Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-16
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" TO the protection Of American Industry. afi,m,
with all confidence tina, Distribution cannot be dis
continued except at the imminent haz ,rd Of the
whole manufacturing interest o. the Uaion.
The iriends Of profession even Tho msnufaetur-
ers hemselves-do desire, nor ask for, an exor-
b',ant Tara. More look Tor any further protection
man can oc had incidentally to the revenue power.
Inc Compromise Act s,ipuia,es for nothing more.
"evenue was to DC collected from imposts. to the
exclusion OF other sources; and whatever protection
could he attained in raising the amount OF revenue
necessary to an economical administration Of the
Government, so much the manufacturing interest
should have nothing more. This is all that is
now demanded by the s,aunches, friends of the pro
| tec,ivc policy.
The writer ofths, in the course Of pro,rac,eJ yi.
a. the North, learned from many of the Ieadi,s
manufacturers there, that they would DC se,i, fed
with what protection they could derive bv pro,.,
scrim'naton, irom a 20 900, coo revenue. ntovl.d
those 1000 600 should be raised by duties on i'm,
ports alone. And this is tho view of all the Ren,c
sentatives in Congress OF the manufacturing ints
rest
| Hs mol nIGu duties, then, tina, the manulac,ur.
ers want, Iut STEADY protection. "hiodera,e. I'm,
steady protection, we requirc--(al the intelligent
manufacturers will tell you.) Uniformity we ask
10 moi give us very high duties TO day, aud very
10" ones to-morrow-exorLitaut protection this
year, ana none the next-prohbition in 1912, md
Tree trade IN lsi5-for inciuation is ruinous TO the
manufacturing, as well TO all other interests
ms Is the language of the whole manufacturing
community, and of 90 in every 100 of the advocates
Of protection.
But, without Distribution, pray le, me be toll ho
ms so much desired steadiness can he secured7
Return the proceeds of the public lands IN m. FL
eni treasury, and there cannot possibly be uni,or
NIFTY. We shall have perpetually slidins .c,I. oc
auesi an ever-shflne, eves-varying never. resting
''''"' auu congress, at each session, would have
vac 'NsN ueSo'ea upon 1t Of fitting n Tariff to the
eo"s'au'iy varying income from the public lands.
FROM 1888 TO 1856, the income from the Land
saes varied from si.97e, 000 to s25 Lei, OOO From
1897 10 1910, they varied downwards from 81 OO0
ooo 10 s2,25s,OOo. And to every mind the proposi.
'ion must DO palpable, lha, the income from this
source must continually vary. There arc numerous
circumstances TO produce fuctuation. Particularly
must II happen, that in prosperous times the r.ve.
nue. from the lands will be large; in times of denres.
SION, small-oitentimes so inconsiderable as to be
unworthy of estimate in point of revenue.
now, IN this eveE-varyns income from the Land
sales, what stoldness could there be in the incd.n
tai protection afforded Suppose 95. 900 900 of re-
venue are TO be raised. In '33, the manufacturing
interest would have received what protection could
be gnined 10y discrimination on 90 millions of imno,,
revenue; IN "a, on 10 millions; in 49, on 25 millions
minus 10 millions (land income for '35) saw 10 mil.
mons; and IN 1856, the proceeds of the land fund
oeing SO, ,OOO-more than the whole amoun,
oil revenue TO be raised-it would result that for
mat year, there would have been no protection n,
aH-ior the land sales supplying as much revenue
as would be wanted, there would be none 10 be
raised from imports.
10 make the proposition more apparent, let us
suppose that in 1916 the Land should, as in 1856.
reach 25,OOOOo0, where, with the proceeds in the
National Treasury, is protection TO be had for the
manufacturing interests1 There would be none
whatever.
Iput it then to the friends OF Protection. Can
they ever surrender 6is,ribution7 Not without the
sure ana entire destruction of the Protective policy
ana oil the interests dependant upon it. To the
TRENDS OF Protection, then-to all those who would
sustain American labor. in preference to tho pauper
labor oil the old world-to all who advocate the
real independence Of their country--and TO the pro
pTietors OF the TWO hundred and sixty seven nlions
ct capital 'nv"s'ad 4" manufacturing Establishments
ana 10 the sOo,oOO IaboTers employed IN them,
would especially say, beware, beware how Won Weld
back the land fund TO the general treasury. and a,
IS absolutely certain that Mr. Tyler would win
distribution bill by ITSELF do you command vonr 70
representatives. in Congress never 10 agree N dvo,o.
the Distribution and Revenue subjects. T., H.
friends oil Protection weigh we'll this matter 70
my mind, II IS as clear n sunbeam. that the sen,.
ration OF the distribution question from that oe ,o-
venue, will be the death. blow to IN. P,o,o.,;..
system, unless its advocates shall again cI,i,, ,,o
lection as substantive grant OF the consti,utiona
thing which cannot be done without, distu,h;rc =
most delicate and irritating question, and exnosing
the harmony of the Union.
And here might appeal to the enemies or d;,,r;.
BUTTON il they can LegruJge to the large in,erest
allowed by the policy OF Government, INFO the ma
nufacturing branch of national Industry. the mode
rate and steady protection they so much reoure7
WIZ they, by returning the land fund to the ma =.
fona treasury, expose these important in,ere,,s IN
ruinous huetuation7 Will they say that two hun
bred and sky seven millions of capital and the
bread and meat Of nearly million Of operatives.
shall hang by bare threadl
h"u Wsht put u 10 them, n II lie not policy 10
yield at once this moderate, but steady incidental
proiec'ion' Will they not, by denying il, force the
powerful classes interested in Protection To seek il
not as an incident to the Revenue Power, but as n
substantive grant Of the constitution7
The friends Of protection are now satisfied with
the Compromise Act. That is 10 say, with such
protection as can be derived by proper discrimina-
ton. from the imposition Of Revenue, provided that
Revenue be collected from imposts only. But if tho
opponents Of Distribution come in, and by return
ing the Land Fund TO the Treasury, break the vital
condition Of the Compromise Ast-thnt condition
which, to the manufacturing interests, was the great
moving CONFERENCE.-The inevitable result will
be, that the Tariff interests, will, a. from 1916
TO 1882, resort to the Constitution, and from
that instrument claim profession as deegaled
power And il this recourse be successful, we soon
rush upon that other evil so much deprecated by the
opponents Of Distribution, Treasury surplus, for.
he Treasury being supplied by two perennial
streams, the public land and n high impost system
cannot he kept from overrunnng. II is, therefore,
the true policy Of the opponents Of high Tariff TO
give up the land fund. and with Il, that moderate.
steady, incidental protection, which is asked for by
the manufacturers, and which is absolutely necos-
sary for their very existence.
But there is another consideration now eonneeted
with Distribution, which raises il to a dignity far
overreaehing any question Of Revenue or Prolee-