Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-06-18

eigners7 Why not keep our money and our
profits ourselves, instead Of giving both 10 the |
,bor of Great Britainl The profits OF manu- |
featuring were chiefly owing TO the use and
CONSENT improvement OF machinery. The
saving of labor and the incfesse of human
power produced in this manner was almost
incalculable. BY its aid one feeble woman
was enabled to accomplish more in day than
would pay Tor the productions OF forty able
bodied, hard-handed men without. Did gen.
tlcmen desire, and was it their policy, TO let
England enjoy all this benefit, and keep il 10
herself az monopoly. Ii was THIS, and this
alone, that kept the British Government from
bankruptcy. This prolific source of wealth
AMI power enabled the British people 10 stand
mp under a debt of four thousand millions Of
dollars, and TO pay taxes to the Government
amounting 10 more than two and fifty mil
lions every year. This was the result OF her
labor wing machinery. Was il the policy
oi gentlemen To let England have this proiita-
pie business OF manufacturing all TO herself
That seemed TO be the policy OF the Secretary
oil the Treasury. Indeed. he had avowed it
IN his report 10 be his settled policy to break
down the manufacturers OF our own country
and derive his revenue from British aud 9th
er foreign goods. His policy was to increase
rivenue by increasing importations; and, as
he would reduce the average OF duties to one
halt, of course, 10 get the same amount OF
revenue, I'VE must double our imports. This
was manifest and uDdeniable. Our present
imports amounted TO one hundred millions;
10 carry out the Secretarys plan we musl.make
them hundred millions Our exports were
about one hundred millions, aud OF course one
hundred millions in specie would be required
annually TO pay the balance.
Ihe whole amount OF the country had never
been estimated at more than eighty millions.
How, then, was his policy TO work? How was
he make up this deiicit2 Not from the banks
for they would be broken up within the very
II s. year OF such system; and then what was
Mr.. Secretary going 10 do Tor his revsnue2
Inc duty on foreign iron, he tells us, is now
10 per cent. He was for reducing il to 80
per cent--less than one-half. We must, of
course, import more than double the amount
oil revenue, and to the extent break up A
mercan supply. Now, il was impossible
q make OF 7 people double their consumption,
ond SO the result must necessarily be 10 get
them TO take foreign goods where they now
took domestic, thus reducing the deman and
OF course destroying the domestic supply TO
that extent.
Was not all this plain? Could any man in
his senses deny III And then. besides, where
was the Secretary going to get the money TO
pay for al these foreign goods2 There was the
rub. TheBenteman from Virginia (Mr. Bayly)
talked about exporting potatoes TO Ireland.
Export potatoes TO Ireland! He would tell that
gentleman that last year we imported ell ,327
bushels, paying duty of ten cents per bushel
la. 0i5 from Ireland, while Ireland took of
all our grain only 100 bushels of corn, not
barrel of flour, cornmeal, or bushel OF grain,
or It's productions in any other form.
The whole OF our mighty export of breads,ufTs
to England, Scotland, and Ireland, amounted
to less than 1921 900, less than one fourth of |
, million-lesS than could be furnished by a /
single Western county. Potatoes were cheap
rim Ireland than in the UniiedSiates, vet the
people are starving, because they had no pro-
ection against England, no money, no en-
'loyment. This was the effect of slfee-lrade"
With England, and it was precisely the condi-
ION into which "lree-trade" with England
would soon bring thiscountry, lift were adopt
"a. "Fce'irade" with England reminded
him of an anecdote OF an Irishnan, who, when
OF starvation in Ireland, was |
asked whether potatoes were not very cheapl !
he answered, "Chape? the Lord love ye,
they're but saxpence bushel." How is ii,
then, you are starving? Just becase we have
no work, and can't get the saxpence." "a
laugh.) Such Were the fruits OF exchanging
agricultural products for manufactured goods
the products of manual labor for the products
oil machlnery-working the hoe against the
loom. Such had been and always would b,
the result Of this miserable system of policy.
whenever and wherever adopted.
Next the gentleman complained oftaxation.
What tax did farmers and laborers now pay
the United States7 Nothing. Many of them
used nothing but domestics. They bought no
foreign goods tea and coffee, and they were
free. Thousands and hundreds OF thousa uds
ot ouI people don't pay a dollar year into
the National Treasury, and thousands not
cent. How would it b. under a system of
direct taxation7 The burdens Of the Federal
Government would fell on farmers and labor
ers more heavily than the heaviest State taxa.
ton. Under system of direct tax the pro-
portion OF Pennsylvania would be three mil
lions ycar-more than double her present
heavy State taxation. But all these burdens
put together are nothing compared 10 the taxes
imposed on US by the British. To form an
idea OF its extent, let every gentleman ascer-
tam the number OF stores selling British goods
III his district. These merchants are alt tax
gatherers for England, taking millions and
tens OF millions ofspecie from our farmers for
British agricultural produce; wool aud every
thing else converted into goods and sent here
and sold TO our farmers, who have those very
materials on their hands rotting for want OF
market; and this is the ruinous system re-
commended 10 our farmers by these 'free.
trade" advocates. The farmers understand il
and hey will let the gentlemen know il at the
polls. They will let gentlemen know what
they think Of this "bIy eUcry thing and sell
nothing policy" They know that the farme,
who sells more than he buys gets rich, and he
VINO buys more than he sells gets poor; and
they know that the same theory is true with
regard to nations; they know that, TO sell
! more aud buy less, is the way 20 wealth. and
that the opposite course is the road TO BANK.
ruptcy and ruin.
The true American policy was PRorEcrroN
AMI lNDEPESDENcE. Ii was To make Ameri
ca independent OF all the world. That was
sound American policy; and he trusted no
man would suffer himself to be 50 carried a.
way by mere party politics as to advocate
free trade aud starvation, twin sisters
"onc and insepaTsblc." Protection was The
policy which would spread comfort and hap