The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-01-17
THEIUNI0N.

States thaA IN ossixu countries No such duss or taxes
will BE- oollsc because such articles will b imposssd
There another class Of duties which. although ops-
rauve. do not aid in building up home market We
Allade to duties which may be levied on articles which
not produced in the United States There may be
high duty on teasnd coffee for instance without ahordng
protection or tending build up home market TO be
stiued OF persons engaged in producing lea and coffee
Leaving these matters out OF view. have protective
and prohib'tory duties the architects OF MIR Corwins
home market I
Protective duies-by which mean duties, not pro-
hiboy, levied articles that produced in the United
Staleshave wofod operation Their first effect is to
raise the price Of the foreign import and enable the do
nestle manufacturer-who cannot produce as cheap
the foreign manuscureIto compete with the importer
in supplying markets Under the operation OF
sach duties our markets are supplied from Two
sources-the domestic manufacturers and the importers
The goods introduced by the importer must necessarily
pay duties II the custom house and whoever purchases
and consumes these goods must bear that burden But
this is not all II the consumer purchases from the
American manufacturer. he must pay much as the
foreign article burdened with duty would cost HMM
other words he must pay the American manufacturer
as bounty, sum equal to the duties levied and col
lected such goods the house and thus the
American consumer furnishes to the American manufac
turer the means Of establishing the boas,ed home market
for the raw products OF American industry The agr
cuurst pays The price, and more than The value Of the
market which manufacturing philanthropy offers him.
But there is another class Of duties which may be
leved--wc mean those duties which are so high as to
prohiba is,ortaons When imposts of this character
are levied no revenue is paid to the government because
bpt;a al nd Iaho
are excluded from all competition in markets. and the
domestic manufacturer has the control Of the supply and
the control of prices He will be enabled to obtain
more for his wares than he could obtain if foreign com
petition was admitted and his customers--the con-
sumers must pay, as gratuy, the difference between
his prices and the prices which foreign competition would
produces subscription for the erection of the home
market
moments reflection what we have said will suf-
fee convince the reader that all operative duties are
taxes on the consumerin other words, the consumer
has pay the duties which collected the
houses But this not all. The consumers of imported
goods have not only to sustain this burden but they have
to pay another gratuy to the monoposts of
America, in the enhanced prices of American manu-
factures The grauity thus paid by agriculture and
labor principally is the fund ntusted to the manufac.
urers wherewh TO erect after pocketng the lions SHARE
the boosted home market. .ti ...s as -a#f#I o.
We have now shown the manner in which the home
market is erected We will next show the effects which
must flow from the legislation necessary for its erection
The space at disposal will not allow to do TO-
day but we shall continue the subject until have
posed the fallacies which designing have endeav
ored to impose on the industry Of the country, and the
taxes which they have endeavored TO fix the labor OF
the country, in order to gorge few holders Of money
capital under the specious pretext Of phanthropic
regard for the welfare OF their victims In the end. class
legislation may complete its work Of injustice, and pre-
sent in the Western World the spectacle OF alter
mating wealth and misery-of bloa,sd abundance and
hungry want-which the Eastern World exhibits; but il
shall not be our taalt On all hands perceive that the
advocass OF cen,raihm snd Of class legislation mar
shaiss4hAs forces. We are determined to meet then
with sd strength we have-,hs strength Of jus
csuse II the people will hearken 10 U.S. we fear not the
result; Tor we will make plain the injustice which CAPT
tal seeks to inict on labor-the huge wrong which the
Manufactured would infct agriculture. under the CLOAK
of ardent friendship ,## .ta