Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-11-14

goods, and cone in together at one Of our ports. !
The duties collected must be upon the goods, and
no difference in which ship the goods come.-l
THIS Country has the right, aud so has England,
10 lay whatever duties she thinks proper on the
importation Of the goods into their respective
ports. England accordingly imposes a rate of
duties on produce from the United States so hiph
as 10 be prohibition, and a rate of duties on
like articles from her own Colonies so low as 10
be nominal. The effects of this is that the Ame.
rl9an ana the English ships which come out to-
gether can neither Of them take a return CARGO
from the United States to London. or any port,
on account OF the high duties. But the British
snip can take the same articles from our ports
anu sail to the nearest British Colony, touch,
and then proceed on 10 London or any pcrt-l
Her voyage is now from The Colony, aud she
pays only the Colony duty on the very articles
she took from our port. Thus she sails around
the Reciprocity Treaty. The American vessel is
not allowed TO go from the Colony 10 England
can make no voyage; has no market, and is left
in our docks to decay.
TABLE.
These few articles will serve TO illustrate the
whole:
Duties. From the u s. ISL c co.o mics
On Boards other Timber
Oh pS oa IOad Of 90 Ss cubic feet 81 g. - cts
On nandspikcs per lao so "a cts.
On Spokcs for Wheels per
On Fircwood per load Of
2i6 cubic feet 2 40 free
The course of this trade is-for British vessels
TO come into our Ports and take cargo Of Anne
rican Produce. and sail--if "a, the East, for Ila-
liax or an Eastern Province-if at a Southern
Port, for West India lsIand-and having touch
ed thus ut British Colony, the voyage is then
homeward from such Colony. This avoids the
RECIPROCITY Trea,y-secures the Carrying Trade
OF our Grain, Timber, &c.-as also the benefit of
the discriminating duties in favo! of the Colonies
In march, 1910, came up the Savannah Ri
yer. and there saw eleven large British vessels
lading with Georgia timber-no American vessel
there! This course of trade is not allowed to
an American vessel Reciprocity IN TRADE mpans
-our Forts open to her Commerce her Ports
shut to our Commerce. tits much better for her
than Free Trade
But this Reciprocity Trade is not restricted to
our Country or to our Productions. The Treaty
extends to Brazil to Hay,i, or 10 any part of the
| world where the enterprise and the voyage of an
| American vessel can be defeated.
FREE TRADE
"Foreign Cof1res are charged Is. 3d. per h. duty.
Colonial CoiIees, only Cd. while Coflees import
ed from the Cape of Good Hope, pay Cd. Now
DIS Inc costs OF sending, in an unusual and indi-
rect way, Coffees from foreign country TO the
Cape OF Good Hope, is only from I'D. to Id per
pound very large quantities are shipped from
Brazils and Hayti to the Cape and thence re-
shipped 10 England. "-Report q a Committee to
Parliament, 1910.
"Have Cargoes of Coffee been sent from the
United Kingdom, and from ports of the Continent
OF Europe, to be landed at the Cape of Good
Hope, and thence TO be brought back 10 the Uni
ted Ningdonl, for the purpose Of supplying the
necessary consumption here Yes from 26,h
April, 1888, to 24th March, 1910, it appears by
the returns that 81 cargoes, Importing more than
81 100000 lbs. of foreign coffee, had arrived in
frnIr fbo & a..
Hope. he duty on that mode Of carrying coffee
Is Sd. per pound Ii entered from foreign coun-
try, Is. Sd. The duty saved by the indirect i'm
portafion would be g75o,000 sterling, abou, So
$50, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of McGregor, amazed
TO Rspof.
The intent and meaning of this, is. that the
American vessel cannot take the Soffees, to nay
is. and Sd. sterling per pound, in England. She
is not allowed to go with cargo from the Eng
lsh settlements at the Cape of Good Hone, TO an
English port. The British vessel takes The Cot.
fee, touches at the Cape, and thence her voyage
is home, where she pays Sd per pound duty
with only I'D or Id per pound for increased cost
OF her indirect way. Should The American YES
sci take cargo and conclude TO bear the differ
ence of daty, the English vessel won a>ak on are
rive and with lis difference of duty iRlK4fD6vor.
(being twelve cents per pound) would underseII
and ruin the American Voyage. Thus the Ame-
ilcan shIP-owner with blighted hopes learns that
his own Government has not only negotiated
hun out of the Carrying Trade OF his own coun-
try, but the Carrying Trade between all other
nations and England 1t is apparent tina, tn e
English Government negotiated Tor its subjects
but 1t is very difficult to say for whom the Ame-
rcan Government negotiated.
Our neIghbors, the Spaniards, have also learn
ed something of This mode of Commerce. and of
the Kindness or our nation in its commercial ar
Engagements. She too has provided duty on
Cotton, so high as to prohibit its importation i'm
AIMS alc.- 10 i, -,
Colonies in her own vessels, at a nominal duty-|
Some few years ago went from New-OrIeans 10
Havana IN an American vessel, laden in part with
CotlOn.-l noticed the course of the t.ade-On
arrival at Havana, the Cotton became the produce
of Cuba, and was then shipped as such with the
NewOrleans bags, and marks upon it, in Span-
lsh vessel, for Old Spain, and paying only the
colony duty.
These measures show the devices 10 gain our
trade, to exclude American vessels, to injure their
carrying trade, to lessen their shipping interest
and ship-5ulIdlng to depress their Commerce
aud Navigation, and all in violation of the fati,
of Treaty protesting to be reciprocal.
Among the many fruits of these measures, is
the growing increase, within the last Jew wears,
of Foreign tonnage in the American Commerce.
The entries and ciearances not coasting] a, some
OF our ports nearly one-lalf foreign. The Off
cial tables not at hand TO give particulars
After the War of 1912, with England, her
Provinces of New Brunswick aud Nova Scotia
laid heavy duties on the export of Plaster of
Paris. 1t could not then be obtained from any
other sources. The Onondaga Plaster was not
then much known, and the Canal Of New York
was not yet opened for its transportation IL
was then deemed an essential in Agriculture
and a price was paid for it oy Farmers sometimes
as high az thirty dollars per ton 1t became an
important trade Tor those colonies, and TO make
their monopoly complete, they each passed laws,
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