Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1842-12-27

ly 10 the dominion of the plOugh-that
our canals and public Improvements are
ebOut being completed-Opening up new
avenues and channels through which our
various productions can be transported to
foreign market, we have reason to be-
lieve that our exports, in few years,wlll
be double lheirpresent amount. A State
with an export now of eighteen or iwen-
ty millions, with a moral certainty Of its
doubling in amount in few years, cans
not long be depressed, unless she is
hecked in her onward march to prosper
cy and wealth By false and mistaken pol.
ity in legislation.
cMeasures of national importance have
recently been brought forward and press
ed on the public mind with great zeal,
which fear, if permitted 10 be carried
out to the extent claimed, will provo high
ly prejudcial to the great agricultural
Interests Of the west. The most prom.
inent of these is high protective tariff,
which so deeply agitated the public mind
some years since, and thre :tened the re-
pose of the Union, and which is now
sought TO be revived under the plausi-
BILE, but deceptive idea, of encouraging
home industry, and creating home mar
ket for our various agricultural produc-
tons. That this measure is calculated
to have an important bearing on our in
terest, either for good or evil, cannot be
doubted; hence the importance of giving
to il careful consideration, with the
view of throwing our influence either
for or against il, as we may deem it ad-
vantageous or hostile to our interest, and
the true policy of the country. TO a
tariff for revenue purposes, honestly ad-
justed with that view, aud furnishing in
cidental protection 10 our manufacturers,
have no objection, but on the contrary,
am favorable. 1t is a convenient mode
of supplying the national treasury with
the necessary means Of carrying on the
government, and one 10 which the puOllc
mind has long been accustomed, aud has
been acquiosced in, generally without
much complaint from any quarter. A du-
ty imposed, whether il is great or small
Hn The importation of foreign goods, is
protection, TO the amount of that duty,
TO the manufacturers OF this country
We are told from an authentic source,
that it will require twenty seven millions
aonu ally to supply the necessary demand
of the national treasury. More than three
millions nf this canflot be raised from the
sale of our public lands, leaving twenty
four millions annually to be raised by
rhuenue tariff. To raise the sum, will
probably require a duty of twenty-five
per cent. When we add TO this duty the
cost of importing goods from Europe,
which is about eight per cent, we will
find that our manufacturers would have
an advantage, in the American market,
over the foreign importer, of thrty.three
per cent. This, believe, would furn
sh to our manufacturers all the protec-
lion necessary 10 enable them success
fully to compete with foreign rivals. A
tariff thus based on the revenue princi-
: pie, furnishing incidental protection to
our manufacturing interest, is all that
should be desired This interest will
then receive more OF the fostering care of
the Government than any other in the
country.
The limits of this address will not per-
NIT general discussion Of the tariff
There are a few reflections, however.
connected with the high protective tariff
policy, as contradistinguished from tar
ifrfor revenue, which. | hust, will not be
consid cred out Of place on the present
occasion. Such tariff will either raise
the price Of manufactured articles 10 the
consumer, or it will not. Iii raises the
price to the consumer, then it is a tax on
the agricultural and non-manufacturng
classes, for the benefit of the manufactur'
, ing capitalists, and instead of encoura'
ging home industry, is tax on the labor
Of the great mass, for the benefit of the
few-It does not raise the price 10 the
consumer, it can be of no advantage to
t the manufacture. Ifit dimnishes the
price, as some claim, it isa positive in
}. jury, and consequently, could not aid in
b creating home for our agricultural pro
. ductions. But it does raise the price to
t the consumer, by excluding foreign goods
? and giving 10 the American manulactnr
: ers monopoly of the home market
g hence the solicitude Of manufacturing
g capitalist to procure an increase ofduties
j, 1t becomes us, then, 10 inquire what eff
y feet the protective policy will have OIL
/ the great staples ofthe west. 1t will Gu
}. off, or at least diminish, our foreigl
d trade. Other nations will not buy from
e us, unless we buy from them. If WI
u exclude their productions from our mar
e ket, by duties SO high as to prevent then
= from selling at fair profit, they will no
r. purchase our productions. Nations, lik
:. individuals, will trade with each other s
N long as they can exchange their respect
Al i've commodities on mutually ad7antagaou
10 TENS, but no longer. The advocates {
IN protection claim that it will furnish us