The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-12-16

iekng in the northern ion of Maine the northwest d.
vision OF territory this and the other side OF the
Rocky mountains aud Texas. with the countries which
can hardly Tail TO under the operation OF lnst
tuons before many years, will have ESQ TO speak,
analogy TO every country in the universe nation linn
tied TO particular region like that oil England capable
OF having only few descrptio OF minerals, and pro-
duclng only limited number OF vegetable commodities
and raising limited number OF cattle. may be thus de-
pendent because there great many things she
needs not produced within her boundaries; but 10
think OF this great Zol. Veren--lhis great reeirade
alliance Of Staes-eoyenng every cline OF the world
resting their revenue system upon broader
basis than their different capacity Tor home pro-
duction, is absurd. Suppose the States OF Europe,
like the States oi America were united on the prn
ciple OF Zo Verein (and to complete the COMPARISON
you should include the northern States of Afrlca.) with
Tree trade among them there is by the constitution
among these States, and without any other reliance for
revenue than trade external 10 the whole Of Them
what would be the consequence Royalty and nobility
armies and navies. would slarye on any possible reve
nue. under the supposed. That is not yet
diton, but we are coming 10 L rapidly Wood is cheaper
70 The unlled States than N England. and why cannot
we make wooden fabrics cheaper A laborer buys his
meal for fifty cents bushel here and there for 81 So
and why cannot the laborer here, working ten hours
day. live better than the aborer there working fourteen
hours day The half OF dollar is four times as much
to man in Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois, to in Man
chester because he get four times as much eat
wlthi II he can live much cheaper, and If the ma
erlas Tor manufacture, mineral and vegetable, also
cheaper why cannot ne manufacture cheaper He
doi lie does not DO H. because he live comfortably
without hard labor while in Europe the opera,vemus
use dlgent and hard labor perish There is there
necessity TO do it, Were operatives undergo the
| same labor, man in Ohio would break down his COM
peor IN England because he obtains his raw material
vast deal cheaper, and his bread and meal al less than
1 half price.
Butihis is not 10 continue always The population
OF the United States is becoming Dense The northern
and middle States will always have the alternative
OF high wages at home public land in the West The
alternative of fleeing 10 the West 10 cultivate the soil
instead of working for wages below certain rates, dis
abes older that disability
is continually being reduced. The country is set
Ting up land is increasing in value and every day your
manufacturer acquires facility bring his labor to
cheap wages do not desire cheap wages. | am not
speaking according TO any sentiment OF my own but ac
cording to the laws OF political economy. They will rule.
Wages will be regulated by the supply and demand,
and you may as well try TO repeal the laws OF chemis
try as 10 repeal that law They all the laws OF God.
And shall never hope BY progressive political science 10
substitute better law Tor il. The tariff OF 1S46 is this
moment more protective than when il was passed,
because there articles which the United States
now manufacture and send abroad she could not then
Why sir, you have card setting machine that has
cut oil one half of The OF the United States
That article. machine can work cheap in the Uni
ted States England ii does not matter whether il
be among a crowded or sparse population. A pin
making machine will work rapidly in wilderness
as IN dense population Take your machine for ma
king percussion caps, and your machine for moulding
bullets (and speak OF these as curoses familiar to
every one will they make fewer caps fewer bullets
IN the United States because we have sparse popula
ton Iney constructed Elathematlcally 10
fast and IN that proportion is their product.
This IS an age OF machines, not eating each other up
like The Kilkenny cats, but making each other Every.
thing made by them There not solitary day that
we are not asonisbed by some development in the
arts aud sciences Go look al the list OF patents in the
Patent Oftce and you wil find that mechanical
eonlriynhce has every month in the taken labor ou
oi the hands OF men. The whole OF production,
will venture 10 say has diminished 80 per cent since the
arlli OF 1876 II and the foreign cost has diminished
only 10 per cent then your capacity for duties foreign
merchandise has diminished 20 per cent II s the absent
artcie you tax IN an mpost SYSTEM and not what pres
enL
When you find domestic substitute for the foreign ar
uee equal to the consumption oil the country, your
paey Tor duty gone already ioresee looking TO the
lifetime oil nation, that The lime s near al band when
and impost system cannot furnish The United
States with revenue The tariff OF 1916 would not have
furnished you sufficient revenue but for the dscove
y OF gold mines IN California; for the discovery oil these
mines, throwing vast amount of specie IN cifcu-
lation, or in trade, duplicating The paper currency
$50 100000 or 500 900 OOo The commercial basis
upon which your duties estimated $4,000
600 greater than they would have been had not the
mines IN California been discovered The discovery
OF these mines, by the by and their yield, has saved this
country from commercial revulsion. We are now IN
the midst OF the period when that reyulsion would have
occurred, but lor the binding OF these mines Your com
merce rans 10 about 5000 900 600 In ls4e II
tile 500 900 600. My opinion is that the
nefcial basis was less Than SOO.oooooo These gold
mines have added only the Of purchasing,
but they have greatly enhanced credit abroad They
have given credit and Tor every dollar dug up in Calf
fornia buy Two dollars worth abrosd-one for
cash and the other upon credit That the reason your
revenue ls so high al this time but II cannot last The
gentleman has referred TO the estimates OF the tariff of
1885, showing how were then disappointed. had
been for several years the Comnittee Manniac-
lures, and elt Tiny duty to look into that matter, did
not know but that the question OF revenue would come
before that coamee. recollec perfectly well that my
estimates at the time most fully made gave Ss 000,
600 remember distinctly three four friends coming
to me and asking me whether we had not better put of
The whole matter, saying there was danger that would
reduce the revenue much that the whole country
would become Disguised with the free trade party |
said 10 these gentlemen, III this tariff does not give us
s2S, 1000, take my head oil al the block" was not
deceived 10 my estimates,
am persuaded that the first proposition OF the gentle
man IRON New York Mr.. BRooKsl wosld have been
voted or by every sincere free-irade upon this side
o. the House. bad II not been sprung upon
They were afraid OF some Trap set for them. They
thought y eyuaordnaFy that The gentleman from New
lork hr bRoogs should be the author OF such propo
Isuon II never occurred 10 them that that gentle
me-. was capable Of making mistake J could see
plainly that he had made mistake IN submitting that
proposition that lie parliamentary rule would give US
The committee and that the whole thing would result 10
thorough investigation OF the question: and Tesut in
discussion upon the abstract question OF phosopbi-
cal political economy, but upon the existing crisis
before the country. II would have been specific inquiry
TO the present revenue, the present commerce, the
present surplus, laying aside all philosophical alb
stractons.
Mr. BAYLY, OF Virginia II there be commercial
revuson prospect, would II not be better since we
have surplus, provide for debt, which will
embarrass Us when The reyulson comes.
| Mr.. WOODWARD That was part OF the argu-
ment which overlooked have shown that duties
progressively advancing towards the pohibiory point
II lhNrr IT..4.I