Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-04-25

siliuent parts, the raw material the clothing and
the subsistence of the labor employed in lis
manufacture, and i, would be discovered thai
more than half, often three. .fourlhs, Of the
whole price is made up of agricultural produce
Ii is well known fact that farmers often make
hundreds of dollars worth of domestic goods,
cloths, de-, without using dollars worth OF
any thing not produced on their own farms
goods and cloth thus made are therefore entire.
| ly agricultural /; and are mol the same materials
used in the manufacture of goods, whether
made on a farm or in factory?
Mr.. S. said he had asceraned the fact from
his own books kept at furnace, that more
than lhree-lourhs of the price of every ton of
iron sold, was paid TO the neighboring farmers
for their domestic goods, their meat and -four,
that clothed and fed bis hands for their hay,
corn oats, &C., tha, sustained his horses, mules,
and oxen, employed abcu, his works In Eng
land, iron is made of the same materials that
constitute i, here; well, we now import manu-
faciured and manufactured, eight millions of
dollars worth of iron and steel; say only half
its value is agricultural produce, thus, then, we
send four millions of dollars 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 farmers left
without markets. Will the farmers of this
country submit 10 such system as lhis-open-
ly advocated and adopted 10 favor foreign in
dusiry al 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 against this unjus, and ruinous
measure; your tables will soon groan under the
weight OF their remonstrances against it.
call on them 10 do so call on them TO come
10 the rescue before ii is TOO late
BRITISH BILL
The arowed ohjec1 Of this bill is 10 open our
ports 10 The importation Of British goods-,o
favor foreign farmers and mechanics, and de-
siroy our owa. Sir, give the peopls time to be
heard, and this bill cannot pass let it be dis
cussed, and il can never pass an American
Congress. There is one way in which II can
pass--seHu u 10 tuu Drrrsn r aTTisuIsut, auu rt
will be passed by acclamalion. England would
give millions 10 secure lis passage. Ii had re-
Gently been stated in an official report. read in
the House Of Commons, that unless The Amer
ican Tariff of 1912 was modified and reduced,
States cash for their cotton, instead OF paying
in goods as she formerly had done; and this
bill accordingly modifies and reduces the Tariff
of $40 10 suit The wishes of The British Chan
cellor, who, while he recommends free trade
and low duties to US. takes special care TO ad-
here to his own prohibi,ory system. While
this bill proposes greatly 10 reduce the duties
on foreign distilled spirits, England e1acts
duny of 2,700 per cent. on ours and this is re-
cprocily. This bill reduces the duties on TO-
bacco and its manufactures, while England de-
mands 200 per cent. on ours, and actually
collects % millions dollars of revenne annually
from our tobacco, equal 10 the whole revenue
Of this Government--such is Briiishreciprori-
iv and free trade. Since The Tart of 1912,
the tables with England have been :urned last
year the balance OF trade with Grtat Britain
exceeded sl3000,000 in our favor insiesd Of
being about that amount against u, as in for
mer years. The imports Of specie had in the
last year reached the Unprecedented amount.
as appears hy official reports, Of more than %
millions Of dollars, most OF il from Great Brit
ain. No wonder England aud htr statesmen
were anxons for the reduction of ne American
Wing Tariff of '42 No wonder her Chancel-
lor exclaims against The Tariff, ard says il will
oblige them 10 send us specie lniicad Of goods
hereafter 10 pay for cotton. Nd wonder our
country is rapidly recovering IRON It's late de-
ession--that lis course Is again onward and
upward that lis former prosperity Is returning
"a prosperity il always had aril always would
have under an efficient proteclPe system, hui
which il never had and never would have with
out il. No wonder specie hay become abun-
dant-ihat The banks had renmed-- hat ex-
changes had become equalizei aud interest re-
duced-ihat manufactures hid revIved--thar
agriculture was recorerlns--fia the mechanic
and every other branch of lhs national industry
was fully and proiitably emPIyed. All these
were the necessary and undslable fruits of the
existing tariff policy result seen, felt, and ac
knowledged lhronehau. theIian1-yet, in the
face of all these iacis-shuiug their eyes To
these great lights blazing y before -+hem---lhe
CamnnllIee OF Ways and Aans have reported
bill 10 repeal lh:s beneficial acl Of 642, and
bring us back TO the. low duties and the low
condition of $40. Theyhave struck death
blow al This poiicy--a pulcy which had vlndi-
Gated It's adoption by all is fruits. which had
G,i6iad all The h,,nes of Il friends apd faISified