Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-06-18

B contest with the virgin soil Of the new States.
Il Then LET her address herself TO manufactures.
\ The gentleman from South Carolina seemed
Il Ii, observe with grief and envy that New Eng
Z land was enjoying profits 81 from forty TO fifty
& per cent What Il she did2 IL she gave that
10 South Carolina for six cents per yard which
i Carolina once could not get from abroad under
shirty six, the question for Carolina 70 look at
1 was, not what New England made, b'lt what
she charged. That gentleman wanted his STATE
! 10 90 Is I'D England for all she required. We
were all to depend on Europe for cur manu-
factiirpd articles. Foreign countries were to
I enjoy exclusively The profitable business yield
ing forty and fifty per cent. while we Were all
10 furn farmers. and join the gentleman IN
working as he said for profit Of four and
Ave per cent, and again give old England
,,yenfy FIVE cents a yard for what New Eng
land now offered them for SIX Was not this
patriotic Was il not noble, an enlarged
American policy7 England was to be allow
ed 10 monopolise all the profitable business, the
result Of Iabor-saging machinery, while we
were 10 content ourselves with the plough and
the hoe, and profits at the rate Of FIVE per cent
Was that the policy for America TO pursue
They might be Americans who recommended
it, but they were certainly playing INTO The
hands of our transatlantic competitors 1t
manufacturing was such profitable business as
these gentlemen represented II to be, why not
let Americans have il rather than foreigners
Why moi keep our money aud our profits to
ourselves. instead of giving both TO the labor
Of Great Britain The profits of manufactu-
ring were chiefly owing to the use and con-
slant improvement Of labor saving machinery
The saving Of labor and the increase OK human
power produced in this manner was almost IN
ealculahle. But by its aid one feeble woman
was enabled to accomplish more in day than
would pay for the productions Of forty able
bodied. hard handed men without II. Did
gentlemen desire. and was it their policy TO let
England enjoy all this benefit, and keep 1t 10
herself as a rnonopolyl twas this, and this
alone. that kept the British Government from
bankruptcy. The prolific source Of wealth
and power enabled the British people TO stand
I'D under a debt Of four thousand millions Of
dollars, and to pay taxes TO the Government
amounting TO more than two hundred and hi
ty millions every year This was the result Of
her immense labor-saving machinery. Was
it the policy Of gentlemen TO let England have
this profitable business of manufacturing all
to herseIf2 That seemed TO be the policy OF
the Secretary of the Treasury. Indeed, he
had avowed il in his report to be his settled po-
hcy to break down the manufacturers of our
Nd
anI other foreign goods His policy was to
increase revenue by increasing importatlons ;
and. as he would reduce the average oil duties
70 one half, of course, 20 get the same amount
Of revenue. we must double our imports
This was manifest and undeniable. Our pre-
sent imports amounted TO one hundred mil
lions: 70 carry out the Secretary's plan we
must raise them 10 two hundred Millions
Our exports were about one hundred millions,
and of course one hundred millions III specie
would be required annually 10 pay the balance.
The whole specie of the country had never
been estimated at more than eighty millions.
How was his policy TO work} How was he
10 make up this deficit? Not from the banks,
for they would be broken up within the very
first year of such system; and then what
was MIR. Secretary gong to do Tor his feVen-
ue2 The duty on toielgu iron was now 10
per cent He was for reducing 1t to 81 per
cent--ess than one-half We must of course,
import more than double the amount OF for
egn iron, and to that extent break up Amcrl-
can supply. Now. it was impossible to make
our people double their consumption, and so
the result must necessarily be to get them TO
take the foreign goods where they now took
domestic. thus reducing the demand, and Of
course destroying the domestic supply to that
extent Was not all this PLAIN Could any
man in his senses deny il? And then, be-
sides, where was the Secretary gong TO get
the money TO pay for al these foreign goods
There was the rub. The gentleman from Vir-
ginia MIR BAyLY) talked about exporting pota-
toes 10 ireland. On the contrary last year we
imported q ,327 bushels, paying duty often
cents per bushel-l5.045 from Ireland, whilst
Ireland took ofall our grain. only 100 bushels
Of corn, not a barrel Of flour, corn meal, bush
81 Of grain, or its productions IN any other
form. The whole of our mighty exports OF
breadstuhs TO England, Scotland, and Ireland
amounted TO less than 1924 0O0; less than one
fourth Of millon--less than could be iurn-
ished bv a single Western country. Potatoes
were cheaper in Ireland Than in the United
States, vet the people are starving, because
they had no protection against England, no
money, no employment. This was the effect
of .free trade" with England, and it was pre-
csely the condition into which ''irec trade"
with England would soon bring this country,
ifit were adopted. "lFree trade" with Eng.
land reminded him of an anecdotc of an Irish
man. who. when complaining Of starvation in
Ireland. was asked whether potatoes We're very
cheap he answered, "Chape the Lord love
We, they're but saxpence a busheI" GLOW IS
it then YOU are starving ?' "JuSt because we
have no work, and can't get the saXpcnce."
| A laugh.
The true American policy was Protection
and Independence. II was TO make America
independent of all the world. That was
sound American policy and he trusted no
man would suffer hmself'o be so carried away
by mere party politics as TO advocate free
trade" and starvation, twin sisters, zone and
inseparablc" Protection was the policy which
would spread comfort and happiness over the
face Of smiling land Its effect would pene-
trate our forests, and reach to the remotest
hamlet in the West. This would keep our
money at home, instead of sending it across
the ocean TO enrich British manufacturers at
our expense
What was the theory of our learned Secre-
tary 2 We must reduce duties 10 increase our
revenues Now. Mr.. $. said, and he defed
contradiction, that as truly as the thermometer
indicated the increase or Gmmuton Of heat IN
the atmosphere, just SO truly did the increase
or diminuton OF the tariff mark the increase
and the diminuton of revenue. He appealed
TO the record, and defed his opponents 10 the
test
The Secretary recommended a reduction OF
duties to an average rate Of 20 per cent, and
in support Of this recommendation he had &C
cornpanied his report with a table. at mace 0Jj