Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-05-14
GIVE are sold to the Briti.h."

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which would retain the Union as 1.-The
most meful of the British colonies. The
fact is. doubtless, as they state it. The
nation has been sold, and the question re-
naming 10 be settled is, by whom tie sale
was made,
The Farmers were told that if they
would unite in policy that would prevent
the building Of mills and furnaces, ana
close those already built, they should
have market abroad for "hreadstutS anu
provisions" that would $50 on augment
;po." and that would "sell more at
bi6her prices" They did so unite, and
the result is, that the mills and furnaces
are closed, and, being closed, that demand
for labor has diminished; that the lmml-
grafton of foreigners DESTROYS to come here
and eat food is rapidly diminishing; and
that, in exchange for rapidly growing
home market, they have obtained Tor
.eign one, to which even now they cannot
90 unless prepared to "compete with
the Pole and the Russian, who are willing
TO deliver in England heavy wheat at a
bout eighty cents bushel, and likely
soon to deliver it at seventy cents. Ihey
have certainly been sold to the British.
THE playater was told that, ii he would
stop the building of mills and furnaces,
he too, would sell more at better prices.
He did so, and the result is, that, IT he
would obtain those "better prices, he
must pray for short crops, Z. e. that ms
neiCbbor's cotton may be ruined and his
own sscape. If he would sell more he
must obtain worse prices, for the market
of England has long since ceased 10 IN
crease as to the amount to be PAID 10 the
planters for cotton and, whenever there
is an attempt to obtain shelter prices, 1t
is met by short hours and closing of mills
the object of which is, that OF raising the
prices of cotton goods, diminishing the
consumption, and preventing the planter
from obtaining more for small crop than
thew had been accustomed to give him
for a large one. He is, and IN the fullest
sense. a slave of the British manufacturer,
when it requires but an exertlon OF ms
will 10 make the South the seat OF the
cotton manufacture for the supply OF the
world, and thereby to treble the value OF
his land. Like the farmer, he has been
sold to the British. ii
INe landholder Of The weSt was told
that ifhe would arrest the building tmllls
and furnaces, emigrants from EuroPewould
cease 10 stop in the older States, and all
would seek the new ones; the consequence
Of which would be that his lands would
rise more rapidly. He sees however,
that with the diminishing demand for la
bor,immigration is now diminishing and
is likely soon to feel that he, too, has
been sold to the British.
The ship-o,cner was told that the stop
ming of mills and furnaces would make
great demand for ships to carry the bread
stufTs. of which the export would Ego on
augmenting but the market OF Europe
has failed, and there is no demand ior
ships outward, while immigration is d.
minishing, and there is little demand Tor
sb;ns inward, and the planter is praying
for short crops and low freights; and
then he, too, feels tina. be has been sold
TO the British.
THE merchant was told that slow du-
,ies'' collected on the sad valorem primer
ple'' would greatly increase trade, but he
sees that the only effect has been to trans
fer all trade to foreigners who swear to
false invoices, and that his trade is rapid
lv being ruined. He, too, feels that he has
been sold to the British.
The Iover of a constitutional curren,
ev'' was told that all the specie exported
in ls4s "must soon come back 10 our
country" but he sees that II Is only py
means of constant remittance Oh slochs
and bonds that we are enabled TO retain
any specie, and that Notwithstanding the
remittance of about one hundred tho"S,,
and dollars per day of those stocks and
bonds, the rate of exchange is always near
the point at which specie would be remit
ted and he, too, feels that he has been
sold to the British.
The american who witnessed the man
ner in which, under the influence OF the
tariff of 1912, the country passed uh-
touched and unhurt through the remeh-
dous revulsion of 1916, and now sees mai
the slightest revulsion abroad, producing
demand for money abroad, and thus pre-
venting the further remittance OF STOCKS
would produce universal ruin here, feels
that he and his fellow ccuntrymen have
all been sold 10 the British.
Bv whom, now, was the sale made
We pray our neighbors of the O''on 10
answer, and to give us full account OF
the operations that produced the passage
Of the tariff of 1916, in defiance OF mo
known wishes of majority of both Hous-
es, many of the members of which knew
that its passage must be equivalent TO their
political death, because of the hostility TO