The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-05-23

am resorts to prohibition / will counteryai
her policy by ike resort to prohibition
II she prohibits our -four and provisions.
Will prohibit her wool and woollens. We
can live as Independently of her as shS
can of US. If she will take but sI5]
worth of orr bread and meat IL feed iscl
manufacturers, | will take but $I51
OF her wool and woollens I will 90 tc
New England or Steubenyiile and buy
from those who viii buy from me and who
will gladly give us cloth in exchange for
our provisions and wool. That the cotton
growing states of the South should advo-
cate the consumption of British goods is
not surprising when we advert to the fact
that IN the same year, 1925, Great Britain
bought more than S30,C00,000 worth of
Southern cotton, and moro than S3,O00,00O
OF their tobacco and rice, and this single
TACT explains tho ruhala sacrat of tlte.;y hoe
ti1icy to this ILL. The farmers of the
Northern and Middle states must wear En-
gllsh wool, because England consumes
Southern cotton! Sir, the farmers of
PENNSYLVANIA and New York know that it
Is better for them, and better for the nation
70 save the ten millions year which is
now sent abroad for woollens and to get
tlem at our own manufacturing establish
lhen's ny an exchange of equivalents by
exchanging wool and -four fer cloth. They
know, Sir, that last year New England I'M
ported and consumed upwards Of $4,000
UOO worth of the -four of Pennsylvania and
the other grain growing States with an
equal amount Of other provisions, while
va England took not lnoutliful to feed
her half starved operatives. They know,
Sir, that the object of this bill is to create.
and sustain home market for the con-
sumption Of our own agricultural produce
which no longer finds market abroad.
They know that if this bill fails these
manufactures and this market, with the
millions of capital invested in them, are
gone,-are lost to the nation, and that the
British, having thus triumphed over the
American manufactures will demand what
ever prices they please for their goods,
when the competition is crushed and put
down. And, Sir, win the representatives
OF these farmers, Of these wool and grain
growing States, promote this result by re-
tuslng this protection? He hoped not
Tor one, he would not. This measure will
create permanent market for her wool
ana provisions similar TO that furnished to
the cotton Of the South by the protection
extended in 1916, to the manufactures of
cotton, amounting to about Z millions of
dollars per annum.
We now not only supply our own market
with better coarse cottons, at half their
former price, but actually export large
quantities to foreign markets, where We
meet the British manufacturer on equal
terms, and compete with him successfully.
and SO 1t would be with reference to wooll-
ems: If adequate protection were afforded
by the passage of this bill. He defied
gentlemen t9 sA99Yo Y sdRp tP oufsgees and
export cottons, would not have the same
effect with respect to woollens. When the
duties of 1876 were Imposed for tho pro-
lection of cotton manufactures, precisely
the same arguments were urged from all
quarters against that measure, that we now
hear reiterated against this. Gentlemen
from the South told US then, US they tell us
now, that the duties were prohibtory, that
they would destroy the revenue, destroy
commerce, tax the VI hole community, estab-
lish monopolies, &c. But experience has
proved in that case, as it would in this, that
these objections were unfounded The
effects were precisely the opposite of those
anticipated-it increased commerce, re-
duced the price of cottons one hall, and
furnished the planters of tho South an an
nual home market for 81 millions of pounds
of their cotton. These were facts, and
facts which could not be controyerted or
denied.