The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-19
co M M U NICATIoN-
THE TARIFF M "a

@AAehrr-INO. IN
The Gnoui Of capital, Of products, and a.
posons employed in agriculture and m,..'s
eompmsd.--fou.ftths Of The exports ), ~
ted Stotes are the products Of agrie,b..
prices Unprotected articles haze risen, rhil, II
ucts Of agriculture hare taiien, under n, on..
represent iariG.-Ths cause, of n, nh,..
Pr0jis o. the manufacturers aud of d, 6,,.
planters compared = The ayrieuiiuris,s d,,;,.
lection from the tariff - The prcteeiir, u,,'-
tenn Of Legislative robbery.
The great, leading, and paramount, inter-.
United States is the agricultural. Tn. 60
vested in agriculture, including the FARM.
planting sections of the agricultural in,.,.
least ten times as great as that which i, mo.
manufactures.
The amount of capital invested in oyr;c,,.
this country is estimated by the ables, and
telligent staticians at FOUR THouSaNn n
LIONS Of dollars; while the amount Of 60
vested in manufactures of all kinds is bm !
to" hundred millions, according to the bs,, ~,
ties.
Although the capital employed in ,,,.,
appears immensely great in the assr.,.
in all probability, il is far below the real
IN Spackman's Statistical Tables Of the B,;a
pire, the value Of the land in Great Bnn;, h
sive of her dependencies) is estimated a, ~
SOC, OOO--equal to about SIS, 100, OOO. OOO !, !,
money.
lfthat be true estimate of the value Of ~
Great Britain, il surely cannot be unrea,o.,u
estimate the value Of the land, slaves, and s,o,,
resenting the capital invested in agriculture i
country at less than onsJourih Of the vain, !,
land in Great Britain, whose territory il In,
larger in area than the State of New Yo,t
whose population at the present time is MI 4
greater than that Of the United States.
The disproportion between the annual prl
Of the agricultural interest, and Of manufsc,u,
nearly as striking. From careful estimates
from the CENSUS for 1870, it appears that Ii, !,
products Of agriculture in the United State. !.
to TWELVE HUNDRED MILLIONS, M
0OO, 0OO,) while the value Of manufactures ofau
(ths cost ofthe raw material, and labor iucIps
is only about three hundred millions, (S3OOOWn
The disparity Of persons employed in agru,
and in the protected branches of nlanulactur. 1
greater. In the manufacture of wool, oply d |,
persons arc employed; in that Of cotton, oulv n
persons; in the iron business, and other m,,ss
branches of mining, 33,242 persons at. .np,,
Aud these are the interests which are cc s
teasing and distracting the country for ra.da
that is, for the privilege ofIevying bouni.s upa
great mass Of their own countrymen, Thai
Golfers may be filed to overlooking.
In the analysis of the manufacturing and nss
ic classes which ] made in my last number, Id
ed that not more than 2s4 ,35l persons Of The Il
population If the Union were employed Ia liz,
tected pursuits; and the bulk of those being au
tives," not one-ffth Of the 284,35l were the
tents Of, the bounties exacted by the present ad
On the other hand, the number Of person,
ployed in agriculture is 3,7l9,6O7, or about Js
times thenumber employed in the protected bnu
Of manufactures.
Not only does the agricultural interest en-
ten times the amount Of capital, fourteen ,ins
number of persons employed in the prob
branches of manufactures, and produce four
as much in value, but it furnishes JfowfNhd
exports from this to foreign countries. The WI,
exports Of this country average one hundred NIL
Of dollars. Ofthis amount, moro than our-fAhs
produced by the planters and farmers, as app
from the custom-house returns, commencing
1910, which have condensed into the following
BILE
Year. Whole amount Of OF which
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