The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-06-23

machinery lying idle. Noolen mills
have suffered equally with cotton mills.
More than an huadred millions of prop
erty in New England. invested in wool
en- and cotton manufactures now
entirely useless to the proprietors, is
made so through the act of 1916. |
comm end that fact to the gentleman
! from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania in
one year lost forty-tlree per cent of her
enormous investments Two of her mills
that took the premium at the Worlds
Fair, have been compelled to stop; but l
purposely leave Pennsylvania interests to
the defence Of her sons. In ls49. the
Treasury received in revenue from iron
only S341,920 more than in lS45, while
two men lost in rolling mills, by the tar
if of 1916, $3.50 000 If those two men
had paid out of their own pockets the
whole increase of revenue, they would
have been gamers to- the amount Of
Sl40S0. Compare the loss of those two
men with the loss Of the whole. and the
loss of the whole to the insignificant gains
to the Treasury
There s great deal said about the
los. by the South in the escape of proper
ty. but what is I'll The census shows that,
Oil out of 3,l9s,324 persons escaped
in 1850 that is, l-l2,l63 part tone
ttrclre Monsandfh pa1t escaped was lost
In answerto inquiries their estimated val
ne ranges from $500 to $500 per head
Take the highest, and it will be ss0S, 500
for the whole South-a sum not equal to
hundrcdth part of the loss in msnufac-
turing in New England, under a tariff
passed by majority of Southern votes
We have as plain a right to protection of
our property as the South to protection
of property in slaves. The first law
passed under the present Constitution,
and by its leading trainers, was for en-
couragement and protection of manufac-
lures. 1t was recommended by Wash
ington, passed with his approval, and
sanctioned by his signature.
After the war of 1912, cotton planters
asked protection from cotton manufac-
tured cast of the Cape of Good Hope.
previously free. This was granted, and
that law compelled Northern men to 60
against their wishes into manufactures.
The cotton planter, sooner than his North
ern friend rises above the necessity of
protection and disdainfully turns his back
upon his former helper.
In this connection, look at the conduct
of good old North Carolina. Her Dem
ocratic Legislature. in retaliation for SEN
timents entertained toward her peculiar
institutions, and her locomotive property,
instruct her delegation in Congress a
gainst any change in the tariff that shall
benefit Northern miners and manufactur-
ers But what has she lost ? In 1850
she lost GA out of 2Ss,4l2 slaves, gone
somewhere, North or South or West no
one can toll She has lost IA, SOC part
that kind of property, worth according
to the highest estimate, Sjl 200 More
property than that was lost in Vermont
in 1850, in the wooden manufactures on
the little creeks and fresh water trout
brooks, never heard of beyond their
school district No one ever thought of
telling it the Legislature and getting up
instructions fo; system Of retaliating a
game at which two can play very conve-
niently In 1850, South Carolina lost
l6 slaves. worth. by the estimate of her
able Representative Mr. ORR. sl2,S00.
| can find scores of men who have singly
lost more. in wooden manufactures, in
one year, than the whole State of South
Carolina, and never thought of disunion
as remedy shall close this part OF
the subject with the summary of Mr.. Ca
rey
" Under the tariff of 1912, we built mills
and created machinery that enabled us, in
less than six years fom the date of its enact
ment, to Increase the consumption Of totton
fom l67 600 to more than 900 hales and
to increase the consumption per head from
seven to thirteen pounds, with every reason to
expect that il would soon reach twenty pounds
TO the great advantage of the producer Of cot
ton and the consumer of cloth
We built mills and created machinery that
enabled us, in six years, TO increase the do
nestle manufacture Of wooden cloth from fif
ty-five to cighty-ive millions Of pounds.
We opened mines AMI built furnaces that
enabled US TO increase the domestic produc-
oa of iron from 200, 900 TO more than S00,-
700 tons, and 10 increase the consumption pei
head from thirty-eight to nincty-eight pounds
"We built rolling mills that enabled us ia
commence the manufacture Of railroad iron
and TO extend it in that briefperiod to almost
100000 tons.
We increased the production Of lead from
$50 to 500 600 pigs; that Of hemp from H.
900 to G0,00J bales; and that Of wool
from forty-cight 10 seven millions Of pounds
" That na,Wfd-tRre 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 West TO the East was steadily ad
yancinc
Ga We thus made market for moro cotton
and yet hal more TO export; and the tariff OF
1872, that found prices lower than they haC
ever been before, left them already advances
T Dle fourth, with every reason to expcc
that they wonld soon be permanently hxed n
higher standard than had been know
for twenty years. r
''We thus made domestic market for food
to be consumed by the growers of wool and o
hemp, and the producers Of cloth AVID iron
coal and lead, TO the annual extent Of more
than SlO0, 900 900, and our exports rose from
fourteen million in lS4l, ~ 10 twenty-fon
millions in 1915, 'iG. e. ..I
'sWc consumed more fish and exported more
more rice aud exported more, more naya
stores, and exported more, and the prices O.
all these things rose, the tariff of 1872 leaving
them all much higher than 1t had found them
} ave produced more and consumed more o
T everything; the condition ofthc ge0ple stead
ily improved; the credit Of our bauks an'
that Of the States and Of the General Govern
ment was restored; and there was a degree
Of quiet prosperity such as never had befor'
been seen in any portion of the world, Con
fdence in ne fstrre pysrailed throughout IA
, leAoe raRge ef sociciv
"Undcr tbs tariff of 1876, we have elose'
cotton mills, and driven down tho mannfac
: ture of cotton from 60O.000 to 10000 bales
and have, in the last three years, decrease
/ the consumption of cloth, foreign and domes