Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-01-12
FREE TR DE.

Extract from Secretary Walkers late
able Report:
The adoption by each nation of high tar
ms is a war upon the labor of the world.
As labor Is more productive, capital is more
rapidly increased and wages augmented
| yet the tariff, by compelling each nation 10
employ portion of lis industry in articles
which can be produced more chea2ly abroad
and refusing the exchange, forces labor
throughout the world into less profitable
| pursuits, and, rs consequence. dminishes
the products ot labor as well rs lis wages.
Thus, II silks can be manufactured at less
cost in Europe, and breadsul1s more cheap
ly III this country, and by high tariffs we
prevent the import of silks here, whii5 by
similar tariffs abroad, or their inability 10
purchase from us, because we will not take
their fabrics in exchange, our brcadsufls
| are excluded to greater Or less extent
from their markets, and their silks from our
own, labor is forced in both countries into
less productive pursuits, and both parties
have sustained a loss. International tariffs
diminish the aggregate value of the profits
oi labor, 10 the extent of hundreds Of nil
lions OF dollars every year, and reduce cor
resrondingly the wages Of labor. II would
be most useful TO examine he tariffs of all
nations, and ascertain how much labor in
each is thereby diverted into less productive
pursuits. These tables have never vet
been collected, but if of the 900, 900 peo-
pie of the EARTH the labor of zoo, GOO, 900
is thus rendered less profitable to the extent
OF one cent day for each, the annual loss
would be $600,000,000. Man was COM
manded 10 labor, but he WAS permitted by
his Maker to employ his INDUSTRY in each
country in those pursuits for which it was
best suited, and where his labor would be
less severe and better rewarded But the
laws OF man by high duties diminish the
products Of his industry, thus augment his
hours OF toll and deprive him of the time
designed by his Creator for the acquisition
! of knowledge. These laws also while di-
mnlshing the wealth Of nations, produce
dIsccrd between them; each by high tariffs
proclalmlng war upon the industry of all
others. Under Free Trade, each nation
will profit by the labor olevery other; each
will employ lis industry in those pursuits
for which 1t is best adapted. and the sur
plus OF each he thus exhanged with the 9TH
ers, by reciprocal commerce beneficial 10
all parties. The true industrial interests
Of nations are identical. The true industrial
interests of nations are identical, and IN ex-
changing with each other the products
most chcapiy produced by each, labor
everywhere benefits labor. man his brother
man, and nations each other, and their oniv
antagonism is introduced by human legisla-
lion. The doctrine of Free Trade is the
petition of labor 10 employ itself every.
where in those pursuits best adapted by
Nature to every country, and yielding there
for in each the largest products and highest
wages. Ii looks upon our race everywhere
as friends, as brethren, as equal in right
and united in interests and destiny. Right
ly understood, there is perfect unity of in
terest between man and man, and nation
and nation, and between capital and labor.