The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1844-10-10
BENEFITS OF PROTECTIVE TAR
IFF.

IT t.
Hon. ANDREW STEWART, of Pennsylvania,
one of the ablest and most practical men of
the country, thus powerfully Gina recent
address to his constituents sums up the ben
efts of protection TO Home Industry
"1st. By putting the country OF its own
exhaustless resources-sustaining and d.
versifying American labor-protecting our
mechanics-eneouraging and multiplying
manufactures-increasing the home markets
for agricultures, and developing our vast re-
sources, agricultural, manufacturing and
mineral.
I'd. BY increasing exports and diminish
ing imports-selling more and buying less
restoring a sound and uniform currency
by the importation of millions of specie-de-
stroying monopoly by stimulating competi-
tion-increasing the price by increasing the
demand for the farmers produce-and di-
mlnishing the price by increasing the guam
tity of manufactured goods, thus enhancing
The price of every thing the farmer has to
sell, and reducing the price of the goods he
has 10 purchase. SO that the farmer instead of
being oppressed, is of all others the most
benefited by The ''protectiye policy"
Sd. The national wealth is further increas-
ed by the protective policy, in the encour-
agemeut and extension it gives TO labor sa-
wing machinery, making one hand equal 10
forty-in tingiug wealth, capital and skill
from abroad-in coCntervailing the prohibit
DRY and and injurious commercial regulations
OF foreign governments-and above all, in
sustaining the flee and prosperous ldaoTers of
the United States against an unrestFaleed
and ruinous competition with the degraded
and impoverished labor OF Europe, to whose
level, without "pfotection7 our labor must in
evitabIy come in its moral as well as political
condition.
Let US imagine that British Gold and
Polkery prevail, that the Tariff is repealed
and the 100000 manufactures, with a MILL
ons additional who constitute their families,
are thrown for a livelihood upon Agriculture,
already producing more than can be advan-
~tageously disposed of? What would the Far
mer do, his Home market gone? Virginia
sends annually TO Massachusetts alone, I0O,-
900 barrels OF Flour and 100000 bushels of
Corn-(probably a great deal m~ore)--where
will she send her surplus breadsiuffs when
the manufactures are broken up and a one
SiNSU nv toNN PiSOtotlAjOd'- -ktHdL iS5 we
are 10 give England free trade, but we SUI
pose no man is fool e%noughto imagine thai
she either can or will repeal her Corn Laws
or dispense with the enormous and indispen-
sable Revenue which she derives from our
Tobacco taxed 1000 or 1900 per cent upon
prime Cost WE ask these Moon struck advo-
cafes of Free Tfade-these men who live in
the clouds and feed upon theories, disdain-
ing to survey the actual, practical world as
il is, what is Virginia, What are the far
mers of the United States TO do, deprived of
their Home market +? what are they to do,
when, besides being deprived of their only
safe, constant, steady, sure and permanent,
market,three millions of people more are adj
ded at once 10 the t~illersof the soil?
That such incomprehensiye folly should
be found is passing strange.
Richmond Wing.