Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1846-10-22

source OF natlonal wealth. It's importance
was incalculable. Compared with this all
other interests dwindled into perfect insip.
nficance. What is all other capital com
bined, compared to the capital of labor
hard-handed. honest labor-,he toilino
millions the grea, fountain of our nation.
al prosperily--Iook at it. Suppose we
have hut two millions of working men in
the United States. whose wages average
$3.50 per vear-ihis is equal to the inter
est of $4,000 a, six per cent. Each Ia
borer's capital, then, is equal to So. 600 a,
interest. Multiply this bv two millions,
the number of laborers. and it gives Won a
capital amounting 10 the enormous sum Of
sac thousand millions of dollars. produce
ing at six per cent, three hundred and
sirty millions of dollars year. This
was the labor capital" he wished to
sustain and uphold. This was the great
national industry he wished TO protect
and defend against the ruinous and degrad
ing effects Of free and unrestricted com
peution with the pauper labor Of foreign
lands. lie went 10 secure the American
marke, for American labor. In the prea,
struggle tor The American market he took
The American side. On the other hand.
The gentleman from Alabama and his
friends wen. for the British; for foreion-
ers; for "iree trade;" for opening our
ports TO the manufacturers of all the world.
Tor bringing in freely the pauper produce
tons OF Great Britain, to overwhelm The
rising prosperity of our own pnor but
industrious cllizens. They went for
crushing American enterprise; grinding
down American labor. aud putting their
connlrymen on footing with the very
sweep'ngs of the poor houses of Europe;
and wnnld,in the end, bring them down to
Their poftical. as well as their pecuniary
aud moral condition. Mr. S. was for
cheriShlng American labor; for giving i,
high wages; for surrounding il with all
the substantial comforts Of life. Which
was the true friend of the PEOPLE! AMI
We! these "iree trade" advocates, from
the Secretary down, professed to be the
exclusive friends Of the "poor man. and
we are denounced as the friends of emil
lionalres and monopoIlsts." We now i'm.
ported tiitymlI,ions worth Of British goods
annually, and therein we imported TWEEN.
'y-hVe millions worth of British acrlruI-
tural products of English wool. English
gram. English beef and mutton, English
haX' English agricultural productions Of
every kind. And vel gentlemen would
rise here aud talk Of a British market far
our breadstufs. Why. how much Of This
did England take. Not a quarter of a
million. in all its forms.
Here was beautiful reciprocity. Here
were the beauties of free trade. Here
was our equality of benefits. We took
fifty millions in British goods. one-haf
oil II agricultural produce, while she took
one quarter Of a million OF our breadstufrs
rms was our boosted BRUSH market
W hat was this BRUSH market to Us. The
American market consumed annualiv
nearly a thousand millions OF American
grain; the BRUSH market one quarter of
one million. Great Britain took of orr
flour not twentieth part as much as Mas
sachuselts, not tenth part of The amoun,
taken by the Eas, and West Indies; not a
third part as much as Brazl: no, as much
as the little Island of Cuba; and not much
more than half as much as Havii Poor.
miserable, negro ilayli, took last wear
50. IA barrels of our -four. while England
Scotland. and Ireland together. took bu,
80 355 barrels of flonr 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 10
pay US cash for or breaiytuGs. aai.
not hdUing tito spare, she will not buy
as much of our cotton What an insnl,
TO American farmers is this. As an hon
"rable man, must he not blush for his rep
uialIon when he looks upon these fac,,?
Blu; what better could we expect from This
American Secretary, who, over and over,
IN his report, denounces the substitution
Of Hnaericdn manufactures for FOREIGN
goods. and declares that direct taxation
IS more eqnilable and jus, than duties on
foreign goods. especially in It's operations
IN The poor! Better levy taxes on our
own productions than on those Of foreign
ers! Such are the doctrines openly avow.
I'd by this Secretary to favor his misera-
bic system of "free trade" Away with
such British doctrines as these! They
,culd never find favor with the American
people while spark Of patriotism ami
mates their hearts, or a drop of Revou-
ionary blood runs in their veins.
The gentleman from Alabama will no
ionbt discover another terrible absurd,y
when Mr. s. stated that Great Britain ex-
ported and sold more agricultural produce
han any other country in The world. Ye,
+, is strictly and undeniablv true. Elk
ported, not in its original form. but work
ID up and converted into goods, iron. !
.lnihs. &C., and consisting Of raw mate. |
'ials and breadsluffs. Great Britain ex-
ported, on an average, more than two hun. |
lred and fifty millions Of dollars worth Of |
one half of The whole value
# which consisted of the produce of the |
oil The United States took about one /
if,h part of all The exports Of Great Bri- |
ain, being more than all Europe pul to.
!e,her In report Of committee in the
British Parliament, made some wears ago.
/ appeared tina, the BRUSH goods con.
umed by the people of the ditfpren, conn |
ries Of Europe Russia. Prussia.
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