The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-01-03

serfs OF Sweden, working for sd. per day, while
the arts and products OF scientific power must
be imported 5000 miles for our convenience
and necessity. Away with such depatiolizirg
stuff. No man can descend so low; he must
have more exalted opinions of the talents and
enterprise Of our countrymen.
Let US look, and see if Americans are so far
behind the foreigners in Inventions TO abridgo
manual labor in manufacturing. Before we
manufactured, Satinetts were imported from
England, and sold for 81 so per yard Amer
leans by competition. and inyenting the Water
loom, have reduced them, Of az good quality,
10 rs cents per yard. How does this 80 l-3
per cent. Mr. Publius, tax the consumer. The
article OF Flannels before manufactured here,
averaged Sl6 per piece, Wien imported but
competition in America has reduced them, Of
like quality, to $40. Does this tax the con-
sumner! Cassimeres that consumers had to pay
So when imported, can now be bought of A.
merican manufacture, for 81 25, Of as good
quality. Is this taxing the consumer Gut
Nails, that was worth 10 to II cents per ID. be
fore prohibitory duties were laid on foreign, say
5 cents per 10. specific, can now be bought OF
American manufacture, of better quality, for
6 l-2 cents; and too, according to Publius's
ideas, ought TO bring more than before, by
cents per 10. which would make from Is to I6
cents per Id. How the arguments of Publius
vanish as they are approached. Ii Broad
cloths that were worth, before 80 l-3 cent. du-
ties were laid, S4 per yard, they ought, accord
ing to his views, to be worth now S. SO l-3, or
if so per cent. Sc; but in fact they can be pur-
chased fot So. Cotton oheetings, that were
worth, when imported, shillings per yard,
under duties on the square yard amounting to
about one hundred per cent. at this time,
| ought to bring shIllings per yard. But, alas
for PubtluS, better article by far, manufacture
ed by Americana, Can be purchased IN our mar
kets for pence per yard. Aye, and the Cot
ton raised at home, the work done at home,
and where our farmers can have the privilege
of eeding them. without being subject to Brit
ish corn laws or prohibitions.
Ii must be that Publius has not looked into
the different species of protection to dIgcr-
ent interests in the UUited States-if he had,
] am sure he would never have ventured
the opinion that any and every branch of bust
ness would grow up spontaneously; for that is
not consistent with Improvements or Of civil
cation; it would well answer for the aborig-
ues but not for re6ued society. Every specie S
OF industry except manufactures in the Unit.
ed States, Is duly protected SO far ii respects
rival articles from abroad. The farmer is pro-
tected from foreign rlvalship, by prohibitory
duties on foreign articles OF produce, and
nothing can be done for his interest but to es-
tablish manufactures at home, and give him a
market for surplus produce, which is now de-
MED him, from whence we receive these cheap
manufactures. There is not an article OF pro
duce raised from the soil but what is protect
. ed from rivalship, and it ought TO be, as we do
not want to buy beef, pork, butter, cheese
grain and potatoes, from abroad on account OF
buying them cheaper. as we want market TO
sell, not to buy produce. Just so with manu-
tactues-we want to sell, not to buy. Score a.
ry Rush says, our exports of manufactures for
1896, have been over S6,000,000. Now Mr..
PublIus, these exports are from articles duly
protected by our government, and have pro-
duced six millions OF dollaIs. If they had
been imported, ;ald as formerly cost double our
OWE, say cotton goods, it would amounted to
, Sl2 600, 600. which, adding the SIX millions
actually sold, would make difference Of Sl3,-
! 000,O00. What think you OF THIS, MIR. Pu0l-
us--which IS hes, to buy our necessaries cheap
CT, and not undertake to do for ourselves, OF
try the inventive powers and sell cheaper? ?
! 1t is my opinion we had better export SO ,000,-
000 worth OF our own manufactures, than to
buy s 70, zoo, 600 OF other nations; and | think
the consumers who have all an equal RICH,
and interest either direct or Indirect in ali the
pursuits oil industry in America, will be sensI-
bic that they will not be insured by divcrsI.
ty of occupations. The gold and silver mines,
&c. ii the numbers are pursued, will be TAX
en- up. But if the writer stop al No. 2, far
Their inquiry into errors already committed
will be entered into. A Publus appears to
spread his ideas pretty diffusely on paper, it is
to be hoped that he will start right on The ques-
tiou and think it best for america to rely on her
own resources LOT articles OF convenience and
necessity, independent of ali nations, and every
thing she produces by her industry, that form
erly was imported, is clear individual and IA
tional gain. U. S. A.