New-York tribune., 1842-02-17
American Endu.try and the Journal Of
Commerce.

which we should RAPPORT and consume under thc
svstem of Nom Resistance which=is falsely styled
Free Trade Tha, we would import the goods
or rather tina, they would BE- poured in upon us,
very evident that their average price would be
somewhat less than admit for thu sake o.
how are we 20 pay Cor them What shall We send
abroad in rtNurn7 Wha will s,ep-mo,l,cr Eng
land take of Us Cotton Yes till her East In
tin planting becomes a little more mature than
now-Say three or four years hencc-but she al
ready takes all she will. Reduce price thirty
per cent, and we can hardly crowd Ten Millions
worth additional upon her Will She TAKE our
Grain Yes at one hundred per cent. duty, and
in competition with the ow-priced Grain Of her
ncighbors Germany and Poland. Whenever she
needs Grain the price rises the duty falls aud IN
po,lrs a supply from Bremen and Dantzic before
we can hear of it: then down goes the price, mp
Jumps the dutv and ,Jonathan's nose is out OF
Joint. This process is repeated, perhaps once a
wear. Our comparatively great distance leaves u
not the ghost Of n chnncc I, is worse for us thar,
a fixed du,v of ono hundred and fifty per cent. on
the frs, cost. VIII she take Tobacco7 Yes. y
limited quantity at seven hundred to two thousnn,!
per rcn, But our beef, pork eoarsc grains, vcge-
tables wood, timber, &c in which n,:tinl~ pay,
our own manufacturers cannot be sold TO her az
all-thcv would no, pay half the cost of transport
talon from the producer to her ports. OF these
articles there mus, he glut in the market. ter
ribc reduction of price. a vast decrease Of de-
mnnd and ultimately Of production. upon the
adoption of Free Trade policy. These articles,
now the most profitable of our farmers products,
could no longer pay for manufactures at all VIII
some Free Trade man descend from the r1rrhcd
region of theory and abstraction and tell us hor
and IN mhat we are to pay for Eighty Millions
worth per anuum OF Foreign Products
Where are our corresponding articles TO be sold,
and at what prices?
IF there be any thing demonstrated to our mird
by the economic history ofnatons, it is this-that
no People ever We, conGncd their Industry mainly
TO the production of the rud: and bulky staples al
Agriculture, exchanging them for The manufactures
of other Nations, without falling continually in
debt and becoming inferior and dependent. Jus,
30 certainly NJ the cost of transportation on the
Agricultural side is the heavier. surely do Cap
ital, Wealth. Commerce. Credit. increase IN the
Manufacturing, while Poverty, Dcpenden q. Deb,
attach 10 the Agricultural nation. And this b.
an inevitable necessity. For example: England
is a Manufacturing country, Indiana and Ohio
are Agricultural England can send her cloths to
those States for less than two per cent ON their
value, and can doubtless undersc and break down
This, says Free Trade proves that i, is more ad-
rnnto geouS TO those States 10 buy their cloths Of
England than TO make for themselves Fatal Dc
fusion! SO long as they shall do admitir.
the existence OF real Free Trade betwccnt them
the price of Grain. the great staple OF the West
must be regulated hv ,- value in England-,liat
is, it must be less than lis price in Poland and
Germany by the enormously superior cost OF liz
transportation 10 England from Ohio and Indiana.
In other words the average price Of Wheat to the
farmers throughout these States will not reach
fifty cents 4 bushcl; and other products Will bear
corresponding valuations Bat ct them concur IN
a good Protective Tariff and manufacture Their
goods at home instead Of sending four thousand
miles for them and they may receive on thei,
own soil very nearly the prices for their products
which they formerly obtniilcd for them in England
" per cent more Tor their Manufacturers than
when they imported them. hu, they Will receive
two hundred per cent. for every thing they
raise to sell. They will lure the working
manufacturers from Birmingham and Sheffield
10 Pittsburgh anl Cincinnati, where they can
make Just Us many yards ofcloth a. axes in day
they could before: they will hers trade. cloth
and axes for wheat and potatoes Jus, as fairly as
before; and tho enormous cost of TRANSFORMATIONS
both WAY. waste distance with the heavy pro-
fts of merchants, agents, shippers, SC &c and
the grinding taxation OF tie British Aris,ocracy.
will be completely saved TO the Two classes of Pro-
ducers bv Protection. That eycry bushcl wheat.
every DAYS work. OF a farmer in The West, viii
bring him larger return IN manufactures under
Protection than Free Trade, appears TO Us JUS, as
certain and manifest. rs that barrel OF flour can
D., conveyed 10 Cincinnati fron, Cleveland cheaper
than 10 Liverpool The relative money prices
which the manufacturers wcud cest, il fabricated
ut Sheffield and at Pittsburgh determines nothing
whatever; 1t is the amour, OF PROTECTS which
must be given in exchange 10 each respectively
but this is Just the View Of the question which the
Journal Of Commerce. is careful TO avoid Work
ing Men. let no blindness OF others prevent your
looking toth;s
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