Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1843-07-04

begun the REFORM Her government will be
compelled to continue it. There Is a Society
lately formed in England. called the Anti
Corn-Law League, the object of which Is, to
have the duties on foreign wheat wholly
taken of. They have already collected, by
subscription, tlco hupdred AMI mn thousand
dollars, to aid in spreading their principles,
and they print and send of all over the king
dom, every week. ton and half of papers
and pamphlets. Every voter in Great Bri-
tain Is to have a pamphlet sent to him. free
OF cost. Many papers warmly support their
cause. No government under the sun can
hold out agGas. suc'i an cti"rf. In effect, We
learn by letter published by Mics, from
Joseph Hume, 4 member of Parliament, to
Daniel Icnilcr, member of Congress from
Maryland, that 4 meeting of one h'udred and
tsc1tty members of the British Parliament
agreed on resolutions IN favor Of oprning 10
England The precision tradc Of .4merica. Such
a trade. says The Baltimore editor. will bring
wealth and prosperity to all classes of our in
dustrious citizens" II we show disposition
TO meet this movement half way. it i sure to
succeed. Now. what has been the action Of
Congress in Til, matter! Here it's Read
and wonder,
Senator Tappan, of Ohio, proposed last
fall, when the tlrifT bill was under discussion,
to insert in it a clause. that whenever it was
satisfactorily proved that any foreign nation
hat passed iaors 10 a3aH oT O. JrR, Wheat,
FIou, Pork and B.cf free of dirty. then all
duties on merchandise from ttat nation should
be reduced. so that none should exceed twenty
per cent. The amendment was voted down:
0CTEN cry WIG SENATOR VOTING
AGAINST IT, AND EVERY DEMO
CRATIC SENATOR VOTING FOR IT.
Our own Indiana Senators, Smith and White.
both voted against il.
How would YOU have voted. if YOU had
been there! l will undertake TO answer for
you. You would have voted, almost to a
man. far Senator Tappan's proposal. When
the Wing Senators from Indiana voted against
IT. they voted for one of the great measures
of their party. but ogainsiihc 5cU and agoind
tie Interests of the State they represented.
If the provision market of Great Britain.
with her twcnty-scycn millions of souls. were
opened to Us. there Is no competition We need
/ fear. By official accounts collected by the
Consuls in each place. the price of wheat in
fourteen principal whcat-erowing countries
on the continent of Europe, (who would be
our competitors averages q doilur anil Hjrty-
/ one ana u NtI CfNtS at lOiilc. TIC dNtIaLt
freight to England Is ftlccn cents 20 that the
wheat, in bulk. landed in England, averages
doiiar and f0rirSir ant init cents bu,hcl.
Now, we can afford to sell our wheat ut six
bit, bu,hcl. and live by it; q shilling a
bu-hcl will take il to New Orleans; and
Niles estimates the average FREIGHT across at
twenty cents from our Eastern markets: say
twenty-five cents from NV Orleans. Then
Il "a H.
lar ami sirfccn and half cents bushcl; and
thus TO undcrscll the European wheat grow
crs. thirty cents bushcl. CThc small moi
dental expenses, insurance, &c. arc not cal
culatcd in either caSe.)
But for the last forty years the price Of
wheat in Great Britain has averaged over hro
doiiGrs bushclt SO that, cven rih t-rcnty
per- cent. tariff duly on our wheat. We could
afford to sell il there at an excellent profit.
and yet furnish it at least oHc-f6uHh cheaper
than has usually been paid lorit'in that tariff
ridden island.
Great Britain and ireland consume yearly
over scvcaiy-frc million bushels of wheat. The
market, then, Is large enough. Indiana. at
present grows only about four millions bush-
els annually.
1t is very easy to raise an outcry against
foreign market, and talk very periodically
about the mis-callcd american SYSTEM
and protecting home industry. But let u, now
see how those praciicc who preach so well, on
this subject.
| have now living before me Niloss Regis
ter of September ID, 1910. 1t contains
table OF the exports OF the United States for
Minysir years. beginning with 1903; and it
shows the amount OF manufactures sent off to
foreign nations each year. and also, in anoth-
or column. the amount OF farm produce (,,ot
including Cotton or Tobacco sent abroad
during each of t. Sc thirty-six years by the
United States. The exports OF manufactures
have been continually increasing. running mp
from less than q million AMI q hoif doii0rs in
1913, TO abOat cigt' millions anil hat' in
1888. But mark The exports of farm
produce have been continually diminishing
not even stationary. but DIMINISHING.
from nearly fr1ty miHins in 1893, down to
nearly nine millions in ISIS Ii YOU doubt
this. come to the public meetings. and YOU
shall see the table yourselves. This may
serve to show YOU the effects of the high
tariff system. 1t may serve. too, as pretty
good example OF the difference between pro-
icssion and practice.
The manufacturers. then. have 10 obicc-
ton to a foreign market. They understand
the advantages of it. perfectly. for them
selves. But they choose to keep up high
duties on their manufactures, provoking
retaliation from other nations; and thus
claiming us down, for our provisions. to Il
home market. where we get three quarters
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