The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-05-20
The TariH Argument.


is thus summed up, and we invite the atten-
ton of our Democratic friends to the facts
UNDER THE TARIFF OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED .
AND FORTY-TwO,
we built mills and creaeed machinery that I
enabled us, less than 6 years from the date /
ofits enactment, to increase the consump-
ton of cotton from 2G7 900 to more than
100000 bales: and to increase the consump-
ton per head from seven to thirteen pounds,
with every reason to expect that it would
soon reach twenty pounds, to the great ad-
vantage Olthe producer of cotton and the
consumer of cloth.
We built mills and created machinery
that enabled us, in six years, to increase the
domestic manufacture of woOlen cloth from
| filty-five to eighty-fve million of pounds.
| We opened mines and built furnaces that
enabled us to increase the domestic produc-
ton of iron from 200, 900 to more than S00,-
900 tons, and to increase the consumption
per head from thirty-eight to ninty-eight
pounds per head. '
We built rolling-mills that enabled us to
commence the manufacture ofrailroad iron,
and to extend it in that brief period TO almost
100000 tons. .... ..
We increased the production of lead from
$4,000 to 100000 pigs; that ofhemp from
$4,000 to 10000 bales; and that OF wool from
forty eight to seventy millions of pounds.
The manufacture of corn and hay into
pork and beef, butter cheese and lard, was
extending itself at rate unexampled in the
world and the value per ton of the exports
from the east to the west was steadily advan-
cling
We thus made market for more cotton,
and yet had more to export; and the tariff of
1912, that found prices lower than they had
ever been before left them already advanced
one-fourth, with every reason to expect that
they would soon bo permanently fixed at
higher standard than had been known for
twenty years.
We thus made domestic market for food,
to be consumed by the growers of wool and
of hemp, and the producers of cloth and iron
, coal and lead, to the annual extent lmore
, than one hundred millions of dollars, and
, yetour exports rose from fourteen millions
in l94l-2 to twenty-four millions in 1856.
We consumed more fish and exported
more more rice and exported more, more ma
4 val stores and exported more, and the pri-
ces of all these things rose, the tariff of 1912
leaving them all much higher than it had
found them.
We produced more and consumed more of
y every thing; the condition of the people
q steadily improved, the credit of our banks
:, and that of the State and general govern
ment were restored and there was degree o
quiet prosperity such as never before had beer
d seen in any portion of the world. ConEdenc'
s in the future prevailed throughout the whoe rdng'
$ Of fsociety.
n UNDER THE TARIFF OF EIGHTEEN HUNDRED
AND FoRTY-SIX,
we have closed cotton mills, and driven
down the manufacture of cotton from 600,
: 900 to 467 900 bales, and have, in the last
h three yeurs, decreased the consumption Of
cloth, foreign and domestic, per head, trenty
g five per cent.
We have closed woolcn-mills, and have
T. in the last three years, diminished the con
Of sumption of cloth, foreign and domestic
l. twenty per cent
d. We have closed mines and furnaces, ant
. have diminished by fifty per cent. the pro
y duction of iron; and the consumption ofiron
or foreign and domestic, has fallen from ninety
is eight to seventy pounds per head.
,s We have closed rolling-mills untilwe hav
! almost annihlated the manufacture of rail
Il roadiron, and destroyed the competition 10
the sale of an article so necessary for tn
IN cheap transportation to market OF our pre-
ducts.
. We have diminished the export of lea
70 from 100000 to 100000 pigs; that of hem
mt from GO, 600 to 10, 900 bales; and the product
es of wool at least ten millions of pounds.
rs The manufacture of corn and hay int
4, pork and beef, butter, cheese and lard, de
~ clines daily, and the value of exports irol
nd the west to the east has fallen from SirtY-tu
he dollars per ton in lS45 to forty dollars per to
RI in 1851.
bo We have thus diminished the market f(
- cotton, and have placed ourselves under I'll
oU necessity for exporting more, the cons'
* quence of which is seen in the fact that 1t hi
he fallen even below the price of the revenl
tariff of lS40-2-then the lowest that hi
ever been known, with u certainty OF gre
further decline, should the crops prove larg
rt We have diminished the domestic mark
I:- for food to be consumed by the growers
u'A wool and hemp, and the producers Of clio
ion and of iron, coal and lead, and that dimn
lb- ton cannot be estimated at less than III
Viii MILLIONS Vi uOlluls pCi hhhu"' ~" ~
h;r ability to supply food to the world declin
~ ~ from year to year, and as the maaudctnre
lhu corn and hay into pork, beef, butter, chez
uc- and lard, declines, as we become more
pendent upon foreign nations for wool a
hemp, lead, cloth and iron.
= The import of fish now exceeds the
in port, that of rice has fallen in both quaint
ces and price, and that of naval stores has
,s n creased in quantity while it has declined
,,;u amount.
Will We produce less of every thing, and
consumption of all articles of necessity
90, gradually declining, producing steady
terioration in the condition of our people
OF We are running in debt to foreign natl'
had for articles of luxury. Speculation is
,ub- cry where, and confluence IS no where; for ev
man feels that the events Of each success
year are bringing us nearer and nearer
r at convulson similar to that which has rende
to memorable the period of the revenue t1
Of 1902.
ui RUNAWAY HUsBANp.--Mrs. Emily
..oui Bennett, who resides down in Maine, t
'ohl l publishes her husband, who, it appears,
a''' off with another woman: Gas no one We
have trusted him for as much as a pee
re- meal, therefore forbid any person or
I.o,, t.,St;rrr hin, on NV account &