Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-06-24
VOL. XLVI, NO. 3l...WHOLE NO. 1854.

ing importation of foreign manufactures
does not increase our export of the
produce of agriculture the reverse OF
this seems to be the case.
In l945, '46, under the tariff Of
1912, food of all kinds, exported tc
Great Britain, was $40, 1892, 239. II
the next year, during the famine, it wa.
S27 SAB, 100 In the last year, it wa'
IS, l0i, 253. In that year we exported
81, 2S7 $50 less than in lS46.
The export of our produce abroad in
lS4l, IL, was $l1, 565,O37 in 1915
'l6, it was S24, 59S, ass; that of 1850
81. was $2l 961, 1879 Increase from
lS4l, AZ to 1916 l6, was SlO,Os3, i2t
decrease from 1916 '46 to 1880 81, was
S2,631,269
la four years, under the tariff OF
1912, our export OF food run mp @l7,-
600 900; under the tariff of 1916, il
run down $4,000 900 and this while
population was increasing five millions
and there was a vast increase of TILED
land and produce. A corresponding
effect is seen at home. The receipt OF
American produce on the Hudson i'll
1913, was $4,000 tons; in 1916, 1t
was IS, 900 tous=an increase of 1900
tons. I'm lS4S, it was 10000 tons
in 1851 it was 81 900 tons-a decrease
Of 5000 tons-this is in the last three
years of each system. Our wheat is
selling lower than it did years since,
and the quantity sent to market, is less
than in 1916. We are sending less
abroad, and using less by our manu-
facturers at home
1t was supposed, when the present
system went into operation, that the
continent Of Europe would buy largely
of or products What is the result I;
When you take out rice, which they
cannot raise. the other articles of food,
all told, down to the last peck of pota-
toes, and the last dish of meal they
have taken of us, amounts to $l7,004
Very important, surely. Build your
railroads, call in your shipping from the
fishing grounds, from the coasts Of
Ophir, and every ocean--they will be
needed. For what Why, there is a
gentleman here who dwells hard by the
and catches the first sound from across
the waters, who tells the farmers and
mariners of this nation, that, within
twelve months, the whole continent of
Europe will want $l7, 004 worth of our
agricultural products
In every yard of broadcloth, worth
81, the American farmer loses the sale
of at least s 80, which goes to make
It's value Our importation of woollen
goods is about 900 900; and the
farmer loses the sale of Sl3, 500, 600 OF
products in that single article it is
nearly the same on cotton, and greater
on IRON. The raw material-and that is
our own, lying useless--costs not to
exceed s. per ton in the manufac-
ture of IRON. Suppose you break
down the manufactures, and bring it
all from abroad, you deprive the farm
er of market to full three fourths OF
its cost-at least $4,000, 900. The
farming interests of this country, East
and West, are beginning to feel the eff
lects of this system, and we fear they
are destined to feel it more heavily in
time to come. The farmers have more
interest in protection than any other
class. There are hundreds of small
pcrishable articles, sold at manuiactur
ing establishments, that could not be-
transported, even if there were a mar
ket abroad but they go to the com
fort and support of the laborers, and Il
increase the gains of the farmer Tn,
American doctrine should be to protect
its own laborers, and it should be car
rled out through the whole. Every
village, and town, and county, anC
State, should sustain It's own mechan
les, and farmers, and merchants, wh'
are themselves supporting the lnstitu
tions of society in which they live. Blu
the tendency of the present time is to g
abroad, somewhere to find out som
foreigner, no matter where he lives, O
what will be the cost to Transporting
to him the equivalent of your purchase
provided you get the credit of buyln
cheap and that tendency has its sane
ton, if not its origin, in the policy {
the Government Four-fllhs of TO
eign manufactures are imported b
foreigners, and on foreign account
They do not pay, by twenty-five pc
cent, as high on the invoice OF torelg
manufactures as Americans. The
pay about three per cent interest
capital, while American merchants pa
on the average, NINE per cent. III
result of such a course no one C;
doubt While we are, as we ought
= do, stimulating agriculture, by selllI
lands cheap, and giving bounty land
and free lands, we are pursuing
, curse that will deprive those, and
/ occupants of lands, the means OF c
= changing their produce for the man
features necessary for wear and use.
We are now sending abroad all Il
, produce we can sell we are sendii
! our United States stocks, our Sta
. stocks, our city stocks, and Railro
Q bonds, and every other badge of bon
1 age, and then pay, (as IN le5D tive
, a., ,,,na YnilliouS and half of gold