The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-01-25
For the Union.


The Tariff.
do propose under the above head to discuss the
entire question of the tariff but rather to suggest some
matters which may throw light upon the darkness OF
tain popular superstitons connected Herewith
very commonly argued by the protectionists, that
manufacturers promote and increase The growth q pro-
children were born and grew up rapidly by nfu-
ence Of continual water power but presume that no
manufacturing town does 50 Al the expense q some
other portion Of the country though it is by any
means generally understood that by the same process
young men and women are taken from the farm
houses on the highlands where they have in compare
tive seclusion been educated under parental instruction.
and placed in crowded dwellings upon the low borders Of
streams, and compelled to associate with persons OF all
kinds and to devote all their time to monotonous and
continued labor, BY which the female portion become.
after time, affected as to disable them from perform
contact with the and vicious Of their associates
liable to similar debility of moral powers Ask
any physician Of manufacturing towns. and he will
say that factory labor has such effect upon the
to cause deterioration in the pure breed" and police
reports will show equally plain the effect upon morality
Then compare the increase Of population in agricultural
evident.
Another favorite resort of the restriconsts refer
ence 10 the authority Of !. the earlier Presidents and
their opinions upon the subject of protection.
Mr.; Skinner places among the protection Presidents
all but Messrs Van Buren, and Polk, (having forgotten
and Jackson. Now, call myself Jeaersonan demo.
crat, and admirer Of General Jackson the first
advocated the embargo his tme and the latter fought
nor am inclined to visit the Crescent city for he pur
pose of enjoying fight &c. in the other case, both these
Presidents favored certain kind of protection not this
Of our day and was perhaps desirable at that time.
What was their protection Both enuncated it dis
tncy % being duty levied on some article which we
could not produce without which, being produced,
required but short term OF increased price to enable the
manufacturer 60 to improve his machines, other fac
tiles for working. as that i could after time be afforded
nj n mur ana This WA onaide fha
Of country at that time, perhaps desirable position
but am nctprepared to acknowledge il 90 now.
lection for its own ssfs. and for ali future time Take. for
instance, the cotton manufacturers II is said by those in
teesed. that protection will enable them to sell cotton
perfection, 20 to speak Where is the reduction 10 be
made Not capital for the capitalist is not satisfied
with his present profits Not on cotton; for the cotton
they call protection labor Whence, then, is come
We are told too by the monopolists that our exports
must finally fail to pay debts We ask Of these de-
chalmers if, this being it would not be desirable for all
countries to export all they could and import the smallest
possible quantity Certainly" they must reply When
then, every nation shall have arrived at perfection in this
particular exporting largely and importing nothing, can
they tell Us who-what county-is to receive what they
But again, the exports and imports OF nation are but
the collected exports and imports OF individuals Sup
pose that every man sends abroad goods valued at 81
In products OF that country which, upon reaching him.
worth $4,000 will any person pretend to say that
these Individuals separately, the country collectively
have lost by the operaton And yet the imports would
be double the exports.
This being the case led believe that as our
country has been continually increasing in wealth, by
oil foreign commerce, imports must have, In
the aggregate exceeded exports How is III Upon
reference to the official tables made up Is47 find
that from 1871 to ls47, (the time for which record has
been kept) the aggregate Of imports exports
was 000 the aggregate excess OF exports over
imports sl29 900 900; the difference being OF
whole Imports whole exports, 81 so, 900 900 this
according 10 the protection theory being the amount by
which have become poorer in that time according 10
my views, the amour, we have become richer-or. in
other words, being our profit,
But we shall be told that this shows nothing until we
know how much specie drained from us, during the
same time, TO pay for this great excess We will see
During the same lime the excess OF imports exports
OF specie, according to yearly balances
the aggregate excuses OF exports imports, 1884,
100000 showing that instead Of paying, received in
that time ISL 900 900 hard spees II is common for
the advocates OF high tariffs complain OF importa
ton; but by these items OF statistics is evident that with
heavy erimportaon, have thus far succeeded in
maintaining our position and credit.
NASHUA, IN. H,) Jan. 10.