Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1843-07-28

GENERAL JACKSON.
10 his letter TO Dr.. Coleman dated on
the 96th Of April, 1894, speaks on this
subject The language Of true and sound
wisdom He says: ~ ask what is the
real situation Of the aericnItureIist2-
Where has the American farmer a mar.
ket for his surplus produce9 Except
Ior cotton, he has neither foreign nor
a home market. Does mol his clearly
prove when there is no market al home
or abroad, that there is too much labor
emp Dyed in agriculture? Common
sense at once points out the remedy
Take from the agriculture IN the Unled
States six hundred thousand men, Wo-
men and children, and you viii a, once
give market for more bread stufTs than
all Europe DOW furnishes us; 10 short.
sir we have been too long subject TO the
policy Of British Merchants; it il time
we should become little more Ameri'
cani@ed. and, instead OF feeding the pau.
pers and laborOrs OF England, feed our
own, or else IN short lime, (by con,in-
ulng our present policy.) we shall be
rendered paupers ourselves"
Ia q letter OF Gen. Jackson, to Gov
Ray, IN 1923, he re affirmed aud adopted
with appreciation this Ieuer and its doc
lrines And yet to all this lhe new al
lies Of the Jackson party turn up their
noses and sneeringIy remark that those
who contend that protective Tariff
Will create home market for our
produce, say "that there are TOO many
engaged in tilling the earth, and that
we must hire some OF them to manufac
ture by promising to give them more
Tor their articles than we should have to
give Others" With what grace does
the writer Of the pamphlet cast this
stigma upon the motives and policy Of
General Jackson, we leave the people to
say
NUMBER OF MANUFACTURES.
The writer Of he address says: THE
census Of 1910 shows that there we're
engaged 10 trade and manufactures in
the United States, including every de
scripton Of mechanics, white and black
slave and free, only 79l 749, while the
number Of the tillers OF the soil was
37I995l" From this he argues that
the home market is inconsiderabIe com
parlson with The agricultural products,
and therefore not worth prese rvng or
protecting. Let us see how this matter
stands. He must concede that the 79l,
TAO are supported upon American pro
duce, and are engaged 10 The manufac
ture Of The America raw material; sup
pose We transplant them TO Europe and
buy their manufactured articles, whose
produce would they then consume
whose raw maler would they then
operate upon? Not ours, but European
as restrictions are thrown around The
introduction OF our articles, and in that
event we should lose 10 he farming IN
tGrest the market for all the raw mate
riaIs, and all the produce that these 79l,
$40 persons would consume; or II we
fed them and furnished he raw material
it would be undes their Tariff. But
this is not all; you cannot transplant
the men, women and children - you can
only drive them from their employ ment
10 agricultural pursuits, and then after
having lost the market for the produce
and raw materials consumed bv the
74l749 you add hat number to 3.7l9 :.
! 95l, now engaged in agriculture, ma
king The agrcu!uralsls 4 5ll 700. and
increasing the agricultural products, and
affecting the price in the same proper,
tion. But even this is not all; the mo
ment you have driven your own trades
men and manufacturers from their EN-
ployment, foreigners left without com
petition here would make YOU pay heir
own price for their articles, and exact
what they please in payment Let Us
make al estimate of This; for round mum
bers, say 100000 manufacturers 10 the
agricultural interest of The United States
al very low calculation they must con
sumo each Of agricultural products at
least the value Of $50 per annum, this
amounts to $40 900 600
House rent, and fuel, 10000 600
S52 900 600
making $59 900, 900 annually in those
times. without looking TO the more i'm
porlant and costly ones of the raw ma
terias, wages OF labor and other domes
tic articles which enter into tho price Of
the manufactured articles; these we
leave for the reader to estimate. These
are some oI the gains to The agricultural
interest by having the seat Of the manu-
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