Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-03-12
ABSTRACT Of MIR. CAMBRELENG'S
REPORT, CONTINUED.


II is idle TO suppose that. because we have
levied duties on some nusactures as hi.h N
-, and 100, and 200 per cent, that we have
stimulated our capitalists to overdo, FOR season,
a particular branch Of manufacture, wo have
consequently secured a permanent and cheaper
supply Internal competitors under such laws
are temporary and fruitless, except in toe GEN.
orally ehccting the ruin of all who adventure
IN Fnch legislative speculations. So long as tho
cost OF producing the manufacture, under the
lpermapenttaxes oithe two countries on that mn.
nufacture, is less in Great Britain than in the
United States, your capital must he wasted m
these competitions; because, the cheaper fabric
of Great Britain will find It's way into our CON-
sumption through every impeachment which hu-
man ingenuity can contrive. The true inquiry
Tor the statesman is, rot what results temporary
ana speculative competition may produce; but
in which country, under its permanent taxes
and regulations, the manufacture can be pro-
d"ced at tho cheapest rate ? And IF BS find,
that by the laws of his own county, the fabtic
cannot be produced as CHEAP as it can DO In
Hrcat Britain, he ought not IL rcconlmer5 an.
increase OF the duty on the mar ufacturey for
that never can afford more than tcmnorary reheS
through ruinous competition, besides the ina
possibility of permanently excluding a chcap,>r
fabric The only sound and permanent RENE.
dy is to remove those taxes on the manufacture
winch increase its cost, so as to enable vour
own manufacturers TO make cheap, or chenp-
CT FABRICS, aud TO savo them from tho idlo DO
pendence on the execution of laws which can.
no' DC enforced. The only inquiry, we repeat.
is' what can the fabrc be produced for in Great
britain. and IN America, under the taxes and
regulations Of the two countries, If tb, mato.
riaiS consumed il. manufacturing woollen. ,,a
taxed ~ to 40 per cent. higher in America than
IN Great Britain, the manufacture must be- DER.
petuated in the latter country; internal co,nr..
ution IN the former must be ruinous, and tho
WOOL growers of America, must inevitably. in
the end lose their homo market for their nro,
duco. Inc same rule applies to the iron MAUI
iacturers OF Grost Britain and America-the
former produces his raw material at 80 to $50
per ton, the latter pays for the same rs to $3.50
The result is Inevitable, end if our law is not
changed, time will accomplish it, Tho propri.
etors of our rolling mills viii then sec what has
become OF the homo market for their produce.
Our iron and woollcn manufactures are so null
tipi'ed and various and our returns are so rem
efai, that II is difficult to illustrate the tendency
OF our present laws by statistical results, show
ing their operation on these branches of indus
Try hesides, we are only beginning gradu ally
10 rea'ize the influence of our existing tariff ON
Inc manufactures of wool and ifon What will
DO the result, tho fIonse will he perfectly asle
70 comprehend, when they look to the former
ana present Condition of the manufacture O
cordage-one OF the most important interests of
the country in a national point of view. Under
our present tariff, this manufacture most bs in
cvltably and rapidly destroyed. Statement No.
J, will show the importations of cordage since
1878 Our navigation, us the Committee will
PROVE has not increased siuce that time in
the five years previous TO 1924, that is, from
1917 to 1928 inclusive, there were imported Of
tarred cordage and cables, 2,19S, 129 pounds:
and in the five yenrs after 1924, from 1926 to
500 inclusive, 1902 ,764 pounds The cause is
/ the heavy duty on hemp, the raw materials the
consequences, driving the manufacture from the
United States to Russia, destroying our own
manufacture Of cordsge, and ultimately leavinp
our hemp-growers without a market. Thu
same statement confirms this view of the cues
ton, by showing the gradual decline Of the Bos.
ton cordage mills, in tho consumption of hemp.
They manufactured 400 tons in 1926, 305 tons
in 1927, 256 tons in 1923, and in the last year.
only 147 ions. But this is not the worst result
of our policy. According 10 our returns, there
were imported in 1923, 2,I64,Oo pounds, about
equal to the whole five years importation pre-
vious TO 1924 this is our own return. When
we examine the Russian account of cordage ex-
ported, we shall see another extraordinary effect
of our late riff-policy. Although there were
imported into our country, through the Custom
House, only 2194 DOG pounds, there were actu-
ally exported in the same years from st. Peters,
burg alone, i'll sixty-six vessels, to the United
States,95,7SI pools Of cordags, equal 568 tons.
or 3,ol2,32O pounds, making u surplus of / .34s
224 pounds more than was entered nj the C,s.
tom Houses of the United States. Thisis read.
'ly explained by the fact, Chat Inc sl,;ps IN, that
trade were furnished with a double SUNNY of.
rigging out Of the cordage exportcd accorddg
10 The st Petersburg returns. This, short histo,
ry OF our cordage manufacture, illustrates the
ruinous operation Of our present tariff; on the
manufactures of wool and iron, which yso arc
ciicctuaIly destroying at home, and eDlargipe
and perpeiuating in Great Britain. The same
rules will apply TO every manufacture in the
Union, except plain cottons; and even these do
not escape tho incidental effects of policy 30
nnihendly to industry generally. Bamshing
'he monuiacturo of cordage from country
is not tho only injury we have inflicted on our
navigation I; VIC arc actually destroying the
trade of slnPbuilding. The statement No. 9 ex-
"lbIfs the comparative lakes on British and
American navigation. The incidental effect Of
our own policy is TO give premium OF 81 ,655
80 on every ship of 500 tons, built and fitted
out in Great Britain. Tho fatal consciousness