Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-09-02
British Policy Identified with Lo-
MORE EVIDENCE.

MORE ENlDENCE.
A writer in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
for July, 1852, signing himself "An English
man abroad" says:
A much more important question is the Tar
in,-and it is one which will enter into every po-
litical combination. Ii has not of late been put
very prominently forward bot It Is not the less
important on that account. The manufacturers
Of .irnorica cannot erisf under competition tcih
England ,cifhom higher Tariff; and the sim
pie question is, ictsiher MANUFACTURES sltdH cease
or mol. may return to the subject IN subse
auent letter; but shall now remark ony that
while the East, as the great manufacturing dis
trict has been generally in favor Of higher do
ties, the West and the South have been adverse.
a change, however, is taking place in this re-
spcct. Manufacture Is increasing in the West,
especially since large mines have been operated
upon, and has sprung up IN the South. Neither
is so exclusively agricultural as it was and
there has been hardly President making speech
for the las, six months which has not had some
allusion To the necessity Of an increased tarlii.
This is significant B'acticoofs Edinburgh
.hagasine for Jidy, 1852 page II.
Exactly: Z" the manufactures of America can
not exist under competition with ENGLAND trih-
out higher tariff; and the simple question is,
uhether MANUFACTURES shall cease or uoin Such
is really and truly the fact, as Is nearly all A.
merlcan manufacturing, winch comes IN compe-
llion with the British The reasons are plain:
The first reason is, superobundance Of Brit
ish capital, making the rate of interest not more
than folr per cent on an average. The Yankee
cannot get his capital at less than sir per cent,
and for the last eight years the average has prob
ably been not less than eight Here is a differ
once of from one third to one-half in favor ofthe
British manufacturer
The next reason, is the immense difference in
the rate Of wages both for manufacturing and
agricultural labor, in Great Britain and its depen-
denotes. Brande "a British author puts the wa
ges Of common labor thus:
Bengal p pence a day.
lrcland 6or7
England 20
There is a difference OF from one-br,C to SER
en-eigiids in favor of the British manufacturers
and against the Yankee, in this point
With such immense advantages in capital and
the wages of labor, affecting both the cost of
the raw material and the cost of labor in trans
muting that material into the manufactured arti-
Gle, it is very clear that "the manufacturers Of
America cannot exist under competition with
England without higher Tariff; and the simple
question is. irhefher manufactures she'll erase or
noi" Our present Tariffs revenue, and not
protective Tariff Ttgiyes duties ranging from
5 to 40 per cent.--on woolens. worsted aud iron
only 30, and on cotton goods only p, while the
manufacturers have TO pay duties of 3, 10, Is,
20 and 80 per cent upon materials used ia man
uaciure. On the whole they don't have protec-
ton to the amount of 20 per cent, which is Tess
than The d.8cunce. IN faror Of the British, IN the
ra'ue Of oohcy and The cost Of iaJor. The Tar
iif must be higher" then. as this Brush wr-
ter truly says or American manufactures csnnot
exist. Duties must be raised to the point Of pro-
iceiion, or American manufactures must ccase."
Thus is the old question, settled by our fathers,
presented anew Shall .in,r'ca be hiepenGcni
or shalt il be5u a mere aypeniageq Of The British
Empire2
Our fathers, fresh from the Revolution, de-
cared for american Independence. Witness the
preamble to the first Tariff, passed by the first
Congress under the Constitution, approved by
GroHer WAsmSeroS July 4th, 1is9, in these
words:
Whereas it is necessary for the support of
government, for the discharge of the debts of the
United States, and The encouragement and Jo &C.
ton QfmanufaoiWes that duties be laid on goods
wares and mcrchudze imported BE 1t enact
cd,n &c
That preamble and act Of July 9TH, I7s9, was
the second Declaration ofIndependence, by Peo-
LECTION AGAINST ronEiGy MANurAcruRs