Protection And The Farmers

Tne aosurany tniT me i mmns; muirest is benefited by the high tarifts is exposed by tl. o Financier, an able commercial paper : " We scurcely need to aro further to account. for Ihe restleisness nnd disoontent of the farming Lnterests. The poormonBV beurs ha rd'.'r upon ihrm than anybody pise. Hut the tariff, too, ojiuratcs in the same general way of aiscrimlhation flgainst thein. The tarifl' raigee h? price and is üdjttgted to tliat pnd on piirposo, of the domestio goods whicb the fanher has to bny ; rjvisep the cost of the trRnsportation of his produce to the seabom.l by duties on uil forms of iron nd steel ; t-aises the freipht fo Europe by kaving destroyed AtUefioaH Bhipping, and thus lestent-d competition in freight! ; and retardg the freo development of getefal industry throughout the country, by wUioh figrienltnre also is kept back. All legititoiite ihterests are in barmony, and not in antagonista. A bad system injures them all, but some more thnn otheis. - Agricnlture is the scnpogoat that bears ftway tovardg the wildernegp of ruin the rniquitiea of a debauched motiey and of a " protective " tariff. If the farmers want to kcow where to strike their foes, we bid them strike with all their strength these ginnt evils of theday ; and if there be any true gtfitesman left in the country who may wish to rally tho agrioultural interests into a new party of reform, let their rallying cry be, ' specie payment and f ree commercc.' '■'