Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-05-25

DO believe ne shipping interests and that OF tire hemp
growers may DC adequately protected without eSoriug
10 any uufair combinations.
know not how far the manufacture cf salt on o,ir sea
Board may stand IN need Of protection supposiug the Guy
reduced 10 fifteen per cent al valorC imported sEl
To obViae any injury which might arise from the put
uhS DOWN OF the moauucure OF tins necessary article,
would propose also tie granting OF bounty Tor c
@ ",efeo' on our sea cc's. In ne interior OF our
Countrywide manufacture OF salt Is Sufficiently protected
oy me cNpences accrNdg the Carriage thereof, which
must ever prevent The imported from reducing prices
low as 10 deprive the salt manufacturer IL, the interior Of
our country OF fair profit These remarks viii shcw
uhat DINER articles may be protected in similar nalcr
should there be any which may have claims equally lust
whether en- account of national defence great gene
r utility and necessity. To boun,ics m9y hc Objected
that they oner temptation frauds 10 this answer mo-
greater than excessive 5utieS do.
But it might be attended with 10 rrsor TO
sd vaorem rates OF duty aogethcr when it was osni
advisable to depart from it, and 10 fix specific duties tho,o
specific duties might be graduated the al
rem rates regard 10 whole numbers would admit and
IN such cases where difficulties might arise from the sud-
hphess or magnitude OF the charges, ,ronld oby;a,o
them by making the reduction of duty some hat pa,u
"aS III me case oil sugar Tor example, duty OF
cents per pound thereon would make a considerable d-
ierc"ce to ;hc sugar planters though it would still leave
hcm protection Ot from forty fifty per cent. on the
FaIue oil brown sugar Ut the place OF growth with the
eSpences OF bringing it to the United States included.
would therefore propose two cents per pound the d;
~ on protected sugar. continue for three years from the
Oh March next and one cent and half for three years
hcreaier and after that the duty one ce INF per pd
and TO remain fixed AT that,
la that period OF tme there be no doubt but that
the sugar Of they find had business To con-
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employing their capital advantage as il can be but
small part thereof, which may OF be transferred 10 many
other useful purposes In the time is proper TO OIL
serve on THIS subject, that tic whole people OF the United
states Che sugar growers alone excepted will derive con-
siderable benefit from reduction OF the duty this
cessay otte ana the shipping ntccs, will DC bene,tc
IN peculiar degree, should ii have crenry ihcrsaso
Ihe importation OF foreign sugar, which is not however,
The opinion OF the writer he believes the profits TO he
derived by the sugar growers even after the duties shns
have been reduced cent per pound wills nssraat
as those oil any other agricultu,ists in the Urfo1
10 pnf. lfxrtlar q.
merely observe, therefore, that itmy scheme should be like
~ ioa short OF raising adequate TO- the waits of
government would propose the imposing OF specific duties
uplace OF the al vaoren hereby proposed OH
liquors and other Injuries, obvide that difficulty
aud the dividends from the stock in The United States Bank
WIN ather come in aid OF the be derived from
The customs. Moreover occurs 10 inc now TO observe that
|, " shall be thought proper 10 the Charter OF tho
OIL the United States SO far from selling the stock
which the government holds therein, would recommend
mat the government shall have the right 10 subscribe
thereto from time 10 Time their surplus funds at mar ar
least so ar 10 increase their stock therein TO the noun
oil fourteen millions the dividends arising wherelrom
would constitute important item in proyidnr Tor tho or
binary wants OF governments and in the event Of any ex~
aodmary eAigency, sale OF this stock might supeIsedc
me necessity OF rcsortng to loans, should the latter mode
OIL raising money be deemed ineXpedent.
One OF two things will certainly take place: either that
e revenue according 10 this plan will from increased inn
poraons ami diminished smuggling exceed tile ordinary
waits Oh government; Or that the successful operations OF
our manufacturers will supplant foreign goods TO such d.
gree as 10 make the revenue inadequate In the former
case 1t appears to that it will be expedient To- reduce tho
faiM from time TO time, and in the latter resort TO inter
nal taxes; for it will then be evident that an increase tho
custom duties manufactured goods will ONLY serge fir
leT to prohibit imporaons without availng the revenue
except so far as an increase of duties may be laid OH art
cles which are not the growth OF this country.
will observe that this subject has Ions, erateT
nuch OF my anxious thoughts; from any interest aim
hkey TO feel in the subject my days being nearly numbers
and happiness of this country have said before con-
sider question not merely Of interest but whether H.
bery or slavery shall prevail fwould therefore incm,cn
1 Tie MAXIM Ubi lberas, ibi est patria.'' SEMEN
TO TIE EDITORS or J1r EroT,prD
HUNTINGDoN Co.. PA. Nav IL 1892.
o'hcing wan your views on that ail-inp oant qucs-
interest III all parts othe Union- have taken the bov
OF giving yoa correct view Of the Iron Manufactures in
A'S section oil country: not that expect TO derive any adj
vantage from the exposure more than endeayone 10
SYST IA correcting the abuses Of the present system.
live in country that abounds with Iron There Is
more Iron manufactured in this and the three adjoining
counties, than there is in the balance of the STATE.
ana me business Is monopolscd by few persons who arc
hNng Ike nabobs on the bounty OF our governments
can view it in other light Government laws A Jut, ou
9rcgn Iron, which is nothing less than payint,
the same TO the Manufacturers Of The article II
VIII now give you statement Of the amount OF Iron that
Is manufactured in this county,
Bar Iron 1895 tons-Duty s22 10 pcr 10,
Blooms 1872 ions-Dutv ~ on 't ""
Pig metal 1850 ons--Du,y 10 S0 Wv
SS@asli.ngs 100 tons-Dn.y So 90 do
Making III all, one hundred ana sixtv-ccvcn ,I,e..,
one hundred and eight dollars alter taking $3.50 ton.
me fig metal supposed 10 be in making Bar
Iron anu 0oms. STOW, this large is paid by Govern
mem 70 Twelve persons that engaged in manuactur-
ing Iron would like know If this is the in
dnStry OF the county protecting the capitalist Per
sons VINO doc labour and obliged make use of in
eusu y,never make more than living They are axavs
IN ueot TO their employers. 1t of the conditions of
their agreement that they must purchase all Their
siohs anu clothing from them. They are then ob;%el TN
pay one-iou' more for all they get than what tlev can
procure them for ia the neislborhood Copseoucnuv
lhey arc always dependant III this be PROTECTING i,,
I try, | do not understand it, ~
u we have persons at present engaged in manufactured,
iron, that commenced with or two thousand do,r
whose income isbetween sixty and seventy thousand dol
lars per annum. "''
oar iron masters arc engaged every few wears getting
oclS praying Congress 10 grant them more, and rom
INC representation they make they at all times get
signatures. ~ " ''"''' S''
l lhey nave meetings amongst themselves and annopt
beiegacSto National Conventions composed of tbe sa,n,,
ehterested persons, without CONSULTING the rest az
Uie community can nothing patriotic in attending
Conventions oil this kind, where self can be traced az te
Iuing principle Persons at this time with a Moderate
can DO nothing ln the non business ore banks ana
Woodland being secured by those monoposs IA AT arc ~
ysoo " our government EQUALITY.
You may depend the correctness of Til, statement
as was taken from circular that has been sent Inv TIC
secretary OF the Treasury a the iron toos,er9 an5
o'hor manufactures IN the y. States File vonno men
"i"' were employed here get four dollars per day.
u TO THE People, OF BRUNSWICK
fhoss who entertain tie same sentiments tha,
me people OF Brunswick have heretofore entertained
VINO intend TO act hereafter they have acted eretoore
anu VINO do not iAtend TO suer themselves TO be decev
ca ny the advice OF those who known To be feir o,
MES bu who expect TO he relieved of their burdens onv
ny yedn6 rn and decided SUPPORT TO their former min
SPes' are respectfully solicited meet At tbcir court
nosS' on Monday tho 2Sh inst (bcing court dav) for t
gPO,e on eecling Delegates to represent this counts in
'y fic