Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-11-13
MISCELLANEOUS.
RAW COTTON AND COTTON GOODS.

RAW COTTON AND COTTON GOODS;
Cotton is now down to 5 3-2 cents for
prime new, the pound. We ask the great
planting interest, If this be ''the en-
tertainmeni 10 which they were invited"
:whenihey. toldsin 1910, thai tho price
OF their great agricultural produce was
: too low-and that The overthrow Of Van
Buren would restore confidence 10 the
country and allow them better prices for
their labor! If the whis humbugsers
wouldimpoverisht agriculturists such
anextent as TO deprive their Iaborers Of
good bread, in land like Virginia or in
the South, abounding in breads,ul1s, is not
this the waylo bring them to it-that same
sblackasbread of. Germany and Holland,
which MIR. Willis Green has SO kindly
procured for the inspection of Virginians.
What better mode conld they adopt TO
bring il about than to stick 10 an oppres-
sive tariff, reduce our imports and cut us
from many of the markets 10 which our
productions would be, exported! But
thanks be to Heaven the most improve
dent American Government cannon reduce
us to Tue necessity Of eating this "paper
labor bread,"'' as the Wing wits call it.
We ask the Cotton planters further, nay
all5ihe Agriculturists Of the country, what
justice there is in cutting us off from some
of.the foreign markets, and gelling better
prices for their production and then pay
ing dearer for The goods We could import
from abroad. The wings tell us, indeed,
that the Tariff is impartial, because it lays
duties for The benefit Of the farmer. upon
the articles which he produces. Is this any
thing bu, mockery? Mr.. Clay himself
admits, that agriculture does rot admit Of
any considerable protection. but yet he
opposes it for the benefit of the manufac-
turing classes. What justice is >Ihere in
this? Is manufacturing industry the only
domestic industry III the Uniled States !?
Is mol the history oi-the farmer, The plan
Ter, the merchant, the mechanic. the pro.
fessional man, equally domestic with that
of the maDufacturers-and why is it, that
every species of domestic labor is 10 be
taxed, for the protection and bcncfl ofonly
one species of domestic labor Why cant
about The duties for the. protection Of A2
riculure, when she does not admit OF il !!
When so few articles can be brought into
competition with her production, is it nol
a mockery! 10 talk of reciprocity Take
up the Tariff act Of lS42-read over its
first and second clauses. The first lays
a duty of three cents per pound on raw
Cotton, the second lays heavy duty upon
cotton goods, particularly those Intended
for the consumption of The laborers and
poorer classes of the couutry-mauy Of
those articles being prohibited; indeed,
most Of them very severely taxed, by the
minimum principle.
Does MIR. Rives recolect The celebrated
tables. which he enclosed TO correspond
enl in 1912. 10 show the oppressive char
acter of the Tariff-explainiug, as the prin-
TED sheet did, the operation of the mini
mum and the specific duties For iii
stance, here is an extractlrom il
ga casual observer on taking up this bill,
and looking under the cotton section, might
rest satisfied with readirg as follows 'on
all manufactures of cotton, or Of which
cotton shall be component part, not 9TH
erwise specified, duty of thirty per cen-
,um;' the minimum provisions afterwards
introduced, if read by any but merchant,
would probably be passed over without
being thoroughly understood, and therefore
taken for granted as levying duty some
thing near 80 per cent; bu, lie, us look at
the practical operation of this matter, lei
US unmask this mos, specious mode of fra
ming tariff to suit particular Interests,
and then twill be more apparent what du-
tics are levied for protection, and what for
revenue.
"White cotton goods, 36 inches wide,
costing Sd sterling. or 6 cents per square
yard, would pay cents duty, or lou per
cent on cost.
"Whi,e cotton gonds, 3G inches wide.
costing 4d sterling, or S cenls per square
yard, would pay oen,s duty. or Is per
cent on cost.
.While cotton goods, sc inches wide,
costing Sd sterling, or 10 cents per square
yard, would pay 6 cenls duty, or 6O per
coat on cost.
White cotton goods, Sc inches wide,
costing 6d sterling, or IL cents per square
yard. would pay & cents duty, or SO per
cent on cost.
white cotton goods, Sc inches wide,
costing I'd sterling, or IA cents per square
yard, would pay 6 cents duty, or 43 per
cent on cost.
"Whte cotton goods. 36 inches wide.
costing Sd sterling, or 16 Cents per square
yard, would pay 6 cents, or 37d per ceul
on cost.
"While cotton goods. Sc inches wide,
costing Cd sterling, or Is cents per square
yard, would pay 6 cents duty, or 3l4 per
cent on cost.
"White cotton goods. 36 inches wide,
costing l0d sterling, or2O cents per square
yard, would pay 6 cents duty, or 30 per
cent on cost.
"Whitc cotton goods, 36 inches wide,