Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-03-01

Ireland, s,379,ael 1909 e,sso,5o4 1852
Gibraltar, $40, i0o 6l,s45 3aI,945 Al
B.Eindie., 5io,ssa 1918 s sss s ,Sss .soes,ss
Br.W. do 4,344,5a6 40347 4,ss4,ss3 1855
| Br. Guiana, 595,ll4 1885 596,479 24,25
Br Honduras, 249,648 44,Isl 2g3,S2g 1865
z. ofG Hope lOo,33s 1889 l2O,s77 60,43
BRAN. Col. e,sss,aso hssa6oe a,ssae55 s,e46, 4e
Totals. sso,aoe14s iI,sss,7S ,5ea;so4 6 ,gos 81
France and Egri4f@.f Effg.s af g4tt.gs ta.a
Ff,A,isn, I4,lss.es 4,azs,tss 1s4s,e57 s7,o5s,71
F. rI''M n lsiS,os7 1926 l,asi,a5s l,Gs,sl
a.na ss sI 4 sSas1 i s,
g. a ti;es1's no,i. s ssS $500 ssS ~
Totals. s15,9i66s0 4,l66,1sO so,41e,s60 ss,ss7 ,79
In the first place, It is not true that the
advocates Of protection to our own labo,
use the argument with which this state.
ment is headed. No man in his senses
ever said England riN bug nothing from
u.s." Such all assertion would Be toe
much like free trade arguments, which are
so often found to have no foundation in
truth, and wholly unworthy Of a cause
which asks for nothing but to let whole
truth be known. That ENGLAND will buy
nothing from us" trhich she can do uitkoui
is the statement which has been made, and
for that reason it's that England will not
increase her consumption Of our produc-
tons, however much more we may take
Of her manufactures. She wants our raw
materials principally cotton-for her
manufactures, and she must have Them,
because they are. not to, be obtained else
where. She'wants a certain quantity Of
our tobacco, Because she obtains an i'm
menset. revenue from it, and no other coun-
Try can supply itso cheap, And some
times, but not often, she wants portion Of
our surplus bread stuff, for the double p,,r-
pose Of feeding her laborers and of keep
ing down the price by bringing US in
competition with the bread producers Of
continental Europe.
In the second place, there is neither
sense nor reason in connecting our exports
to British Colonies with those 10 Great
Britain, unless il arise from the fnct that
the mother country, BY her Legislation,
curtails that trade as much as she dares to.
Were those colonies independent, our ex-
ports to them would be very much increas-
ed, and therefore Great Britain is entitled
to no credit whatever, from this source, in
estimating the value Of our trade with
her. T9, y. % ~ E,,'s q
:. In the third place, i is wholly untrue
that, our imports from France .'giye the
protectionists no uneasiness." They are
opposed 70 the whole plan Of importing,
from any quarter, from France as well as
from England, any fabrics whatever tothe
prejudice Of our own labsr. ,nl n1..
In The fourth place, the statement Of
ports 70 Great Britain, though true to the
letter, is false IN fact, inasmuch as it pur-
ports to DC statement Of the exports Of
domestic q, produce" Who, would sun
pose, in locking at it, that one Of the lar
geft lens q this, "produce" IS SPECIE?
and yet such j. the fact. We haye, not the
means Of ascertaining how large that item
IS, but we think il win be found not under
$lO,OOO,0o0! This, how ever, is a matter
81 no importance to .1free trade" Exports
are exports ,and if half The whole sum am total
had consisted ofgold and silver, the whole
Would have been paraded forth in the same sam
way, as an evidence that Great Britain
lakes from US more than we take from
ner." We should have been told, as we
are told in this table, that gold and silver
are but merchandise, or ssproduce, and
the more Of them we export the bette. w
are OFT. But inasmuch as a very large
PARTON Of the people hold very different
opinion on the subject,F it would be rea-
sonable TO expect that the Secretary of the
Treasury, in his annual report, would, at
least, notice the fact that specie has been
exported, and state to what extent. We
don't know that anything Of the sort ought
20 De locked for in such statements as we
have been considering, because if the
whole truth and nothing but the truth were
stated. free trade iallacies would be ,rou-
o'ed with q disorder not very different
from spontaneous combustion. ~ sgs4g{ai 4
10 keep up the delusion, the "Journal,'
gives another table, setting forth the whole
Of our exports, for l848, at $l54, O36, 436,
against total Of imports, Of $l54, 1898. 1913:
intending, doubtless, to leave the impress
sion that no part of these exports were
specie, and that the whole balance against
US, for l848, was less than million.
lie Moneymarketappears to he improv-
ing. We hear OF loans at 8 per cent. on
prime business. paper, which must be ia
ken az 2 very favorable symptom, more
as the banks have loaned very
sparlngly for the pastweek. ii no sf'
In merchandise, the strongest move
ment seems TO be in domestic manufactures.
Many articles in this line have sensibly
improved in value, as we'll as in demand
and as we are not likely to be flooded with
the overstocks of Europe this year. for
reasons we have heretofore given, we
think the prospect of a saving business to
our manufactures is very fair,--a result
which may be attributed, in a great meas
ure, TO the sound policy pursued by them
last year, in meeting the market without
regard to profit or loss, instead Of piling
up their goods for better prices, and per-
hitting foreigners 70 furnish the supplies.
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