Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-11-04

and Jeddo IN Japan, are thus malDtatned,-s
vast amount Of home trade is transacted at
them, the foreign being of no account. And
at London, the greatest commercial city NJ
the world, the interior or home trade rs at
least twenty tIiAes greater than the foreign
one. We have in our oVTn country two beau
tiiul types OF the principles that we teach, IN
Pittsburg and Cincinnati. They have no
foreign trade-but lands and houses IN them
and their neighborhood, bear a full compari-
son with the value Of lands AID houses at
Baltimore and in its neiShborhood.-The
manufactures of Philadelphia, (that is, those
supplied with Philadelphia labor and capital,
and which centre in that city, have been es-
tmsted at the sum Of S25 900 1000 annually
equal TO the full average value Of all the
cotton export. Without an interior trade a
city can only be as Heligoland was, when
converted into a nest for smugglers or as the
island OF st. Thomas is, because a Stree port'
at which the British islands are supplied with
our flour, sc.
A mere special application Of the benefits
derived from the prudent division Of labor
may be thus shown:
Massachuset ts, Rhode Island and Connec-
ticut are capable of raising all the bread stuffs
which their people need; and hitherto had a
considerable surplus; but at an early period
they turned their attention much to naviga-
ton; and have latterly become great manu-
featuring States. The lands in this district
are not well fitted for the cultivation Of wheat
but they prefer bread made from it. fable
to purchase It. We tax, Of them cotton and
other manufactures, oil, &c. and they re
ceive IN exchange eff us, not less than the C.
qulvaient of o'e million and q half barrels Of
-four, in bread stuffs, or a much greater val
ue than the whole of our foreign trade. This
may be called 4 new business and is of vast
Importance TO all parties 1t is equally pro
iitabie to the one, whether a yard of cotton
clotl, be sold for 6 or Z cents, to go to Balti
more or Lims-or TO the other, if d barrel
OF -four sciis for -, to proceed to Boston or
kamsophatka! But there is this imposing
adFantase-the orders and DEGREES, intrigues
and caprices of foreign nations have no eff
iect upon our home trade. Its amount is be-
yond ca!eulatlon-and it knits the people
closely toSether-We have seen Baltimore
branded Hour IN the middle of the mountains
OF Vermont. Such IS the american system"
This coat not have happened but because
OF the division Of labor we have spoken of.
We might multiply facts ike these with
out number but we cannot give the room ne
cessary L. state them.
Suah is the csDnexisn between agriculture
and manufactures. We shall now uot;ce the
folly OF falsehood of those who insist that The
laws OF Tor the protection Of domestic manu-
iactures are '!areS' on coEsumers-for these
laws have enc. lnyariable tendency to reduce
the piice OF article protected, without at all
diminishing the foreign demand for the pro
duces Of our soil. Ia 1923, the year before
the ''abominab!c tariff we exported 173.
100000 lbs. Of cotton and 766 900 bbls. OF
hour; together worth 25, 4sO, 900 dollars; and
IN 1928, 204 900 900 lbs Of cotton, and $751;.
600 bbls OF flour, worth together 90, $50, 0CO
dollars; the quantity and value beng both
increased, IN defiance of all the predictions
10 the contrary.
lakes Of some kind must be paid.-A re-
venue duty must be collected; bat whether a
protecting duty supcraddcd, it is or is not a
tax, depends on particular considerations
For example, the duty on a square ward of
coarse cotton goods is 81 ccnts-but We NAV
buy a square yard Of such goods home made
Tor : cents, On three fourths Of a ceut less thas,
ne duly. L is-impoSsible then that the duty
IS ii tax. The duty on shot is 4 cents per
pound, but We can obtain any quantity Of
shot at D cents per pouns-if the duty is a
tax, the shot IS only worth one cent . pound
anLso on. Ihe duty on wheat is 5 per cent.
or Is cents on every dollar it cost. as Gree
trade" folks say,-but is any farmer foolish
enough TO believe that a tax Of the United
States collected on the wheat that he grows
and consumes? 1t is a popular cry thai ssdu-
ties are taxes so was the halloo, "Caeas is
the Diana fine Ephesians" A falsehood or
an idol, placed in opposition 10 truth. and
eternal principle otrtahi There is a dotv of
. cents per 10. on cotton-is cotton adyanc
ed IN that amount because of that duty?-
Pshaw! We cannot dwell longer on such
subjects, and must proceed.
But 1t is said the people would eat as much
bread as they do now, were that system de-
Streyed. So it may be said that we should
require as many shoes, were all the shoema-
kers Sulllotined'-Iut every body knows that
1t would not be advantageous for the farmer
to stop his plough and LET his horses remain i
ole, to make a pair Of shoes. If the pcople
on the richlands of New York, PENNSYLVANIA,
Maryland and Virginia can make" wheat
cheaper than those Of Massachusetts and
Rhode island-and they of the latter furnish
the other with cotton goods cheaper than
they otherwise can obtain them, commen
sense will teach both the value of mutual ex.
change. We have had a mighty ou,cIy about
Tie loss of the West India trade and shall
have a grand ado, II it is again rcgainod. We
do not believe that the sale of one barrel Of
American flour has been lost, because ofthe
loss OF thattrade, -thatthe general amount of
our trade with the West Indies has not been
materially affected by the opening or closing
OF The British ports. But if the sale of ali