Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-02-14

The official returns for 1851 will be here the middle Of
February, and, allowing for the decline which has taken
place in cotton the bulk is greater than last year the
ports for eleven months exceeding 600 wish
to put question to the Members Of Congress DO
you WISH gentlemen give employment growing
population Are you anxious increase foreign
trade in the exporting of coored and printed and
woollens? If you yes, and think you WILL what
gentleman Democrat Whig will successfully demon
sate how this is to be compassed by manufacturers
with the following burdens imposed upon them, from
which the manufacturers Of Great Britain totally free
Bara, ten per cent. alum and copperas, twenty per
cent gum arabic senegal and tragacanth ten per cent?
madden and shelac FIVE per cent cochinea and indigo,
ten per cent dyewoods, five per cent. hgnumvit@,
thirty per cent sumac FIVE per cent foreign alcohols,
hundred per cent TIM fifteen per cent odines and
other articles, twenty per cent ad vao
respectively. / court a reply to this statement.
assert without fear of contradiction that there is
member Of your respectable body that can defend it.
To show, however the absurd and suicidal effects of
taxing raw materials have but look the condition
Of the silk trade in the United States. will venture
say that christendom would be searched in vain to find
such case Of absurd fiscal legislation correspondent
of the New York Journal Of Commerce has presented this
matter in very clear light He has made convert of
the editor who admits that duty Of fifteen per cent
the material silk, and duties averaging twenty
per drugs and dyes totally ndefensibe and
could have been foreseen, in their sbsurdty the
time Of their enactment As to this trade, pre-
csey in this condition We cannot produce silk ourselves
to remunerate for trouble; therefore, i'm
posing duty of fifteen per cent. upon foreign silk to
maintain a theory and protect shsdowkilng the bust
We thus paying twenty per cent for
the silks than there any occasion for by slay
ing domestic competition in the customhouse The blight
ing effects shown by the above correspondent in the
following three lines of figures
Year 1850 tures imported 1880
Cotton goods SCI 869,1S4 $19,685, 1886
woollen goods 43,207 $3.50 16,900,916
Imports Of silk for
home manufacture 100000 20 281 ,034
Foreign cottons amount to one-thrd only Of United
States production wooens little third silks
fffy times The amount Of domestic MANUFACTURE There is
something awfully Of joint here Gentlemen, MS
IL not perperang injustice by retaining these
laws and paying money uselessy out Of pockets for
the loss falls the in the enhanced price he
pays for domestic articles There may be who hest
tate affirm the policy have indicated. One word to
them IL such there be- II is uncommon thing for
to be accused by their respective parties guilty Of
consistency, when reacng their steps from m indefens
bic policy. There is however, nothing inconsistent
extreme in the propose nothing that protec-
ZIONIST against and assuredly nothing claim
the opposition Of the Democratic party for 1t another
step toward frce-trade while il Is relief domestic
manufacturers. have cndcavorcd 70 mark out policy
beneficial to shipping manufacturers laborers ans
consumers and il it is Inconsistent in the opinion OF AM
gentlemen let me encourage them to do that which
right and just apd le1ve inconsistency legacy an,
obsolete theory Of the last century Consistency up
held party It is matured conviction Of TRUE principles
and the uninching application Of them, that
/ in 1862. Throw consistency to the dogs.
II have the bonor, gentlemen, TO subscribe myself,
A LAB0RING MAN.