion, especially the protect iv#
part. Tbe doctor says he remained a
democrat until he could buy good cali
co for five cents a yard, and all wool
suit of clothes for ten dollars. Ti n
ho thought if that was the way prot.ee
tion worked he would be a republic n
But, doctor, hew was it in ’6B up to
;he going out of the republican party?
Did you continue to buy at these fig
uret? Again, doctor, how was it the
people were so poverty stricken? How
was it industries of every kind p rang
up, and were controlled by foreign
oapital and syndicate ? How was it
the no cbanic got less wages than now?
How was it more money was required
to run the government? How was it
competition was less than now? how is
it that the effects of protsetion still
linger io prices and the inferior artiolf?
But, doctor, let ns go back to the
fonndation of protection. England
sprang protection against American
barter. England’s tyrancy failed to
rule Americtf. At this early day the
United States was depmdeut. Eng
land had a grievance- her littlenea
must be put forth io the shape of pro*
teetion. Bat America was Dot long
overcoming this, and to day is the
must prosperous nation under the sun
with over 60,000,000 of people. h-t
exports to foreign countries will balan *
the scales with any of them She is not
a nest egg to be centralized by proteo
tion. Whenever it fakes protection t •
run the democratic party and theg< v
einmen*. the country will go into
bankruptcy.
So far as the South requiring le*o
inte'ligeane to raise the rav maieriri
to be worked up in the North, tie
truef Bat is it fair and honest to sh
s pound of lint cotton to the North for
almost hall what they return it
hen g-1 an ifsrior i tie’e? I* the '>o: -
est mode of intelligence to take and *n
tige of ignotaoce in this shap f
Again, doctor, yoa speak o h
blsther-skite education in the sen \ .
From your views, of course vou are
favor of the Biair Bill This B 1
means that ea’b state shall rca**'T- > in*
pro ra'a share of thv $70,000,000 in
accordance with its illiteracy and th
amount of taxes paid. Bat each state
is not to have control of her fund. He
schools must be snbj ot to governin'
discipline. Do you think this would
bring within the south’s reach a com
patent education?
As to the south’s religious qualites,
■ta istios will show there is more im
morality in the north then ever was in
the south.
A Terrible Afifair. Oo Wednesday
Mr*. Josephine Morike, a Polish lady,
residing in Allegbaney, Pa., admiais
tired a dose of atrycknine to tack of
her three children, aged respoocively 8,
5, and S years, then took a doss of tl e
poson herself. [Exchange.
The dead body of a man was fonnd
os the Louisville and Nashville JR*il
road track, at Mississippi City, with
the head lying on the rail and the
skull crushed in. The body was idea
tified as that of a carpenter, who has
been working at Gulfort. He had been
there during the afternoon drinking.
A flaak of whiskey was found on his
person. Es
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