The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-01-02

their salaries when you look al your vessels
at your expensive government stores connected WIN
your tobacco when you look al the prosecutions foi
smuggling, and fraud, and other crimes and when you
look the fact thai the smuggle where the duty SOo
per cent, follows close at the heels OF the importer
peal you whether, mere question Oh revenue TINS
duty might not be immensely reduced ana ofng as large
III not larger, amount OF revenue. lhpplause Hyou
my worthy friends VIII help US IN als na9 9as aho
whilst reducing duties, II there are any las pc
eye there are) too high under our present system, YOU
will reduce this il would be OF essential ana 10 US 10 tna
great cause and believe il would be highly beneficial
10 Great Britain and to both countries because you
take more OF tobacco would take more OF your
manufactures pay for it. Gentlemen, beleye mat
more readily have access 10 the slatseswoud take up
the tariffs OF all the world and by process OF reasoning
somewhat similar TO that employed by ny worthy ehu
the president, this occasion, woula demonstrate ny
and by actual results what was the loss
sustained by the entire world by the tarh system OF eaeh
country by driving labor IN every country on hs lace
of the globe into unproductve pursuits NEAR near
and taxing it, apprehend the world would be as
founded by the results. fHear, hear.l why, gen
llemen. if The world is composed, as Is generally
believed, OF a thousand million people, and only Two
hundred millions employed IN such LABOR, and that
labor is reduced but Id day TO each oil he IN conse-
Of rs being driven out o. noss s sysv ~ eounSS
but for the Intervention of the laws OF man. the loss 10
the whole world and the industry OF the world, IN one
year. would amount TO the incredible sum oil four hun.
bred and eighty millions sterling Hear, hear, and APP
plause
Gentlemen. protective tariffs the walls and par
great OF war-lhear, heaIl-they are The great
causes OF war expenduethey the enemies OF peace,
OF progress and civilization. lApplausel Nor gentle
men, is this question OF tariff question of dollars
and cents II il had been, should not have devoted
much OF my humble time 10 the question. No, gen.
emen. it is question OF justice, OF humanity. and of
philanthropy. (Hear, hear,l 1t the comforts
and the subsistence of nearly all the industrial classes
II decides whether they shall have comforts and plenty
for themselves and families, or whether they shall be
reduced 10 want and penury, driven TO the poor house
and the grave Hear, hear II is not then, gentlemen
question OF dollars and CENTS but it is higher
and lofty question, which the happiness,
and the welfare, and the morals OF the people Hear
hear
/ have heard, gentlemen, talk since have been
here about what you pleased to call Old John Bull
But gentlemen do not think that he is old [hear hear
but rather in the vigor OF youth and manhood beev e
that he has been growing younger for many past
hear and aag g oee ,s; gentlemen that ne Is
oil the reform bill. Hear hearl believe that he is
younger than he was 1884, when you repealed the duty
on cotton | believe he is much younger than he was
in 1885, when you repealed your corn laws, and re-
duced tariff. [great cheering and gentlemen without
intending to ntermeddle have no right to do So
in what your purely internal policy, only
state, from meetings have in Manchester and
elsewhere. that, should it be my happy lot in few
years hence TO visit England believe shall find what
by further extension OF the right OF suffrage
to the industrial classes, and by their education.
Hear hear, and cheersl Permit me here. gentlemen,
TO say word in the most kindly spirit and with the
best wishes. Notwithstanding that there are many
things in my own country that undoubtedly cannot com
pare with yours-as am free TO acknowledge, and as
every candid American will do-yet, the subject of
education, lhearl permit me TO say that all our indus
trial classes thoroughly educated tCheers And,
gentlemen, if we have succeeded IN anything either in
agriculture manufactures-or if, with high wages,
we have maintained competition with the foreign mar
ket in anything against the rest OF the world is owing
more than TO all other combined the thorough
education of our industrial classes lHearl Although
gentlemen have not many hands at work the
hundredh part OF the world in industrial class, yet
do hall hat 10 ha
heads at work than all the rest OF the world And,
gentlemen since manufactures have become 80 much
er,he education OF the industrial classes. who
cemed in workshops and factores-becomes
element Indispensable TO success. tHearl Gentlemen,
in this great race. whether it be on the ocean on the
land, will not say which is ahead-ihe United States
England, | believe that y have kept up pretty
close race believe lsmen. that they are mo-!
that they are moving in convergng lines-ihat they
are both moving the great point-perfecton of
laws and liberty and Of constitution, for the benefit and
happiness OF the people OF both countries [Hear
Gentlemen, OF the complaints made in my country
this time is that are sending You too much gold IL
is complained that send you too much cotton,
send you much breadstus and provisions rice,
tobacco but Of the great complaints OF the pro-
ectionsis al this day that send you TOO much gold
WE'LL now. gentlemen, have not The exact statistics
that subject but they sufficiently accurate 10 Judge Of
the results II stated in the Times that the products OF
the gold mines OF California this year $4,000 900
our own papers make il much higher II is stated that
YOU some $1,000 900. Well, now, if that be So we
have retained OF this gold $4,000 900 al home. Now
the question is, whether il is for own good ;
have we sent out too much too little OF this
gold On perusing the life OF Ferdinand and Isabella
OF Spain, the other day. by eminent American his
orian, Mr. Prescott-one differing from myself in poll.
tcs-I that distinguished historian states IL
historical fact that, prior to the discovery OF Amer
ca Spain OF the most prosperous OF nations
and particularly in commerce and manufactures She
discovered America and those mines of untold millions
OF gold and silver she monopollzed the whole far
she could she brought them all within the limits OF
Spain and then, TO luxurae in this gold and silver her
self and TO deprive all the rest OF The world of il, she
passed law forbddng the export OF the precious metals
from Spain What was the result : Although The law
was but partially executed, the historian that it in
rency throughout Spain TO augment in great ratio
the expenses OF living, and of producing and OF
featuring in Spain, compared with other countries that
had smaller proportion OF currency, that utterly
whelmed and destroyed the industry and features OF
Spain and from that blow, thus given by too large
currency Spain this day has recovered [Hear,
hearl She inundated with foreign imports she
resored high prohbitory duties but the safety vav
was opened, it always will be under such duties by
the smugger and she has never 10 this day recovered
from the injuries inflicted upon her by ping up, in too
great masses, the precious metals within her limits
Hear, hearl Think the question then is not, have we
sent out too much gold, but have we retained too much
gold at home
Gentlemen. will say very few words on another
subject believe that there ought TO be- not merely in
commerce, but in friendly feeling, and in various other
ways, a cordial union between England and America.
IAppause believe that theirs is joint mission, not
OF free trade, OF commerce, Of civilization, OF civil and
lharty and of under their