Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-09
COMMUNICATIONS.
UsIosrows, [PA.l ocronr,

UsIosrows, (PA.) ocroBEn 4, ls47.
To the Hon. r. ]. WALKER,
\ secretary Of the Treasury
SIR In the last two numbers of the "Union, observ
that three or four columns Of lis leading editorials devo
to the examination of letter addressed few days since
the Vice President which any who has read you
official reports in vindicaon of the tariff Of 1916 will
once have proceeded from your PEN And you-under
standing the subject much better than the Vice President
have taken the task of answering of his hands, address
myself to you, and beg your attention additional su
gestions, which you will reply not, you may think
proper.
In my letter to Mr. DALLAS stated the fact that in your
report OF s45 you distinctly stated, than once that
was the object OF the tariff of 1916 to prepent the Substitution
Of american manufactures for foreign ripa abrics, and that
we must take goods and specie from Great Britain for
eaass otherwise, not having specie to spare she would
not pay as much for our cotton In other words that
your policy was to compel farmers mechanics and labor
Ing to quit work and send their money England buy
what they can and ought produce home the vain hope
Of thereby inducing Great Britain pay higher prices for
ton Ihs characterize British system of policy and
the of report where these purposes avowed hav
ing been referred to and denied by you taken for
granted.
Now sir, what will the intelligent farmers and mechanics
what will the whole people of this country say when they
look at few facts derived from your official statements
and which, therefore, you cannot controvert
First, them state the official fact that Great Britain takes
every year of cotton than she has taken bread
sufs for quarter Of century From 1920 to 1916 GIVEN
tyve year) the whole of beadsrus exported Great
Britain amounts SIG, giving average of S67s647
year, while she takes than twenty millions year of
cotton In 1915 she took S39, $685. 5l worth of
and only 1928 $50 worth of beadsu being equal one
hundred and eight dollars worth of dollars worth
not specie for their breadstu otherwise England will pay
much for our cotton Our farmers and mechanics must
quit work and send their money England buy ron WOOL
hats Shoes and every thing else, to enrich England because
she buys Southern cotton In other words free labor
sacrificed to slave labor This is your system, openly
ed and not denied when charged upon you Can you expect
the farmers and mechanics the free aborers and
of this country, to submit to such system this
Now, sir, the fact and challenge you to the scu-
tiny that for twenty-five years (fom 1920 ls46) have
imported more than twenty dollars worth of breadsas from
Great Britain in manufactured form one dollars worth
she took from in its condition. What is the proper
tomato value of beadstu consumed in the manufacture of
iron and other goods Fully one fourth When you buy
PIN needle, yard OF lace, you pay for the subsistence
Of the pauper labor Of England employed in its manufacture
1t is nearly all agncuurebut say onefourh only, then what
the result In ls45 Great Britain took 1928 $50 worth of
one-fourth the value being breadstu makes ST. OLD
while she took in its form from less than quarter of
million. So that we, in ls45 took in this way fifty dollars
worth of breadsus from Great Britain converted into goods
to dollars worth that she took from in its cond
ton Yet you contend that ought increase imports
OF British goods and destroy manufactures, consum
ing agricultural produce and creating markets for farmers
at home to induce Great Britain to take of cotton
But you contend that by reducing duties British
goods she will be induced take Of breadstu and
you refer exutngy for proof to the operation of the tariff Of
1896 To show how utterly unfounded this is will refer
you to the practical operation Of high and low tariffs the
sale of breadufs. Our highest tariff was the tariff of 1925
and the lowest the compromise bill of 1885, Now let
what effect they had the expectation of breadsu Great
Britain. Here the official reports, showing that she took
times much Of breadstus under the high
tariff Of 1928 she took under the low tariff Of 1888:
Table of Exports Of Breadsts 10 Great Britain for
four consecutive years under the Tariff Of 1928, and four
under The Tariff Of 1888