Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1842-03-01

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hey ate Fifty per cent lower. and were they now
reduced TO the specie standard would not be more
than one fourlh they were then. and very lulo more
than in England. Common sense will teach US that
were a new tariff imposed they would he increas-
ed TO the former standard A tariff must increase
The quantity Of manufacture in the country imposing
Il. IL therefore must increase the demand for labor
and Of necessity. the price Of labor must be enhanc.
ed. as labor Is a commodny which like all others.
depends for price upon the demand in proportion to
The upSly. We have in hrs city three paper mills.
Were two Of ihem to shop and throw two-ihrris Of
the hands out Of employment. the pnce of labor
would be reduced, Cor ihose Who are out of work
would underworld for u living Suppose rNothirds
Of those in The whole eogairy were To stop the case
would be still worse.
The neIi proposition is false in nci and Inference;
bu, We do not blame Col Thompson .n mach for
4 as NE DO the original Of The new Wene-isn. The
statement is frOm MIR Weller. late speech in Con.
grss-. and Is tina, but l5GOsl perspn, are engaged
m manufactures. The whole number Of persons
engaged in all productive opcraiiuns. ia the Union
are bot 4,59l 407 Of which 79l .545 are employed
directly IN manufaciu ring ARTICLES that might, with.
on, duties. be imported. and which are now import.
ed To a greater ot less extent. The whole popula.
ton Of toe Union is seventeen millions. aud rs four
and q half million. Is 10 79l 600 50 is 1900.
600 TO The number supported BY n,oring
manufacture, which proves 10 be upwards
u two millions seven hundred and sixty thousand.
Engaged in mining are IS 200 psrson, supporting
fny-'hres thousand more. and as the value OF min.
ing labor is nothing without manufacture, this
$4,000 depend directly upon the prosperity Of man.
u%iaeture' fhr their support. making an aggregate Of
two millions eight hundred and thirteen ih,usand
persons who depSnd slely aud directly upon the
manufactures ofihis country fr their support. This
is the actual number affected directly by the IN
crease or reduction Of duties.
But the proposition further states that MI the con.
sumen or in other words the fourteen millions Two
hundred Ihousand are faxed By n tariff for the ben
eft Of the number supported Nv manufactures. This
Is. if possible moro hke than Mr. weller's fgures
We ran and will prove - any unprejudiced MN
that the duties imposed do not enhance prices to
the consumer. Up to 1893. there was a duty a.
mounting to two cents n pound on coffee. and then
coffee averaged me and a half cent per pound less
'H"A NHNii 't NuN WIZ Wheuh l 4 fOn 1870 70
1888 coffee averaged in price TO The importers 81
cents; from ls33 10 the present time il has aveng.
ed 10 cenus and n fraction. II is easily accounted
for. America has been, aRd will be, NJ long as the
free trade policy Is continued ond the people can
get money TO buy with. the best market for almost
all foreign products, snd whenever We impose du-
ties the producer endeavors tn accommodate his pri.
ces 10 The duties aud ca pacities Of The market. II
Was contemplated in Congress al The extra session TO
impose a duty Of twenty pc; cent on eofre, and
when information Of that fact was conveyed TO Gu.
ba, The price fell fifteen per cent, aud rose again
when it was asceriained that The duty vas not i'm
posed. The effect Of the information Of n proposed
duty upon the fruits or the Mediterranean and the
Eastern Islands was still greater. as hey fell tweL-
~ per cen. on "A proposed duty of twenty per cent
and always, where the duty IL actually lad tbs. as
ia the case of fruii, all taken of Of the price Of The
article by the producer. There is now a market
fnr all the tobacco that is produced. and why DO
our producers wish the enormous duty that is levi.
ell upon it in England. removed Because they
know that were the duty Of twelve hundred per
cent now levied on il in England. removed they
could increase the price nearly as much rs the du-
~, and pocket from England the fifteen million,
that article pays for tt e support Of the English pen
sioner.
Neither Col. Thompson nor any one else will de-
ny Hat an increase Of duty on -FOUR in any Of the
South American ports Jeprssscs the price OF dur
in Richmond more than an increased crop in like
proportion will do it, Let him try the experiment
on ten thousand barrels of kiln dried -four III Rich
mond at a given price. and learn the mex, day that
a duty OF iweniy per cent is imposed on the article
in all the South American ports over ard above
what il now is. and if he does not fld the twenty
per cent will come out Of his own pocket, he will
be more fortunate than most men IRE. On tho
coniroy. were he 10 purchase n like amount and
the c=='vmS were abolished Throughout The word.
he would find himself in possession Of a handsome
fortune. Every man knows this who has dealt in
The article 6r a length Of time. and he who reasons
from what he sees, a. once peiceives that the produ-
GERS abroad pay the duties W impose on imporia-
Tors.
These facts show That The effect Of duty is not 10
az the consumer. but The foreign producer, even
when the duty il laid upon those articles not pro
dnced in The count " imposing IL, BH, where Ihe
country imposing The duty can prcdure thcm. they
are invariably cheaper under a fixed and heavy
duty lhni gives permanently TO manufactures. Cot
Ton and woollen goods both foil ia price under the
Tariff Of 1898 10 such nm extent that the northern
manufacturers. acting without their characterest &c
foresight were friend Of the compromise bill
They saw. under the tariff. competition spring up IN
The country that suddenly became too great for ihe
demand and they were The sufferers. They did
not reflect that. with the reduction Of duties. our
country would he flooded with the products Of the
English workshops until our manufactures ore bro
Ken down. a then the prices raised rs Tho sovereign
viii and pleasure Of few English manufacturers
chose making the people pay dearly for the whis-
lie.
But we ore done with the evils which a tariff
VII not impose upon The county At large. aud We
VII turn to the benefits it willie onfer upon all a
bout Twelve millions Of our people ore engaged in
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