Litchfield enquirer., 1844-10-17

therefore can make clothes cheaper than tailor in
another village which keeps him idle hall the TINE
and paws in brush fence for the work it does give
him.
Pm. the minimuns--six cents a yard duty on
plai, Cpftons and nine on Prints-these are high
duties ceGtaialy: but whom Do they harm! ! find
that this PRINCIPLE of the minimum was drst intro
duced So lar as can trace it) with the Tariff OF
1915. framed aa,l piloted through the the Honseby
JOIN, c. Calhoun, and voted 4Eor by most of the !
members from South Carolina as well as % to 2 |
from New York. This principle was continued in
the Tariff of 1924, and the minimum or lowest Gus
tom house valuation Of yard of cotton cloth was
raised from twenty-five to thirty cents. The same |
principle continued in the Tariff OF 1928. pass
ed By Congress strongly Jacksonan--the bill be-
ing mainly arranged, it was understood, by one |
SiIas JRr;git oil s.. Lawrence AT any rate it was
voted Tor by ,SilaS Wright, Martin Pan Burea, |
Michael Hofsnaa, and % to, S OF the members from
this State This Tariff (the very one, .WrightD
raised the minimum or lowest valuation of square
yard Of cotton cloth to thirty. fpe cents, SO that
poor mans shirt, costing seven cents a yard, was
made to pay FIVE times as much duty on its value
as that Of the rich aristoerat, costing thirty-iye
cents or ever. Doesn't it make ones blood cold
I, think Of it This was passed, mind you! by
a JacISoa Congress--none of your, Wing Congress-
es-and Silas Wright not only voted for il. but had
much 10 do with fixing It's details-fxing them in
this unequal way tool az -s,a Us .a i.,,.
Need ! speak further of your remarks on the
Protection of Labor--your reasserton that. since
we export Wheat, Butter, Cheese, SC no duty can
change the value of those articles Let me try
YOU by your own logic. We are now exporting
Cotton Goods largely, and by your rule, the prices
of those goods cannot be raised so long as we ex-
port them. With what fairness, then, do you in-
sinuate that Manufacturers get 30 or 40 per cent.
mere for their products than Farmers and ought to
pay 50 much higher for labor ..a 7ss., III F~e ~
Your assumptions that the Manufacturer musa
eat up all the agricultural produce and the Farmer
III -
efficiently protect our own. industry, is unworthy
the dignity Of your subject. Such talk may serve
to raise horselaugh among the ignorant, but all
Intelligent men know that there are many articles
which we cannot produce, but must buy of other
nations. We want Tea, Coffee, Spices, Tropical
Fruits, Arctic Furs. &c. &C., which our country
does net and never can produce; these we must
pay for with Cotton Provisions, Cotton fabrics
or whatever we can most adyantageously dispose
Of. The axiom of Protection s,that When an ar
ttcle 1saY De, pTcFetced, IN oar oao's country as
c3eaply Chat is, with as little labor1 as elsesrhere
then It IS arise, ii is best to produce At at home and
net bug q abroad. 1t may cost a little more money
at home, owing TO the infancy or rndeness of the
modes and Instruments of its production--but
where Nature has inerPosed no insuperable obsta-
cles, Home Production for Home Consumption, is
really cheapest and best for all. To say that this
IS the cause Of the pauperism and misery of Great
Britain Is the baidest assertion-you might as well
attribute her Social evils to her abundance of Rail-
roads and Canals. In France. the most stringently
Protective Of all nations the condition and recon-
pensa Of the laboring classes have been improving
gradually for years. Holland, comparatively free
trade country, has been running down for the last
century But al this proves nothing decisiyely to
the purpose. It needs something more than the
statement Of few Isolated facts TO determine the
complex causes Of National prosperity or distress
Yet we must know, that while a few Mobiles and
Capitalists own all Gland Of Great Britain on
whch 27,990,00O people must hire the privilege
of living, and these people are to pay the sum Of
$500, 0oo,9lQ year in taxes, there mast be great
poverty and distress, no matter what is the Com
mercial Policy Of the county, No.. .t.-'
You scout the idea Of considering Taxation
blessing. yet your whole Speech assumes that il
may be made So. say that the shutting out of .
depressing Foreign competitions and securing to ou
own la5arets full work and fairwages is general
benefit: bit you deny this-you insist that no du
tics shall lie 40 lAish ulril short, yot
insist o. Taxation, while | would go beyond it,
You sly ''What pay for my coat I do NOT pay or
any thing else, while aid an important interest.
But cannot see Row YOU aid any home interest ex
cept tho Treasury interest by buying a Foreign
coat; it is when you are induced to buy an Ameri.
can one, and pay nothing omit into the Treasury,
that you encourage Home Labor. +, l.. VII
re]oice, Hon Senator, that Notwithstanding
the pl3rsibilitY and calm cunning for which YOU
are so Justly celebrated you clearly appear in this
speech y deadly enemy to the Protective policy
Your last paragraph is full Of this. Indisputabv
II we cP}lld get Revenue enough from the Public
Lands and other sources, yon would urge and in
sist on total abolition Of The Tariff and rejection
OF any Eara whatever--no matter Low heavily our
protusts Should be faxed BY Foreign Nations To
make ON Woriirg men concur in this you must
bring item TO repudate all our Cormtry's history.
ana that Of the seven yearsw which follow
ed each. Of our Wars with Great Britain Great as
are liabilities, believe you will find this task
beyond yo,ir powers. w" -.es3
Respectfully, yours,
49,. 80, ~ i IT,, , -. HORACE GREELEY.
GE2RsE WAsHINGToN ON PporEcrroN. -Ey-
tract from an answer to the address of the Delaware
Society for promoting Domestic Manufactures, on
his accession TO the Presidency Of the United States
April 1880: ,...n.,,. n, r..,, EN- -
.,..1he promotion 81. Domestic .afaaufactwes
VIII, in my cpnceptipn, be among the first coase-
qNeaces which may naturally be expected to flow
IRON az energetic Government, For myself, hay-
ing an esard for the prosperity Of the farm.
sag, tr@a'ns and notwithstanding interests, ! will
only saryethat. II caNnot cOncciue the extension
ofthe latter Geo far as may afford employment te
great number Of hands which would be other
Wise in a manner idIe) can be detrimental to the
former
This Is m entire coincidence with various othe,
opinions az expressed aad acted on in the earlies
days Of the Union, BY those patriots who first fought
the battles and then framed aconsttution to gov.
era their country. The instances quoted in Mr
WeoSers Albany speech have called this to mnid
whose views best cpincde with these--those of the
Iphfg t'Ertg or Of Mr. Polk and his fellow Paten,
Democrats ?-Bostoa .atlGs.t +, ,.f,s., Is 4et,f.
IeTds L0aA-The editor of,the New York EUa-