New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-10-30


ed States Of America, or By any other country"
The comparative of these statements will su
GENTLY appear from the ct that the British tonnage
Ing the Umtrd States, in the with the British
American colonies, suddenly from about four thousand
mp 10 -four hundred thousand tons The of Que
bec has risen from nearnohng 3le leo In 1890 the
British tonnage which entered ports, from all counss
amounted to 81 Isl tonsn S35 had increased 1922
onsln 1890 the whole amount Of foreign 'Shlch
entered into ports amounted l3l 900 onsin o4O
had increased 20 26S The increase OF British ship
ping ports since 1890 has raised the ratio nearly oo
per pom these astonishing facts committee oil Con
Cress remarks The existence Of such trade under such
circumstances remarkable commentary upon the want
Of sacacv and foresight in the administration OF our com
mercia concerns and makes powerful appeal to the con-
sderation OF Congress The enteTprze OF taIs Country IS
thus made subsidiary the wealth and navigation
of che British coonea and in the degree !Judica 10
our own through the policy Of our Government In this
commercial arrangement of 1880 provisions are con-
tanned th OF reciprocity treaty $50 called pro
Tossing place the navigation and commercial intercourse
between the countries npon condition Of equality and
recprocytha tia; neither country should make d'scFi
iatia regulations against the ships goods OF the other
England laid duties closing the direct trade between
the countries, in wheat flour provisions, timber
and many other articles and taking to herself the monopo-
of carrying trade Of much OF our produce by the way
Of her colonies which our negoatos then found
included the reciprocity agreement and that which was
bad made By high duties she prohibits our pro-
uce takes the carrying trade Of all she from
the side doors BY touching any of her colonies at the north
or the south Coffee and West India produce thus also
prohibited by high duties and then admitted from her
onies on los duties Thus the treaty observed and
evaded. We arebound by it--she We have lost
the cOmmerceshe has doubled hers Alas, for such ne
gotations. This system Of free trade and judlcous
tariff has brought upon the country The late DISASTROUS state
Of things.
For example, look the official tables for single year,
lSll-the imports amounting in value to S27 900 600,
upon which We exacted duties, Sl4,OOOo 600, or eleven
per upon the aggregate. During the same year
the exports Of home products amounted in value to s9l co.,
600, which foreign nations imposed duties amounting 10
1913 10000 being Ia per cent the value Enquiries
made have asceTaned that of the heavy mPortaons INTO
this port eighty per avowedly on foreign account
while of the residue about half nominaly imported
by commission houses, but actually foreign account
These measures have driven merchants out OF bus-
ness and provided numerous bankruptcies This unequal
foreign trade almost monopozad and in the hands OF for
eluners has pushed Free Trade and the Credit System
III the bubble has exploded leaving the country and the
States without currency, and overwhelmed with debit and
in the Teyunn has broken up business depressed agcul
productions stopped domestic manufacturers and dismissed
from employment the home industry Of country TO hold
competition with the auper labor OF England no aer
culture manufactures, currency, could stand
under such inequality trade. No country retain Its
wealth, maintain its Independence uni ess It renders the
commercial intercourse equal between the two nations by
couneryaliuC regulations In looking At the table OF I'M
portations appears that during the last twenty years, the
average nportaons Of the single article of SILK has
amounted in value million Of dollars year, two
hundted and twenty millions. This sum IS about equal TO
ure of silk been wisely and honestly encouraged IT would
prevented the necessity, for this item Of importation and
indebtedness From the information acquired by the recent
Silk Convention held in this City If the culture OF silk can
be reasonably encouraged pledge ourselves that IT viii
not only add staple production for the country, but
that the labor Of and the chdren and the aged
and the nrm of our population, applied to this new Puf-
suit will only provide for their subsistence, but
would vet redeem the States from the impending niamy Of
reputation. Wa proclaim fixed belief, that there Is
no spot this globe congenia and in all things so we'll
adapted the cultivation and manufacture of silk these
United States.
MANY persons present will remember when encourage
asked for the culture and manufacture Of cotton
notification would dissolve the Union while Free Trade
laughed and udcious tariff sneered at the possibility OF
sustaining competition with England in the manufacture
of cotton. The result before Domestic sup
ply the demand of the country and at greatly reduced prices
surplus manufactures sent abroad an article OF com
merce to India, South America and TO England herself
aud is bringing back in return, portion Of the value
which before shipped abroad pay former balances of
trade agans, Manufactures have well performed their
utv to the They have struggled into life through
an infancy surrounded with difficulties and beset with peIlls
in the war of 1872 patriotism called them TO effects OF
premature manhood The cold neglect which chilled their
energies in after times too truly taught them sprung from
the influence Of The agents OF their great va whose IN
rerests they invading They have survived and
come showing from the Of lSlO that the value of the
annual products from manufactures amounts 10 S239 $780,
d.. The whole value OF the average annual imports ITO
millions 1t about half of the annual producte from
manufactures The value Of he annual exports about
hundred monsall the grain provisions and agricultural
products TO all the counties In the world being incu
ded 1t is less than half ii the annual products OF manufac
lures In 1870 manufactures III addition TO It's products
2iOmons gave employment 10 $500 persons, who were
thus withdrawn from the competition OF labor the SOIL
and became Consumers OF the agricultural productions OF
others.
The manufacturers Of New England provide market for
one-hd Of the whole produced in this country while
they and flour and grain from tae ag
culture York than shipped abroad from her
hest ays Of her
purchase Of twelve hundred yards of carpetnc Tor the
hall the House of Representatives exhibits case OF rec
Trade The benefits, TO the country was he return ifeigh on
four packages American vessel but which most usually
comes IN foreign ship The foreign country Of the manu-
fdctue furnished the WOOL labor aud subsistence from us
agrcuture and the and materials used collected
from abroad by It's commerce Our currency PAD the os
agriculture labor found consumers or
employment the ore To have prod.ced the
wool would have required perhaps two thousand acres OF
lan which would have been diverted from the competition
Of the production Of grain and provisions, already surplus
and no market II estimated that it would require twenty
millions of laud produce the wool needed Tor our
people. Yet il proposed not 10 manuiactur but to raise
grain and provisions, which Europe will take from us
for her productions, and all THIS from declared anxiety
not 10 burthen agriculture in giving AID 10
aud home industry MANUFACTURED has hap
PLY said, PToecton increases return reighting Lake
Of broad cloth Is obvious thai the conveyance
OF foreign wool ogwood ustc and copperas TO be used IN
It's manufacture. affords employment to shipping than
would tina, Of the broadclohitsef
For instance take the article of madder used in this coun
try the printing Of and other fabrics II VIII re-
Guire ships bring the bulky article OF inadde TO PRINT
the bulk Of When say ships, put them
very low Then take article of barIla and other salts
used for bleaching purposes requires eniold the bulk ana
tonnage bring them that would TO bring the manulac
,ursd article Then the birthstone, crude state to be
manufactured into acid for bleaching and other purposes
Then the heavy aud bulky article of ogwood and other dye
woods, which viii employ fifty times the shipping to bring
10 this country that would suffice bring the manufactured
article which the dyewoods used fo Then the indigo,
and many othe. articles that could be mentioned Then
Gomez coasting trade How many thousand tons OF
shipping does the trade employ for cur
which you'd not be employed if did manufacture
As general thing safe calculate that it will take %
Of shipping import the material to carry on man
ufacures of shipping to import tn. manufactured
rank in the valuation of their wealth according to their pop
uaton and they have developed their resources esa