Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-23
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From the "Repubtean Sentinel
FACTS FOR TIE PEOPLE.
rgeets of The High Tariff on 7obaceo'-ifome ."a'"'
desire to make serious and earnest aPpea' 10 s'e
tobacco pl,n,cr II i, giving TO the Iarih question
sectional bearing but my own profession ana uaiy ao
ton impress upon me is deep necessity IL Is upon
ihs great agricultural interest that the h.2h iafin =
r, ling with lis heaviest oppression. IL Is ion lh1 "
ncrnicious effects cannt be averted. proclaim lnch
10 all those who engaged in the TOBACCO cum
that the protective and prohibilory features OF Tue
must be repealed or the culture OF tobacco must u
abandoned The fate of the planter under lis operation
is certain There is no ground even for hope Aireau,
the dark shadow of The coming event casting us oo
over that hitherto prosperous Glass; ana you ieau ~
lineamens of his and feel IN Inc desluo
of his pocket the grinding oppression OF Plos"'e'
commerce and paralyzed trade
The Stale Of Virginia has in late years averaged over
opeib-d Of the whole amount Of tobacco made III inc
Union To use round numbers you may state her crop
At fifty thousand hossheads Of tobaccothe whole crop
Of the United States al hundred and fifty thousand
For ten wears previous to 1884, the average crop oil Inc
United States was only nncty-six thousand exported
Since them it has exceeded average OF one hundred
aud fifty thousand The question is presented: what !;
10 be done with these hundred and fifty thousand
hogsheads: -
The Wing Tariff party tell US i" home market" will
be opened for lis consumption-n other words, the ma
nufacturers Who are protected by the high Tariff, will
purchase II Tor tnclF own
market has been used vaguely, and so frequently
used that mems brains puzzled to get clear conceP
lions of its meaning. II is 10 consume every thing al 4
high price-all of our surplus products are TO find
market at home under the bcnefccn influence oil pro-
hibitcd foreign trade. Let test this by lew facts;
The census returns give the whole population oil the
United States engaged in manufactures at SUI ,ooo.-
This includes men, women and children oil all ages
taking the entire families Deduct one half for the fe
males and you have 100000 as the number oil males
Estimating onchird of these TO consume tobacco and
YOU have 1888 of men and boys the total engaged IN
the manufacturing interest This includes mechanics oil
every description and in every section OF the Union
suppose even Wing impudence will not assert mat me
women and children consume tobacco. The l33,.}33
men and bows them constitute this boosted home mar
ket created by The high Tariff, to consume Line iaOo0o
hogsheads OF tobacco. This is rahor over hogshead
to each man and boy by the year, and over six pounds OF
tobacco average per day Unless you can persuade the
manufacturers to chew and smoke six pounds ave-
rage per day. the home market is total failure To
speak nf home market for the tobacco of the Union,
is really adding insult to inury-t IS practising upon
the belief of deplorabe ignorance, or scoilnS and de-
riding the wefounded and serious complaints OF the
planter.
home market will state few additional facts. The
census returns show that the county OF Halifax alone
produces six millions of pounds OF tobacco, or Tour thou
sand hogsheads That sing county would furnish every
man. woman and child embraced IN the manufacturing
interest with an allowance of seven and half pounds
average or the and boys with annual average OF
forty .fiyc pounds. The annual consumption IN the
whole United States is estimated at one hundred mil
lions of pounds being average OF seven pounds TO
each inhabitant doc 235, page e, House of Repre-
sentatiyes 1922 The whole number of manufacturers
would consume and furnish market for the crop OF the
county of Halifax Thus have illustrated the re!a
tive inequality of the market for manufactures and for
tobacco The whole of those engaged in manulactur-
ing consume no tobacco than single county pro-
duces, whilst they produce fourfth of all the manu-
features consumed by the planter
It is manifest that the high Tariff cannot furnish
market for tobacco that the trade between the tobacco
planter and the manufacturer cannot be recproca that
tobacco cannot be exchanged for manufactures in the
Union that the manufacturers cannot consume the tor
eth part Of the entire crop of the planters; and that
$50 600 mast seek foreign market whilst less than
900 hogsheads arc purchased by the manufacturers
We must necessarily send tobacco TO foreign mar
kets. The fact is ndspa,abc. Several views present
themselves at this conclusion that should be carefully
pondercd- and beg the planter TO weigh The consde-
raons. The tobacco goes 10 foreign market ana Is
offered for sale. The English forward and say 10
the planter IRE will give you iron in exchange at one
cent per pound and allow YOU six cents per pound for
your tobacco six hundred pounds OF iron for one hun
dred pounds Of tobacco The planter regards This very
liberal offer. In Virginia, one pound OF tobacco VIII
only buy pound of 'front.' is pound tor pound here
But he tells the English, No must rear up our home
manufactures we must be independent OF your Pauper
labor Give me six dollars in cash, and your
cheap iron and pauper labor. | had rather pay the
Yankee manufactures four cents pound Tor iron than
nav you one cent. We mean to be Independent of you
The English offer him coons and woollens, hats olan
kels and shoes which is obliged to have forty cents
in the dollar less than the Yankee goods. No. we DO
not mean to wear your cheap clothes. We have laid
high prohbitory Tariff OH them. We had rather pay
Yankee double pce for the goods than buy yours
We are rearing 4 great monopoly oil manufactures IN
America giving them The exclusive privilege OF selling,
and are willing to pay double price there for every ar
cle Of use be independent Of you and your cheap
goods-sour liverpool salt al eight cents b"shei, and
Jour bar iron al cent pound Give us six or eight
dollars per hundred for hundred and fifty thousand
hogsheads Of tobacco, and pay us all in money We
wish to sell you every thing at high price and buy no.
thing in return, though you offer al half price We
wish TO exclude all the results of your labor from our
markets BY high Tariff to encourage and enrich an
Ice manufacturers-to give them monopoly--to en-
hance their prots-to build up wealthy arlstocracy oil
manufacturers like your landed dukes and lords. 1t Is
true the Yankee manufacturers do not buy or consume
the filieth part Of our tobacco in their home market
and we consume all Of their manufactures, yet We are
willing TO suffer all this inequality 10 get rid OF your
cheap goods. Such is the proposition We make 10 Eng
land.
The planter goes TO the West India Islands The sugar
planter tells him. he will give sugar al three cents per
pound and take tobacco at six cents or two pounds of
sugar for one pound of tobacco. Wetell him, Mo- we
want none Of your cheap sugar. We have laid a high
Tariff on for the benefit of the Louisiana sugar plant
err and we had rather pay him six cents than pay you
three cents Give the money for tobacco and none
of your sugar.
In France Germany and Spain-n all Europe and
every foreign markct-wc with the offers
of better goods for half the price we pay here and
higher price for tobacco than we get here We
meet them with the invariable you must give us
high price for the 10000 hogsheads of tobacco IN mo
ney and will take nothing in return, however cheap
YOU offer them. We building up rival manufactures
and have given them monopoly of our markets Your
cheap manufactures may rot On your hands, and your
pauper labor may starve-wc will not buy your iron su-
gar, SALT clothes.
Planters of Virginia. such the spectacle you present
in supporting high Tariff And for whose benefit p
For the Massachusetts master manufacturers and others,
who consume nothing you produce whose Christian
philanthropy and expansive benevolencc portray in elo-
quent contempt the halffamshcd pauper labor OF Eu-
rope which they would still further depress Wills: their
pharisaical selfrghcousncss would lrampe upon the
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