The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-03

not do II, for they would then Ouuefstahu inc game
but put on high duty, calling protection TO home
industry Congress, in it's wisdom, puts on u
high tarf, and gradually the shaTPers undermine
the farmers and finally furnish all the salt OF an 10
ferior quality, at higher price. The farmer has
lost his market for ten mions worth OF his prodne-
uons he has a surplus, prices fall he sees that
he has been robbed and his trade broken down, and
all under the preence of protecting home industry
He complains, and the capitalist tells him OF his
great home market, and that he has given the
people labor He has taken labor from agriculture
To making salt, who are now consumers instead OF
producers!
Then come up the protection and free-trade poll
cy. The free-traders contend that the farmers,
while they furnished the salt by exchange Of their
-four, pork, lard, butter, cheese, lumber, horses,
mules, corn, &c, were indirectly the manufacturers
as much as il they had manufactured It on their
own farms; and that the governments interference
was unjust-it had ruined them to benefit the capi-
tilist He is answered that IL has been an adyan-
tsgs TO thsm--t has taken labor from agriculture
has lessened the Quantity rsissdand that tbsy fae.
bish them a home market; which 10 a vile fraud
They have only displaced labor, by destroying the
five hundred vessels, and throwing out OF employ
ment the thirty thousand sailors shpbuildsrs, lum
ber-geters, and hundreds Of Others connected with
that business, who would be sufficient TO make all
the salt. have taken the article of salt for the rem
son that gave the protecIio0lsts the best possible
case, as 1t required more human labor to make the
salt. hose whose productions are made by ma
chinery are in an infinitely worse condition; for
when they take one man To manufacturing with ma
chInery, they throw out Of employment two from
commercial and maritime pursuits.
The proteciionlst tells u.s. that the half OF every
bushel Of salt is OF agricultural production They
| consumed the same amount while they were IN the
| shipping interest But, for the sake Of argument
admit to be a fact that half is agricultural: does
not this prove conelusyely the fraud and humbug-
cry ofyour home markell For the yeriest simple
ton see, that while the farmer furnished It from
| Turks Island by exchange, Il was ell agricultural
That Is precisely the ground Of our complaint
that when you make Il, il is but half agricultural.
The chamber Of commerce, Of New Orleans, Mr.
| Chairman, has done me the honor to send me
pamphlet, which is answer to call from the Sec
reiary Of the Treasury, land take pleasure IN now
stating my belief that the Treasury Department has
never been under the direction Of an ADLER head, }
eulogiZlng and endorsing an able article from the
pen OF l.. J. Forsta esq, distinguished merchant
and sugar planter Of Louisiana, on the sugar inter
| est. | have examined il with much care, and have
come to an opposite conclusion from those dIstin-
guished gentlemen. Ii has convinced me that the
two and half cents duty under the AIT Of 1912 is a
sham, cheat that the real duty has been less than
halt a cent per pound. IL proves more: that even
With half cent duty it is the most Aourlshng agrl-
cultural business in the world. And still morc that
country is better adapted the culture Of sugar
than Louisiana, and that II has met competition and
overcome it, having had the last three years really
less than 30 per cent. duty. | will read from this
pamphlet, for the benefit Of the committee the facts
and opinions Of Mr.. E. J. Forstal, endorsed by the
chamber Of commerce Of New Orleans, which pro.
duced this conviction on my mind. Mr. Forshll
says
81" has often been asserted that the culture Of the
congenia to Louisiana. This is altogether error
Our fully regular In any part Of the West In
dies II we have to contend against early winters the
droughs in those Islands equally fatal to the
head. Of sugar to each working hand fhsrs is nota welt
managed plantation Louisiana that does not yield on
s sas1 II ass ss
generally believed IN the climate hut In the differ
al value Of his hands and Of To support
them. In Louisiana good field hand is worth one thou
sand dollars and provided with two meals Of Seei or
tobacco and suits OF clothes per annum the cost Of all
of which is about seventy FIVE dollars wellregulated
plantation Cuba good field hand only costs four hun
dred dollars requires little clothing and lives chiefly
and bananas which Of spontaneous growth
And this is the why cannot h. produced in
Louisiana below FIVE cents whilst four cents is said to be
about the cost OF production in Cuba Indeed 1t cannot be
denied that the reduction in the duty foreign has
been bounty the slave trade he eecu
ally put down and then Louisiana will require little
considered in national point Of view, or as matter Of
sheer Justice to Louisiana it cannot be refused without
gross injustice
! IL is seen here that the only. disadvantage the
Louisiana planter labors under is the great cost Of
his hands, which no longer exists, as good hands
can now be purchased at 81 900 to 81 200 per pair
The only advantage that the Cuba planter has,
! ia one hundred dollars in the cost Of hands, and
/ the lighter expenses in clothing and feeding them
| which, | think, is more than overbaanced by the
Louisiana planter being in the market and saving
! insurance and freight. Mr. Forstall states
The average yield of estates working to their full pow
or may be per slave five hogsheadS Of snga
and hundred and fifty gallons Of moasse which would
| give the following result:
/ 5000 lbs sugar alta cts 5000 90
$50 gallons molasses at l5 cts. 81 so
s2s7 50
Deduct expenses as before 800
Product per slave S69 80
(Which shows that, well.conducted sugar estate
with the part of its owner to work 1t to adyan
tagc four cents for sugar Is as good return per save a
ten cents for cotton"
1t will be seen that Mr.. Forstal, in estimating the
value Of labor per hand has taken four cents az the
cost he says, Of the production in Cuba, and makes
the nett yield sl62 so. | will now, by the way Of
comparison estimate the value of labor per hand ar
a cotton plantation. will take five bales the
average cron per hand. | know it will be though
hv the gentlemen from the Caronas, Alabama
Tennessee and Georgia, that this is too high al
average; but with this large average, it will be seer
that il is the cotton planter that requires protection
Say per hand FIVE bales cotton, at 6! cents per
pound .......'..''..'..'. VIZ,
Il -
Product per hand NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 81
So il is seen that the sugar planter makes 1852 81
, per hand and the cotton planter S95 Which wants
protection, | ask II you wish to protect the suga
f planter, put high tariff to prohibit the importa
on Of sugar. and the very reverse, If you wish Il
protect the cotton planter open new markets to sci
his cotton. 1t is said that it ls advantage to e
cotton planter, it draws labor from cotton. 1t IL
J true; and If sugar the only thing protected, i
would be some advantage But whilst this benefit
: him one dollar, you are applying this principle to al
manufacturers cutting of his exchanges and njurn,
him ten dollars.
. Now to the proof that the % cents the statut
book is all cheat lie, to dupe the sugar planter
Z The Chamber of Commerce of New Orleans says !:
Before quitting the subject of sugar, thu csmme
would refer the fact how greatly the nominal
TO IL neutrsTed and the public revenue juret
by the provisions the present tariff connected with
r article Of molasses. .-
The official show that a. 600 900 Of gallons
mported into the United States In the year 1894 or th.
about II 100000 Of gallons were from Cuba, where tn
whole produce of real molasses which consists OF tn
nj DRAWINGS of moscoyado sugar, OF which comparative
iv SIN s quantity is made the island, does not
800 900 gallons and the balance must have been the sru
arising from operation of making their white and brow
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