The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-09-23
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II would be difficult discover the actual and real in
England possesses in putting Jamaica under colo
NAL disabilities The measures that would advance the
interests OF that country would afford to her the most
free and unrestricted intercourse in commercial matters
But 1--we have taken up Jamaica with another view. So
long the chief propre,ors OF this island are abseniees
spending abroad receipts without RENTING anything
for improvement, IL must in the nature OF things, be-
poorer and poorer and 90 long as II remains nm
der English sovereignty, It's chief propretors will be alb
seniees Let look to the effect OF its not being set
tied by citizens OF the United States
Jamaica takes lumber, nour and certain other articles
from the United States, and TO certain annual value
the United States takes molassea, sugar, and from
Jamaica. but in inferior value. II each country took
equal value Of products for their mutual copsump.
ton, Jamaica would export to specie but Jamaica
takea three to more in value abe therefore pays
oneihrd in her poduets and two thirds in her bills OF
exchange Even the improved state OF the island would
operate by cnlsrgng the demand for our supplies 10
yearly increase The balance against her The trade
which should have replaced this draugh has been grad
ually declining and less productive. With an increasing
balance against her, TO what condition Jamaica
presently come There cannot exist condition more
true, or fact more evident than that pcrpetually
adverse exchange must induce ruin. Equally true
and evident is il, tha, restrictions The free and full
enjoyment OF natural advantages and political and
commercial rights servc 10 suppress the v,gor thai
land has been The first Of the European States to
abandon system towards its colonies founded on ea
ousy Of their rising powersn abandonment well illus
traed in the viGos with which improvements being
pushed both in Canada and Ausfralia-ws have hopes
that Jamaica will not always remain what il 10 that
the ruinous effects which the preeeni commercial DRAIN
without compensation. must certainly lead to II longer
uneounteraced, will be seen and averied.
fa' Protection and Reciprocity. slssf.
further illustration of how experience may set aside.
in practical way, The most eruds theories is afforded
in the following extract from the London Economist:
I've preserve by law coespg trade our own PEG
,eroial idcraons, considerations of national
defence. The advantages however, Of carrying
ing exclusively the side OF the ihs
must the rule slwsys fall into their hands if they
have any shipping Il will be the frst trade they will en-
gage intie last they win be suppl,ned in There are
hngs which Is utterly supcrfnous for the egsa
prohibit, and amongst them snicide and for
egnefs engaging in the coasog trade Of thoroughly mari
time nation. Orr practice, however, has perDcious ef
feet; and because by law continue to prohibit an
American from carrying goods from London 10 Hull,
through the dangerous Swim, which native pilots have
difficulty In navigating. tile Americans prohibit from
carrying goods from New York 70 California, where the
passage Is wholly the open part OF which is
as well known the Americans. Such restrictions
answer good purposes, and they mschievous by
their effects on other nations"
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