Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1828-04-08


industrious habits, and close attention to business are
equally open to all, and the competition the energy
OF the yankees put into notion is equally the pro-
lection OF the country as it is conducive to the good
quality of the goods, against that monopoly which you
so tenderly dcplore, and which is to swallow up 10
its ravenous jaws, all the establishments south ofthe
Hudson Pray, Col. will you be good enough to tell
US, when trade only tolerably good, how these
establishments avoided this fate, and instead of be-
ing tramped underfoot, gradually grew in growth,
and extended their concerns--They laugh Col. at
your definition of priviiedged cass--the hatters
are protected-they have driven the British out of
the market--are they therefore priviledged class?
the same, with the shoemakers--cum n,uttis alis-
and would to heaven those who are now bearing the
brunt Of foreign Jealousy, were placed in the same
situation. u
By this judicious tariff, the Iron Masters who
extract the metal from the ore of the mountain.
where lays inert piece of matter alike unfit for
human uses, for any other beneficial purpose, is
made to be subservient to the interest of Sweden
and England. There iron is fayoured that owing to
the high rate of wages in this country and the COM
4 parative low duty-they enabled to sell cheap
er than we can but if the duty in 1924 had been
put first proposed, before this time, these two ma
t lions would as in the of hats, sc. have been
forced to relnquish the contest to the home market
which is the only market (where the ore abounds, |
a. it does here) that ought to be protected. In
Centre county, Penn'a. aGneW county amongst the
mountains there seventeen establishments, each
of which employs from 100 to ! so men on an aver
age but put down the whole number Of men engag
ed at 1000; they mostly married zen and each
family may fairly be stated at 5. which would produce
result of 10000 souls-al consumers and no pro-
ducers. Do you say sir. that your jud'cious arW,
ought to prevail here and Danish these Industrious
h men, because according 10 your logic, they are a
pr,Uledged class, and they equally as much so as
-, IakN.
4 of -four week by the rule, these Iron bias
ters, would take off about 800 barrels, or $4,000 in
!" year, or $4,000 bushels of wheat. Why sir, these
e establishments quite sufficient to cal up all the
produce of the farms OF that county. They eachbuy
from the farmers 1000 lbs. of bacon average,
If which would take 1900 hogs at 200 lbs each, nde-
= pendent of the corn potatoes and other articles OF
= produce, for which they afford vent-thus sup
porting the agrculturalss, bringing the country in
&c to regular and progressive state OF Improvement,
and extracting from the mountains nine OF wealth,
which places the advantages of the foreign inPorta-
e. ton in point of view, vastly inferior indeed, to
10 this animated picture, ofvivd industry, you are EN-
~ ployed in the goodty attempt to pull down.
Whether the farmers of pennsy Ivania, will be made
the dupes of such articles, remains to be seen. he
neighbouring county of Huntington, next to Centre
d. has three times the number of FORCES Centre has
and the same reasoning applies to each-what then
must be the result OF the whole State OF Pennsylva-
MIA F.? 1t plainly shews that foreign trade in compa-
OIL rson with the consumption Of the home market, il
OF but one in the hundred-and tho' the farmers are
ne to be ured to commit self destruction, by the blar-
ed neg you have been dealing out, their good sense will
mt redeem them from the trap that laid for them by de-
signing men.
Well sir, this is one of the leading interests,
T which you seem to count as nothing. Let us exam
inc the article of wool aud whether the bill now
before Congress, would not ring The kneli to the
1oo Manufacturers funeral 1t lays duty equal to
70 prohibition on such coarse wool, as IS only pr0huc-
w ed in Turkey, South America and Thibel the far
mer cannot be benefited by this because the Anne
rican wool, is never used for the same purposes
as the Turkey and S. American wool is and If The
Bill was entirely unobieoonable i'll its other piov
sions, this alone would insure its rejection know
30 farmer, who could not sell his fine fleeces and his
Blackwell WOOL for l2a cents per b the last season.
Look at the merino wool sent to Eng land and the
O5 low expense and handsome profit it heated, when
returned in cloth, to Boston and the sales to bos
ma ton. from the same ,,ck afterwards, which shew
y ed difference of rs per cent against the Amer
,xt lean seller Merino wool is altogether unsaeable
'ut and the factories are ALL nearly all OF them, shu
as up and yet sir, you are entirely IN favor OF thls
he jud,cious tanF-The manufacturers may well pray
en- that they may be safely delivered from such ira
ar ternity.
rs With regard to cotton, who can forget the publ
cations of Mr.. Garnet, and the increang hostility
Dr. of the Southern interest against giving any protec
IN tion TO this branch of Industry. no does not re-
IRE member the predictions that monopoly and e1to'ch
would be the course of the Manufacturers. Have
these predictions been fulfilled? No: quite me re-
,erse. The market afforded to the grower OF cot
the produce and the quality of the manufactured
IS" article is so superior to the British as not only &c
he suony fine home market with these cottons whose
to adequate protection gwen but 1t has beat he