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statistics its ab.urdty and injustice. But his
voice is hardly heard amid the roar of the TEN
pest, and his facts, which cannot be answered,
are suffered to pass unregarded.
The simple truth Of the case is that the U.
States has long endured from France such treat
ment in our commercial intercourse as no slave |
ought to bear tainely The paltry five millions
of dollars, Outlined by so much buster and re-
ceved with such parade, in payment OF Just
debt of twenty five millions, have actually cost
us ten times their amount For years we have
been receiving French Silks, Wines and Trip
perry either entirely free or upon the payment OF
| duties nearly nominal. Yet all this time there
is hardly one of the staples of the United States
that is not virtually prohibited from entering the
ports of France Our Grain, our Beef, our
Pork, our Butter, Cheese, Fish, Rice, &c. &c
as well as all our varied Manufactures, are shut
out from her markets; our Tobacco is taxed
seven or eight hundred per cent.-so high that
the consumption of that country is not more than
half as much as it was fifty years ago, though
its population meantime has nearly doubled, and
the use of foreign luxures greatly incre g cd.
| And finally Cotton, the only American product
| which is admitted at moderate duty-and this
because France cannot produce it and must ruin
her own manufactures if she overtaxed it's
charged fully twenty per cent. while that Of
Egypt is admitted at duty twenty-five per cent.
! less. And yet this nation, which taxes Amer-
can products, full hundred per cent. on the
average-wbch takes nothing from us which
she can produce--whch taxes us seven hundred
per cent OH staple she does not produce-and
! which subjects us to an onerouS, an unjust, dis
eliminating duty on the only staple she takes OF
us at a moderate, actually grows indignant and
talks fercoly of retaliation because we subject
her products to tax of twenty per cent.
We trust the day is at hand when the United
States shall say to all nations, Trade fairly with
: US, or not at all We will take your products
at low duties or none if you choose to recpro-
cate; if you will not, we shall treat ours
What honest mind what honorable nation, can
! object to this ! And what glorious revou-
tlon might be wrought with it in the course
Of a few years! The shackcs which now
impede Commerce would he broken, the
barriers which ALLEVIATE nations removed, and
the load which presses millions 10 the earth,
under the sway of Monopoly and Despotism,
would be thrown off for ever. What American
heart will not respond to the sentiment, Fair
Trade with each nation or mono - Tribune.
ENGLISH COTTON vs.9AMERICAN.
We have before noticed the plans of the
British Government to extend the cultivation
of Cotton in their Colonies, particularly in
India. The designs that we're developed
last year of substituting their own production
for the slave labor production of this Coun-
try, by taxing the importation of ours while
their own should be admitted free of duty,
and by other means, are in fair way of
being accomplished.
BY referring to the English and Eas, India
papers, we find many such statements as the
annexed, which show that the views express
scd last year were correct. Our Southern
friends may before long sec that England is
not their only market, and that the home
market, which takes 2SG,OOO bales, is their
most sure ono, and we may see the time
when they will be as much interested to sus-
tain the homo manufacture as we are.-Bost.
Atlas.
From the Bombay Times J.rne %, 1871.
| Production # Cotton in India On examnincinto
! the supplies OF cotton brought to this market daring
! the twelve months ending the 3ls of Nav we find
that the result IS well calculated asst nish those who
product, but have cen dwelling with fancied sccu-
ry Oh the recoeCrons of what used to constitute n
large supply for us, vz200 to $50 900 bales Ii an.
pears; them that From the frs o. June 1870 to the
rst June, ISL the imports Of cotton into Bombay
| have amounted 10 l7I2l2,755 pounds; or On the
previous average, of 81 cw to the bale AS Cos bales
l'te short of half million of screwed bales This is
larger quantity than America produced up TO the
yeaI l-26, and more than CONSUMED in EnuI,nd
during the same year In 1925 the entire product of
the United Si'tcs amounted 10 only l69, s6OOOO
! pounds though twelve years after il had ~ ched
| ill,2lf53I pounds.-Iide McC's Dict
As further encouragement to the cultiv,tors we
may STATE mat the consumption Of Fast India cotton
in Great Britain has increased in Greater ratio rhnn
whatever n ,,b
ROD the average of American Upland was lSId and
Siat At l54d, all the consumpt on of American was
iU5b les, an East Indian 207 bales per week In
1859, when the average price OF Upland was So
ana Hlri at d., the consumption of American was
1854 la es and Fast Indian 2 ll2 bales per week
le lacrosse IN TWEEN y-thrce Years. of the last men
tcncu, beng IN the ratio o 10 Is. In tn some ne
rod, the consumption of Egyptian Brazil and West
lldli Varictle- has not doul led.
From the l. 'ndon Literary Gazette Sent H. 1871.
Iadidn ProauctS and Manufactures. Connected
with ihs subject, rel ice see that uen .ures are
poihE successfully taken 10 form national in ere m
munlcatIon of valuable products and manufactures
nc'wecn England and her mighty eastern empire
TINS has been long and most STRANGELY nerlectcd.
ana 1t would have been well worth while To esta llish
board oil commission, with government ntluen @
and authority, TO direct and superintcnd so important
concern AS 1t Is, the stimulus appears to have
been Elvcn by the committee on trade &c emanafnp
rom the Roya ASIatc Society; whose proceedinG
has had q most beneficial effect both at HON. and in
inda. We now learn that experiments on the cult
vat"n OF cotton are promising The greatest results
and that other branches of Industry arc a. being i'm
proved and promote by European skill. and oncour-
agement. The lIimalayan fine ha. hecn acclimatcd
and found extensively useful and the "prodai pus''
luccrne, and other nutritious grasses of which ira
Vgllers have spoken IN such high terms of praise are
also introduced VITA every prospect of adding much
to orr agricultural prosperity. Teas cotIees silks,
aud hundreds of fruits, gums, dyes, medicines and
other precious articles of commerce remain vet 10 b,
cultivated, and n'crchanged in abundance to the IN
calculable advantage of both countries
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