The Litchfield County post., 1828-10-02


baTTass even the cotton business, and destroy
the weavers with hand. lOOms,exc employ.
ed in family manufactures; and this alone
would throw 5000 families, 10 the cities OF
Philadelphia and Baltimore, and in their i'm
mediate neighbOrhOOds, out Of the means OF
earning their bread. What would be the eff
feet over the whole country! Let the wea-
vers think. end speak to those who cry out
'DOwN WITH THE TARIFF"
And what may our mechanics export to
Great Britain Her "free trade system" d.
rectLy or Indirectly prohibits eUery article! If
send casks lin shooks) to Great Britain, at a
reasonable rate of duty they would gain new
profit of "a million Of dollars a gear out of the
trade, and the ,CGges Of jOWrneymen would be
twice as high as they are. But Britain will
see them all hanged before she will allow that
though she thinks it ''abOminable" that our
cOOpers will not use her cloths and cotton
goods Quite reasonable!
We are mechanics ourselves-regularly
brought up to our trade. and labOring with
our own hands. We know the sweetness OF
bread earned by honest labor. We have felt
the benefits of protection, and know that we
could make grand business of it, were it al
lowed to export books to England at the same
rate of duty which we charge on English
books imported into our country. We will give
good security for the payment 100000 as a
bonus or gift, for special liberty to send books
to England, for one gear only. at the same du-
ty as books from England pay; but free
trade!" HuskissOn would laugh at the propO
sition.
In 1889 the British and other foreign ton
mage trading to our ports was as $4,000 tons
to 279,OO0 American-but soon after there
was laid those generous and extravagant du-
ties' upon tonnage and imports, that was to
''tax the many for the benefit Of the few and
bear down the south, as ,Uos said in Congress
at the time and, though in 1915, the discri-
minating duty was relaxed, the British ton
mage in 1926, was only as $4,000 to $4,000,
employed in the commerce that we had with
Great Britain and her colonies, and freights
were and are lower by more than One-half,
compared with what they were in 1889.
Britain having prohibited the use of our
ships. the high tariff on tonnage of 100 cents
on foreign to 5 cents on American, made en-
ployment for our own ships in the transport
of our own commodities. and of course caus-
ed the building of them-and we now build
the best ships in the world, and navigate them
with extraordinary celebrity and cheapness-
to the ruin of the cotton planters, who former
Iy paid two cents per 10. for freight on cot
ton, and now have it carried to the same pla-
ces for hG!fa cent per ID or less. How "grie-
vous' has this monopoly" of navigation pro-
we'd to the planters!
: Again-''the execrable tariff was to have
destroyed our shipwrghts and nav igatiOn; but
we see that the coasting tonnage has risen
from SIS 900 tons in 1915, before that tariff,
to 10000 in 1897, the date Of the last return
NOW 100000. And to shew the 'destruc-
tiOn Of CONNIE c.. we may mention, that in
1913, the corrected lists showed 6O6, 900 tons
engaged in foreign trade, whereas, 1877 900
was SO engaged in 1927. What fearful views
Of ruin
To the long list given we should add one
other, and perhaps one of the most important
articles of all. that Of IRON. We suppose
that what may be. called the first or heavy
mana features of iron, such as in pigs, and all
sorts of CASTINGS, with bars, bolts plates. sc.
nails, spikes, anchors, chain cables, sc. exclu-
ding all sorts of ordinary smiths work, can
not have value of less than $50, OOO, 900
year. The effect Of the last ''most griev Gus
tariff" has caused already a reduction in
p'aSC cYuot W al oSClo6C Va ~ pei SCht' VI
three millions of dollars. Is not this enough
to drive the compressed south" entirely mad!
las mad AS march hares -
WsIl-and what have we against all these
things!-The editor of the Richmond Enqui-
rer confidently asks if fannels have not risen!
We do not know that they have-or ifso, we
assert that the higher price will not be main
tained-They will be cheaper than they ever
were, in less than l2 months, else all past er
periencs is folly But the whole import Of
Aannels and baizrs they are not separated in
the treasury statements) has had an average
value of less than 100000 dollars year,-so
that if the price shall be doubled by the tari,,ce
haze gained four times the aohole odaance By the
reduced cost cfiron. by the same tariff! But it
is not sO-the price has not advanced; .fannels
are cheaper no,0 than their average cost for the
last three gears, owing to the extensive manu-
facturt of them IN the U. S.; greater guam
tity, (perhaps one half more, being no,r made
in our couRtry, than was the ,0hole importation
before the "unrighteOus tariff of 1894 was
past. We defy the proof-we fearlessly as
sert that no article, except some too con-
tcmptille to come into general matter like
this-has advanced in price because of the ia
riff, over its average for the last three or four
years but we as fearlessly say, that many of
the most important and indispensable articles
have reduced values in consequence ofthe ia
rif-provided their manufacture has been
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