The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-08-18
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1a, 1896,

one million. Great Britain took of our
flour not twentieth part as much as
Massaehuse it's, not tenth part of the a
mount taken by the East and West In
dies; not third part as much as Brazil;
not as much as the little Island of Cuba;
and not much more than half as much as
Hayti. Poor, miserable, negro Hayti,
took last year SO, l44 barrels of our flour,
while England, Scotland, and Ireland to-
gether, took but 1886 barrels of flour
and one barrel of corn meal. Yet we
are told, in the face of these official facts,
by the Secretary of the Treasury, that we
must take more British goods, otherwise
she will have to pay US ''caSh fer our
bread siuBs, and, not haUiRg 1t TO spare
she will not buy as much of our cotton"
What an insult to American farmers is
this. As an honorable man, must he not
blnsh for his reputation when he looks
upon these facts! But what better could
we expect from this American Secretary,
who, over and over, in his report, denoun-
ces the substitution of American manu-
features for foreign goods, and declares
that direct f0ration is more equitable and
just than duties on foreign goods, especial
ly In It's operations on the poor! Better
levy taxes on our productions than OIL
those of foreigners! Such are the doc
trines openly avowed'by this Secretary to
favor his miserable system Of 'free trade
Away with such British doctrines as
these! They could never find favor with
the American people while spark Of pa
triotism animates their hearts, or drop
of Revolutionary blood runs in their veins.
The gentleman from Alabama will no
doubt discover another terrible absurdity
when Mr.. S. stated that Great Britain ex-
ported and sold more agricultural produce
than any other country in the world Yet
it is strictly and undeniably true. Export
ed, not in its original form, but worked
up and converted into goods, iron, cloths,
&C.. consisting Of raw materials and
breadstufs. Great Britain exported, on
an average, more than two hundred and
fifty millions Of dollars worth of manu-
factures, one-half of the whole value of
which consisted of the produce of the soil.
The United States took about one-fifth
part of all The exports of Great Britain
being more than all Europe put together
In a report of committee in the British
Parliament, and some years ago, it ap-
peared that the British goods consumed
by the people of the different countries of
Europe, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria,
Spain Belgium, &C., amounted to FOUR
TEEN CENTS worth per head, while the
people of the United States at the same
time consumed three hundred and ffy-
four cents worth per head This show
ed the immense importance of the Ameri-
can market to Great Britain, and account
ed for her great solicitude to retain it.
1t also showed the superior wisdom of
the European Governments in excluding
British goods by high and prohibitory tar
ifs; thus developing and relying upon
their own resources. encouraging and sus-
tanning their own national industry, pro-
noting their own prosperity, and thus es-
tablishing as we should do their own
national independence on the most solid
and lasting foundations.
Mr.. S. invited scrutiny into the facts he
had stated; he challenged contradiction.
He put them before gentlemen, and beg
ged them to examine and disprove them
if they could. He invited them to reflect
upon them in spirit of candor. To dis
miss from their minds all party bias; to
rise for once superior to the low grovel-
ling preJudices of party to wake up to the
great interest, and feelfor the real strength
and true glory and independence Of their
native land.
BENEFITS OF THE TARIFF TO
FARMERS.
Gentlemen dwelt entirely on the bene-
fits OF foreign trade. They went atogeth-
er in favor of importing foreign goods, ,and
creating market for the benefit of for
eigners. Would our own agriculture be
benefited by process like this? Moth
ing could more efiectually divert the ben
eft from our OWL people and pour it in a
constant stream upon foreign labor. No
American interest was so much benefited
by protective system as that of agricni-
fure. The foreign market was nothing,
the home market was every thing TO them;
is was as one hundred to one. The Tar
iffgave us the great home market, while
the gentleman scheme was to secure us,
at best, but the chance of a market abroad.
while it efectually destroyed our secure
and invaluable market at home. Gentle
men were very anxious TO compete with
the pauper labor of Europe. Iwill tell
them one fact: With all the protection we
now enjoy. Great Britain sends into this
country eight dollars worth of her agri.
cultural productions to one dollars worth
of all our agricultural productions (save
cotton and tobacco) that she takes from
us.
This ! will prove by the returns fur
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