The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1846-08-25
BENEFITS OF THE TARIFF TO FAR
MERS
Earract from Mr.. .Ste,rarfs Speech.

E1tract from Mr.. Stelrdrfs Speech.
Gentlemen dwelt entirely on the benefits
Of foreign trade. They went altogetheTin
favor of importing foreign goods, and crea-
ting market for the benefit OF foreigners
Would our own agriculture be benefited by
process like this Nothing could more ef-
fectudlly divert the benefit from our own peo-
pie and pour it in constant strt am upon
foreign labor. No American interest was so
much benefited by protective system as
that Of agriculture. The foreign market was
nothing, the home market was every thing TO
them; it was as one hundred 10 one. The
Tariff gave US the great home market, while
the gehrleman's scheme was TO secure US, at
hest, but The chance of market abroad
while it efiectually destroyed our secure and
Invaluable market at home. Gentlemen
were very anxious to compete with the pau
per labor oil Europe. will tell them one
fact: With all the protection we now enjoy.
Great Britain sends into this country eight
dollars worth of her agric nltural productions
10 one dollars worth of all our agricultural
productions (save cotton and tobacto) that
she takes from us.
This will prove by the returns furnished
by Mr. Walker himself in support of the
bill which h. has laid before the Committee
of Ways and Means. Now, assert and can
prove that more Than half the value of all
the British mere handise imported into this
country consi of agricultural products,
changed in form. converted and manufactured
in:o goods. AMI l invite thorough analy
sis Of the fac's. challenge gentlemen to the
scrutiny. Take down all he articles in
store, one after anoIher-estimate the value
OF the raw material, the bread and meat, and
other agricultural products, which have en-
tered into their fabrication, and it will be
found that one half and more Of their value
consists oil the productions of the soil-agri-
cultural produce in its sirictest sense.
Now. by reference to Mr.. Walkers report.
it will be seen that, for twelve years back, we
have imported from Great Britain and her
dependencies annually 50 l-2 millions of dol
lars worth of goods. but call it so millions,
lille she took Of all our agricultural pro-
ducts, save cotton and tobacco, less than two
and a tall ilions of dollars worth. Thus,
then, assuming one half the value of her
goods to be agricultural, il gives us So mil
lions OF her agricultural produce TO 12 mil
lions of ours taken by her, which is just ten
to one; TO avoid cavil, | put it at eight 10
OUc. v lcet iuC VI PooitiObf bC
was prepared, if time permitted, 10 refer to
numerous facts. But for The information Of
gentlemen who are such great friends 10 the
poor and oppressed farmers, will tell them
that we have imported yearly, for twenty six
years, $50 says Mr.. Walkers repon,) more
than ten millions Of dollars worth of ,cooilen
goods. Last year we imported Sl0,666,671
wor h. Now, one-half and more of this
cloth was made up Of wool, the subsistence
of labor and other agricultural productions.
the general estimate is, that the wool alone
is half. The universal custom among farm
ers, when they had their wool manufactured
on shares, was 10 give the manufacturer half
the cloth. Thus we import, and our farm
ers have to pay, for fire millions Of dollars
worth of foreign wool every year in the form
of cloth, mostly the product on Of sheep feed
ing on The grass and grain of Great Britain,
while our own wool is worthless for want Of a
market and this is the policy gentlemen rec
ommend to American farmers. Yes, sir !;
and not satisfied with fire millions, they wish
to increase it TO ten millions year for foreign
wool. Will gentlemen deny this They
dare not. They supported Mr.. Walkers bill,
reducing the duties on woollens nearly one
half, with view TO increase the revenue; OF
course, the imports must be doubled, making
the import OF cleth twenty millions instead OF
ten, and Of wool ten instead of five millions
ofdollars per aunum.
This was the plan to favor the farmers,
British farmers, by giving them the american
market. Their plan was to buy everything.
sell nothing, and get rich. A laugh.) What
was tue as to cloth was equally true as 10
everything else, Take hat. a pair of shoes,
yard of silk or lace, analyze it, resolve it ill.,
to its constituent elements, and you will find
that the raw m aterial. and the substance OF
labor, and other agricultural products, consti-
tuted more than one half its entire value.
The pauper labor of Europe engaged in
manufacturing silk and lace got what it eat,
no more; and this is what you pay for when
Won purchase their goods. Break up your
home manufactures and home markets, in;-
port everything you eat and drink and wear
for the benefit Of the farmers. Oh, what
friends these gentlemen are TO the farmers
and mechanics and laborers of this country
no, sir, am wrong. of Great Britain.
As still stronger illustration OF his argu-
meut, MI. S. referred to the article oil IRON
Last year, according to Mr.. Walkers he
port, we imported $9,053, 1856 worth Of Tor
eigu iron, and its manufactures, mostly rom
Great Britain, -four fifihs ofthe value oil winch
as every practical man knew, CONSISTED O.
agricultural produce-noihing else Iron II
made Of ore and coal and what is the ore
and coal buried in your mountains worth
Nothing-noihiug at ALL unused. VIVA