The Arkansas advocate., 1830-10-13


 ltmay some day lose part of it's value, fl not the whole, by transfer of the Government to some otherquarter.
 Onrlimits will notallow US to go fal. ther, at this time, but we shall in our next continue the subject, and endeavor1 to drive the settled pohey men out of the corner in which they have been penned up, and from which they continue to cry out, ''Although we believe Tn the doc Urine offree trade, yet We are ofopinion that as c pure question: ofpehtica5 eeoso- any, 1t would be unwise, after millions of dollars have been invested in manufac- lures, to withdraw the protection COW extended 10 them, inasmuch as by such withdrawal, more would be lost than gained" i"
 1he JoioDing artiete is copied from the
 GeorgiG Journal.
 "lhe .alonhey .systen.--Ihe Examine CT newspaper for October 1, tells us The monkeys of Exeter Change, in London, used to be confined in row ot narrow cages, each of which had pan ih the centre Of it's front, for the monkeys food. When all the monkeys were supplied with their messes, it was observable that scarcely any one of themeat out ofhis ownpan. Eachthrust his arms through the bars, and robbed bis right or left hand neighbor. Half what was so seized, was split and lost III the conveyance; and while one mon- key Was so unproftably engaged inI Plunderlng, his own pan was exposed 10 similar depredations. The mingled knaYery and absurdity was shockinaly1 human.
 "Ne beg leave once for all to state. that we have adopted the preceding paragraph as standing motto for our remarks on the ..Ameriican Syaen,.' It suits the purpose 50 well that we cant dispense with 1t. 1t fits like bugs shirt, as they say. And We intend to keep itup until Clay and Niles and Ca rey, one and all of them, turn in and advocate our branch of it called the Eackoon system.p
 The analogy between the MonkeySys- tenn and the American system, is as per feet asis possible for an analogy to be. 1t IS the robbing Peter of dollar, pay ing Paul half dollar, and throwing the other half into the sea, and then insisting upon it, that this operation is a positive gain to the joint concern of Peter, Paul, & Go. As theremay how ever be some of our readers who cannot exactly see how this is, we will make 1t Iplain.
 Paul IS manufacturer of woollen cloth at Pawtucket. Owing to the high rate of wages in this country, arising chiefly from the cheapness of good land in the Western States, achach enables a,au a1aa1s eoltb c hu,sdsed dollars to buy him. seB a,farm of eighty acres, and to become oa sndepondemtf freeholaer, he cannotmake yard of coarse cloth at less than one dollar and a half, whilst foreign man. ufacturer can furnish one of the same quality for one dollar. Peter isa work ing man, who gets his living by the Isweat of his brow, and whose interest i 1t is to get a coat in exchange for a s lit tie labor as he can. Paul applies to Congress for protecting duty to pre- vent Peter from buying his coat of the foreigner, which he would certainly do if Paul did not stand in hisway. Paul tells Congress, that although he can make the cloth at one dollar and half per pard, yet that 90 cents duty on the 1 foreign article will not be enough, be- cause the foreigner can afford to pay that duty and underseli him, seeing that dollar and a half gives him no profit. He says he ought to be protected by al duty of one dollar per yard, which is a. greed to by Congress. and thus he is enabled to charge Peter two dollars for yard of cloth, worth in reality only one dollar. Peterin this case is robbed of a dollar, but Paul pockets only half a dollar, the other half dollar having been. lost in the increased cost of manufac- turing, just as much as if it had been thrown into the sea.
 That this loss does take place when ever more costly mode of producing any thing is resorted to, is just as clear as that there is gain, whenever d less expensive mode of producing is resorted. to. lfa farmer has found that plough. ing his fields, instead of digging them,4 Is gain, he would not deny that his be- ing compelled to lay aside the plough and to resort to spades, would be a loss.