Holly Springs gazette., 1845-05-31

man Warmer, TO the injury OF our own
couIbtrymen; and the Distilleries Of this
city (I can speak of one in particularly were
busy distilling foreign grain.
Ii is true that our present tariff has some
inequalities, but they are oftoo insignificant
kind to warrant any friend of his country
being wiling to disturb the MhoAIe A SEstf, SSSERsstefel
tor such srffes
| PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
This form of Tariff has many advocates:
and instead of levying duties for revenue
with incidental protection, as with a dis
crminative tariff, it would levy duties for
| protection, leaving the revenue as an incl
/ dental result. It's enemies argue that it is
\ calculated to initiate the Treasury of the
country, and that the Protective duty acts
as direct tax upon the consumer for the
| support of the manufacturer.
Neither Of these positions is true, as |
I shall be able clearly TO illustrate. Since the
! formation of our Government, S34 articles
| in our Tariff have received protection at
different dates; and in every instance, home
competion alone, during the next consecu-
| tive three years after their protection, has
reduced the price below the foreign cos.
and charges, exclusive of duty. at the time
| they became protected. And we defy our
| opponents to find IN exception to this natu-
raj law. when supported by American in>
genuity
The characteristic of the Irish people is
wit. That Of the Americans mey be said
to be inventive genius. This, gentlemen. is
| tue to a proverb, if not to a fault, for there
\ is not single difficulty over which the in
I yention of our countrymen when once APP
I =.
Ifthis rationale be true, and we do not
think it can be controverted, then the excess
of receipts by high duties for protection, du-
ring the first three years will not be more
| than sufficient to pay the deficiency of the
\ next five, for, as quality by competition, is
| improved the necessity OF import is obvia-
! ted, and the amount of imports will be so
| lessened as TO make this early excess, very
desirable to the wants of Government.
We think this answers the objection of
nnr opponents in reiaIiUu to an oy-rgro~n
| treasury, arising out Of high protective du.
ties. When the rich choose to indulge in
the use of foreign commodities merely be-
cause they are foreign, the mass of the
community cannot object to their defraying
the expenses of the government. for by
them alone will foreign products be made
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afforded of an equal quality at less price.
The effects of Protection on the prosperi-
~ Of a country cannot be doubted, and as
| farther instances in support of my assertion
relative to decrease of price by home COM
netition. | would state that In the year 1870
Pennsylvania alone produced S22 100000
worth of iron. Nature has there supplied
the ore and coal in alternating strata, and
they have only to build their furnaces at the
| mountain side, throwing it in at the top, and
shipping from its mouth iron to the value
| before stated. During the last year of the
COMPROMISE ac., and previous TO the pas
sage Of the present tariff. Pennsylvania pro-
duced comparatively no iron, and we now
call upon sister State, whom by improper
legislation we have stripped OF an income
nearly equal to the whole expenses of our
General Government, per annum, TO pay
promptly debt her inability to do which
arises on; of false legislation alone.
The necessity OF protection to our paper
makers is peculariy evident. On the pas
sage of the present tariff they consumed an
nuaIlv So, ,OOO, 600 worth of American rags,
which the legislative policy of other coun-
tries will no. permit to be exported from
this. they being prohibited article Should
our paper mills not have received the slight
protection which they asked? These rags
would not have been consumed. The hab-
it of saving them would have passed into
disuse, and we would have been losers at
least 20 the amount of this S5.000,O 0,O00.-
TheseIags are furnished principally from
six cotton growing States.
The article of Nails which, within the
memory of every person present, were
worth ten cents per pound, by competition
alone guaranteed bv protection, has been
reduced In price to Al cents.
| Refined Sugars which were sold at Ia
cts at the time of the passage of the present
tariff, and now sold at lot cts pound and
| of quality superior to those manufactured
at that date.
The mere improvements in qualities a.
lone is strong argument in favor of pro-
lection. No locomotive boiler is now
built in England Of any other than Ameri-
can boiler plate iron. its strength and due
tility being entirely superior to any other
The sum kept in the country by the pro-
lection on nails, boiler plate. and other ar
ticIes Of iron. by the present protective pol,