The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-10-28

tsnisAlpg iao,s ecumit,sso Of Congress rsssks THE
eSistence OF such atraie under such c!rcumsanccs
remarkable coumeEary upon the want OF sagscity ard
| foresight in the administration OF commercial con
and makes powerful appeal to the consideration
Of Congress The enteprze OF our country 10 thus made
subsidiary 10 the wealth. and of the
British colonies and in the degree prejudicial to
through the policy Of our government" In this
famous commercial arrangement OF $780, provisions
contained in the nature oiarecprocity treaty caled
protesting to place the navigation and commercial inter
course between the countries upon condition OF
equality and reciprocity-hst is that neither country
should make discriminating regulations against the ships
goods the other England oen land duties closing
the direct trade between the countries in wheat
-four, provisions timber and many other articles and
taking herself the monopoly of the carrying trade OF
much Of produce by the OF her colehies which
negoators then found not Included in the reel
procty agreement, and that which bal was made
worse By high duties she prohibits produce, and
then takes the carrying trade of all she wants from the
side doors by touching at her colonies the north
prohibited BY high duties and then admitted from her
colonies on low duties Thus the treaty is observed and
evaded We are bound by it-she is not We have lost
negotiations This system OF free trade and judi
cious tariff has brought upon the country the late
official tables for single year. lslI-the imports
| ing in value to $l27 900 600 upon which exscted
duties OF eleven per cent upon the aggregate
| amounted in value to 9lO0O0OO which foreign
nations imposed duties amounting to $4,000 0OO being
24 per cent upon the value Enquiries made have
tanned, that OF the heavy imp,riaons into this port,
eighty three per cent avowedly foreign account,
| while OF the residue, about one.hslf nominally
imported bv commission houses but actually foreign
account. These measures have driven
chants out OF business, aad provided numerous bank.
and in the hands OF foreigners has pushed Free Trade
and the Credit System" till the bubble has exploded
leaving the country and the States without currency
and overwhelmed with debi and, in the rsvuson, has
broken business depressed agriculture dersnged the
fr commerce between nations in their productions,
stopped domes; manufactures and dismissed from
ploy ment the home industry of the country,
10 hol competition with the psuper labor OF England.
No agriculture commerce manufactures or currency,
could stand under such inequality in trade No country
can retain its wealth, or maintain its independence,
unless it renders the commercial intercourse equal
between the two nations by countervang regulations
In ing at the tables OF importaons appears that
during the last twenty years. the average mportaons OF
the single article of silk has amounted in value to ten
millions Of dollars year, two hundred and twenty
millions This about equal to the amount of the
Indebtedness of the States Had the culture Of silk been
wisely and honestly encouraged would have
the necessity this Of importation and Indebted
From the information acquired by the recent Silk
Convention held in this city, culture Of silk be
ably encouraged, pledge ourselves that it will
not only sdd staple production for the country,
but that the labor Of the women, and the children and
the aged, and the nrm OF population, applied this
tence but would yet redeem the States from the impend
ing infamy of reputation. Weproclaim fixed belief.
things well adapted the GUILTY. manufacture
| of silk, as these United States Many persons
present will remember W., when announcement
of cotton, notification would dissolve the Union; while
free trade laughed, and juaicous tariff sneered at the
the manufacture of c.tton. The result is before
Domestic cotons supply the demand OF the country and
greatly reduced prices Its surplus manufactures
abroad article of commerce. to ndia South
America and to England herself; and Is now bringing
back in return portion O. the value which before
shipped abroa do former balances Of trade against
Manufactures have well performed their duty to the
nation. They have struggled into life through an
infspc surrounded with difficulties and beset with penis
of 1912 patriotism called them to Efforts OF
premature manhood. The cold neglect which chilled
| trulx- thnort
sprung from the influence OF the seans OF their great
rival whose interests they invading They have
survived and now come showing from the census $780,
tn the value Of the annual products
$3.50 So 224 The whole value Of the
annual products from manufactures The value of the
annual exports about one hundred millions-s the
gren, provisions md agricultural products sen
all the 10 the world being included is less
than half of the annual products OF manufactures In ls40
in addition its products $40 millions
ploy ment TO ass 600 persons, who thus with
drawn from the competition of labor the SOIL and
consumers OF the agricultural productions Of others
The manufacturers of Eng provide market
third OF the whole cotton produced in this country,
while they receive and consume more -four and grain
from the az rcuture of New York than was ever shipped
abroad from her port in the best days Of her commercial
prosperity The recent purchase hundr ed yards
OF carpeng, for the hail ofthe House Of Representatives
exhibits Of free trade The benefit to the
return freight four packages in American
vessel bat which most usually comes foreign ship
The foreign country OF the manufacture, furnished the
wool, labor, and subsistence from its agrcultue and
| the dyes and materials used were collected from
l commerce..
Ellis; our agriculture commerce or labor, found no
consumers employ ment in the operation. To have
produced even the wool would have required perhaps
| two thousand OF land, which would have
been diverted from the competition Of the production Of
grain and provisions already in surplus and market
II is estimated that 1t would require twenty millions OF
acres land to produce the wool needed for pecp.
Yet proposed not TO manufacture, but to raise grain
and provisions which Europe will not take from for
her productions, and all this is from declared anxiety
not to burthen agriculture in giving aid
| manufactures and home Industry manufacturer has
"PfCtpCtiOu
Teke piece Of broad cloth. Is it not obvious that the
conveyance of foreign WOOL ogwood iustc and coppe
ras TO be used in is manufacture sfords employ
ment to shipping than would that Of the broad cloth itself
For instance, take the article Of nader used in this
country for the printing OF cotton and other aDric will
require ships bring the bulky article Of madder
print the same bulk OF cottons When sayt ships
put them very low Then take the article OF barla and
other SAILS used bleaching purposes it requires ten
Told the bulk and tonnage to bring them that would to
bring the manufactured article Then the birthstone IN
a crude state, 10 be manufactured into acid for
bleaching and other purposes. hen the heavy
and bulky arcleof logwOod and other dyewood which
will employ fifty times the shipping to bring to this coun
try that would suffice to bring the manufactured arci.
which the dyewoods used for. Then the indigo and
many other articles that could be mentioned. Then
ccastipg trade. How many thousand tons Of
shipping does the coast trade employ for msnufac
lures, which would not De employ ed il we did not manu-
facture AS general thing II is safe 10 calculate that
will take 25 tons OF shipping to import the material
carry manufactures one ton OF shipping to import
the manufactured artce II is curious and interesting
fact, the States rank in the valuation OF their wealth
cordipg 10 their populations and they have developed
tsthDllsned
poyment 70 their home labor Rhode Island is the richest
State in the Union, according to its population Massa
chusets Connecticut ard New York follow next in the
ssion. Will learn from the practice
Of Gteat Britain rather than be taught by her agents
Influenced by her advce-or led by her lessons to us
on political economy Her publications estimate the
machine power used by her,, as equal to the
LABOR Of Of one hundred millions OF Many
millions Of this power introduced into her manuiac.
turing pursuits. Its digent and untirng industry fur
nishes nhc productions with which she maintains her
populston-supports her y-carries her wars
forces China to paySribute and eat her opiumand SUBJ
jpcs the civilized world to her commercial colonization
This machine labor is her capital which requires neither
ood nor clothing II is unlike he capital in the machine
labor used by the planters the south which demands
both food and clothing, and which hold
petition With the machine labor OF England partial
revival from the depressed condition Of the country is
tskisg place. under the operations of the recent
riff. IL is lawful and uselul