New-York daily tribune., 1843-11-23
The T RI B = n E !.
For The Trih,,ne
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w protection FOR Agriculture"

,bere is the echo of the Locofoco press,
~, ,,,,,ication to the present Tariff. Let the
r.r;ro ~ quotations from "rHE TARIFF, by JU-
.rs. answer this
manufactures enhance the pGlue Of asric,tita-
o,b,r .qmericqn capital to greoi amount b,
.,irr il profitable employment
I, has been ascertaned and well certified,
Ill.,, the Glenham Woolen Factory, at Fishkill,
Z. with capital of $4,000, gives profitable
no,vnent to 81 49,, 900 worth Of other Ameri-
an capital, chiefly agricultural in items as fol
AVS: $4,000 sheep, s. a head, sl32, 600; $4,000
,,s Of pasture land to feed the sheep, in Dutchess
,,nty, supposed to be worth $50 an acre,
100000: farms employed to the extent of
6O0 acres, worth $40 an acre, Sl82, ,000
! cher capital to furnish teazles, firewood, coal,
,mrender, &c. &c, Sc, 600. Total, 81 ,432 900
mseouentlv, If $4,000 Of manufacturing ca
,tal EMPLOYS s ,432, 600 of other capital. then
ill., e360,000000 of manufacturing capital
i the United States, at the same rate, would
snDloy other capital Of the country TO the amount
! # s3,O6S, 81 ,428, or about thrce thousand mil
5ns of d02larS. Not to assume this case as a
,e 10 determine the exact general result, ii is
,ssr enough to show that American manuiacto.
-ss employ and sustain vast amount of Amerl-
an capital, of great variety. The wool growing
interest Of the United States alone, is estimated
J ,v the Hon. Mr.. Slade, of VT, at two hundred
iallHoas Of dollars. The farmers Of the country
4 which class more than million arc interested
growing wool-receive annually forty millions
n l0lLarS from this source; for subsistence OF
oeratives in the Wooen and Iron Factories
aOne the farmers receive tWeRty-Si:c millions of
!al!rs-in all Sirty-Sir millions, being nearly
nine times as much as all the American flour,
beef and pork, absorbed by the entire foreign
market of the world.
In the same manner, every mind Of American
manufacture employs American capital, of kinds
different from every other, and Of great variety.
Inasmuch, therefore, as the capital employed in
manufactures is only as about one to ten of the.
apital employed by it, it will be seen that -ameri-
an manufactures lmpart Il most essential and
lvs important value TO the entire capital of the
cuntrv, and directly or indirectly, not only give
irritable employment to every American laborcr,
Ju enhance the price of his labor. No laborcr
oud be found in the United States who is not
n these WAYS benefited, and that not in a triiing
icgrcc,
The benefit Of the Tariff to the agricultural interest
This is emphatlcally the great interest Of the
country, and therefore It's claims strongest for
The benefit of legislation.
Mr. Everett, our minister to England, stated,
N speech at agricultural meeting at Derby, IN
July, lS43, Earl Spencer in the char, that, al
though the commerce between Great Britain and
.hAi i'ni,,I hn
England and any other country, yet the whole of
the products, passing TO and fro, was not worth so
much as the oats ami beans raised in Great Br-
lin, as proved By their agricultural statistics,
and that the entire value of the products employ
ng British navigation all the world over, was not
,Qual TO the grass grown in Great Britain. Such
5 the mportanccof agriculture to every nation
Over this vast American interest the Tariff Of
1912 has thrown its shield, first IN direct protec
ton given to lis products. For cotton, wool,
hemp, beef and pork, hams and bacon, cheese,
butter, lard, potatoes, flour and wheat, eserea an
'lctes, we find an average protection OF 43 pcf
cent. which is higher than the average pTotec-
ton given TO manufactures But, secondly, pro-
ectl0n OF manufactures Is a protection OF agn-
culture, lnasmuch as our manufactures give en-
'aptal and open such a market for agricultural
PRODUCTS, as has been shown IN another place.
The Importance of protection 10 agriculture Will
nrther appear from the fact, that the annual
lverage of imports of the above named agrcultu
al products, for the fire gears preceding lS42,
vc.e S2,3ll 500, and that the potatoes imported
MO Boston in one year amounted to SAL, 900. 1t
will be seen by statement, page /, that our I'M
ports Of agricultural products for the abovc-namcd
i've years, were greater than our agricultural eX-
ports other than cotton, to Great Britain.
Benefit Of the Tariff to Labor.
1t has been estimated by political economists,
that the industry of country IS equal to one
Ssrspth or one-eighth of It's entire wealth. 1t
night be said that all the essential wealth OF
nation consists in its capacity for labor, as no ma
ion could subsst without It. American labor,
'y the revusion Of lS37-l0, was seen to DC sink
ng rapidly into the gripping fist of European des-
,ot!sm, by the approximation OF ITS prices to the
European standard, till The Tariff of lo42 rescued
| on the true American basis, with the prospect
'i far reward
acGf market altrayS bette, tha, remote oEe and d
home marSet bette. ttan foreign one.
Why are farms near New-Y ork worth from
gty 10 hundred dollars an acre, while those II.
'hnols are not worth more than ten dollars Be
'aase the former lie at the door of market. a
lome market is better than foreign one, first, be
,ause 1t is nearer secondly, because 1t is more
Scure; thirdly, because it's more uniform; and
asty, because the prices are better. It's themer-
h9nt only that profits by the increase OF distance
ND the multiplication OF stages bel~een the pro
.Qces and the consumer, and the consumer pays
ae tax, The average price OF flour and wheat in
ne United States, from 1881 to lS40 (as asceg-
alned by the prices current Of those years, pub
isled in different parts OF the country,l was So
- cts. 4 barrel, and $ so cts. u bushe where
IS, the average price of -four IN Europe for the
anne period, was only 81 SO cts. a barrel, and OF
wheat IS cents a bushel (as ccrtained by com
'arison of Custom House books, and other authen-
lc documents, in different parts OF Europe) The
Ion. Charles Hudson, of Mass. prcsentcdproo IN
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