The daily union., 1846-10-26
TARIFF ARGUMENTS.

We cut the following from the National Iatelli.
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How FACTORY HURTS THE FARMER.--The free
trade friends Of the farmer telling him ho "
much he would be improved were the factories
stopped, and he allowed to buy where he can buy
the cheapest We have at last some figures 10 pre-
sent upon this subject, which Of interest They
relate 10 Duchess county, county that since lSl
has had within ia limits factory that greyous
thing for farmer The facts we obtain from Hunts
Magazine, but the arrangement is our own.
First, let US the effect of factories Fiahk
| IN reducing gis tdrfs Of The tOtoH. The Matteawan
factory, on the creek, in l540 employed three hun.
dred persons, who consumed the produce Of the
farmers, and paid 10 taxes from 1928 20 1884, (six-
teen years,) s33,029 lS average Of 81 O00 pet
year or the amount paid ny thiry-fye farms Of one
hundred acres; which 81 900 is Just so much none
given 10 the support Of the iowa, without taking
| anything from the means Of the farmer. The same
company, IN lo43, bought of the agricultural pro
duce Of the county STAG IS, and of the produce
Of other domestic industry out Of the county
,376 or sl95 060 IS worth Of agricul ursl pro
ducts manufactured articles, that in their produc-
| ton, gave support 10 agriculture in other parts o
the country. Now we should like to have free-tradeI
| tell US how much more the farmers would have got
! for this s74,654 IS worth of produce, and how
much better off the farmers would have been, had
the company not paid a tax equal to that levied on
thirty-hye farms of one hundred acres each. AfteI
they have figured out the loss sustained by having
one Factory among them, we will give them another
instance.-.N y. Express. ~, .
REaARKs.-We venture to say, the taxes Of the
farmer are not cent Lopsr in Fishkill than they
were before the factory was established. Are they
not higher, Mr.. Express' To count the tax paid
by the factory for "a, own protection as so much
gained by the tOlr is just absurd as to say that
all the taxes paid by the improvements in New
York, is so much gained BY the isiandef Manhattan.
The effect upon the farmer in other respects, we
show thus: The factory bought of agricultural pro-
ducts, &c, says the Express, sl95,060 IS worth
exactly. .. .fr,.....
Now, but for the British and American tariffs
these products would have found an extensive for.
eign market, instead Of being restricted to thai
liue "home Market" the factory, and would have
brouest temper cent more, producing to the farmers
S2l4,566 80. On the other hand, if the farmers
had had the markets of the world to buy in, in
stead of 's factory" they could have gotten thirty
per cent of more comforts for their families than
they have done. s.U
Now let sum up.
Free trade would have given the farmers for their
produce more than they did get, ten per cent. on
sales sl9,5O6 0s
On purchases thirty per cent. 64,369 81
Total sS3,S75 95
Which is but small portion of the TAX
the "Matteawan factory" has levied upon "he
farmers for the emoument of its owners, under one
Of the most fraudulent and wicked systems of le-
gisation that ever existed.
Now for that "other instance Mr.. Express.