Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-10-10
THE TARIFF AND THE AGRlCUL-
TURAL INTEREST-AGAIN.

We recur to this subject in oroer TO present. IN
brief and condensed form, the facts and view,
that, 10 our judgment ascertain The vital nscess,,
of the Protective Policy to the farmer. We cal
upon tho sgriculluralst to look to it. It isl cues
ton Of fearful magnitude, that rises far above al
consider atoms Of party attachment and party tri-
umph.
We have nothing to say here ia relation to the
price OF those manufactured articles to tho con-u.
mer, upon which duties are laid. In theory. /, is
true that the duty is not added TO the priee-aod
sts56orn Jae's prove ii so.
lis TO the sFec, of Tariff Of Protection. upon
lands and their produce. that now have refer-
Is,. II pahdrass LABOR and CAPITAL from og-
riculturai pursuits. There 10 an Involvement to
investments in manufactures, when they are pro-
tected. The effect Of such withdrawal. is to dimip.
ish the amount Of agricultural produce, and with
the elimination of the supply an increase Of the
price upon the well.known law Of supply and de.
msnd.
ID. II adis TO the number Of the eonsxmers of
agricultural pr0ducts, From the census of 40,
we learn that the annual aggregate value Of all
such products 10 the United States ia $s44 500 SOY
One-haf OF this amount 10 consumed by the pro-
Queer. market /. thus needed for more than
four kindred millions Of srrpiSs. The ~hOie
world has never yet purchased, 10 one year, az
much nineteen millions Of this amount. Where
then, is our market 1t home. There about
700 900 persons engaged in, and about 400 o00,-
600 dependant upon manufactures. Massachu-
sets alone takes $40 900 600 ofthe product. Of the
observation-disclosures which 81 100000 i, for cotton.
The Charleston Mercury undertook to correct this
statement, as to cotton; and ci2hers thus--amoun,
of cotton consumed in the United States 400, 600
bales a, $40 is worth a., 100000 A paper tina,
can thus "blunder" 10 not much to be relied on for
accurscy.-The Demand therefore. for the farm
ers products 10 increased, by the estsblshmon; OF
Manufactures
This is the policy which Gen. Jackson In hi. let
ter to DR.. Coleman In 1924 recommended, when he
asked "~here has the American farmer market
for his surplusi Except for cotton he has neither
foreign nor home market. Common sense Al,
once ponts out the remedy. Takef from agriculture
in the United States six hundred thousand men wo-
men and children and you will at once give mar
ket for more breadsiufFs than all Europe now fur
nishes Us.
Butt, 10 said. that, under the Tariff Of '42, the
price of produce has come down. This is a naked
absurd,y Such effec, could only be produced
by cutting us of from the foreign msrkst-in a
word, BY orr exporting less. What are the fact.'
Sd. Ne hare exported muea in the ysar
sxeeesding as that preceding the passage Of the
act of AZ. The export of '4e-,he yearof com
curative Free Trads-wss $685., 1856 bushels Of
wheat (aour reduced to wheat Yin % under the
Tariff, 1897 $780, but the crop of - was several
millions greater than that Of 43. and an equivalent
export for ~ would h vhbs,r 5,i77,227. Thus we
have (all things considersd) an eree" of l2o,722
bushels over the export Of'42.-So in 1928, the
value of our whoa, and -four expor, was s4,293 669
in 30 under the high Tariff of 2s, il was IS.
s00,033. How eau the Tariff, then, have affect
ed prices Of pIoducts1
4th The crops in Great Br;tais ~ 40 and ne
yresent year (so far as we have information of the
crop of this yesr) rere abundant. A, toe same
time. our own crops have been abundant. The fol-
Iowipg stataonast exhihiis the increase;