Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-03-18
0j.Mr.. A. Stewart of Pennsylvania has sent a

uT|Mr, A. Stewart of Pennsylvania has sent
circular, addressed to the different industrial inter-
ests of the country containing series of questions
which in themselves, are most cogent arguments in
favor of our protective system. We copy that por-
ton addressed to Farmers and Mechanics, and we
ask for it the most careful perusal.
- CUSHIONS TO FARMERS, MECHANICS, sc.
What part of the value of yard of cloth consists
OF WOOL bread, meat and other agricultural productsl
And is not piece of flannel, manufactured by far
mer In bis own family, as much production of his
farm, and strictly agricultural, as barrel of flour!
What portion of the price of foreign hats, shoes,
axes, hoes glass, salt, sc. consist of foreign agr-
cultural produce, raw MATERIAL and the subsistence
OF LAHORE and when we send our money abroad to
purchase these articles do not send it to support
and enrich foreign farmers and mechanics to the in
jury of our own!
What portion of ton of pig iron consists of ag-
rlcutural produce, estimating the subsistence ofmen
horses, oxen, &c. employed in supplying the ore and
coal, and converting it into ironl Is not seven
Fights of its value AGRICULTURAL Does not Great
Britain make iron, cloth, glass; &c.. out of the same
materials that We do and when we import these ar
ticles, do not import the British agricultural pro-
duce worked up in t6eml And is the policy of re-
ducing duties to increase imports, such policy as
ought to be sustained by your representatives p
Your answer will inform them.
What portion of the value of the whole of our
foreign imports consists of foreign agricultural pro-
duce, estimating the material and the subsistence
of the labor employed in their productions Is it not
greatly more than one half?
Estimating, then, one half of the value of our i'm
ports to be agricultural produce, and imports of
British manufacturers appears by official documents
having exceeded for ten years past forty millions
year, while she has taken, for the tme of all
the agricultural products of the graingrowing States
-four grain, meat and provisions of every kind, less
than two millions of dollars worth per year from
does it not follow that we consume annually twenty
millions dollars worth of British agricultural produce
to two millions of the same that she consumes of
our! and ought the extension of this system of pol
icy, by which made to consume ten dollars
worth of British wool, grain and provisions in the
form of British goods to one dollars worth she
takes from u.s. to be advocated by the American peo-
pie or their representatives.
| QUESTIONS TO LABoRERs AND OTHERS.
With our present facilities of intercourse with
Europe by steam, would not Stree trade" reduce the
wages of labor here In every department of Industry
to the level of wages oflabor there! just certainly
the removal ofa wall separating to unequal bodies
of water would reduce the one to the level of the
other!
If the productions of European labor working at
25 cents per day in making shoes, hats, cloth, and
every thing else, admitted into our ports free
of duty, must not our mechanics and laborers come
down and work as low they do, give up the
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street or river working at % cents, would reduce
rs cent. labor on the other side to its own levell
! The message says the tariff 'imposes heavy and
unjust burdens on the farmer Gen. Jackson says,
''the tariff by taking six hundred thousand men, wo-
men and children from agriculture and employing
them in manufactures, would create home market
for more bread-stus than all Europe furnishes.
The message also says, duties ought to be iDPos-
ed for revenue only, and whenever they are high
as to diminish imports and Revenue, they ought to
be reduced to the standard. Thomas Je fer
in his report to Congress says, the true system
is just the reverse of this: he says Congress should
select such articles can manufacture for our
selves, "mposing them duties lighter at first, but
heavier and hearier afterwards other channels Of
supply OPEN" The one says, as the American sup
ply increases, reduce the duties so to increase i'm
ports-the other says, as the American supply in
creases, increase the duties to diminish imports
Here Jackson and Jefferson both stand directly op-
posed to Polk. Which is rlghta
The information sought by this letter may be ad-
dressed any friend of the tariff in Congress, stating
the name Of the writer may be used publicly not.
Letters received from all parts of the country
anxiousy enquiring whether the tariff will be put
down not.
From present indications, think the protective
policy is in great danger of being entirely over
thrown The enemies of the tariff are endeavoring
to make it party question, and to rally the Admin
isration party against it on party grounds; if they
succeed, the protective policy and the present tariff
must go down. Surprising it to have every Wing
vote, it will require 35 administration
it. Where are they to come froml Not in my
Judgement unless the people themselves come speed
ily to the rescue Unless they promptly send in
circumstances, signed without distinction of party
against making the tariffs strictly party question,
and against the notification repeal of the tariff Of
1912, fear all be lostbut prompt and patriotic
appeal to congress by the people, without distinction
party, may savethe country from impending danger
and nothing else in my opinion can do it.
Yours, respectfully,
A. STEWART.
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