Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-01-20
rI.INrn MANIEACTnRIES.

The facts piyen by the Belfast Republican Journal,
(Alalne) show how Congress is constantly imposed
upon by the factory agents, who throng the lnb5es
whenever 4 Tariff is on The anvil One and all have
their statistics ready, proving, ncontroveriiby that
| nothing cen save the manufacturing capitalists from
utter and Immediate bankruptcy, but some fifty, sixty
seventy eighty, nincy-nay hundred per t.-nnd,
| with the help of the disguise of the nmums, they
! run the bounty up t. TWO hundred per cent. Ihey
have hosts of witnesses 10 prove all they sate-and,
by way of absolute demons tation, the factories
frequently stopped and operatives turned out al inte
r;m-that s long enough To make proof that there is
starving multitude at In. doors OF the mills, tina, must
inc vtaby perish, unless Congress provides proec'io
i'm the bounty Of high dules TO the proprieors to en-
able them 10 carry on tielr business THIS accom-
plished the discovery made, that these capitalists
had taken In The business long before the dniy was I'M
posed because il profitable calculating, proboty
tina, incidentally they might have skill enough TO get
Connressisnal protection, to turn their lucrative bu
,ncss into absolute extorton, both rs II regarded the
operatives and consumers, generally. The Belfast
| Journal gives rs the truth tiio1n.
| uTug TARlrr.-Whc the whole country is com
planing OF hard times md iarmers, mechanics, sea
men and ship builders, and shp-owners, generally
suffering the manufacturing interest," (the capitalists
not the nborers engaged in It aone seems 10 prosper
The lords Of the loom, who own the Otis factory nj
Lowell have divided per cent. protis FOR the last
ak months equal twenty per cent. year-and they
hive besides the Federal papers say, "a respectable
bal nce undivided Their ubnrcrs receive twenty per
cent less wages than before the Tariff proof OF NJ
self that ether interests proslrated Many other
| factories have made simltr enormous dividends -
Whcre d. these great profits come from, II not from
the public, and from robbery Of other ,nercss'
| 1.-THE advocates Of a hgl, Tariff still boast of the
ability Of manufacturers t. compete with those o.
| Great Britain Their advantages more than comPen
sat- for any advantages possessed by The foreign manu-
factnrers and for example, they c',e the Merr'mnck
corporation, which has made 'almos, uninterrupted d.
vid, nds in the worst of times Then where is The nc
cesslly Of protective Tariff for manufacturers: Anc
admitting that they cannot continue without spec'a
privil yes, by what right the country pnndefed
lis rights and property that tbs single interest may IN
crease,
"a New York paper quotes from The books OF hard
ware merchant showing the duty he has paid on IN
ware These duties range from 90 10 233 per centum
On window glass The duty IS more 'Ean Ioo per ee"'
on The cnst-being prohlbiiory. Another paper (ani
this Fedrra-hgh. Tariff protection 10 American IN
dus.ry' advocale) complains that the high duly OF
sheathing has driven the eleven packet shps
last hut TO England to get coppered, thus deprv'nG
American industry of work to be gwen to 'he paupe
labor of Europe. If high dueo make goods lower,
why is il not more profitable to copper these ships
New York? In the construction OF one OF these snip
uhe Roscius of $50 ,ps) the tax pad on me cord
sge canvass, iron md copper, amounted u The enor
nous som Of So OF, equa! 10 So Gu per ton AT thi
rate the sh,pbulldes Of Maine paid u the government
during the past year tax upon their industry oabou
8 40, 900! This is protection to American industry
with yepneance,"