The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-12-09


quantity, but not the value Of Iron, Coal, Salt,
Sugar, Spirits and Powder. We have cal
culated their value at moderate price. In
the Leather business the number of men
employed in Tanneries only is set forth-we
have supplied the residue by estimate. Su-
gar being the product of slave labor chiefly.
and the number Of hands employed not being
given, we have omitted all estimate of them,
as for the purpose of our argument, they are
in fact capital. There is mass of articles
in the census returns not specifed-as there
is also in the Treasury returns of our foreign
trade: these are but few and do not differ
materially in their proportions from those
above enumerated. We have selected the
year 1S4l for the condition of our foreign
trade, not only because it was the last of
free trade, but because the imports were in
that year quite as great as usual, exceeding
$l27 100000. 1t appears then that our
imports that come into competition with do
mestic articles amount only TO $45, ,5S6, ,406
but little more than one third of what we
buy abroad. That instead of monopolising
our market, they constitute only about one
sirth of our consumption of such goods-the
residue coming directly from our own indus
try. And that in addition to all this we re-
export of the foreign commodities and export
Of our own together nearly one fourth Of the
kinds we import. And as this, was done in the
year Of lowest tariff, it completely crushe s
the pretence that low duties were effecting
the ruin ofthe country Or ofour manufactures
Indeed no branch Of them as is manifest from
the preceding table encounters any serious
rivalry except Iron, Salt, Sugar, Woolen and
Cotton goods. In these the
Domestic supply is iron, le,034,22 salt
l,O29,s62; woolens, 20,696,999; cottons
46,S50,45S; sugar, 7,755,54O; total, 9l,'
s67,Os9.
Foreign supply, of iron, 4,33e, ,26O; salt
621 ,495; woolens, l0,949, ,499; cottons, H.,
757,oS6; sugar, 7,6O5,s3o; total, 35,52o,.
100.
Excess of Domestic, iron, 1884, 1865
salt, 2OS,367; woolens, 9,757, 500; cottons
s4,593,4l7; sugar, l49,7lo; total, $685.
900.
Showing an excess of domestic ever
foreign supply of $56,346,96O. This dis
closes the origin of the Tariff of lS42 and
its existing strength. 1t was for these five
interests that it was made, and for them it
endures. There was not we see as TO any
other interest, an adequate motive even to
memorialize Congress for protection. But
the capitalists who are engaged in the supply
of these five classes of commodities, wanted
to destroy the very moderate competition
from abroad, that furnished only about one
thirG of such goods. The capital invested
in these five branches is about one hundred
and thirty millions; the number of men en-
ployed is proportinally less than in almost
any other, being exclusive ofslaves only 1885,
323-whilst the number Of owners who
monopolize the benefits of the law cannot
exceed $500. And yet to increase the divi-
dends and profits of this Insignificant portion
Of the country's wealth, the property and
capital Of all the Union besides have been
plundered and convused. The labor of the
country has been driven and withheld by law
from wholesome and profitable employment,
in order to keep one hundred and twenty
odd thousand men engaged at ordinary wages
jim keeping up the profits of $500 men
above all others, and the people told that if
this Tariff were not adopted they would be
reduced to the condition offoreign pauperism.
What absurdity has not been asserted, and
maintained too with disgraceful success, in
support Of the policy of comforting wealth on
these five interests at the expense of all the
country besides. We have been told that
our foreign trade was ruinous--or rather that
particular part of it by which we received the
FIVE useful and indispensable articles Of Iron,
Salt, Sugar, Wooden and Cotton goods. We
have been informed that these articles were
draining the country of specie, although
every year the Treasury Report, even when
Il encouraged the Tariff policy, contained the