The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-02-23

goods consumed by those cotton-field hands
are of foreign growth? l know of none
except it is the salt which goes into their
food. Their allowance, according to the
letter above cited, amounts to $50 lbs. ba-
con'per annun, to each field hand, and as
1T requires but two bushels Of salt to cure
1000 lbs Of bacon the duty on Which I'M
der the tariff of lS;i2 would be cents per
bushel J and as 1000 weight OF meat would
supply six field hands, ithe revenue by the
consumption Of a field hand, TOR all arti-
|cles of food and clothing, amounts to some
thing less than three cents. This duty
being considered too onerous for the cotton
planter to bear, the duty was reduced, and
now the planter pays about one cent rev.
enue Tor their support per annum.. %. ,' y.
1t will be perceived by the above cal
culation that if the entire southern agri-
cultural population, estimated at $780,
600, are equally high fed, and we'll clad
as the field hands on the plantation here
tolore referred TO, in the State of Niissis-
sippi, the revenue derived by the govern
ment from that source will amount to
$4,000. The farmers in Illinois, where
it costs Il, cents to produce a, bushcl OF
corn, andwhere 1t will command no more
on sale, than / O cents, will be puzzled to
pay even this amount for the support OF
government. ".'
But Respectable nelghhor of mine, Mr..
J. H. Biddle, a shoemaker, who lives Il
few hundred yards south of Mason and
DiXon's line, and who is an honest free
trade man, has a, family consisting Of 20
persons, all told, including children, APP
prentices, and journeymen. His pass book
shows that each individual of his family
consumes weekly, one ID. sugar, which
under the tariff of 1912 paid 9. cents duty,
equal to S'l.30 per annum. Now by this
calculation il will be seen, that commu-
nifty of 10000 shoemakers, Or we'll paid
cotton spinners,-who, no doubt, consume
as much sugar as shoemaksIs-pay as
much revenue to the government, on the
article of sugar alone, as {, 100000 poorly
paid Southern agriculturlsts, cotton, sugar,
or even corn planters
By an analysis and computation extra
ordinary, Of one yard of English cotton
goods, l have discovered that the cloth
which weighed one quarter of ID. prevl-
Gus to washing, fell off after washing lS5
grains, or IN the proportion Of one ounce
to every ! ID OF cotton; and by carving
out this calculation, and supposing that the
whole cotton crop of 1913, which amount
ed to ,oG9, 100000 had been manulac-
tured at home into the same kind of cloth,
with the same amount of starch and sizing,
it would have required 1885, 1888 bushels
OF wheat for this purpose alone-an
amount more than the export to all the
world in some years of Free-trade
Ii l have succeeded IN prov ing that the
best way to insure an increased crop OF
wheat, either by broad cast or drill cul-
ture, by making the business profitable,
will conclude this paper, by agreeing to
rellnqush my chance tor the premium OF
$40, tor the best essay on drilled or broad
cast sowing, to any person who will carry
out the analysis and show how much more
wheat and other agricultural products
would have been consumed by the
many operatives that would have been
required, IN the way of provisions,
and what amount OF revenue would have
accrued to the government, from the for
eign goods which good pay and constant
would have enabled them to
consume, in manufacturing the entire cot
ton crop in the United States.
Correspondence Of The Cecil Wgl
A Letter from the Ocean.