Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1844-03-22

10 ..tncrease The price Of every thing me farmer
has to buy and reduce the price OF every ihing
he has to SELF
4. That the protective dnty was always added
TO The prire Of the goods and paid by The conSn-
mer, whether the goods were Of foreign or de-
nestle origin, "f,r the manufacturer always puts
up his goods to the fuIl amount Of the duiy, and
ihus he saws 'Iha Western farmer obliged &c
pay from 30 to 200 per cont duty TO the E'stern
nanuflcturcr."
D That the "protecttve policy creates ADD
cherishes moDopaJes
Now these comprehend all the great and sui
stant,aI objections urged against the protective
policy condensed INTO a single view. They COW
cred the whole ground. and they were all con-
ratned IN Mr.. Van Blren's letter of the l3th
February last 10 tho Indiana convention, and re.
pealed IN almost every anli-tarlff speech III and
out of this House.
lie proposed TO take up each Of these stereo-
typed objections and to show, no, by theories and
assertions, bot by ascertaIned and admitted facts,
that they were not only false aud unsunded, but
that exactly the reverse of ch was the 'ru h ;
and he would coufi lently submit the matter 10
the judgment of every farmer md every man in
the country, who would give the facts calm and
dIspassIonate cunsIderation.
Now, sir, To the first proposition: Is the for
e'gn market for our agricultural produce every
hing and The domestic market ittje or nothing ?
BY referriug to the census of 1910, IL would be
seen that Inc agricultural productions peculiar 10
the States north and west of The Potomac, Ohlo
and Mississippi. to wit: grain Of al kinds floor,
meat, fruit, animals, animal productions, &c, a.
mounted TO more than 900 millions Of dollars,
bile the exports Of these articles for the last ten
years 10 all the world amounted, on an average,
20 only eight and a half millions Of dollars!!-
Now If the manufacturers nnd the mechanics
througho the Uafted States consumed only one
tenth part Of thcse agricultural products, II would
amount to 100 millions; vet the home market
was nothingii and ont-lhrd OF the ) tate OF Mis-
sour could furnish surplus more than saiticleni
to supply all the Eastern demandn Now no al
frned, and the gentleman's own premises would
show that there was more than eight, and he
might say ten dollars worth of agricultural pro
ducs raised on the soil Of Great Britain and sent
to VI ssouri for sale and consumption, to dol
lars worth Of agricultural produce sent from MIS-
sour to Great Britaln. This might seem strange,
bot i, was true, no, only of Missouri, but of Ill
the other Middle and Western States.
Foreign Imports igricuiturdl produce rie US
for Farmers
Now he presumed il would be admitted-il
could not he denied-ihat one half, and more than
on half of all the goods imported from abroad.
the raw naternl and bread stufis, the subsistence
Of labor worked Up aud manufactIred into orii-
cles Of use Well, the imports from Engiand IN
1872, were o33 lf6 1919, or half being agricuI-
tura pr5duce, would make SIC, 723,2i9. Ms
SCUM contained Que i5.h part Of the entire popu-
lation Of the United States, and The gentleman
says consumes forelgn imports IN proportion 10
her population. She therefore consumed, Of the
agricultural imports from Eogand. IN 1912, 1871
6 - worth. Oar exports ct MI the agricultural
OF the Middle and Western States,
lp4r. grain. meat, fruit, enlnais and animal pro-
iucttnuS t. T. glad, amounted, IN the same year.
to - .U3l }07-Mtss a0fI's share OF which, nc
l., her no a D
9I8: that Missouri has bought S31 .622 Of
Ene'-h agricultural produce, and sold 10 her on
~ SlI9lS worih!t-less than one eighth part.
b 1t II truo THAI one half of the value OF all
foreign goods imported - agricultural prodnce? =
rats - important question, aud one which he
was anxious that the farmers Of this country
shoa)i thoroughly understand. II had not here
nofe received due consideration. and he was
N xtaus To impress II upon the public mind Take
,irtb. glass IRON. every thIng-auttyza them.
resolve them INTO their elements. To speak. and
"a VII fad that much more than the haf
# thoIr value or prtce u made up OF ago
cnttIrn produce. In ward Of common cloth,
iake the wool, Gtself nearly half ia valIr.) the
bread aud meat. and other articles composing tho
subs iSteuce Of the labor employed ~ lis ninn>
'sctnrc. with subordinate ingredients. and son
wall fad that three urihs Of rs value derived
rom the produce at The soil farmers often make
IN their own families wooden goo1s for cnnsunp-
" Jthout purchasing dollars worth Of any thing
not produced on their own farms. Il not this
cloth. then. made np entirely Of agricultural pro-
iuce2 And not all cIo'h composed OF the
materials. whether made IN factories or on farms'
II, then. the farmer purchases foreign cloth does
~ not, IN fact. purchase foreign agricultural pro
luce converted into cloth. while his own produce
:. to use the largnage Of the gentleman. rot
ing 90 ms hands FIR van, Of mlrkei?' H5v,
hen, can Western Representatives. contend that
: = batter FIR their constituents 10 send their
lard money Cor England takes other knd} 10
purchase agricultural produce IN tho shape Of
goods. IN preference tn establishing manufacto-
les and markets at their own doors and keeping
heir Eanev N active and profit circulation
home. Will Won foster the interest of BRUSH
armers in preference 70 our ownt In a contest
between the British farmers III preference to our
'wn2 In contest between The BRUSH and
American farmers for the American market, be