Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-04-25

hshueD's IN operation. he answer ls,
that all employments which pay good wa.
ees IL the poorer classes of a population,
enatle taess classes TO consume better
provision, ard in larger quantities, and SO
Of course have the effect to increase very
materially the general consumption eli The
best kinds OF provision. Indian corn Is
cheaper than wheat, and must continue 10
be cheaper, and consequently It is consul
med to the exclusion of wheat by very
poor persons: give those persons good
employment, with fair. steady wages and
they are enabled 10 consume wheat.
lam obliged by want Of space to hurry
over this last par; OF my subject ! must
however make room for a sentence or
TWO from The article 10 the German Jour
nal which quoted from in my second
number. The Augsburg Gazette, speak
log OF the protective operation ofthe Tar
lifT of the Germanic Customs Union upon
the populat on Of the States forming It,
says:
" Well, then, has our agriculture su(-
Tered any detriment from the high Tariff :
/ Quite the contrary 1t has gained-attn.
fold gain during the last ten years. The
demond for agricultural produce has in
creased, and the prices have every where
risen. II is notorious, too, that in conse-
quence of the prosperity ofour home man.
ufactures, the value of our landed proper.
~ has every whore experienced an ln-
crease Of from so to 100 per cent. Daily
/ Ii -. nj
all hands improved means Of conveyance
are in progress 10 completion or PROJECTED.
/ Nevertheless, some States Of the Union
continue to look 10 the repeal of the En-
glish duties on corn and timber for their
salvation, and there are also some veal.
thy and influential men, who, distrusi-
ing their own experience, still put faith
n the cosmopo'te creed"
| have very little more TO say. am
decidedly convinced that the Protective
system adopted and retained by the Wis
dom Of our people has saved the wheat
! growing interest OF the old States from
ruin; | am also convinced that future pro-
tective Ia ills will be necessary to lis
safety. Give US a policy, or rather let
us retain it, for we have il already, which
by doing mere justice to American INDUS.
try in lis many departments, saves the
great field of Agriculture from being
overstockej, and enlarges the market
for lis productions. Let US diuer our
American capital and iabour from the
growh of tcheat, into erery other legitimate
channel. Let US increase our cotton man
ufsclures; lei US dig up the mineral wealth
Of our mountains and convert It to the
thousand purposes of civilized life; let us
cover the rugged lands of the north with
sheep farms aud WOODEN factories; let US
increase the product on Of hemp and to-
bacco, by direct protection to the first and
counlervalllng duties for the last; let us
increase the production of sugar, salt,
silk aud even wines; let US in every way
endeavour 10 diminish the production Of
wheat until we have brought it within
the bnun Is of the market demand for it.
And let US, whilst We do nothing to inlure
the for ign -four market, seek 10 enlarge
the home mmket; let us CHI rloh all indus
,,ial establishments viii use fur as an
Ingredient in the preparation of TIER ia.
brlcs, or which by giving employment
" tn good steady wages increase the abll-
ty OF our populati n to consume it. II
we do all this we will project Tie whedt
grower; and prt tectlve Tariffs our on
y means for doing it.
conclude tbs article, and my series,
with passage from letter written by
Gen. Jackson, April 26, 1924, to DR..
Coleman Of N. G. After saying that
Heaven had "filIed our mountains and our
plains with mnerals-with lead, iron, and
copper, and given us climate and soil
for the growing of hemp and Woo" he
proceeds:
81 will ask what is tho real situation Of
the ugriculurstl Where has the Ame-
rican farmer a market for his surplus pro.
duce! Except for cotton he has neither
foreign nor home market. Does not
this clearly prove, when there is no mark
ct either at home or abroad, that there is
too much labor employed in agriculture?
Common sense at once points out the rem
edy. Take from agriculture in the Unit
ed States, six hundred thousand men, wo.
men and children, and you will at once
give a market for more breadstnH than
all Eurone now Finishes US. In short,
sir, we have been too long sue,ect to '':S
policy Of British merchants. 1t is time
we should become a liIlle more AMERI-
Canned, and instead Of feeding paupers
and laborers of England, feed our own;
or else, in short time, by continuing our
present policy, we shall be rendered pau.
pers ourselves. 1t is therefore my opin
ion that a careful and judlcious tariff is
much wanted to pay our national debt,
aud to afford us the means OF that defence
within ourselves on which the safety Of
our country depends; and last, though
not least, give proper distribution to our
labor, which must prove benz fc al to the
happiness, independence, and wealth of
the community"
What he meant by "careful and judi
cous" Tariff may be gathered from the
fact that on May Is, 1924, few days af-
ter this letter was written, he voted in the
u. S. Senate of which he was then a
member, FOR the "Tarlff Of '24''--a higher
Tariff, as every well informed person
u