Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1843-07-18

and ant-trade views. And we find England
still encouraging the imports of wine from
Spain, Portugal. Germany and Sicily. and
attempting to produce it at the Cape of Good
Hope, all to her great disadvantage. While
all this is going on we the finest wine and
silk country in the world reduced to the great
est distress and poverty. Such the en-
barrassmcnt recently of the vine growers in
France. that they were unable to pay their
Government taxes, and il is said wine was
often seized upon and sold to satisfy govern
mcnt dues, and would not bring two-thirds of
the cost of production. BY the following Ia
bic. il will be seen. the exports of wine from
the Girondc, has not only been stationary,
but has materially fallen off at period of
three years anterior to 1881, and during the
former United States high tariff. The ex-
ports in $40 were nine millions of gallons
in 1880 six millions in 1881 five millions.
The exports of brandy declined in about the
same ratio Such is the result to the wine
trade of France. brought about by her own
anti-commercial policy, so long persisted in ;
and on the growth and produce of which.
over three millions of her laboring cultiva-
tors directly depend for support and prosper
ity ! And such is the example held up TO the
people of the United States for imitation.
and fully acted upon in our tariffs of ISIS
and 1911.
During the low tariff of 40 IL, we sold to
France in provisions, cotton. and tobacco,
near twenty-five million dollars worth of pro-
ducc. and received about twenty three mil
lions of dollars of exports In exchange. or in
articles which can. by a more favorable eli
mate and soil. be more chcaply and better
produced in France than in the United
States, and by refusing to take which. our
products are again to be cnt of, or greatly
reduced in amount. TO bolster up Il small
class. compared TO the three or four million
of agriculurists in the United States.
What folly for one nation to attempt to
barricadc the natural channels of trade. and
endcayor to enforce domestic manufactures,
and the growth of articles which neither ma
turc, or natures God, intended the country
should readily yield.
Three millions of wine growers in France
were sacrificed for the benefit of one hundred
thousand manufactures. Our late tariff pro-
poses to sacrifice three or four millions Of az
riculturists for the exclusive interest Of a sim
= liar small class OF manufacturers.
, While the fruitful plains of France have
been impoverished by bad laws, enacted by
ignorant ministers, led on by designing aud
clamorous manu!acturcrs-in the same way
. the fertile and productive bottoms of The vast
f valley of the Mississippi. with the rlch cotton
and tobacco lands of the South. are in ilir
+, way of depreciation and impoycrishmcnt by
; the mad legislation of the American Con
, grcsS At th, time. the cultiyators of tho
soil find themselves like those Of France, in
! possession of an immense surplus produce
+ and yet it Is so very low in It's market value
8. that they are unable to pay the necessary
taxes to meet the liabilities of their respect
9 i've State governments. And were pork and
, grain seized upon and sold for taxes, rs il
D France, they would not sell for cost of pro
9 duction
How absurd and unnatural to cut off tn,
r international exchanges of productive indus
: try. The wine and silk growers of France
must keep their wine and silk, and buy beet
: root-sugar. hardware. carthcnwarc, woolcns
4 &c, at an cxorbitantpricc. from those whom
: the government has seen fit TO set up in bu-i
e ness
In the same way, the farmers OF Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, &c. must keep their corn
r flour and pork. and the tobacco and cottoT
9 planters at the South. must keep their cottoi
; and tobacco. and buy their sugar from few
| and other necessary consumption. from
f small class of people. whom our Government
: have thought mt and necessary TO place undo
. their exclusive protection. and to assist b,
5 bountics
When will governments become wise
f and cease attempting. by narrow. selfish an'
+ foolish laws, to undo that which Providence
hath dccrccd. and to force a state of things
C alike ruinou' TO themselves, and prcjudicia
to the world
: Wine and silks. from the nature Of the eli
: mate and soil are the nat@..,, products o
n France. Ar. manufactures of iron, hard
n ware. and carthcnware. cotton and wool, are
# most readily. abundantly and chcaply pro
n duced in England. from the supcrabundanc'
of her coal and iron mines. and the great de
: pcndcncc of her large and confined popula
: ton on manufactures. for support. in consc
o qucnce of the limited soil they occupy ant
!. its iladaptation to cheap cultivation. on &c
count of its natural barrcnness, combine'
n with an uncertain and often uncongenial eli
5 mate. and especially in harvesting seasons
' 1t is stated on good authority. that only one
. third of the population of England are en-
J. glged in agricultural pursuits. while the re
n mainder support themselves by trade anc
/. manufactures.
4 Notwithstanding all these strong induce
n mcnts to an interchange of products between
:. France and England, we find France on th'
one hand rigidly excluding the products o
\ English industr, while England. not to bt
outdone in anti-ircc trade measures. is Il