Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-09-27

ripens compared with Cuba TO insure the manufacture
Of few more yards Of calico, al higher cost-hke the
making Of ice in Louisiana, the growth oil pneappies
on the White mountains; to make the planners OF Inc
South pay five ceits yard more for their cotton bag
ong TO l,l, Kentucky; force the whole agricultural
and ayuaiiny interests the Atlantic pay O0 10 100
pcr cent more for their ircn benefit the wealthy iron
masters Of Pennsylvania.
In nil these kinds Of protection 10 manufactures, i
is also the large capitalists and ckhoders, than
IN. work men who profit by high dutrs. And Il you
possess right go far as this bill docs Tor protec
lion alone il would certainly prove more tflcicnt Tor
that object 20 further and as ia the ages OF mono
poly in England, march up to the riolibiiory duties
or rs in France, to absolute prohibition. 1ial would
also be undisguised and the people, being obliged ID
that case TO furnish of the revenue III some other
form, would clearly for whom, Why's and what
they taxed, and would examine more critically Inc
necessity for 1t.
Our commercial and navigating interests always suf
fer nearly much, proportion, Gs agriculture by high
duties on foreign imports Those imports, being The re-
turns for The surplus crops OF the farmer and planter
Tax on The for the crops when coming home, IN
ines him. and the country, the end, much as tax
ON the crops themselves when going abroad so tax
on the vessel that carries them, included III her Iron
copper cables and cu,dagc, and IN what 10 eaten and
worn BY the shpwright who makes the vessel the sail
or who igates her, and the merchant who owns her,
is an evil TO the farmer likewise, whose expense in
getting his products to final market and the proceeds
back is thus vastly enhanced. In thus Vew their con
neyon is nsepcrable, and their influence reciprocal
Agnn: as agriculture furnishes the chief materials
for our foreign commerce, everything which checks
and discharges it, dimnshes the employment
for both commerce and nav CATION. These last give
value to the surplus of The first These last do not
make US so much or at The worst more dependent on
foreign nations than they are on u.s. What we obtain
from them with the products OF our labor is likewise
the fruit Of American labor and American industry, as
much as the manufacture of soap and watches here
To restrict our markes-to lessen our freghis, by ex
iraordinary taxation what is carrled-is not only TO
dlsuse our SHIPS but TO discourage production at home
for export and narrow the range OF beneficial inter
course, civilization, and Christianity.
Orr whole tonnage for foreign trade was much less
in 1890 than in 1887 and Io3S, partly in consequence
of higher duties imports and the materials OF ship
building; and whenever the Tariff was lowered on some
articles in $780, and on all in s33, that description of
Tonnage and partly from that circumstance increased
rapidly =,
In like manner our exports and imports both Tell
off, or increased sowest when tariffs were highest and
increased fastest when tariffs lowest The latter
were perfect thermometers as 10 the former. Thus
stood
IMPORTS AND CONSUMPTION PER HEAD.