The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-21

millions tobacco, thirteen mAHono ho!c On
breadsus and PROVISIONS and the rest on other ARTICLES
Now YOU told, when you say thar inc prices Oh
products higher in ls47 than IN all the previous
four years. that account OF the famine IN Europe
W as there famine in Europe in ls4l and 1922 Why.
the wings were crying out that ths low tariff was ruin
ing u.s. How By giving the farmers OF the west thirty
able TO get under the high tariff From ls43 to 1916 the
prices low. Then in lS47 the prices rose again,
and this was owing TO the "famne IN Europe famine
may bread TO rise and pork TO rse but pray tell me
if famine in Europe makes cotton rise. II man IN
Eng land finds that ii all he do to get bread oL nus
family, does he go to buying cotton Tor his wife Why
it is plain preaching, and much palmer than good
deal of the preaching has been my misfortune 70 listen
to- that famine the price Of the staple articles OF
articles, dminishes Well does famine raise the price
of tobacco! man who must go without his bread or
tobacco, inclined to think would, at least shorten
his allowance of tobacco. Nor do see how famine
would raise the price Of sugar. man at the point OF
starvation would not buy sugar; he would buy bread or
potatoes for his family and sugar would be less IN de-
mand on account OF the famine. i4a. l5-sias
shall be told that there was a small crop IN ls47-
There small crop OF sugar, but not very small
Now this is my answers In 1913 there Is an UNCOMMON
y large CROP both of and sugar. There have been
generally from hundred and seventy TO one hundred
and seventy thousand hogsheads of sugars but this
year there are two hundred and forty thousand nogs
headsan immense CROP the largest ever raised IN
the country And of cotton the crop is the largest
but one ever grown in the United States Therefore, we
have not only the famine but an immense and extra
ordinary crop of cotton and sugar; and yet taking the
years 1917 and ls4s together, which give larger aver
than former years the prices are higher Ihey are
higher in spite of the famine which ought to have made
them lower; and higher in spite of the large average
crops, which ought to have made them lower say,
then, that NOT SOMETHING TO DO WITH
THIS CHANGE WILL ANYBODY TELL ME WHAT HAS! It Is
not the OF the crop, is not the famine IN
it is not any other that can conceive or II Is
of us If you say your neghbor in one OF your small
towns, 81 will not buy my boots and shoes OF yo1,'
VERY well, them" says he, 81 must 60 somewheIe else
for my hat you will not buy OF me, cannot buy OF
YOU" And so of foreign natOns if we buy OF them
they will buy OF us; but If will not buy anything OF
them, they cannot buy OF US II is not question OF
it is question OF necessity. g1a
We were told in 1910, only build up the manufacturing
system, and you will make home market to consume
the Sead h and in the dGnny S
trnes this country slate and pencils and the man
who desires that his boys should grow up democrats,
should take care that they learn cipher In Buffalo. in
1874 happened to take up wing speech by of my
Massachusetts friends and there read facts which per-
fectly asounded me- 1t stated that the manufacturers OF
certain portion of the United States consumed certain
amount of provisions certain time. Now, in making
the calculation found that there were six hundred and
forty pounds day which each man bad to eat Laugh;
economy 1t like the crusade OF Mr George Evans
through the State of Maine The honorable senator went
through the State and the burden OF his cong was the
distress that would fall upon the State Of Maine the
duty taken off of potatoes. followed him through
the State, and made the calculation well as could,
brought in BY the alteration of the tariff would amount
to Snssf a % o gGso dos eacn man s m h
conclusion that if they could be ruined easily that
by the introduction of part of potato apiece
it was not at all worth struggling for. They might as
well be ruined at once, and done with it." tLaughter1
1t was the great uproar 1910 that the home market
would be given to the labor OF the West il Harrison was
elected by protecting home manufactures, and especially
cotton manufactures. Now, that identical year 1S4O
according the census, manufactured at home forty
six millions OF cotton goods. Some OF those winch were
imported again sent abroad, and we also shipped
of cotton but the excess OF our imports
above our exports amounted to ~ 800 900; and that
all Now suppose that the Tariff had been passed that
year to prohibit all cotton cloth from coming into the
country how many labores would have been called into
action to manufacture this cloth! 1t would have en-
ployed little less than three thousand persons in ma.
the West would that have put into acton' Each one Of
these 1900 abores, to make the statement perfectly fair
shouldbe supposed to have wife and family to supports
and allowing five persons 10 each family, we have $4,000
persons who would be employed in dependent upon
agricultural labor account of this MANUFACTURED and
they would eat of course, bread and other products.
You may sail down the Ohio and the valley of the Mis-
sisspp week ten days, and yet find You are not very
near the end OF your voyage. One county in Ohio,
miles square, will contain six hundred and
square miles; each square mile will contain
acres making 100000 square acres IN one county
Suppose one half to be planted with wheat and the other
Is bushels the acre, and the only IS bushels to
the acre, which low estimate and you have 900
of bushels of breadstufs in one county Now there are
between eighty and ninety counties in each OF the west
ern States but will your $4,000 cotton manufacturers
eat the whole 100000 of bushels! or nearly two
bushels each per day You see that very small trac
ton OF one county in Ohio would feed all these additional
If you suppose them brought into action
by this tariff why they may eat $50 900 bushels. and
that would be allowing them to eat pretty as but not
ten mlions that will feed hard upon million of per-
You have got enough then to Iced all your manu-,
facturers out OF small part OF one county and what VIII
you do with the other counties of Ohio! Then there is
Iowa Missouri kentucky Tennessee, and the other west
ern States; what will they do with their wheat' "Oh,
let it rot because theory is everything, and we go Tor
the grand American system of protecting American Ia
borw
On one stem farther They passed their tariff, but did
thew shut out the foreign produce from the country! 1t
so happens that they did not In the years 1874 g. the
three af years under the high tariff of lS42 the imports
of cotton goods exceeded the exports BY more than nine
millions because the amount so trIfiing that in fact
if was not regulated by the tariff which they passed on
purpose to regulate it. They tell you, you are ruined by
The low tariff In 1877 the average is l0A millions, and
perceive at once that the number of called into
ton by this change nothing compared to the rise of
one cent upon pound of cotton, OF half dollar upon
a barrel OF flour. -lH
But let me go step further. We have supposed all
the cotton be consumed this country under the high
tariff which was consumed before; but there is not 20
much cotton consumed when you have high tariff be-
the people of the west not being able to sell their
products at profit able to buy much cotton.
of this country increased faster than had since the first
cotton mill built in Beverly, about the beginning of
George Washingtons administration. was 427,0OO
bales in lS47 and 200 in lS4S 1t increased nearly
25 per cent the second year OF this horrible tariff,
which was to destroy the whole American manufacture
Now they tell us that they ruined, ruined by the
treat quantity of cotton goods thrown upon the market
tha he "a. 1f