Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-08-27

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turing establishments which have been commenced,
the progress which has been made in, and success
with which they have been attended.
Upon this resolution, how stood the Southern
votes? asked Mr.. Upham.
Yeas Nays
Virginia IL .
North Carolina 8 g.
South Carolina 6
Georgia
81 is
In compliance with this resolution, the Secreta-
| ry OF the Treasury, Mr.. Gallatin, recommended
! PROTECTION by INCREASED DJTTIES ON
imDorations. He estimated the annual product Of
American manufactures at that time at SI2O.O0O
600, and that the provisions and other articles the
growth and prodrce ofthe u. S. consumed and u.s.
ed by the MANUFACTURERS, created home
market for agricultural productions nearly equal to
the whole foreign demand. And be it remembered
that this was at a time when all Europe was invov-
ed in war and we were favored with a large de.
mand for our agricultural productions 10 feed her
armies.
Mr.. u then took view of the condition of tho
! U. s. at the commencement of the war with Eng
| land IN 1872, showing that destitute of manu-
features were we; that we could not even clothe
our soldiers, nor furnish them blankets except by
! purchasing clothing and blankets from our enemv
and of course paying them a large profit on them.
That served to foster and build up our neglected
manufacturers but they were viewed with jealous
envy by England, and Lord Brougham de-
cared soon after tho closed, that it was well
worth while to INCUR A LOSS upon the first
expectations Ito the U. S. in order by glut,to
StNe IN THE CRADLE, these rising manufac-
lures in the U. States, which the war had forced
into existence"
| Mr.. Upham then passed on to the Legislation of
Congress in 1876 In the act of that year first
introduced the much abused " minimums," and
at whose instance, and for whose benefit were they
| inf Rv nd tbo
generally, FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRIVING THE
| INDIA COTTONS OUT OF OUR MARKET, AND
FORCING INTO THEIR PLACE FABRICS MADE OF
THE COTToN RAISED BY THESE STATES! The
minmums were intended to PROTECT the Cot
ion of the South, and so long as they were neces-
sary for that purpose they were all RIGHT; but
when they were no longer necessary for that pur-
pose but to serve 10 protect NORTHERN products,
! South Carolina, the mother of them, raises most
terrible clamor and hue and cry about them, calling
them all sorts of opprobrious names
MIR. u. then took in review the tariffs of 1876
'2i, '2S, '33 and 40. That of 1916, which was
Protective Tariff was supported by the South Car
DINA delegation in Congress, her distinguished cit
zen and able and experienced statesman, Lowndes
was the author Of the bill, and it advocated by
him and Mr.. Calhoun. On Mr. Randoph's motion
20 strike out the " minimums" Mr.. Calhoun said
"The present motion opens new aspect 1t is
made professedly on the ground that manufactures
ought not to receive any encouragement and will,
in its operation, leave cotton establishments
posed to the competition of the cotton goods of the
East Indies, which it is acknowledged OH all sides
| they not capable of meeting with success with
out the provso proposed to be stricken out by the
motion now under discussion"
! "Nelther agriculture, manufactures, nor COM
merce, taken separately, is the cause of wealth -
! 1t flows from the three combined, and cannot exist
without each ;--without commerce industry would
have no stimulus, without manufactures it would
| without n DrO1 and witt ant
agriculture neither of the other can subsist. When
separated entirely and permanently they perish"
His object, he said, " in affordng Protection to
manufactures was to place them beyond contingent
cy."
The journal of the House shows that six out of
the eight members from South Carolina voted a.
gdlnSt Mr.. Randolphs motion, Mr.. Calhoun and
Mr.. Lowndes being in the majority, or negative
The act of 1916, which was a South Carolina Act,
imposed duty of rs per cent upon cotton goods,
that of 1924, also Southern measure, increased it.
do not deem it necessary to follow Mr.. u. thro'
his review of the subsequent Tariff acts but hav-
ing got through with them, he remarked that the
protective policy the rst-born offspring of the
Federal Constitution. The Tariff of 1889 was de-
signed to encourage and protect manufactures, at
well as to raise revenue, and every Tariff from that
time to the present has contained determinations
for protection to the labor and industry of the coun
try. No administration, until the present, has been
bold enough to assa the policy and recommend its
abandonment Great interests have grown up I'M
der the fostering care of the government, and the
faith of the nation is pledged to sustain them,
More than $350,000,000 have been invested in
manufacturing giving employment to more than
eight hundred thousand persons, and support to four
or five times that number
n The number Of persons engaged in the various
branches OF industry IN 1910, were, by the returns
of the census, as follows: 1t should be remember
ed that these returns were made when manuactu-
ring was suffering for want of adequate protection.
In Mining, 1921
Commerce, 1l7607
/, Manufactures, 79l,749
\ Navigation on the Ocean, 56,021
!, Internal Navigation, 33076
Learned Professions, 65266
Total 1,0769l9
In Agriculture, 37l995l
i 479s,97O
In 1910, according to the census, the products
of the various branches of industry were,
Or Agriculture, Sod, 3S7,592
Manufactures, 239 S36,22l
-, Commerce. 79,72I,0S6
, Mining, 4235S,76l
Forest I6S45060
Fisheries, ll996,00S
Il | must postpone any further synopsis of this
speech till some other time; perhaps indefinitely,
Il but that will depend upon time and inclination to
t go through with the remainder.
PAINFUL TRAeEDY.-The Dayton lOhio) Tran
script gives an account of an atfray between two
brothers, James and William Black, about seven
miles north of Dayton, on Thursday evening last.
They had been hauling in grain, aud dispute a
rose whether each had hauled in his share. The
father requested James, who had claimed TO have
finished his share to assist William. The parties
became ennged, and William threatened to tiog
, James, James dared him to come down from the