The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1846-03-05
From the Louisville Journal

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TARIFF PoL1c1Es
1T is we'll that the people of this country
should have clear PERCEPTION of the effect
of The step towards free trade, which seems
about 10 be taken in England and the United
States, upon the industrial interests of the
two countries respectively. England has
for centuries pursued most rigidly and thor
onghly the policy ofprotecting her home in
dustry, and II requires an analysis of her
present commercial project TO determine
whether in point of fact her Concession 10
free trade is all Abandonment OF that policy.
or compulsory selection between her two
leading interests, manufacturing and agri-
cultural-an adroit movement in behalf of
The former, which is unqueslionably her pre-
dominating interest. Up 10 a recent date.
! England attempted 10 give equal protection
TO both those interests, or, in more accurate
J language, she attempted 10 maintain herman
utactuHng ascendancy, and al The same time
secure 10 her farmers the monopoly of The
home supply of provisions. This policy has
caused manufacturing rivals 10 spring up in
several quarters of the globe, and within the
last few years she has beheld the United
States not only supplying our home demand
for many manufactures, but competing with
her in the supply of the world. Finding at
] length that she could not continue 10 be the
workshop of the globe without cheap provis-
ions TO feed her operatives, seeing her manu-
featuring ascendancy departing, actually ell
| bowed out ofsome Of her principal markets
by Yankee enterprise and ingenuity backed
By cheap food, she is AT last compelled TO de-
/ claro in favor of rnaouIacturoo ,poD Oh
her ascendancy and glory must rest or forev-
er depart.
The concession of free trade in England is
indeed the abandonment of protection TO her
landed interests, but al the same time il is
The best possible protection 10 her mauufac-
turing interests There never was doubt
on this side of the water that this is her true
policy, and our manufacturers have seen the
advantage which the contrary policy gave
them. But that policy was adhered 10 until
we have become emphatically manulac-
turing people, until vast manufacturing in
leresl has arisen in The United States. Il is
now questioned the highest Importance to
determine whether we shall be induced, by
compulsory lberality on the part of Eng
land, so 10 modify our own commercial reg
ulations as TO hazard or materially impair
those interests. Our true rivalry with Eng
land is in manufactures The difference be-
tween the two countries is this. EngIand's
concession TO ftee-lrade, is protection TO her
manufactures; Jour concession TO fiee-irade is
blow 10 our manufactures. English free
trade strengthens her manu- featuring inter-
esis and tends 10 give them predominance
over those ofall other nations: American
! Ffee-Iade impairs American manufacturing
! interests and tends 10 promote those of her
rival Ii remains TO be seen whesher the
people of this country can be cheated into
an abandonment of their own interests, aud
into policy eminenily calculatedto promote
the interests OF their great manufacturing and
commercial rival.
The compensation offered by Sir Robert
Peel 10 The farming interests ofEngland, viz:
the free into luc,ion of Indian corn loud
Tor cattle, is altogether ilusory. Ii is cacu-
= lated to deceive the people of this country
as we'll as his own. We stated Yesterday
that large amount of Indian corn will be
exported, but on reflection we have no doubt
that opinion was erroneous The article
cannot be exported 10 England, except du-
ring one or Two months Of The year, without
damage. 1t can never, from lis peculiar La
billy 10 swell and spoil from heat and mois-
lure, become an article ofheavy expectation,
unless indeed some process be discovered TO
preserve il without injuring lis quality. The
prospect is that we shall lose atleast as much
in the home demaud Tor agricultural products
as we shall gain in The foreign, by any modi-
= fcaton ofour tariff tending TO repress manu-
featuring industry at home and promote it
abroad. 1t has become question simply
where the manufacturing shall be dome
whether al home, by our own citizens and
with our own capital;a home, where the pro-
visions are produced 10 feed the operatives;
or abroad, TO the advantage offoreigners, and
where the provisions must be brought from
country three 10 four thousand miles distant.
Is it cheaper, is il better for the bile inter-
est, for The people ofIhe United States to-
patronise foreign workshops, and send their
provisions thousand of miles 10 exchangefor
clolhing, or to have workshops a their very
doors from which, by the same process of
exchange, TO obtain their supplies of manu-
| faclures?
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