Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1844-04-27

1t is this, that half, and more than half, Of
the entire price Of the hundred millions of
dollars year Of foreign goods imported into
this country is agricultural produce raised
on foreign soil, worked up and manufac-
tured into goods, and then sent here for sale;
ard that the farmers and people of this
country send in this way fifty millions of
dollars year to purchase foreign agricul-
tural produce, in the shape of goods, while
foreigners take little or nothing from us;--
our whole agricultural exports 10 all the
world excepting cotton and tobacco) do
not amount 10 ten millions of dollars wear;
thus, sir, we purchase five dollars worth of
foreign agricultural produce 10 every dol
lars worth we sell; this may seem strange,
but it is strictly true; defy contradiction
i challenge investigation. Let gentle
men disposed TO contest it select an article
OF foreign goods, yard of cloth, ton of
iron, hat coat, pair of shoes, any
thing, from a needle to an anchor" exam
Inc It's constituent parts, the raw material,
the clothing and the subsistence Of the la
Dor employed in its manufacture, and it
would be discovered that more than half,
often three.fourths, of the whole price is
made up Of agricultural produce. II is
well known fact that farmers often make
hundreds of dollars worth of domestic
goods, cloths, &C., without using dollars
worth of any thing not produced on their
own farms; goods and cloth thus made are
therefore entirely agricultural; and are not
the same materials used in the manufacture
of goods whether made on farm or in a
factory
Mr. S. said he had ascertaned the fact
from his own books kept at furnace, that
more than e-fourths of the price Of CIV
cry ton of iron sold, was paid to the neigh
boring farmers for their domestic goods,
their meat and -four, that clothed and fed
his hands; for their hay, corn, OATS, &c,
that sustained his horses, mules. and oxen,
employed about his works. In England,
iron is made of the same material that con-
stitutc it here; well, we now import, man
ufacturcd and manufactured, eight mill
ions of dollars worth Of iron and steel; say
only half its value is agricultural produce.
converted into iron, and sent here for sale.
while our own country is filed with ore and
coal, buried and useless, and the produce Of
our farmers left without markets. Will
the farmers ofthis country submitto such
system as this-openly advocated and
adopted TO favor foreign industry al the ex-
pensc Of our own! Will they tamcly and
silently agree thus TO be crushed and sac
riticed, No, sir, they will not; they will
speak out against the unjust and ruinous
measures; your tables will soon groan I'M
der the weight of their remonstranccs
against it. | call on them 10 do So call
on them TO come to tie rescue before it is
too late.
BRITISH BILL.
The avowed object of this bill is TO open
our ports to the importation of British
goods--to favor foreign farmers and me-
chancs, and destroy our own. Sir, give
the people time to be heard, and this bill
cannot pass; let it be discussed, and it never
can pass an American Congress. There is
one way in which it can pass-send il TO
the British Parliament. and it will be passed
hy reclamation. England would give mill
ions to secure its passage. 1t had recent
~ been stated in an official report, read in
the House of Commons, that unless the
American Tariff of 1912 was modified and
reduced, Great Britain would have to pay
the United States cash for their cotton, in
stead of paying in goods as she formerly
had done; and this bill accordingly modi-
! flies and reduces the Tariff Of 1912 TO suit
the wishes of the British Chancellor, who,
while he recommends free trade and low
duties 10 US, takes special care to adhere to
his own prohibitory system. While this
bill proposes greatly TO reduce the duties on
forci en- distilled spirits, England exacts a
duty of 300 per cent. on ours; and this
is reciprocity! This bill reduces the duties
on tobacco and its manufactures, while
England demands ! 200 per cent. on ours,
and actually collects % millions dollars Of
revenue annually from our tobacco, equal
to the whole revenue Of this Government
such is British reciprocity and free trade.
Since the Tariff of 1912, the tables with
England have been turned last year
the balance of trade with Great Britain
exceeded Sl3OOO,OOO. The imports of
specie had in the last year reached the un-
precedented amount, as appears by official
reports. of more than % millions Of dollars,
most of it from Great Britain. No Won
der England and her statesmen were anx-
ious for the reduction of the American
|, Wing Tariff of'42. No wonder her Chan
cellor exClams against the Tariff, and says
it will oblige them to send US specie instead
of goods hereafter TO pay for cotton. No
/, wonder our country is rapidly recovering
. from its late depression-that its course is
: again onward and upward-that its former
F., prosperity is returning-a prosperity it al
ways had and always would have under an
, efficient protective system, but which il
] never had and never would have without