The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-04-07

| article imported, to make discriminating duiie
| Tor the purposes OF revenue. First, asceItai,
what amount is necessary for revenue ther
| ascertain the amount OF imports and then j
| would be easy TO ascertain the amount neces
sary for protection We have, say, population O.
l7000,000. The amount necessary for the expe nse.
of government is $22, 3, T. 5, 6, or 1927 900 OCO &C
cording to the quarrels and rows in Congress. The
total amount of manufactured articles in this coun
| try is 81 ,795, 100000 Now, suppose it is re-
qured for the purposes of protection to increase thai
revenue to the amount OF So 00, 600, that would moi
| be 5Oth Of ona per cent on the total amount manu-
featured. (Lsud applause Again, It Is very easy
to show that all consumers, instead of being losers
would be gamers by tariff which properly pro-
ected the home interests OF the country Well just
take the article Of iron for an example Last year,
Pennsylvania produced iron to the value OF So co.,
900. This is equal to the whole amount OF revenue
necessary for the expenses OF the government OF the
United States. A very slight difference in the amount
OF duty would serve to protect this great interest,
and continue that trade in operations whilsta horl-
zental duty would shut out all this advantage to the
country. and give decrease in yearly profit OF
tremendous applause I've heard great deal
about free trade, but never yet found two persons
agree as to what it meant. Now, once upon time,
the merchants of Salem got free trade notion into
their heads; they peutioned Congress against the
protection Of Cotton goods they said they had ten
vessels, and each took out nearly 5000 in specie
to India, and brought home Indian musins for it..
And this they called great interest. Congress
a protection on cotton goods; And now look at Sa-
lem under this system. With $200, OO0n specie YOU
can build factory, and make three cargoes of cot
ton goods. TheseIare taken out to India, and there
in specie or its equivalent; instead Of parting
with ten times $500 600 OF the precious metals in the
course OF year; and this from a single port only.
(Enthuslastic cheerlng.) We can prove by many
have protective tariff. A few years ago the arti-
Gle called .enpenny nails cost 10 cents a pound;
protective duty was put on just sufficient TO enable
them to turn the corner, this gave rise to manufac-
try, and the benefits derived from experience they
can be sold for five cents-(L Loud applause) 1.-THE
protective duty made the English article little
dearer than ours; this encouraged our manufacture
ersy and they went on improving until they are sold
AZ cents below the former English price. (Great
cheering) Again, take the article of paper; this
has been reduced one half In price by the COMPETE
ton arising out OF supposed guarantee protection
For the making Of paper in this country unless than
26l, 900 900 pounds of rags are used. of this raw
material, l5O,OO0,0 900 Of pounds are domestic pro
duction. If the non-discrmnating duties 20 into
is now made to Il he "Sns IN ms
S., GAL 49, annually. Now thei 10000 pounds of
the raw material of home production are worth
SIS o0O, 600: This five millions of dollars worth of
rags are collected by various poor people, who only
collect them because they can find market for
them With horizontal duty, no one would
buy them; this would take away the habit
OF saving rags now so common in every fami
Iy because then they would be deemed no
longer valuable; and thus IN this single article of
rags alone S. 600 900 would actually be lost to the
country every year. Tremendous applause Why,
gentlemen it's as plain as the nose on your face.
Laughter andapplause.) Again, look at iron cast
ings. Previous to the last war, we couldn't cast
decent sized cannon in any part Of this country no
way you could fix it. good sized pot to boil pork
and beans in was the greatest feat that could be
Now We can cast any thing, from brad to the big
gest piece Of machinery ever seen. And Merrick &
Town has but lately cast the bed plates Of one of our
largest ssams sings weighing 'hrtyouI tons
protection afforded to the iron trade. And we now
can make iron superior to any nation in the world.
The protection has caused it to be extensively manu
featured, and this experience has made us excel IN
til iron will bring third more than other iron
in the foreign or home market; loud cheers.l In
England it is necessary in building large boiler to
build frame Of wrought iron, like the beams OF
if there is turn in the boiler plate they can't bend
their iron we can ours; but they have to make an
L in the frame; to which the two edges fthe boiler
plate attached; whereas we can bend ours with
out its cracking in the least; (Cheers) All these
matters, then, sufficient reasons why this coun-
try should protect her iron trade. know many will
say that all this is true Of charcoal ron but net OF
anthracite iron. Bat the chemical constituents of
(nearly pure carbon) such that when
it is used at It's greatest maximum effect the results
will be the same. (Cheers.) And therefore eur
iron manufacturers should not give up the hope Of
success because they have not been able to obtain
it by previous experience. (Cheers.) And now,
we come TO another important branch to be affected
by horizontal tariff This is the agricultural in.
terests. We raise annually 81 252 OOO, 600 of agri.
cultural products. And Notwithstanding this i'm
mense amount not much more than about SO 900.
QUO the total agricultural exports of the country
other than cotton and tobacco. We export scarcely
four per cent OF these products and these six ports
alone; the Danish West Indies the Dutch West
Indies, Cuba, Brazil, the Philippine Islands, and
other Spanish Islands. OF these are the following
sums in detail -
Cotton Rice and Tobacco, amounted to- ~ Slel4 las
Flour, grain, and, bread stufs ....... 2,isl CA
Beef Pork, Tallow Batter and Cheese. $50 7s7
Live animals, Horses Mules and Sheep. 237l7
Timber, Lumber Naval Stores and Ashes 1904 o7s
Potatoes and Apples..... ............... 1854
So s63,lss
Talow Candles and Soap. s245,S47
Manufacturers Of Cotton. S07 3lS 1859 sos
S7,4l5sss
Products of the fisheries. ..$649,4l4
Manufactured and other art. Il 3a4779 l974les
50 s9Ooae
All this is shipped to six ports alone Now, ifthe
horizontal tariff was to 60 into effect next June the
agricultural products which we now send TO these
islands, would longerbe exported by US. The trade
would go into the hands OF the British For it sSot
necessary for the people Of these six Forts take
any Of these goods from us; but as we bring back
the products Of their countries, sugar, &c. in ex.
change tor ours, they trade with in return, be.
cause we are their customers, and our market is
convenient for them. But with horizontal duiv
in force. England would take away those mar
kets from us, and leave US only markets for
part of oar cotton and tobacco. cloud applause)
government was only two or three millions more
than theV require for their eypenses under etata