Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-07-19

Are our bread-stuiis and our grains in general de
pressed IN price by the operations of the tariff
Most assuredly not Here we must again quot.
ourselves, and we are glad that the teachings o
pressed opinions. We said on the 10th Of Sep
TENDER last:
''The only way in which tariff could ijurousiy aaac
the farmer through the foreign market would be by destroy
ing million of foreign and il would
materially Advance the interest Of the American agcuus
by spreading blight the European harvest In both
instances the effect would be produced by disturbing the re
| ton between supply and demand
The efectual mode of reducing prices and njunl
the home market, would be by converting million Of hons
into producers Whether the tariff exists not
people must and will have bread and, as Congress il
not like the British Parliament omnipotent it cannot by ID
enactments increase diminish the number Of foreign
sumer, the wheat fields Of Europe be fruitful
the But Congress can, by the destruction of Mt
tariff million of home consumers into a million Of
producers and thereby not only destroy the home market
that extent but bring, BESIDES large additional quantity
produce into it.
Repeal the tariff and shall increase our foreign
market single bushel for shall not by doing in
the number of foreign shall dmn
sh distance from that market increase facilities
for reaching il shall lessen the number Of COMPETE
tors we have to encounter when we get there.
But NTH tariff when destroyed, shall also have
destroyed our home market A million Of consumers will
then bread for themselves instead Of purchasing it Of the
farmer as they do at present This would impoyersh both
parties leave the country dependant for its supplies of
factured goods npnn unrL.-r q r..Ar-,
to pay for them very advanced prices whilst the agcu-
tursts would find themselves without market adequate to
their necessities, either at home or broad.
These plain truths plainly told but defy the OPP
ponents Of the tariff either gainsay them
Is the merchant injured We rather think not,
seeing that our own tonnage inwards and outwards
has increased from 3,046,562 in 1912 to g. 98S 1862
in 1874 that our imports in 1912 were 800, g.
087, and in 1874 sos, OBS: and that our ex-
ports in the former year amounted to $104 69l ,534
in the latter to $lIl ,20O,046.
How has the mechanic Jared ? Has he, in con-
sequence of the tariff, received lower rate of re-
Enumeration for his labor No. Has he paid more
for what he has had to purchase No. Has en-
ploymen in any of the useful mechanical arts been
more difficult TO procure No. Then how has
this most important portion of our citizens, this
real bone and sinew of our country, been injured
1t is indeed hard to find the shadow Of an injury
except in the unsupported assertions Of the real
enemy of the mechanic, the opponent of domestic
industry.
What further need we say on the subject? We
will make one general assertion, and pledge our
serves 10 make II good, whenever our opponents
shall undertake to establish its error, by the pro-
ducon of facts, and of statements and calculations
based upon those facts. We say that every class
of our iellowcitizens, every nhabitan of our wide
country has been benefited, IS now enjoying the
benefit, and acH continue to receive the benefit of
the tariff so long it shall be suffered to remain
fixed in its principles and stable in its operations
and that it viii only become preudicial when it
shall be subject TO perpetual alterations, and boch-
ing and patching from the hands Of men ignorant
of the first principles of political economy adopts
only the arts Of political partisanship and desir-
Gus of perverting the great commercial pursuits and
interests of the nation to party purposes and uses
We see it stated in the official organ that it is
better for the tranquility Of the Administration "
that the tariff should be reduced. We viii not
gansay this We know nothing about the tran
quillity Of the Administration, or the circumstances
which endanger it. But, when the editor goes on
to say that it is better for the prosperity of the
whole people" that the tariff be reduced, we deny
the assertion in toto. We by no means sure,
indeed, though shall be happy to find il SO, that
the g tranquility of the Administration" and the
prosperity Of the whole people, are identical