Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-12-03


The Ercning rosi-which has never tear to
shed for ANxnIcAS manufactures and artisans
thrown utterly out Of employment Ivy the pressure
of unequal Foreign compctition-which never
raises its voice against the depression OF AsSaicAS
production Especially Agricuitural) by Foreign
restrictions, or at least prcesscs or favors eff
cicn, opposition to them-is greatly distressed at
the depression of British Manufacturers conse-
ouen, on our new Protective Tariff, To its wall.
ings on this head reply;
|. For every spindle OF loom stopped in Grea,
Britain or elsewhere by ouI Tariff is set in mo-
,on here. Now we have no objection TO giving
,employmen, 10 British Iaborers if our cwn
well employed, well paid and we'll fed. But such
is VIGOROUSLY not the fact. We have thousands
of honest, capable, deserving vorkmcn and women
who have even yet no employment, although the
Tariff has Sc, to work two hundred thousand who
bu, for it would now he Finishing in constrained
idleness. II we wish to I've charitable to other Ma.
tons in this respect, must first so adjust our po.
Icy as TO give ample aud advantageous employ
ment to all our people, and then we shall be
able TO l,uy literally from others and will buy OF
their produce,
. his cheaper for rs IN make our Carpets,
&c here than 10 hare them made in England, no
matter what the relative money price may be. 1t
will take no moie men to weave our carpets cloths,
&c. here than in England, while here it will he
far easier for us to feed and pay them. There
were lately thousands of men manufacturing for
the American market in Europe whose whole
compense therefore did not amount to peck of
wheat for day labor, (msuy worked for less than
half peck.) Under a good Protective Tariff
these men willie attracted hete TO do this same
work, and will here receive from half bushe to
busheI and half Of wheat for every days labor,
because our price of labor under a steady Tariff,
will command so much. Here these laborers and
their families receive not merely bread enough 10
keep the breath Of life in their bodies but good clo
thing, houses, schooling, &c. for their labor, with
share in the enjoymenrs aud comforts of life. At
the sane time we shall get our Cloths, &c, cheap
CT than before possibly not for fewer collars, but
for less produce, because the transporting and
shipping it to another contin,nt will I've saved,
and divided between the producers of Cloths and
Food respectively. Then our Fruits, Vegetables,
&c. &c. VIII ch our English cloth>makers canno,
afford to eat, will bear good price, finding q
dy market with our manuf ,ctur,rs who now in
England mus, 60 withou, them. Protection to
American Manufacturers is thus the cause of uni
versal benefcence. 1t benefits directly our own
people, and ultimately those who manuiac-
ture for US in foreign countries, though these may
for time suffer Inconvenience from it, while the
gradual transfer of ManufacIures from Europe to
this country is in progress. The British Landed
Aristocracy. Church Establishment and other non.
producers may suffer some diminution of incomes
from this policy but not the same mass ofthe Peo.
ple