The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-22
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Thus it appears that Great Britain and her do.
Tendencies purchase annually more than twice 50
much the wheat produced by the farmers Of this
country, as the American manufacturers purchase.
and Great Britain and her colonies take but lul.
more than half of the quantity sent abroad | have
considered only the single item Of wheat OF IN.
corn, potatoes, hay, beef, pork, butter lard &c.
the disparity is equally great, if not greater In
view these facts, how supremely ridiculous i /,
for the friends of protection pirate about the home
market which the manufacturers provide for the
products of the farmer venture 10 say, that two
of the most fertile counties in Illinois would suppy
all the wheat consumed by the whole manufacturing
population ofhe United States. IL is NOT among u,
possibilities for The manufacturers 10 proride market
for the surplus agricultural products Of The United
States.
The farmer, therefore, is compelled to look TO
foreign countries for markets for his surplus pro-
ductions and in order 10 sell in foreign maksis, he
must purchase the commodities produced by The people
,rita ,ohom he trades. He must barter his wheat for
their cloths, or he cannot sell il at all How unjust
and oppressive then is il, that he should be loaded
down with such enormous duties as the present tariff
imposes on the cloths for which he has exchanged
the productions of his own farm.
These considerations lead me to the last topic
which propose to discuss in this number hichis,
the absurd sophism Of protecting .4srican Industry By
taring The industrial classes in order 10 benz
fl te,o favored classes.
Mt a A mari md l. :,
cling wheat, corn, cotton tobacco, rice, potatoes,
beef, pork, butter cheese lard, &c, &c, as well as
manufacturing cotton and woollen goods, digging
iron and coal from the bowels Of the earth, making
sugar, and boiling salt Certainly it it, Moreover,
the agricultural and unprotected classes are vastly
more numerous, and represent, as | have already
shown in former number, vastly greater pecunla-
ry interest, than the protected classes.
will carry the matter little farther. The man.
ufacturer by his industry and capital produces
bale of cloth. The farmer by his industry raises
wheat, tobacco, or cotton, which he exports to a
foreign country, and exchanges for bale of cloth.
Is not this last bale Of cloth as much the product Of
the farmers labor--of his "American industry
as though he had manufactured it with spindle and
loom, as the manufacturer has who produced his
bale tits undeniable.
| Yet, when the farmer comes to the custom-house
to enter his bale for consumption in this country
he is told that, before he can be permitted to sell
| his cloth in the home-market, he must pay duty
of 30, 49, or SO per cent. on the value in order 10
enable the home manufacturer to sell his bale that
much higher, without paying any duty at ALL
He is forced TO comply with this unjust demand
this favoritism TO the manufacturer-of he must
cease to trade abroad. IL he choose the former al
| tentative, the manufacturer will underse him.
and he is forced to sacrifice his property. If
he chooses the latter, his surplus wheat &c. must
main upon his hands and perish. Legislation
which produces such results, is called "roieciion 10
home indusfry,''
Foreign commerce stimulates the productive en-
erges ola nation whether or not that commerce IN
PRODUCES into the country articles Of luxury or OF
mere necessity. The bon pipani who has purchased
dozen bottles of champagne wine, has paid Their
value to the farmer Of Illinois who has raised the
wheat, or the planter Of South Carolina who has
raised the cotton, which has been exchanged with
the foreign wine-grower for the wine consumed by
the good liver Of this country. II is in effect pre-
cisely the same as though he had paid that amount
of money to the whear-grower for so much in value
of wheat, or to the cotlon-grower for so much III
value OF cotton.
| Thus is it with the lady who faunts IN cosby
silks. Those silks, in nearly all other articles o.
truy necessity brought from abroad hare first bern
paid for by the labor Of hs farmer and planter II IS
the cotton, rice, tobacco wheat, and other agrcui'
tural productions, which have been exchanged Tor
them Therefore, in effect, the lady who relolceS
in her fine silks, has paid her money to the iarn'-
er, whose labor had first purchased and brought
them into the country. Consequently, Dhe i"P"-
tnicn cftoregi commodities is eh.ekedby high dnhe' I"
checks, in fn The production oftOse articles rh'eh "'
exchanged for them.
The result is, THAT TIE TRsE PROTECTION 10
AMERICAN INDUSTRY rs THE ENCOURAGEMENT "
COMMERCE wirH FOREIGN COUNTRIES, ny AN APPROX
IMATIoN TO THE PRINCIPLES OF FREE TRADE sofh
ASA REVENUE TARIFF WILL PERMIT.
BUNDELCUND.