Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1842-03-24


t" foster our fisheries and protect manufactures adap
ted to onr circumstances, &c the land marks by
which TO guide ourselves in all relations" Other
Presidents held The same language.
What consumma,e folly, therefore, not to say wick
edness OF some OF the members Of Congress to waste
the time OF the House a, this moment debating the
consutlonalty OF laws for protection! Those inte
rests that have been The most thoroughly protected
by legislative enacmenis. have been successful, |
viz: Navigation ship building manufacturers Of lea
Their, carriages, cabinet ware, haze, coarse cotton
goods. and thousand other articles which the do,
nestle producer has now furnished excluding almost
wholly the foreign article, and furnishing large
amount Tor export
Meetings ought to he called in every town. before it
is too late to inemoalize Congress to adjust the
tariff. that every interest is thoroughly protected. If
rest must also fallsn far at least any profit on
their industry is concerned The manufacturer Of
iron cotton and in fact every branch of industry, is
but the hand-mad of agriculture; when they flourish
the agricuIturis is most generally prosperous. S.
Adopting the above data, the Wolcot.vile Manu-
featuring Company have used in their mandatory,
during the past year,
6l,7s5 lbs. Of American fleece wool, which
cos, ss5 1851 |
l25 gallons olive oil. 1898
275 gallons sperm oil, 3ol
1880 lbs. Of soap. 424
$1,000 teazles, 536
1887 pete, 2l7
s. cords Of wood, 3ls
81 tons Of coal, 374
2l7l lbs OF indigo, 1860
Dye stufs, 500
Rundries, 1000
Wages paid to 81 operatives for the year, 1900
ssO,l93
To produce 6l,7ss lbs Of wool win require
$4,000 sheep. equal in value to $4,000
To support this flock of sheep will require
1890 acres of land. equal in value to 800 900
AT lcas. l3J persons supported nv the labor
Of these 81 operatives annually consume Of
the products Of agriculture, pork flour, &c.
to the value of 1000
Value of land employed in raising these pro.
duets. $1,000 |
Investment for wood, COAL ,eazloa, &c. say 5000
$50, 900
Five hundred and seven thousand dollars, then, is |
the agricultural capital employed in supplying the |
wooden manufa cory at Wolcottv!e. Will not our |
farmers awake 10 the immense stake they have in the
question Of Protective Tariff? F.
We rejoice, says Boston paper that the eyes Of
Southern at last beginning to be open to the
sun lgh, of truth. We rejoice that any thing has
been able to induce them to give up their unpariotc,
nu-American, and suicidal views Of public policy.
And although their repentance is we'll nigh death
bed repentance, more like that Of drowning man,
who entreats for readmssion 10 that good barque,
Profession. which he had forsaken. let by-gones be
bygones, and let them have that protection which
they ask, even though we cannot help the conviction
that scfnterest and true patriotism has driven
them to the change.
n 0f herr nj hell at
bile, few weeks since, to take into consideration
the best method of improving the Cotton interests
it agreed unanimously that Cotton could not be
afforded at Mobile at less price than cents a
pound-that they could hope to send Cotton to Eng
land longer than until that country could supply
itself from India, and that there every to
believe that the DAY was close at hand. They also
agreed, by nearly unanimous vote, only three vo.
ting in the negative, that the best D0y TO ben.ft the Cot
gropers to lay duties upon all imported mama
acures, order to home MARKET the only sure
market! And they were right
The Charleston IS c. Patriot has recently con-
tanned series of articles upon the subject OF domes
tic industry. in which the ground has been taken,
AMI most ably urged tina. it is for the interest of
South Carolina TO abandon, in part, the raising of
Cotton, and to tura its attention to manu- Featuring.
The Savannah Georgian of the 18th ult., contains
the following remarkable article. 1t tells its own
story and requires comment farther than to state
that it is from the very last paper in the State of
Georgia, that we should have looked to for anything
half SO true or SO rational on the tariff.
Protection.-A state Of feeling is growing up in the
South upon this subject very different from that ex
listing ten years ago. 1t is natural that should be
So when it is but too evident that interests lead
to such change. FREE TRADE WITH ALL
ITS BOASTEDO BEAUTIES HAS BROUGHT
WITH IT FEW OR NO BENEFITS, BUT
RATHER TRAIN OF CALAMITlES, and we
find the whole South laboring under complete
prostration of prosperity. We do not hesitate now
TO that the cause may be found in the fact that
do not live sufficiently within ourselves. WE DO
NOT ENCOURAGE HOME MANUFACTURES,
and therefore task allour energies and them in vain,
TO pay for those things Of which the main part could
be produced amongst ourselves. Labor is misap-
piled produce more of our staple than is want.
ed, and we have not yet learned to distribute our
force upon those objects which would prove most
profitable. To enable US to do this, it is necessary
TO erect some barrier to keen foreign competition
from interfering with and rendering our efforts
fruitless by driving us from our own market THIS
MUST BE BY PROTECTION. We shall then
produce and manufacture and consume our own
products, and be thrown entirely into idenessby
the great glut Of any article Is the case
Cotton 10 q drug, and at low price. and till we can
nm our hands to something else we must continue
20 aneuish. Even this article requires protection
and our assertion last summer, that with the Teduc
s;o0 o the duty By the compromise act to Dper