Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1844-03-22
THE WAY TO MAKE GOODS CHEAP.

THE WAY TO MAKE. GOODS CHEAP.
II was Morrison, we believe, who died
of his own pills. They were excellent, hes
said. to purify the blood. and the poor
fellow went on purifying his blood until
he baDished from it even the principle of
life. His conduct. however, proved his
sincerity. ss
All quacks are not as sincere as Morri.
son. nor as ready to take their own medi-
cines. Those for example who have In
vented the new method Of making goods
cheap. are no. willing that it should be
themselves. II is an excellent method for
the rest Of The community, but hey. de-,
Inur 10 applying it to their own particular
case Let us explain this matter.
When the necessares and comforts OF
life can be obtained in sufficient quantity
by moderate and reasonable industry. they
are properly said to be cheap. The less
labor and exter,ion it costs TO procure
them the cheaper they are. How is this
most desirable end Of cheapness 10 be al
tanned ! On the one side it is answered
that the proper method is to allow all. in
whatever part of the world they may live,
who can produce any given any given ar.
,icle of necessity or comfort with the least
cost, 10 produce i: and send it to be ex
changed for commodities which others in
in turn can produce cheaper than they.
Another method is proposed by the
friends of the protective system. namely.
10 check by high duties this exchange Of
commodities. TO make an article cheap.
they say, you must tax its Importation
A tax, according to this new theory, IS a
necessary ingredient of cheapness. WOOL
ems and col.ons, they affirm are made
cheaper by putting a tax on their impor>
ta,ion iron and coal are brought down to
a low price by the same eficacious meth
cd, and as for molasses, which you may
have at Matanzas for the dipping Of it up.
you cannot imagine how much cheaper
you make it by stirring tax into it.
If this be so; if high duties be the best
method of making commodities cheap,
why do not the manufacturers and their
friends, who are so earnestly occupied in
recommending this new theory, call for
high duty on the cheap wool Of South A.
merica which now pays very low duty?
Our country is full Of focks aud all that
the manufacturers have 10 do, according to
their own doctrine, is to put heavy duly
on all kinds of wool without exception
1t will then be brough. 10 their factories
for almost nothing.
Again, why do not the makers Of cotton
and wooden cloths demand that tax be
laid on dye woods, which at present are
allowed TO come in free of dutyl These
valuable woods cos, the manufacturer mo-
ney, and if they could be had cheaper.
his profits would be greatly enhanced
Put on high duty then, instantly and
! without shrinking-a duty for the protec.
ton of American industry. and you will
Immediately have plantations of lockwood
and fuslic on the plains Of Florida. and
&c. your dye.woods as cheap as the earth
you tread on.
The oil crushers now &c. their Aaxseed
from foreign countries, on payment OF the
very low duty of four per cent. This will
never do; they mus: have the article
cheaper. Let them call fora duty of hum
dred per cent. upon imported faxseed and
cheap aaxseed will come upon them in
floods from our own fields.
| The truth is, that the manufacturers
and their friends know better than 10 ap-
pIy their own doctrine in their own case.
These quacks have no idea Of taking their
own pills. Their doctrine, that taxation
| is the great cheapener Of the commodi-
ties is intended to mys,ify and pacify the
consumers. All such cheapning Of the
commodities which are necessary 10 their
own occupations, they resist TO the utter
most. Tax the farmers log chain; TAX
the fuel of the poor mans hearth; tax the
clothes he wears and tax them heavier
than YOU DO the costly fabrics which clo,he
The rich tax The molasses which gives
| flavor Is his coarse meal; tax the salt TO
his porridge tax the glass through which
the light comes into his apartment; tax
The lumber on his frugal board; tax the
linseed oil with which he mlngles Span
ish brown to pain. his cottage walls and
nreserye them from the decays of the
weather; tax MS wife's brass Kettle; tax
The irons with which she smoolhs The linen
washed for her more opulen! neighbor;
TAX these without remorse as they are
taxed in the present tariff, and then pre-
tend that you have done it to make these
commodities cheaper; but refrain from
taking the manufacturers wool, his mad-
der, his dye woods, for these are sacred,
and this rule of cheapening by taxation
does not apply to them at all.-N. 7. Post.
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