The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-01-12

hold that its proper and principal duty is to IN
crease the profits Of those who own shares IN
manufacturing establishments. 7Mr Fillmore
of the House of Representatives,, is an active
and Jealous member of this political sect MS
gentleman is in favor of securing the greatest
good to the great number, but he is Tor DONG IL IN
a peculiar way Whatever yougive to the own
ers of factrres, according to this gentleman, is
for the benefit of the whole community. sFatten
that member and you noursh, the whole Dody
polite. There are persons who Will tell you
that in cold weather, if their feet are warm, ihe
whole body is comfortable. Cherish the factory
owners, says Mr.. Fillmore, keep them warm
and comfortable, enrich them by laws made for
their benefit secure them ample profits, and you
cannot imagine how jolly and comfortable the
rest of the country will be.
To bring before Congress plan having this
philanthropic object, Mr.. Fillmore has proposed
thatthe passage in Mr.. Tyler's annual message
which relates to the tariff should be referred
not to the Committee of Ways and means; ~but
TO the Committee of Manufactures, the dry nurse
of all projects for putting money into the pockets
of the manufacturers at the cost of the rest sot
the community. We are glad to see that this
offer to do mischief has met with avehement re-
sistance Mr.. Foster of Georgia, has called in
question, and with good reason, as we think, the
right of Congress to appoint Committee on
Manufactures. The encouragement OF manu-
factures not being among the powers given to
the government by the Constitution,-by what
right do Congress proceed, as if it were fairly a
branch of their duties, and appoint committee
to have it in special charge! Congress might
as well create Committee on Medicine; they
might as well create a Committee on Domestic
Architecture, or Gardening, or Ship-bulldlng.-
The objection appears to us well taken, sound,
insuperable; and we hope to see the time when
Congress will no more think Of usurpng the pat
ronage of manufactures than of creating board
of agriculture
In the debate which took place on Thursday
last, it was urged, in order to give some plausi-
bilty to Mr. Fillmore's proposal, that the Presi-
dents Message contemplated the protection OF
our manufactures-To this Mr.. Rhett, accord
ing to the report Of the Globe, replied in these
forcible terms.
"He did not understand the message as re-
commencing tariff with view to protection.
but understood it as meaning tariff for the pur
pose of revenue. He also understood the mes
sage as saying, that while they were legislatng
with view to the raising of revenue, there
should be such disposition made in the laying
of taxes as to give benefit to manufacturers
The doctrine was popular one, but he entire
" dissented from it. Where did protection
commence! 1t was invariably at the point
where revenue ceased. The only way in which
the domestic manufacturer was to be benefited,
is to have his yard of cloth introduced into the
consumption of the country in lieu of that
,,,h; oI h,; afi nd
into the Treasury. In that point of view, how
was it possible to make tariff both for revenue
and protection! The two were entirely incom-
patible with each other. You must exclude the
foreign importation, and this is to destroy reve-
nue., before you can give protection to the manu-
facturerSS Iftbe two were Incompatible, as ne
contended they were to protect manufacturers,
unless they impose duties for the destruction OF
commerce, and the consequent destruction OF
revenee"
There is no resisting the force of this argu-
@sat indeed e TIE zeEx Ways and Means
is tacit confession of its justice; it is An &C
knowledgement that tariff for the benefit of the
factory owners is very different thing from
tariff for the raising revenue. The Globe IN
discussing the question. says well:
"The manufactring capitalists, we think, will
be found among the wealthiest classes in the
community. What right have they to insist
that such discrimination should be made in
levying duties on foreign commodities coming
in competition with their products, that the
great body of the people should pay two prices
for what they are obliged to consume, that the
double price may fall into corporate treasures,
and the National Treasury be deprived of reve-
nue. on the article to the whole extent of the ex-
clusion, for the benefit the manufacturer, when
the whole pretence on which the tax is levied at
all, is revenue for the Government! Instead of
increasing the burdens Of the mass of the people
for the emolument of privileged manufacturing
companies, ought not the discrimination have
an eye to deriving the greatest portion Of the
revenue from the most afauent classes-those
who, without labor, get rich on the labors of
thousands? Ought not the exemptions to be in
favor of the laboring poor, who work to accumu-
late wealth for the few!"
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