Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1844-05-02

nestle goods, cloths, &C., without u.s.
ing dollars worth of any thing no
produced on their own farms, good
and cloth thus made are therefore en-
tirely agricultural; and are not the sam,
materials used in the manufacture o
goods, whether made on farm or il
factory :
Mr. S. said he had ascertained ths
fact from his own books kept at fur
mace, that more than three-fourhs 0
the price of every ton of iron sold, wa.
paid to the neighboring farmers FOL
their domestic goods, their meat and
flour, tina. clothed and fed his hands;
for their hay, corn, oats, &C., that sus
tanned his horses, mules, and oxen,
employed about his works. In Eng
land, iron is made of the same materi
ais that constitute it here, well, WE
now import, manufactured and unman-
ufactured, eight millions of dollars
worth of iron and steel; say only half
its value is agricultural produce. thus,
then, we find four millions of dollars a
year to purchase foreign agricultural
produce, converted into iron, and sent
here for sale, while our own country
is filled with ore and coal, buried and
useless, and the produce Of our farm
ers lef, without markets. Will the
farmers of this country submit to such
a system as this-openly advocated
and adopted to favor foreign industry
at the expense of our own Will
they tamely and silently agree thus to
be crushed and sacrificed! No, sir,
they will not, they will speak out a.
gainst this unjust and ruinous measures;
your tables will soon groan under the
weight of their circumstances against
it. | call on them to do so; call on
them to come to the rescue before i! is
too late.
British Bill.
The avowed object of this bill is to
open our ports to the importation of
British goods-to favor foreign farmers
and mechanics. and destroy our own.
Sir. give the people time to be heard,
and this bill canro, pass; lett be dis
cussed, and it can never pass an Amer
lean Congress. There is one way in
which il can pass--send il TO the Brit
ish Parliament, and it will be passed
by reclamation. England would give
millions to secure its passage. 1t had
recently been stated in an official re.
port, read in the House of Commons,
that unless the American Tariff of
1912 was modified and reduced, Great
Britain would have to pay the United
States cash for their cotton, instead of
paying in goods as she formerly had
done; and this bill accordingly modi-
fies and reduces the Tariff of 1912 TO
suit the wishes of the British Chancel-
lor, who, while he recommends free
trade and low duties to us, takes spe-
cial care to adhere to his own prohibit
tory system. While this bill proposes
greatly to reduce the duties on foreign
distilled spirits, England exacts duty
of 2,700 per cent. on ours; and this is
reciprocity This bill reduces the
duties on tobacco and its manufac !.
lures, while England demands 1900
per cent. on ours, and actually collects
22 millions dollars ofrevenue annually
from our tobacco, equal to the whole
revenue Of this Government-su such is
British reciprocity and free trade
Since the Tariff Of 1912, the tables
with England have been turned; last
wear the balance of trade with Great
Britain exceeded 100000 in our
favor, instead Of being about that a.
mount against us, as in former years.
The imports of specie had in the last
year reached the unprecedented a.
mount, as appears by official reports,
of more than % millions of dollars,
most of it from Great Britain. No
wonder England and her statesmen
were anxious for the reduction of the
American Wing Tariff of 40. No
wonder her Chancellor exclaims a.
ganst the Tariff, and says it will
oblige them to send us specie instead
Of goods hereafter to pay for COTTON
No wonder ouf country is rapidly re-
covering from is late depression-that
its course is again onward and upward
tina. its former prosperity is return
ing-a prosperity it always had and
always would have under an efficient
protective system, but which it never
had and never would have without it,.
No wonder specie had become abun,
dant-thai the banks had resumed
that exchanges had become equalized
and interest reduced-,hat manufac-
lures had revived--,hat agriculture was
recovering-tha. the mechanic and
every other branch Of the national in
dustry was fully and profitably en-
ployed. All these were the necessary
and undeniable fruits Of the existing
tariff policy-resul,s seen, felt, and &C