Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-20
FOR THE TINES.

as Hemp and Tobacco are the great staples Of
our agricultural interest, and as we have often
heard our Loco Foco friends boast Of hogshead
Of tobacco being better Bill Of Exchange
than a United States Bank Note, will give
you the price of those articles and the result OF
my enquiries They are, think, not very Aater
ing to us farmers, after the promises made to us
If we would only assist them in the repeal Of
the odious Wing tariff, that was passed solely
with an eye to the protection Of those overgrown
Eastern Monopoles, and which operated so heav.
lily against the dear people-the poor farmers.
But for the prices-Hemp is worth two dol
lars per hundred and twelve pounds; and tobacco
from dollar and twenty five cents, to one dollar
and fifty cents per hundred. | saw Capt. Boul>
din, he informed ME that those Bills of Elk.
change (IIhd. of Tobacco) were very much un.
der par and that he would have to submit TO a
shave Of about thirty three per cent. on all tia,
he had forwarded the last year.
l next enquired the price Of Pork and Wheat.
Pork had been selling at from 81, so to $500
per hundred. Wheat was no sale, | do not
know that you could get thirty cents per bushel.
They stated that il was bringing tolerable fair
price in St. Louis, owing to the supply being
very limited and navigation closed, but so soon
as navigation opened they expected to hear that
the article was fiat.
Well, says to one of my old Loco friends.
| have just been enquiring into the interests OF
our agricultural class. You recollect that J. S.
Green told US last summer that if we had the
abomnable tariff Of '42 repealed, which only
benefited the manufacturers Of the East, that the
farmers would then reap the advantages Of the
repeal. If these are the advantages that we are
to receive, think we are poorly paid; for, we
find the price Of nothing the farmer has to buy
reduced, but every thing he has to sell has come
down about fifty per cent If your representa-.
tive in Congress actually believed what he stated
he must be as green by nature as by name.
My friend remarked that ".he Wings were al
ways in too great a hurry-but says he, the
tariff is the most difficult measure for the com
mon farmers to understand Of any that is agitated
before them, and it looks so reasonable when
you tell them that the duty paid on the ertcle,
lust raises the price Of the article that amount,
it is never enquired into any further; and if it
was, there are few who understand that every
, mechanic or manufacturer reduces the agricu.
turist one, SO that instead OF increasing the
quantity Of produce, he is actually diminishing
the quantity by buying for his own support;
besides, says he, there are but few who know,
and you can't make them believe that the State
Of Massachusetts purchases more breadstuffs from
the farmers for their manufactures than all Eng.
land; but, says he,. l do not think our member
is so green as you imagine; do not think that
he expected the tariff 10 be repealed, but wished
to keep it TO make capital ont Of, but Polk
, and his security had pushed the question too hard
with the British Manufacturers who were assem-.
; bled in the Committee rooms, and now the only
chance is to charge the operation to the war with
Mexico"
My friend having other business. we separated.
:, | was then musng on the promises made by
our Locos, some Of which will enumerate;
FIRST that Queen Of Harlots Ohe U. S. Bank)
who refused to let old Hickory embrace her
must be put down." We were promised il they
could succeed in this. we should have better
! currency, old Hickory said through the State
s Banks. Old bullion" said the yellow boys
d would be floating up the Mississippi, and would
. be seen shining through the interstices Of the
c farmers silken purses. We were promised nc
: expansions or contractions; all things were to &c
C smoothly on. The Wings told them that there
! would be suspensions; that the public fund
would be lost in the State Banks that the gov
erment credit would fail and that individual con
fdence would be destroyed-all this was verified
h under little Matty's administration. Well, the
. Independent Treasury must be established, 81
the office holders, who are generally doubly paid
- might draw their pay in gold and silver. W.
were again promised great things from this opera
, ton. The Wings again cautioned them that tn
: funds would be lost, &C.; all Of which provet
} true, as many of the subreasurers left the coun
try with the money in their pockets; but, to Gu
IS the matter short, the Locos have got every thin
G they craved; the Bank is put down; the Sui
I Treasury is established; the tariff is repealed
II they have got Polk, Dallas, Texas and the War
d and what advantages are we receiving? Is tn
d currency any better-when our poor soldiers i
g Mexico, who are serving for eight dollars pc
Y month, are compelled to submit to be shave
e twenty.f per cent. on their Treasury Notes
:. in order 10 buy the necessaries Of life? Has tn
r. Aaol H.