Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-10-10

In any one year. TO 100000. 900. and has some
times been less than ope-half of thar amount
\ Our home market requires the residue-tha, is
! more than twenty times as much as orr foreion
market; and ls.steady and Increasing IN amount
while the foreign demand is fuctuaiipp and nm
certain, and never great, except when there han
pens to be a considerable and general failure in
foreign crops. How insane then TO overlook our
nome market and place our chief dependence
| upon The foreign. o! but YOU must buv or vor
cannot sell. IL you buy more Won can sell more
SO say the books. Aye and il is lust as true
that you must sell or you cannot buy: and all the
ingenuity In the world may be defed to show how
we could sell to foreigners barrel Of flour or
peer more IMAM we do. They do not want it.
/ They produce the balance OF their consnmnt;o,
,heinSeives-they will not have more Of onr pro-
auctions than will supply the deficiencies of their
/ own, even If we were to become the purchasers
OF the entire surplus of their manufactures. This
. should be obvious to the planest understanding
but the genius of the fixed idea cannot, perceive
II, and the reckless politician will not Blu, flour
is low. 80 ii is. But why! Not in conse-
quence OF the Protective Tariff, but because the
supply is increasing faster than the demand ont
oil all proportion The States Of Missouri, Hi
nois. Indiana Ohio. and Michigan, and the Ter
riiones OF Iowa and Wisconsin, are now produ
chg perhaps twenty times as much wheat as was
/ produced in the whole west ten Years ago. and
there would seem to be no end to their capaci,v
'or mat and other productions. Even under the
IL
ceive how the Atlantic grain-rrowinU States can
continue 10 depend upon their present productions
much longer The vast and fertile west would
seem to be capable of being made TO produce sur
plus enough TO supply the deficiencies of the
whole world. There would seem 10 he M noee;
| BILE remedy for the ruin that STATES the Atlantic
grain-growIng States in the face, but by divertinu
TABOR from agriculture and attaching il TO mann.
features, and thus lessening The dispronortiop he
tween supply and demand. And yet the insane
theorls and the reckless politician would increase
this disproportion by sending some million or two
more OF laborers 10 tie rich prairies of the west
( TO engage In agriculture. Will the people listen
TO such counsesl II they do they Will be the
authors oil their own destruction. But political
economists, the universities and even the states
men, 1t is said, have adopted the free trade doc
trnes, and the latter. in England, relaxed the re-
slilctive system. 1t is true they have somewhat
relaxed H. but their tariff uson our productions
yet averages upwards Of 300 per cent And why
have they so relaxed it Not at all because Of
their persuasion of the excellence of free trade
doctrines They have never receded one sion.
out AS they have been driven TO do so by our Pro-
tecilve Tariff and those of other nations. lie, us
see how this is. In 1924, Congress laid heavy
uu'y OH coiton bagging-so heavy to threaten
the exclusion Of the English article. Prior TO
That time the English duty on rouuh benin had
been S44 per ton, and was subsequently, reduced
hIst 10 S221O and then 10 the mere nominal dutv
oil 40 cents per ton. This enabled their mann
iac'nrerS OF that article 10 nndersel our manufac-
/ tu!ers, and had the effect OF reducino the nr;ce
much lower than il had ever been before and
moreover oil causing large protective duties 10 be
pau lh'o our treasury, which would otherwise
nave gone into that of the English. SO in res
Pecl 10 WOOL anu many other articles of raw ma
lerl"i Tor their factories the English were COM
PEELED by our tariff TO lower their dulies to merely
nominal amounts, in order to enable their mann.
features to compete with ours III our own market
anu lhus our treasury has been rcpenshed at the
expense OF theirs while at the same time the con-
sumner has been enabled to procure his supplies on
greatly reduced terms. To such an cY,ent hos
this been done that the English Parliament have
oeeh coHPeiied 10 lay tax upon income amount
ing loanore than five millions sterling to repIace
/ we dutieS mus principally taken off the raw ma
terai imported for their factories to enable them
10 compete with ours and those of other nations
Yes, our Protective Tariffs have done more with
/ III lew years TO induce the British Parlamen,
10 relax Their restrictive system than the beautiful
theory OF free trade would have effected in CEN
tury, even though preached all the time by ST.
| faph. DO not political economists recommend
protection when it may be expected thus 20 effect
The restrictive policy of other nations Certainly
they debut this is part Of their books that
gentlemen ofthe fixed idea never read or readinu
disregard. but TINS. protection taxes others for
Inc benehi OF the manufacturers. No man who
has any knowledge Of the subject can hear sncb
miserable cIap-irap slang this, without indi0-
nation and disgust. Must we not be taxed n
support our government Is not this the easiest
and most convenient way in which we can he
| taxed iof That purpose! Are not procuring
the very articles thus taxed lower in general than
before the adoption Of the protective poiicy9 In
ouyihg i0relgn manufactures do we not supnor;
foreign iabour and in effect pay the English farm
er iof feeding II! If we buy our home manufac-
'ures 90 we not support American labour and nav
ihe American farmer for feeding ii. Now what
sort OF patriotism is that which wond benefit To-
/ IelgneIS In preference to our own counirvmen -
! NouId prefer adding 10 the wealth power and in.
dependence oil foreign nation, in preference TO
our own! The idea of national independenee
has been sneecd at and it is true that there must
( be 10 some extent mutual dependence OF nations
upon one another If they would enjoy fully the
Douhtles OF Providence. But it is lust as ;ruc
mat there is measure of independence, without
winch no nation can be safe nor prosperous. So
/ 'houghi Washington, thought Jefferson so
thought Madison, and so it is believed thinks eve
ry man OF sound mind Ii is admitted on all
hands that no nation should be dependent for IFS
armour OF defence. But you cannot go to war
, naked, therefore clothing is as necessary as ar
! Hour ior our safety. Armies cannot be maintain
eu without Uioney, therefore wealth is essential
10 defence. 1t is the object Of the American sys-
lem TO secure all these. Manufactures are the
imoSl eincleDt means Of advancing naiona! wealth
20 mem more Than TO any thing else--aye. thar
| 10 All things else-Englaud owes that predictions
J "edilh mat makes her the most powerful nation
| upon earth. Without her extraordinary wealth
her mere physical force would be disrenarded-
HOW many millions Of treasure and how MANY
thousands OF lives would have been saved bad
our manufactures been perfect in 1912 as thev
are now, those can best JUDGE who were in,prdi
aiely engaged in that contest, and know AT v,ha,
price the mean clothing for our soldiers was nro.
cured, and what were the suGferircr and death
caused Of ~