Holly Springs gazette., 1844-05-04

sell at 10 per cent and realise hand
some profit independent of his expenses
The former at profit of 80 per cent clears
nothing the latter at 10 per cent is reaEi-
sing a handsome interest on bis capital
Thus it is with manufactures. the more you
encourage them, the greater the amount of
canitaI you invest in them. and the more
you enlarge the sphere of their labors the
cheaper can you procure the products Of that
labor Again, the. expense attending the in
PRODUCTION Of imports TO this country inclu-
ding the cost of transportation. drayage,
brokage, storage, insurance, and locofoco
tariff of 20 per cen, is so great as to coun-
terbalance the excess in the price of labor in
this country over that Of European Govern
ments, and really enables US to make and
sell our own manufactures cheaper than
those Of England or any other nation. To
illustrate this position take the following ex-
ample One hundred pounds Of cotton
shipped to Liverpool costs the planter
at least one dollar in Its brokage, dray
age, Storage, commission. insurance, &c,
and rs cents The duty imposed by Great
| Britain on every hundred pounds ofthe raw
material introduced into her ports. II then
sells for seven liars, from which deGuc-
ting the above expense, the Planter reali-
ses five dollars and twenty-five cents on his
shipment Here is a loss off per cent IN
getting the raw material to the English
manufacturer. Then comes his heavy profit
for working this material into fabrics, fol-
lowed again by the commissions, insurance
Sc back 10 this country to meet locofoco
tariff of 20 per cent before its exposureto
sale. 1t is perfectly nonsensical to contend
that the American manufacturer cannot, a
gainst all this expense of his brother Bri;on,
produce US goods as cheap, ay, cheaper,
than any introduced from foreign ports.
The experience ofthe last taoo gears proces
cOncluSiCely that lie can, THAT He DOES
SELL to rs cheaper than ace can possibly
bug Of he f1reign aanufacturer.
But still further, this tariff has diminished
the price not only of domestic. but of many
foreign articles of manufacture Take as
one instance the French brogan, which can
be made in Paris for so cents per pair A
duty of 20 per cent was imposed by the
compromise act, which made the actual
cost Of this article in this country about 60
cents but the actual price ofsale was one
dollar thereby yielding the French
man a clear profit Of 40 cents on each pair.
What was the effect Of the tarif2 The A
merican has been induced to enter the lists
of competition with the Partisan and the re-
suit is that, we can now buy brogans for so
cents per pair instead Of one dollar,the form
er price. The Frenchman still introduces
and sells his for being able to make the
article for so cents, ard now paying a duty
of20 cents on each pair, he has still, in sell
ling at 80 cents profit, not as formerly of
40 but Of 10 cents. This is one ofthe many
foreign articles which we could mention
that has been reduced by the tariff, and all
that Is required of US to produce the same
reduction in many others. is to use national
exertlon to escape the odious pilIage ofthe
foreign manufacturers. We have been too
long at their mercy and they have demand
ed and received from us the most exorbitant
price for all their articles We now find
that we can manufacture goods as cheap at
home independent of the tariff) as we can
possibly purchase them from abroad. This
question is no longer debateable it has
been 6xed and settled by actual experience
The locofocos however. ask US, "if our
home productions are as cheap as the for
eign, Why this necessity FOR tarif'2 and
why not abolish it2' This question is ca
silly asked, but not having room to answer it
now, we pledge ourselves to give it salts
factory and conclusive answer in some
subsequent number of our paper
The locos are determined TO effect some