Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-23
J.. r. orr ur,orts Reduce The value Of YOUR impora.


tons to ninety millions Gas they at presently and the
whole value Of your exports will fall to $900000 600
bc arrrer ate value Of imports for series OF years will
be above The aggregate value Of exports is the
Standard YOU cannot exceed. Look to the values of i'm
portaons annually from 1890 10 the present time, and
you lind them always exceeding The values OF the ex
ports Cut down the value OF your imports from Sl5l !
600 600 TO $50 900 900, and you reduce the value Of
your exports in the ratio. Such is the operation
of the high Tariff the imports compare 10 the ave
rare imnors of Van Buren's administrations as $50,
600 900 to 81 so 600, 900, c. as TO 5 The value OF
vour exports is reduced in the same ratio. Ii is not
because we export less in quantity; the contrary, we
export far mere in quantity We export now one
hundred and fifty thousand hogsheads of tobacco against
one hundred thousand then. But the total value of the
50 600 hogsheads mar less than the total value Of the
100 600 hogsheads then, and near the proportion OF TO
H. The same may be said OF all agricultural products
that are exported If the value OF imports regulates the
total value Of exports and Inc tables show that they m
yarably do, this result must always ensue You may
double or ouadrupe your crop OF tobacco cotton and
Aour-if your high duties exclude foreign goods and
duce the value of your imporaonsthe total value OF
all your surplus crop will be reduced in the same pro.
portion We must take foreign goods for our surplus
products or take nothing. We must take foreign goods
for orr $50 900 hogsheads Of tobacco which is
plus over home consumption. take nothng That is
The choice left US Exclude foreign goods By prohibory
duties and you get nothing for your tobacco. What can
YOU seI They will give you cheap iron, sugar. WOOL
lens cottons any other commodities IN exchange
Exclude them By your laws or curlai their free import
alton and Just so far you reduce the value Of your
productions
The boosted and admitted operation of the high Tariff
of 1912 is to reduce the value Of imports. Ii is the
lauded effect in every Wing speech. Let show its
direct result on the price of tobacco The number OF
hogsheads of tobacco bales Of cotton, barrels of flour
we export, is annually Increasing. The Wing Tariff
has cut down mportaons 10 $50 900 000 and the total
value of this increased expectation proportonaby re-
duced But in this reduction the tobacco suffers most.
II is luxury and be dispensed wIth-neccssares
cannot. Ia the struggle between tobacco, cotton, -four
and rice in foreign markets. the tobacco must suffer
most All must fall the tobaccolrst and most. Again
The duty tobacco in Eng land is seventy-ve cents per
pound II can never sell for less than ID cents per
pound, if the producer viii give it to the Eng ish MGR
chant The price here is four dollars per hundred the
price and duty in England raise it 10 SO per hundred
pounds II tobacco falls 10 81 per hundred here il only
falls from $40 10 $50 in England about four per cent.
Hence the low price Of $ per hundred here, would re-
duce it only 10 $40 in England; and The small decline
there would not be felt sufficiently TO increase IFS con-
sumption The low price here would not remove the
surplus stocks in England under the high duty.
Again: The refusal here 10 take the manufactures of
Europe in exchange throws great many laborers from
the production of manufactures into the cultivation OF
tobacco. We find its culture gradually aid surely ex-
tending Europe and Asia They can make tooac
CO.. whilst they cannot generally make cotton, from the
range of latitude. Threeourlhs of the States OF Eu
rope can, and do make tobacco. If you drive their
goods from your markets. your tobacco must be driven
from theirs. These swelling the stocks oil
tobacco on hand in all European markets. In London,
on ls March, 1884, the number of hossheads was 3o-
ISL and on lst of March, 1913, only 30, u.s. being an
increase Of more than 10000 hogsheads in that single
market since 1913. In Liverpool, ON Isl March, 1oii
1865 against ii ,il0 on lst March, lS43. In other
markets the same increased stocks found lis price
has been reduced until il Will not pay for cultivation
These solemn truths stare US in the face. And along
side Of these 80 -! hogsheads of tobacco in London
there lie millions of bushels Of Liverpool salt at eight
cents per bushe thousands Of tons If iron at one cent
per pound woocn and cotton goods hats shoes, or blan
kets eagerly seeking exchange ith this tobacco
Their free importation and exchange are prohibited oy
your Wing Tariff We look on, and raise the suicidal
cry of independence Of foreign countries when foreign
countries alone buy your tobacco we are annually
the amount Of crop, pushing it into TO-
reign markets mporuning foreigners TO buy, begging
them 10 give high price to save us from rum; and
at the same time denouncng their paper labor ouiid
ing up rival Yankee manufactures, excluding their cheap
iron SALT sugar and other commodities, that we may
boast Of ruinous independence OF foreign manuiac
lures. can admire the sentiment "mllllons Tor de-
fence but not one cent for trbute"-1 sympalhze
with the ardent patriotism which would sacrifice itsei
for its county, can shout aloud in defence oil liberty
and independence, whtch protects in my e'o poh-
cal and personal righs-Bu must deeply cxecrate the
inluriate p,rtizan blindness which would sacrifice me
TO the graspng avarice of the master manufactured
dcnounce that lawless exercise OF despoc power
which, under the sacred Of independence, levies
tax upon my industry bounty to enrich another -
II is true tread the broad earth, and breathe the free
air of Heaven in n land with a written Constitution
which guarantees 10 equal rights equal benefits and
equal taxes. This is the theorywhat has keensighted
avarice made it in practice tread the earth on shoe
taxed for anothers benefit till the earth with not one
single iplemtnt which is not taxed for another bene
fit; am clothed and covered with materials taxed lor
anothers beneht-and when with industry thus barthen-
ed and energy depressed the tobacco sent TO foreign
markets. your prohibtory Tariff prevents its exchange
for foreign goods, and it ros our hands. With To-
reign commerce thus shackled and industry thus de-
pressed burthens thus unequal, skiiuy and cunnngy
laid for systematic plumber you ask the planter to raise
The shout of pendence, and proclaim himself Tree
man, enjoying equal rights, privileges, benefits ana bur
thens under our glorious Constitution J he workshop
OF the manufacturer forge heavy chains rs the
fiat Of the sternest dcspo
Then down with prohibitory duties and n high pro
tective Tariff. Cut of the features Of protection, ana
be guided by revenue alone. Let the laws be framed
for the country, and not for favored class Give Tree
current to the channels Of trade, now damned up Ex-
change surplus tobacco for surplus manufactures. Use,
tear down your barns, convert them to some other
use One course is inevitable. Virginia must cease TO
be planting State if the high Tariff party succeeds
and the change must be rapid and for generation 10
come absolutely unous Let the attention of the planter
be awakened 10 his situation. Give him light Iii a
solemn and serious considerations TO be driven from
the occupation of fathers, haowed by the teachings
and associations Of so many generations.
II ia useless disguise the fact, that the laws OF THIS
country are framed for the advancement OF classes OF
persons not the whole Union that Partially and IA
yortlsm in legislation openly practised And under
the unjust administration Of such laws, the people are
fast losing their reverence for written Constitution
Never before have the planters OF Virginia been so hea
Willy oppresscd for there has been no period when so
large exports OF tobacco have been made with SO small
an amount Of imporations. PLANTER.
RICHMOND MEDICAL COLLEGE.
At the CONNIE ement Of this Institution on the lin
March, the degree Of Doctor Of Medicine was CONFERRED
upon the following gentlemen:
Name. Residence. 1kesis.
Oar;d Satan KIM William Tobacco