Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-03-05
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, TUESDAY MARCH j. 1874

sho" what great advances she has recently made, IN
relaxing her restrictive policy, by reducing her duties
on articles which were high and many of which
gfentiy interest US, have her old and new Tariff
before me, and have placed several instances IN pa
raiei columns for convenience in reference, if any Sc
major chooses to examine the matter further. (See Ia
BILE 4)
Perhaps one reason, among others, why the corn
duties nave not been more relaxed, is the continued
high discrimination which we still persist IN against
manufactured articles such she produces. And, a:
those duties there are. great engine oil wrong anc
suffering towards starving millions, and help 10 MI
her aims houses and DEMONSTRATING 10 bafn-ontning
ana mobs aud thets, for vengeance ex'sencether re
IS niue oonot that relaxation there IS desirable IL
many others, as we'll as the toiling mons and that
reciprocal legislation by u.s. in the spirit OF her last Ia
fh would help 10 hasten further rednctlon and open
8 nuch larger vent for grain and meats, a. en-
HANGED prices. reciprocal arrangement OF such q
character can be efectedby legislation, WELL II mol
better, than by treaty The two countries are IN truth
h'ed to consume largely of each others surplus, sold
each other (aslt is nj cheaper rates than 1t can be
produced by the other-she selling her manufactures
OF cotton cheaper, by machinery, skill capital and low
wages; we, our cotton, grain, meats and other mate
rails cheaper than hers consequence OF soil cost
ing less and producing more, well ms being more
lightly taxed Nature and circumstances fit us both
Tor mutual nerchanges, mutual low duties, 10 The
mutual advantages of both as much az do the tastes
and formation OF the two sexes suit them for each
other happiness She needs, the present IL
mIted consumption, two million of quarters OF
wheat yearly from abroad THIS alone gives mar
ket for n quantity equal to the sixteen milinn sur
plus bushels Of OhIo md, if we supplied the whole,
thought ut the reduced price Of 81 - per bushei,
when the average IN England Is 81 -, Il would be
4 gain Of near tour millions yearly. Bn, the guam
tny consumed would be greatly increased by re-
duc'Ion III the doty and price. The quantity taken
beyond what is now taken, beside great additions to
| The meats, might reasonably be estimated at forty or
fifty millions Of tushes-a considerable portion OF
winch we could furnish, we'll as the North OF Eu-
| rope.
| Mr.. Huntington inquired if Mr.. W. estimated our
crop of grain al only fifty millions Of bushels or stated
that England took iwo-rhirds OF It all
| BY no means, Sir The whole crop exceeds five
hundred millions OF bushels, including all The grains,
and exceeds eighty our millions OF wheat alone and
England of course takes only ,wo-lhirds Of all send
ibroad have not been talking Of market abroad
| for all agricultural productions those alone
equal from six to eight hundred millions Of dollars year
| v; but OF their surplus Those productions
applying the wants OF fifteen sixteen millions OF
aeope engaged connected with the production Of
them, and three four millions more connected with
commerce and other pursuiis-yied surplus OF near
me hundred millions oil dollars III value; and as thst
Ends abundant and high markets nbroad, or otherwise,
affects The sales and prices OF all which IS transferred
rom producers 10 consumers OF home, and series TO
.nrtch Impoversh the whole country. The present
Tariff, haze shown, ;snds to drive from tie best
oeign markets for the disposal OF those surplus pro-
ducts to lessen the number Of these markets. MS vel!
IS their demands, by provoking duties against Us which
ire higher, and more embarrassing and injurious, by
way Of retaliation. It tends to inju.e US no! only
IN England md France, but in Germany aiso where
the tariff usually DOES not exceed 90 per cent and in
| P.ussia is intended 10 be kept down sfiower; and
waere as in South America and Asin-great and grow
ny markets for many Of our pr6ducions-he imposis
are light, compared with
Dong all by negotiation TO correct inc.
qualities agalns, elsewhere, let u.s. then, IN the true
and redee ming spirit of morals and sound legislation,
proceed to DO right ourselves in respect to the Tariff
to ret good example of revenue duesand then urge
with effect, we may, in England and France no less
than Germany reciprocal iiberali;y, in all such
| not mutual are not p!ecluded By local
! ,acy = IN uxurjrs
/ But l. other natoas should not al NEE.
ducion in duties, by corresponding their part
We shall STILL taough III reqliled By foreigners be gam
from moderation, under the great principle
that all consumers here WILL by reduction pay less
Tor what they buy from abroad and the producers here
will be better able 10 compete with others in the mar
kets of the whole world, and will sell more, and will
make more money what they do sell, as the produc-
ton Of it here under lower duties all they consume
wrll cast them less
The only rainbow which tngos the gloom, is
The hope that the Tariff OF l-i2 mag become IN this
way nitirstsd, i! not abandoned here and then still
more abroad ard that improved foreign markets will
be thus encouraged IN Europe and South America, CO.
operating with the just forced open China
under Il duty ranging there en- average, so high
| as twenty per cent and through which alone may
be able to md in supplying population, equal 10
half that of the whole human race, with whatever our
Mines or manufactures, agriculture can furnish
agreeable to their taste suitable 10 their wants.
And what, SIR, is offered in reply to all the dam
gers and losses perseverance in this system expo
ses US 10 in our greatest foreign markets in Europe =
A new and better home market instead of them. This
IS another of the plausible and deludng positions that
reconcile many 10 the restrictive system, but which
cannot stand the test of scrutiny or tacts There Is
charm to the hearts of oil, in the word "home Bui
do not The articles Of comfort and necessity we pro-
cure abroad rcm all regions help 10 increase the charm
4 of home az we'll os what raise make nearer
| The tea and coffee drink from the Indies the
sugar we eat from Rraz the clothes and salt
and IRON, we use f.om Europe Are they from al
clmes not urocured by means Of our aSofs at home,
as well as the other ART c!es buy, that are made
here; But in an economical or pecunllry view, Il /:
| reiterated, again and again, that the home market Is
The best and an nmple substitute for others. Con gen
,ernen dwell this, when 50 vast quantity OF ou
productions consumed at home, Is never solo, out usef
bv those raising or making them; Think you, thai, TOT
the rest which the producers may desire TO exchange
ar sell the home market oil one or tgo millions OF PEG
ME only connected with manu- actures, IS rs great a
,ha, abroad Of near eight hundred mions:-cIfchng
40 enr commerce. does with that surplus 10 every zone
and every and better and better Sill a. would became
tho r,regn markets If we only encouraged more ard
mo-p The principles If seer trade with them: hecol
sct too that the home market is and always has been
frs, surnled; bu, s', II h1s proved and always wi
onve 10 b. utterly insufficient for all we RAISE instead
or being the best market for our Surplus oi hundred
millions yearly make at all for IT. and but tor the
foreirn markets the whole would perish on our hands OF
tho industry of the country would become 81 parayz'd
os not 10 produce it, and obtain all the necesares and
comforts it brings back in return, and showers over
every Preside So far from the home market beng
substitute for the foreign for all these vast surplus pro-
ductipns is filed and gned, and cnn take no more
If them before they become surplus That position
then. i. entirely indeensibe. Others talk OF the near
exchanges in the home market, being much more pro
6able 10 the producer But how s The fact: lie may
to be sure quickly exchange bnshe OF wheat with
oe,nhboring manufacturer for shovel, each valued al
dollar. Bot it, in the freer trade, and more open mar
ket abroad under low duty, the shovel, equally gooa
could be bought for eighty cents, taking oil halt me
present average 40 per cent duty and his wheat soid
90 per cent higher, at dollar and hfth VIII ne
not be forty cents better under the low GUY ANA
after all the freight and charges though equa!ng ma.
The difference If the village merchant performs bo'n
IS these operations for him. and takes his wheat, and
lots him have the shovel quick as the manufacturer
could is he not still gamer OF twenty cents on DOL
lars and are all the great channels, ana MEANS She
Instruments of commerce, al the same tune, more 20"
poyed. aud inrigoraed. b more i'eighs but oihPf'
,ov orrue, that b. means of the restrictive system
manufacturers will increase much faster IMAM Ia