Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-12-15
THE FRUITS OF PROTECTION.

The three articles annexed speak volumes in
favor ofProtection, proving, Us they do, that while
the protective policy opens new avenues for do
mestic industry and pays literally the articles
manufactured here are both better and cheaper
than the foreign, In other words, the locofoco
doctrine, that protective duties are taxes upon the
consumers for the benefit of the manufacturers,
is not a correct doctrine.
Pins Home. made.--The new tariff imposed for
the first time a decidedly Protective duty on Pins,
equal to 80 per cent There were but two pin
making establishments in the country when that
law was passed, each Of which had been carried
Oh for years without making a single dividend
one certainly had made none. Since then, this
concern has paid it's first dividend of l-2 per
cent--the sole return on nine years investment
and is now driving good business, and likely
TO do we'll IL is selling Pins fGeen per cent cheap
err than they icere sold before his Tariff adop-
ted and making a vastly superior article. The
average price is 65 cents n pound or pack, con-
tanning $500 pins. Duty, cents per thousand
pins. Several new establishments are now going
forward aud we have not doubt that Pins will
be 10 per cent cheaper yet within two years If
the present Tariff is sustained. The wages of
the workmen have been Increased since the Tariff
passed, and great many more have been set ut
work. The manufacturers are daily learning how
TO economEe in materials and processes, aud can
sell cheap because they have sure, adequate aud
| steady nnsrket.-.M y. Tribune.
| Tdrif-GfasS 7um5lerJ.-This country former
! ~ imported most Of her Gluss Ware among the
rest, the cheap, common TumbIcr trein Gerasuy,
at a cost of so, "A, Al, aRd at the lowest 81 ~
cents dozen. This was thought the lowest pos.
slbe price-the importers declaring that they
brought them merely to ill up their cargoes and
were satisfied to make barely freight on them, as
| they were sure sale. The new Tariff imposed II
heavy duty on these Tumb ers-ten cents pou nd
and now our own people were encouraged &c
attempt making them. The result already is tha
they are now selling these same Tumblers at toen
W-seven and haD cents doZen-lower than cvei
before. This is one of the artc les on which, ac-
cording to the Free Traders, the Wing Tariff has
taxed our People fifty to a hundred per ceut.-Ib
Muslin DE Laine.-The manufacture of thi.
article has been introduced in t. is country witt
| great success, and gives assurance of taking al
important rank among the productions OF our in
dustry. Messrs. Jacob DunnclI g. Co, who hay,
always been distinguished for taste, skill aud il
dcous enterprise, have lately sent to mark ct som,
specimens oil muslin de lalne which are pronoun
ced equal to any imported, and which, when the,
come to be submitted 10 the fair and ui,mul,
| judges in such matters, will be found perfectl,
satisfactory IN texture, in brinncy of the coors
aud in The taste displayed in the patterns W.
learn that, at first, Messrs. Dunne d. Co. impor
ted the gray cloths but since protective dut,
las beeh imposed upon them, which according Il
the journal of Commerce should enhance lh
price to the full amount of the duty, the manulac
ture has been so much encouraged in this coun
, try that the same quality Of domestic manutac
ture can be bought cheaper than the foreign ant
cheaper Than the foreign before the duty. Thu
have two important branches Of industry tit
manufacture aud the printing of muslin de laine
been introduced and successfully prosecuted. w
shall soon be able TO supply ourselves with thi
aricle OF extensive use. On own n1pcha nir
I and artisans will receive the wages which hav
been paid to foreigners, and the tarmer will fin
an increased market for his productions. Provi
dence journal.