Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-10-03
JOHN J. STONEBURNER.
BENEFITS OF A PROTECTIVE
TARIFF.


Hon. Andrew Stewart, of Pennsylvania.
one of the ablest and most practical men
OF the country, thus powerfully Tin q re.
cen, address 10 bis constituency sums up
the benefits of protection to Home lndus-
uy:--
'ls,. BY putting the country on its own
exhaustless esources--sus,aining and d.
versiiyng American protecting
our mechanics -encouraging and multi
plying manufactures the homo
markets for agriculture, and developing
our vast resources, agricultural, manu-
featuring and mineral.
ID. By increasing exports and dmin.
ishing imporis--seling more and buying
less restoring sound and uniform cur
rency by the importation Of millions Of
specie--destroying monopoly by stimula-
ting competiton--increasng the price by
increasing the demand for the farmers
produce--and diminishing the price by
increasing the quantity OF Manufactured
goods, thus euhancng the price Of every
thing the farmer has TO sell, reducing the
price of the goods he has to purchase, 80
tina, the farmer instead oil being Cypress.
ed, is OF all others the most benefited by
the "proteciiye policy"
80. The national wealth 10 further in.
creased by the protective policy, iG tho
encouragement and extention j, gives TO
labor saving machinery, making ouo
hand equal to forty--ia bringing wealth.
capital and skill from abroad--in coun-
,ervailing the prohbitory and injurious
commercial regulations Of foreign govern
men,s--and above all, ia sustaining tho
free and prosperous labourers of the Uni
ted States against an unrestrained and
ruiaous competition with the degraded
and impoverished labor OF Europe, to
whose level, without "proiection" our la
Dor must inevitably come in its moral as
well as political condition"
Let US imagine that if British gold and
Polkery prevail, that the Tariff is repealed
and the 100000 manufactures, with a
millions additional who constitute their
families, are thrown for livelihood upon
Agriculture, already producing more THAI
can be advantageously disposed of What
would the Farmer do, his Home market
gone' Virginia sends annually to Massa.
chuse,ts alone, 100. 900 barrels OF Flour
and 500 600 bushels Of Corn--(probably
great deal more)--where will she send
her surplus breadstuffs when the manufac.
lures are broken up and one sided frae
trade proclaimed'--(th that is. we are to give
Emgland free trade, but we suppose no
man is fool enough to imagine that she
either can or will repeal her Corn Laws
or dispense with the enormous and indis-
pensble Revenue which she derives from
our Tobacco, taxed 1000 or 1900 per cent
upon prime cost.) We ask these Moon
struck advocates of Free Trade--these
men who live in the clouds and feed up
on theories, disdaining to survey the ac-
tual, practical world as it is. what 10 Vir-
GINA, what are the Farmers of the Uni
ted States to do, deprived oftheir Home
MARKET what are they to do. when, be-
sides being deprived Of their only safe.
constant, steady. sure and permanent mar
ket, three millions Of people more are
added at once 10 the tlllers Of the sol7
That such incomprehensive folly should
be found is passing strange.--Rich. Wing.