Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-04-02
THE ENQUIRER.
MOND, VA.
thursday Morning, April l, ls47.

thursday Morning, April l, ls47.
=, Within sir months from ,uy l, 1886, labor wii
,uced from fifteen TO twsnty per cenI-'n'' :"
90 SET Of Nareh ls4. oaehalf of the small iac
% ..cisily Of iron and woollsn, viii stop opera
ting ~ a oriexltsre tUiil be materially re-
~; .A -, ,oort % HONE xAaKrr and on account
s.n ,.d"eiion If competition In the price OF iano.
On The banls will, In sell deieaee, % -
~. ,her CIRCULATION materially :! ~, ,,.
sr,,s Wisu ono year Government crsdt win NOT DO
~, o,. n,r and more likely much below .:u,.
a sh e nine r,g,ths exchange on England I' % -"
IRA cssT. ApvAScH -
,unced BY the New Haven Palladium OF sep,
,ember Isl, 1916, a few days after the ufeaa'u'
Tariff was adopted. Have the portenlous HIS
p,cphesied by the Protective Prophet 0eeh
r.,l;zed2 Arguments are unnecessary-We
deem i. sufficient to gronp together a few jaels'
tspjshed by The Federal papers themselves, IN
.o,,ole,e retu,a,ion of the "panic" outcry, few
months since
The six months have gone BY, and the wages
=, labor were never higher than they are now
5, far from the factories OF iron and woollen
h.ing closed, we hear in every direction OF new
sx,,blishments being sci on foot, or old ones en-
,,rssd and expanded. Al our very door We have
large woollen factory going up, and new iron
WORKS rapidly progressing to completion. The
legislature jus! adjourned have chartered mum
bsr OF companies for the manufacture OF iron
ami other products. The Savannah Republican,
Wing, sees no reason why East Tennessee and
Georgia should mol be enabled ITO make money
BE- torses, rolling mills, slilting mills, &C., as
well as the good people of the iron city" ltcon.
6,sn,ly refers 10 the extensive iron works of
Nessrs. Cooper s. Sirens, in Cass county, Ca,
which have "yielded enormous prefts, and which
are ro,y making very extensive arrangements for
he enlargement of their business. The demand
nr iron and the manufactured articles is already
rtah tcyo,.d the capacity ofthe company to supply,
and his demand must be doubled, if not quadru-
MED in few years, especially when The compelI-
lion has reached point which will reduce The
nrice below lha, ilhe imported article. That such
will be the case, we have not doubt, and That
Inc manufacturers r,A still realize heavy prohts, is
eoua,y certain. Indeed we are al a loss to con-
src why it is that our State has not already sur
passed even New-Ensland in manufactures"
Mr. Philip Ripley of Hartford, Connecticut,
has large capital invested al Windsor Locks
prcbably one hundred thousand dollars. He is
Wing, but at a recent meeting he "fen bound to
max The truth. The object Of the meeting was
"a increase The facilities Of manufacturing, and he
,od The people that they could go on and secure
the great object scithout fear of anjury from the
arif-,hat,he present tariff would not injure the
business, end the cry about injury from The tariff
,eas not portdy of consideration"
Indeed, the only fear now expressed is, that the
manufacturers will become so much in love with
the present Tariff that they will be led, by the
prospec, Of lis advantages, to venture too deeply
But, screamed out the Federal panic-makers
the prices of agricultural products will bereduced
for The wan, Of a home.market. The fact is di-
reclly the rcverse-and, though we are willing 10
ascrihe some of the credit to the failure Of crops
in Europe. no reasonable man can deny that ii IS
lar.e!v attributable to the opening OF The British
norts and the reduction Of our own heavy bur-
hens upon commerce The Wing contends that
he oblec, of the repeal of the British corn-laws
was no, TO benefit The American farmer, but the
British manufacturer The friends of free trade
areue. however, tina. the liberal measures adopt
II m both sides o. The Atlantic In benefiung The
British manufacturer equally subserve The great
ag,iculural interests Of this counry-for, as the
London correspondent of the Wing National In
leligencer says
al does not appear in any degree probable that
". can for a long time, perhaps never, be inde-
pend,n. O. you tor this all-importanl raw mater-
al fcoron.) Again, lake tobacco. There were
imaor,cd las. year into Great Britain 37,6l0,00O
rounds Of this article, of which 36,6lb,9e5 pounds
we're from The United States. There is no pro-
b,bi,y OF our ever doing without your assist
ance for our supply OF this article. N you Aaue
ssp2y rs nth brcadstu6s, cotton and TOBACCO, yo'I
msA bun something Of AS in return- out VIII your
demands keep pace with our necess'tesI we
hope thew will, im payment in hard cash IS 0nt 81
Ne question"
Islhere Virginian who does mol cordially desire
10 see The enormous duties imposed upon our tobac-
co in Great Britain materially reduced2 lslhere
one, who does no, look 10 such measure as emf
nen.ly calculated 10 open wide market for our
ubacco, and thereby advance the interests OF the
plan,er3 Why should not the same beneficial
effects follow upon the opening of the ports 10
our grain and -four? Yer, in The latter case, the
Tariff party profess TO riticule the advantages,
which they clearly admit in the case of tobacco!
Who can look at The enormous export OF 81 ,3i3,-
ESQ, mostly OF farmers slufs, in one week, from
The CITY of New York, and complain that The new
Tariff has depressed the agricultural interest, Tor
the wan, of "home-market2"
Germane 10 this branch of the subject there is
another point on which much mi representation
has been INDUCED in by the proectionists. In
their Jealous endeavor to convince The farmers
oiAmerca that the opening of the British ports
would be OF no advantage TO them, they have con-
tended, there were wheat.growins countries
nearer 10 Grea, Britain than any OF the Ameri-
can Sta,es--,hat these countries would be able to
take advantage o. every favorable turn in the En-
gish mark, and supply every demand before it
could reach America-lhat wheat from Odessa
and Danzc could be poured into the British
ports before tn grain-ireighted ships from Anne
rica could ge, hal way across the ocean. Elihu
burrill, The famous Learned Blacksmith" now
Travelling in Europe, puts at rest this vaunted
objection. He says:
There has been, fear, something less honest
man msapprehension perpetuated to the disad.
Eantage of The west on this important point
harng made special enquiries Of several corn deal
e's here, learn that virtually, there is no grain
;row'ns country nearer 10 England than the U.
States; that the average passage from Odessa to
Liverpool is from seventy 10 eighty days; that the
average passage from Danzic to the same port
consumes as much time, on an average, as a
Passage from New York."
The same writer, in glowing terms, describes
'ae movement OF The popular mind in Europe, in
favor OF the liberalizing movement of Free
lfaas-so we'll calculated todevelope the resour-
'eso all nations, and 10 extirpate all The active
snd powerful elements Of discord:
The principles OF Free Trade are fast gain
as ground through The European part of Chris.
@0aom, and Providence seems TO recognize them
as'ee primitive statutes Of Natures economy,
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