The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1842-07-05

the sWliier is The way TO NatlohaI Weuilh h"uoI
that pursues agriculture, merely must buy her mar
ufhctured goods of some other nation. Now all az
ricuItura products Of great weight and bulk in
proportion TO the value-whereas manufactured
| goods combine immense value in small bulk and
weight Therefore, the manufacturing nation has
the advantage altogether, for tho freight paid fo'
transportation IS dead loss to the producer Of any
product and the loss by freight on manufactures is
little while on agricultural products it IS immense
If England sends million Of dollars Of manufac>
tured goods 10 the United States she will lose in
the freight less than 100000 but if the United
States send in return million Of dollars worth OF
-four to England, our agricultural interest will lose
in freight neatly quite 100000.
q. Where may we look for the profits that have
resulted, for the last ten years, from American In.
dustry'
a. In the Golfers the rich and noble beyond
the Atlantic.
q. How long may we continue to look in that
direction to find the profits of oar industry?
A. So long We buy from abroad those com
modlies which we can and ought to manufacture
NJ horne.
G. What amount of foreign goods do we annu
ally purchase, for the manufacture and production
of which we have every possible facility at home!
A From 60 TO 80 millions of dollars worth.
@ In what particular kinds Of manufactures may
we excel, and not only supply the home market,
but be able in few years with suitable encourage
ment to compete with other nations in tho great
market of the world ?
A. In the Cotton, Wooden, Iron and siIk-and
these the manufactured products that enter
mos, largely into the worlds consumption.
~ a. -, h., a.
ernments in times past and present, which is that
which evinces the least wit in t9
A. The policy of depending foreign nations
rur the staple articles of home consumption.
@. what most important fact is entirely over>
looked by the advocates OF present curious sys
TEN of free trade?
A. That cheap goods made cheap by cheap
labor.
@. What is the inevitable effect of cheap labor
on the great mass Of the population of a nation
A. Cheap labor is the parent of barbarism, igno
and dissipation, it checks the spread of civil
cation, for it takes from the laboring the on y
means by which lie can be civilized, il annihilaes
the only capital that God has given him, and pla-
ces befo.e him the prospect of unceasng, unpaid
toll, and unending degradation.
O. What is the true doctrine in regard to the
price of Goods
A That the commodities produced in every
branch Of business should sell at prices, whether
cheap or dear, that will abundantly repay the labor
for his agency in their production.
@. But do not we possess some advantages over
foreign nations, that will enable us 20 manufacture
goods as cheap as import them, and still
pay high prices for labor.
A. Our answer is emphatically that do;atho
if it were fac, that American anufactured goods
must always bear higher nominal price than
those imported, yet il is easy to show, that they
would be cheapest still, and why simply because
the manufacturing establishments form steady and
constantly increasing markets for the farmers pro-
duce-of agricultural products must bear higher
prices, and the farmer would find himself amply
compensated by brisk market, high prices, and
ready cash. for the light advance he might have
TO pay on manufactured goods. But such is the en-
terprse, ingenuity and intelligence of our working
population that they can accomplish in the same
branches Of business m UGH more than the physical
y & Intellectually weak 81 half starved laborers of
Europe labor saving machinery can be brought in
TO among with greater facility than in tho
countries where mob of starving workmen are
ready to destroy any new improvements; and if
citizens can but be allowed few years to
qure that experience and perfect practical skill Z,
which is so absolutely essential to the successful
prosecution OF manufacturing operations, and in
which alone the nations of Europe have any real
advantage us, they will be able to furnish us
goods as cheap they can be imported from any
country under heaven.
I'VE soant appearance, give us that, and what ma
ton in the world possesses such unbounded mean:
of supplying themselves with every article ofutii.
ty, con enence, or luxury as the United States
OF cotton have an abundant supply, and if we
would work it up at home I'VE shall save the fregh
on the article to Europe and back again, besides
the expense Of paying our neighbors for work tina
we had far better perform ourselves So it is will
Wool should the Wooden interest receive that pr,
lection, il has right to demand Of the Nationa
Government, there is not an Of land in tht
United States capable Of grazing sheep, that will
! not be enhanced in value, by the lucrative occupa
ton Of growing Wool Of Iron we have ex
haustless supply and il the wisdom of this Govern
ment of late hadnotbeen utter fooshness we should
not now be groaning under debt ofmany million
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