Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1844-03-22
Tao duty aided 10 TIE price-nos true

has 10 -. and reduce the price Of every thing
he ha- IL set.
The duty added 70 tie price-no true.
Next, the genfirm I'm tells Us, that "the day
= aiwa, aided 70 he prye and paid by The
consume r. both foreign and domestic 2 oods
fpr the Domestic manuta cinrcr, nc says, always
raises h goods bv the amount &C the dIty,' -
snt THIS theory advanced oy Mr.. Van Blren IN
his letter. u the Indiana convention befure refer
red +. NJ" let hosv tins theory VIII bear
he test of practieat examination The consu-
mer has IL ply the tuty - the manufacturer;
thus Is III universal theory. NV. II the gen
tIeman Ivonlt turn the tariff he would fad
% me tu Y the lowest priced cotton goods,
was ops ares al : cetns per square yard; lhese
goods " IRE sold 10 The gen:ieman's constituents
MIssd ufl, for cents per yard. NV IL tho
gentienhn would 60 home, and undertake TO
Gonvlncf the Simplest cd woman IN his dtstrtGt, ,
that she was obliged 10 pay The Eastern mnnp~
tactarer cents a Yard dufy yaid OF coatse
cotton winch she bought for SIX. he would under
take Il d SIX, In which. with all his eIoqlence and
lugenuii ) he would utterly fail. The duty on
glass wns 81 per box, duty imposed when for
etgn gla - imported and soli at $40 aud ~l2
per box now selling IN his country fer
So % 4 er box; the datY mails had been ,
per pound imposed when the Price was 10
IL &c ais. ~" they made aud sold for /
cents; ich were the fruits 0! the protective poll
icy by ThIch the prtcas of glass had been
dlced # ON $40 to 50 80, aud nails from , TO 4
cents per pound, and the same of pa per,
type, ha I'd ware, and al nhaIte variety Of ar
ucies Now, # the gentleman would 60 no ne
and tell his constituents, the honest. plain COM
mon se1se farmers Of Missouri that they had to
pay 81 daiy on a box OF glass, which they could
purchase for s. 30, aud ) cents pound duty
On nails which they purchase for /, they would
taogh id bis face Yet he has just graveiy es-
serted, That ''tbe duty always added to the
price ~ The manufacturer, and Is paid by tho
consum4 IT. Now, wtth such facts before him he
thought II N GIT p3zz Van Buren, man
to belle e Mr.. Van Buren himself who had 3.
serted II IS same thing IN bis lndiana letter. where
perhaps the gentleman Ind got This idea.
The gentleman next says, that the protective
policy cFeates and cherishes monoPoAca. Now,
to inc Tease competition (the admitted effect Of
this p0lEcy) u create aud cherish monopoly,
then THO gentleman right; but If TO promote
compeutcn was 10 destroy monopoly, then the
gentietn an was wrong. In this, ns in all the
other CO ses, the reverse of the gentIeman's prop
osItion was true. Protection promoted COMPETE
lion, ADD thereby destroyed monopoly. This was
too clear 10 admit Of illustration argument.
It's me nearly OUT, and IN conclusion
he won ID saw that he advocated the protective
policy, mot az a policy calculated or intended 10
adgaucd tho interest Of the manufacturers at the
expense Of any other class; on the contrary, be
regarie 1t as a policy eminentIy calculated TO
advanced the welfare and prosperity Of agriculture
4sricplt 4re 1eas the g eat oIiec, of the protec-
tire Holicy.
|, red hced the prise of manufactured goods by
promatIhg conpatItIon, while on The other hand
II enhaI ced the pfice OF agricultural produce, by
lncreas 4ng The demand and diminishing tho sup
p!v, by wtthdEa wing portion Of labor from this
great apartment OF industry, and employing II
III the consumption instead Of The production Ct
agticnh lral supplies. It was, therefore, for the
benefit OF the farmers and not The manufacturers,
he advd Gated This policy.
AgetE allure the great parent OF pr odoc-
ton; IL the great fouotaIn OF natural wealth
and pro aertv. In Tins country, where seven.
= ghths ofIhe entire population we're employed in
agrlc1IJ ure, Il might be emphatlcally SAID that
the .fss fners produced all and paid !" and Al
the bnl ot-hox they were ali powerful He hoped
they wt build for once make common cause; that
they " bold unto N one great vigorous effort To
ADVANCE their own interest-ihe interest OF The
nation Ia protect and defend their own great
Americ hn markets against the effl;ts Of foreign
ers to occupy them, BY breaking down our pro-
tectye policy and lnundattng eur country WIN
thetr nj r4c nIturai produce. manufactured and
work ed Up into goods thus sent here for sale,
whie theis ports we're hermetlcaIly sealed
Al ans our productions by prohlbiioIy dulles
lie app ,led 10 the farmers 81 tins great west
he impI1red them to come 10 the re.cue-to de-
tend ant mnint4tn their oen great American IT,
ierests BY elecIing 10 tbs House md To the
ExscnI g government. who would take the Ane-
rican js gatnat foreigners lr this great strcg-
gle now gong on for he Americ1n market. The
remedy IN their own hands. and II was ihetr
own abt if they failed TO hpply 1t. II they faI.
led, tn IS themselves would be the sufferers. The
gres, 4 rneriean Wing system had been tred, fl'>
" tried. 10 l>l6 We passed a protective tariff;
" hica w;th the tariffs Of 1924 md 1923, had
paid # (ariacipal and INTEREST," of the debt,
IN IS34 229 millions Of dollars. II bad furnish
Cd a 81 und and uniform currency: IL had render
81 the Fhoe country ernlneotiy prosperous IN al
lis mt erests, agricultural, manuiacturnG, ana
CONNIE Fcial; and JIst at the time this war debt
" as pa off, and ne surplus Of : millions year,
derived from The protective policy, about 10 4
be app lied II The construction Of those internal .
improv enent=, which had since involved the i
States In foreign debt nf more than @pv null
ions Of dollars, there came "a fros'' aiiog
frost;" this American system ct P9icy was, N .
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