Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1853-01-04

a.. importance 10 lranspUr. chcap for it viii not bear
!an transportation duty. costly railroad is pereut
TAX transportation. The cheaper the railroads are, ID
che per in all time will be the transportation tax
ion. English iron is Only the pioneer that Is openn
~ perpetual market for American iron IL FIRST makes
cheap road your mines which takes iron Ia the SEA
board thence By vessels il is distributed into every sea.boaf
town. whence ny railroads il IL taken far into HE interior
Ga every ore these railroads twenty engines and
thousand all Of which are built ana renewed from yea
yca Cl ion taken from y0uc mines. Along The lines
b.. iron blows ard machinery OF al! kinds Transported
and ali made OF iron rom yonr Mines deriving an N
cicnl" protection from revenue dny lhis sta'" OF h!ng
will spring vi; c'. years. you will Just have patience
until foreign iron shall pave the way for your own. On
leed the forest with English bnt for which
it would have sill! forest. will illustrate by cast
in point: Tic r'ad from Petersburg 10 Lynchburg dis
lance =! hundred and twenty miles is built by sub
'ripon OF Individuals. assisted nv the Stale, WHICH, IN
pursuance OF general policy takes three i,s Of the stock
'i"! '"ioad iron been sixty seventy dollars ton, IN
u :" ottYt"H dollars the road woGId never have been
sun, II was ctingy difficult procure The sub
sc.tp"n Notwithstanding the com2araye ccapntss on
acc'n .! le o"" price Of iron There are now running
l"t road rn"nts ans! cars from Philadelphia. BIZ; of En-
aiIn iron 2! U!iy.trrn dol re- ton many thousand dollars
a!ready spent would have been los To and
many huushf, '!'Fe IN Prospect This read is one Ink
chain hn will reach from Jar.es River To The Misss;p;
How muc If PENNSYLVANIA iron in various ,ban,s viii nj
mai,y travel along this entire line i, would 5. ,tIcnt
IA estimate To IL" ccapacss Of railroad iron bis enl;rr
| line il principally indebted
Tic honorable GGnlIyGan from Pennsylvania GNr y,.rsI
canltnJc Iia; III. whole IL had we'll he raised M
few articles IL Gi4sct naay ami contends Thai man
ha,! as wei! pay OF lour dollars his as wo an
his coat aud his trowscrS This wUd be true If he
article universally used and IN proportion each
ones Ru suppose we were tolcry The tax on bon
nets dresses and hats and brUatcloth
what wuud lie aud mas Of his district gay 10 him
WHY sir his wife and daughters would scarcely nn
from e fury. ii the tax collected altogether iron.
i uu.nb,g OF people would be exempt and many bot
partially alcc,C; such LAWYERS DOCTORS divncs mcr-
chants man mechanics, ana hcStD Others The planters
at: farmers would bear the chic! burden. Lay your duties
may with vicw incidental protection, and the cX
porting interest consiitun. the rcst class must bear The
csurt huIttn The produce grain ana tobacco
no, incidentally PROTECTED his i,!k", is beyond tie
reach If Your laws Tho shoemaker PAYS TAX 10
the hltler h. gets il back when the batter comes ;u lS
shoes The manufacturer pays tax the and
uuirv Tor his machinery, but he back wien the iron
master ai founder for his coat To all classes
culyaur OF the soil, the merchant, he house uner aud
many other mechanics pay tax but get nothing in
The pce whatever the farmer and planter twho supports
All thu res sends market is fixed BY the orrion demand
and that again regulated ~ The amount OF foreign goo
the, are willing take in exchange which are Reduced
value 10 al the du'y he pays On them al home
The low price OF iron Tor few years back was only toe
misfortune the producer. similar 10 that which often be-
,l- the culiyor ii hr SOFT When cotton. grain .ad Ia.
baccn br:r low price, lie dies not 10 the GoEefnnc'' for
llt he puts ~ VIVA H. and works the harder lie waits for
tie. day. Your system OF protection, however puts
upon him the nj fortune o others hs wei! a. Ms own
Protection premium IN The shape OF money, anu
paid altogether ny the exporting Interest; Tor Whatever
paid by prorcc class another is ultimately returned
The farmer o!y asks small privilege o being permitted
To buy u those .l buy Of him. instead ui BENG "Tcfd
to buy of those will take only potion ri his products
exchange Tor demanding cash me greater part
The argument drawn from ovcr-productcn - iillaci-
there Ing reproduction. Inc dbiliy To
alone regulates ne extent OF The sales Millions o 'o
ole in Europe starving when hrcaisulls were
cheapest Would Aey buy il hcy could! And why
wouiI they no.! They had empioymcnt-th there was no
market Tor what they could make though millions were IN
want Of II. Restrictions, mUnopoies, high duties, IeeSa.
oulragcs the laws Of nature and Of commerce had
ma him b-g.ar with millions OF others. Abolish ne
;"nl.hous.s all the woj; let there be fc inter
between it, ports ana none would want inns c"nn
from
provisions cotton &c Other countries from Xix"
prodgc,s other t.ia- cheaper These should
~ mutually exchanged These should form the basis ~
commerce between them enricine all The gfand iuiy .!
this country has twenty years been IN tying r. nrr"
productions which belonged property IL others. Way have
attempted 10 force by protection the grow OF Tea,
riIcr and the spices, well sugar! We should have
done 50 had been little less emphatic in her denial
Hc would have done so, il II had been possible bY only
u,ln their The folly Of the attempt would only
have ,xcerd other olirs in degree We discovered
ho we lacked The climate but have not learned
x Inrs the climate other things Thai we have attempted
, dense and starving population produces climate Tor
many productions. We could make SILK wiz suci climate
IN. rl,rnc fingers Starving female who will Tor iec
cont. = dy gather up threads of the huttcriys shroua
is alone wanting confer that blessing on us "hen we
fleet On the thai prevent MS from manufacturing
some ngs should be- matter for sloIcag instead OF re-
Tie chcapness Of provisions here gives " many "dvan
,U4 over the European Bn II must be remembered nat
ai are here are lnxurics To The ahncr .! u
npr ii place Of his potato must have bread In place
Of his b. ad we must have In place Of his one Loaf
We mrs have three aborcrs daily consumption here is
thee tines in Europe. Cheap labor and dtnr
POPULATION alone enable the European 10 manufacture cheap
err - nu regard either Of these things Blessings Tor
es,a Vest and the cotton fields Of The South are stand
inu ,.d.rS FOR the labor Ui The poor. Tie ioric invites
he s.p;,. and athletic the lncr, the weak and delicate
Ir,y are refuge from The oXacons Of the capitalists. II
p. ~ al.:o, pity 10 t, those poor Little boy aud girls
Of ,n art twc"c years age who craving upon lheir
pe'!,s through the coal srams o England that for tour
months III. year, the cnttontis at The South hcy
copI make their tour shlin2s sterling dny and iay ana
aarho Tor Grr'aning eight months Of the yeaf tn"
moor creatures with despair Take away theEc bidders
or labor AID would 20 down and nssunc the Euro
pran ilrd Here the capitalist III search OF labor;
there L. Dor seeks the capitalist There employment IS The
commodity in Demand and procured BY tie lowest bdcr
Here the rn,oycr and is procured by the highest hGieT-
ncr lhr capitalist DICTATES the abore here the abore 10
the capitalist who protection from in by demindln"
contribution from Inc res. Of The community iea9y p,
on the ground that you protecting labor Can IL o.
dcne that the hin. protected Is the article pFodnccn' or
the bale Of goods owned ~ HE capitalist WHEN Ne sons
without pas ino ax while the foreign ownc! oil pale
St lie il has pay third of is vainc for the privilege
81 selling Bn will be replied, that the bale Is the pro
due, If labor and p.Occ; that yon protect the "oore
to pi,as when !lc goes r:o The market Tor labor gets
A. !. as r can, have shown through what ag'n
r. The price regulated and kept ut Bnt Tor argument
Ae L. IT be admitted that the aooIe IS protected 10 iheeX
rc nf his agency in producing the bale what proportion OF
did H. make, and what The acine owned oy The capita.
is9 In that proportion whatever IL may be, Is the premium
shared bctaeer thrn. leave 10 others better acquainted
with the subject determine the proportions OF eac l'
NM, ,vn onniun ,s for every dollar pockccd by he capital
Isl ahon one goes rto that III the aborer, which i d
, the first time lie buys Sir, the machine ana ~
nyuer il alone protected You may well tell me that ne
,,n, oi Louisiana protected by the duty on sugar nc
ar which u,ls il is owacd by the capitalists a are Ire
r,rrircs OF he North They alone receive ihr PIE
.iqu The Ilborcr pays it, The wealthrst class Of 'lf
North is HE protected capitalist Inc wraithitS a.
The South i the protected sugar planter In each ~
these cas-,s van find the mionass OF the country It's
m ~ I, ~" shat duties taken OH tea and c"i"e "i
in, a4e Of Ire poor. Was cup OF either drank WIN
m susar No. si;; the ctsnn is That there were no veal
g PRODUCERS vi articles 10 combine with others TO
.flnd. not 10 protect the ih5"rer.
avc hcat commended that il duties be light foreigners
sri "nnliuc - uytrs,urk the market and crush nom" ma
au.rrnrc.s all thea demand hct own prices icn are
as. pyernr.. their interest nil over the world ltcy
v II rs soon c0urnc home abroad. IL ~ certainty
,nrr c.r an! practicable Can the manufacturers .! i.n
!and France Germany, Belgium and other coGntrl's more
readily combine lan thus, Of Lowell? j. II more pr"oa
oh. hlt wn! will combine a.ain>; vs. than corner "
which lie trade sccucdl The competition oil all nations
j. our best security against combinations.
was ytrg rlad hear. Mr.. Chairman, TINT my ltIr"n
from PENNSYLVANIA Mr. JuSE had taken the bc;a 9r'nh
IL, dit projections; the only protection he wants Is 'h
identical protection which III" highest revenue duties could
asa, hun It.ai the cr"aud assumed by Mr. f'h III
M first n".sa.," his election. one which had never
bn officially taken beo and which was supported by
Lam