Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1844-04-12

passionate conslde erstIoB.
Now, sir, as to the first proposition:
stbe foreign market for our agr;cuItu-
raj produce every thing, and Ebe domes
tic market little or nothing? By refer
ring TO The census Of 1910, II would be
seen that tho agricultural productions
peculiar 10 the States north and west Of
the Potomac, Ohio and Mississippi, to
wit; grain OF all kinds -four, meat, fruit
animals, animal productions, &c. amount
10 more than | COO millions Of dollars,
while tho exports Of these articles for
the last ten years to all the world amour
ted on an average, TO only eight and a
halt millions ot dollars!! Nov, il The
manufacturers g. the mechanics through
out the United States consumed only
one tenth part Of thsse agricultural pro-
duets, 1t would amount TO one hundred
mHIlonF: YET the home market was moth
Ing Land oue.thrd oftha Stale of Mis-.
sonrl would furnish surplus more than
sufficient TO supply all the Eastern de-
mand!! Now be affirmed, and the gen
tIeman's own premises would show, that
there was more than eight, end he
might say ten dollars worth Of agricul>
tufa produce raised on the soil OF Great
Britain and sent to Missouri for sale and
consumption, to one dollars worth Of
agricuIlurs produce sent from Missouri
10 Great Britain. This might seem
strange, but it was true, not only of Mis-
souri, but of all the other Middle and
Western States.
Foreign lmports-Agricultural produce ,
Uie1cs for Farmers.
Now he presumed it would be admit
ted-it could not be denied that one
half, and more than one-haIf of al the
goods imported from abroad, was strict
Iy agricultural produce, consisting Of
the raw material and bread stuh's, the
subsistence oflabor worked up Und man
u(actured into articles of use. Well, the
imports from England in 1871, were
S33 ,446, ,499 one half being agricultural
produce, would make $I6,723, ,249.-
Missouri contained one 45h part of the
entire population of the United States,
and the gentleman says consumes for
egn imports in proportion TO her popu-
Iaiion. She therefore consumed, Of the
agricultural imports from England in
lS41, $37 ,6G2 worth. Our exports Of
all the agricultural produce, and sold her
only $44,9Sl!!-Iess than one-eighth
part. But is it true that one half Of he
value of all foreign goods imported is
agricultural produce9 This is an i'm.
portant question, and one which he was
anxious that the farmers Of this country
should thoroughly understand Ii had
not heretofore received due considsra.
ton, and he was anxious to impress it
upon the public mind. Take cloth, q lass
iron, everything -analyzs them, re
solve them into their elements, so 10
speak, and you will find that much more
than half of their price is made up oI
agricultural produce. In yard Of com
mon cloth, take the wool, (tseIf nearly
half its vSIue,) the bread and meat, anC
other articles composing the subsistence
Of the labor employed 10 its manufacture
with other subordinate ingredients, anC
you will find that three Gourths OF its val
ue is derived from the produce Of the
soil; farmers often make in their owr
families wooIfen goods for consumption
and sale 10 the amount OF hundreds o
dollars, without purchasing dollar''
worth Of any thing not produced on thelI
farms. Is not this cloth, then, made u[
entirely Of agricultural produceH Anc
is not all Goth composed Of the same
materials, whether made 10 factories ol
on farms? II, then, the farmer purcha
ses foreign cloth, does he not, in fact
purchase foreign agricultural produce
converted into cloth, while bis own pro
duce is, TO use the language Of the gen
tleman, "rotnng on his hands for wan
, VI WHI ktl llUW, IUtUt CuU FUslCIt
; representatives. contend that it is bette
for their constituents 10 send their hart
money (for England takes noolher kind
to purchase agricultural produce in tn,
shape OF goods in preference TO establish
ing manufactures and markets al thei
doors, and keep their money in actlv'
and profitable circulation at home. Viii
YOU foster the interest Of The British
farmers in preference TO your own? Ii
the contest between Inc British and A,
merican farmers for the American mar
ket, he asked gentlemen from the West
which side they would lakeR The pro
q teclive tariff is the American side
which side will You takef This is th
true question at issue, it can nethar b.
) disguised nor evaded. (Elere was
general call TO order by The anti-tari
mem Mr. S. remarked, that what h
had said in respect 10 cloth, was equal
applicable to iron, glass, and indeed ev