Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-02-10

mus IL appears, from official documents,
That during iour years OF our highest tariff
the taril Ut lS2S-we took about hlllas ma
ny goods from Great Britain. and ar ,ota
one hundred times as much OF our beessfls uf.
as she took during four wears OF our lowest
tsriff. Yet. Mr.. Walker repeats, over and
over again., that orr expert OF bread>tuffs has
ALWAYS been greater under low tariff, than
oider high tariffs, aud ,eirr, 10 Treasury Ia
bles To prove it, Tia. Mr.. Walker looked al
these reports? Does he know wha; they con.
tainf he surely does not. or he never would
have venlured upon such statements as these.
Here II is seen that, in 1886, we took ST 900,
UO0 dollars worn ot goods from Great Bri-
tam. and she took .6SI dollars worth oil
breadstutis irom us III payment. Yet Mr.,
Walker says in his Report of lSi5, page ID.
that We must take more English goods, 9th
er : Use : the lncrra>ed sum England will have
10 pay tor our hreidstuTs we will not take in
manufactures but only IN specie. sn not h.y.
nag 1t 10 spare, she brings down, even to a
Sfeater extent, our cotton" Eighly-six mil
ions oil British goods will not pay for ,63i
dollars worth OF American breadstuffs. and
'ha balance England will have 10 pay =. in
specie, and not having it to spa re, will bring
down the price OF our C ,tton! Is not tins
"coa"-is it no: wonderful?
But Mr.. Walker SAYS the farmers are par.
t%icularly benefited by free trade aud low du.
lies; the dear farmers" the toilins mil.
liens the "votrrs"-who control The aC.
lars oil Government; these, lie saws, are the
men mosl benefited. Benefited by whs,
ey importing, as in 1886, eighty six millions
OF dollars worth Of British bresdsluTs. raw
matetiais and labor combined in the form q,
Bn ish goods, in exchange Tor one thousand
SIX hundred and eighty four dollars worth OF
brradstuii> taken from u.s. What makes for.
eisn goods? agricultural produce and la
~oor-nothIng else. The raw msterial and
provisions constitute more Than hal. of the
value o'a'l iurelSn soo,ts, aud the balance OF
'he price Is made p OF the wages OF la bur and
pronls oil capital these are the elements.
ana me Whole nl The elements, of price stu
this Is, IN idct, what the American farmer
pays ms ih'iiey Tor when he buvs forei,u
s'ods-'"friSn agricultural produce, aud Tor
eiSi iaoor-whlle Aurriran iarm=rs are left
without a mafAet Tor their wool and proyi.
si'hs' and Their money seit Ia import il. ia
'he 'ofIn oi cio'h and otirr articles. from
abroad. Il tins not true To the letter? Yei
''is' we are Told, Is the poilcr to favor Anne.
i'Cah farmers! Oar lran.d Secretary tnovs
very little ct the character ul American far.
uhrrs ANA mechanits. II h. thinks he Gun puil
IN IN with such stuff as Ills.
Ma. dlher talks much of brea5s,nT.
iils report Is stuffed With hread,,ufi.. "ad
museum tie Is endravoriug to ni,ltad
anu deceive ,he people on hi. subject bul
ne can do II. Il wasa isct susctptible al
the clearest pTo0l. that from The dsy al oar
independence To The presru, hour, we nav.
imported twenty dollars worth OF hnad,rul,
Ia IN form ol goods from Great oritaia. TO
one auliars worth she has ldken ilum us in
IL raw l1rn. What propur,iou of M, NM
u goods WAS made up ul the breads ulrs con-
sunfrd b. the labor endowed ia n,nin,in.I
'he Tow insteris's, and afterwards In con,.ri.
.nS them ldlo goods? Take a ton of iron, ar
Nafd oil silk. II was all labor-iaboi iro,n The
'fc TO the anchor, and from the worm mi
TO Tue in,shrd ribhon-sll labor. And
W., "'d lhislabor ge2 IL gol what 1t cal
bread, aud hardly enough oi
.na'' and ms Is What we pay our money Tor
" ne' we pu! foreign goods. Taking this
Tn :. me SUBJECT Mr.. Brown, d Distinguish
!" p'''isn writer, has lately said. that L rrai
exports more agricultural produce
q a", o'''ef nation IN the wofd"-expof.
Gu III thv form OF goois. Now. he Wished
- i'qu'e' "h-t Fart OF the value Of foreign
'ohs's'rd OF bfeadstutis, he believed
80" Would De a lar calculation. but To
~. 's'h' say Que ti5hth. Aud what
n iuliows automatically, that In
$50 under Mir. Walkers low tantf W. ;.a
'o'wa ioih utesi bniain, in the form OF
500 'I'y,'nree dollars and eighty THREE
80 "9''no u ol''sh oreadstuffs TO epery cents
ale 'he h'''; and Mr.. Walker. who is
!-1' o. hSurrs, ssn make the calculation for
nmseli. IN 1856 we imported eighiy-sin
ili''lons oil dollars worth OF British goods, and
'' 'o"s one 'Aoos'ad si1 hunsnd and eish-