Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-10-17

iron was forty SIX ton, was sufficient, it is
clear that the duty of 1856 was a deal too
high.
Now the part of common sense and com.
mon interest would require that the iron mas
ter and the iron worker might make an aver
age OF the cost of their products, one year
with another, an average of two, four six,
eight or ten years, and have the duty charged
specifically upon the average value for such
period, and this would relieve absolutely the
iron interest from the oppression under which
1t has laoored from lS48 to the present time:
and this principle is not recognized hy past
administrations, aud by all other governments.
30 Tar, then, without Violent change in
the principles under which we have been gov
erned, without violent change from the DO
sition which we occupy at the present time.
this system of the tariff may be so arranged
as to harmonic with and satisfy every indus-
trial interest of the country. Immense ap.
pleuse.)
At this point the speaker was interrupted
by the arrivals of delegations from Roxbury,
Charlestown, WalthRm, &C., with banners and
transparencies, which were received with
much enthusiasm. Here a voice in the GAL
lery cried out; "Give billiard a text for to-
morrow night !"
As was saying, with the success of this
proposed arrangement, there would have been
harmony and entire satisfaction, though it is
possible that the revulsion we have witnessed
might not have been altogether repealed.
do not hesitate to say, that if the policy advo-
Gated by Mr.. Guthrie in 1858 had been adopt
ed in 1866, the present condition he coun-
try would not have been witness,.a, nor the
present suffering experienced. ~
There is another view in which this subject
strikes us with favor, and which affects the
commercial interest of che country. We have
here on this continent, States with an area of
seven millions OF square miles, and popula-
ton of many millions. The trade Of the
South American States is no immaterial con-
sheraton, especially if we regard it as it may
be hereafter. But with the States our own
neighbors, we have less than 25 per cent. of
their entire trade while between so and 60
per cent. goes abroad to England, and the
balance to France, distance of 5000 or 1000
miles.
Why is this? The product of the South
American States is chiefly new materials,
which enter into manufactures. England
receives them free of duty, while we have
charged duty of 20 or 80 per cent, and, as
matter OF course, they go to England. And
what gives prosperity to the manufactures of
England, is the fact, that, she receives the
products of other countries in this way. and
thereby builds up her commerce.
Therefore, how manifest it is that we should
remove the duties on those articles, and re.
ceive on the same terms that England does
In the last five years, the trade of the United
States with the South American States, has
increased Sic, 900, 900. On the Canadian
frontier, where there are but 3. OOO. 900 of
people to the 6,OOOO 900 of the South Ameri-
can States, during the same time the trade
of the United States with Canada has in
creased 1920, 100000 instead of $40, OOo, 900
in the South American States.
In 1852, the trade of the American people
with the Canadas was only $l2 600, 600 F.; this
year 1t amounts to sixty or seventy millions
of dollars. And this increase is simply ow-
ing to the reciprocal arrangement between
them and ourselves, with regard to the ex-
change of commodities, and the same princi-
pie of reciprocity could be applied to the
South American States.
Look at Cuba. We have only % per cent.
OF he- exports, and yet we are within one
hundred and thirty miles of her principal
port, while she sends the remainder three
thousand miles to England and France, be-
cause they cultivate amicabe relations with
her, while we alarm her with threats of de.
scent and annexation.
Take another illustration, bearing immedi-
ately oh the idea in the minds of all men of
this time. The balance of trade against the
United States with the British West India
Islands and the South American States for
the last year is $780, 900, and the whole
to be paid in gold, and that chiefly through
the Intervention of London bankers. while if
we received her exports free of duty as Eng
land and France received them, instead of
balance of $50,00O,O0O against US, they would
pay the whole, three times over, with the
products that they would export TO the coun-
try, and no man can doubt that this is perfect
ly feasible for any administration that has the
industrial interests Of the country at heart.
There is no such feeling existing between the
people Of the South American States as eAer.
cised between England and the Americans
with Spain, there is no more hostile relation,
with all our history of Cuban invasions, than
existed between England and the United
States.
And yet in the face of this hostility we have
negotiated commercial treaty with the Can
adas, which has given us an increase of trade
in five years of 1920 900 900.
There is another consideration. The South
American continent has an area many times
larger than England and France are except
ing her rivers; they have their traders in eve.
ny port ofthe South American continent, seek
ing to build up the trade between that country
and their own.
What is the United States doing in this
way } Even Capt. Page of the American
navy, in the exploration of the LaPlatte
which he carried on few years since, and
which he had again sought to enter upon, as
labor of love as well as of patriotism, is in
debted to the liberality of a Boston merchant
for the very steamer with which he enters
upon the survey. | alude to Robert B.
Forbes of Boston. Cloud cheers.)
Gentlemen, it is nothing new, and nothing
very welghty, to say that the nation that first
gets toothold in that part of the world will
control its trade 1t belongs to us their in.
situations have been, and are, akin to our own.
Their afinities and sympathies are with us,
and ours with theirs.
We are commercial people our flag floats
over every sea. The Government of the
United States was formed for the purpose Of
strengthening our commercial relations with
the rest of the world. We have no enemies,
and we want no enemies. Cheers Our
policy is that of peace, of freedom. Great
applause.
Not only peace with the people of this con-
tinent, but with the whole world; not only
freedom for ourselves, but for the human race
enthusiastic cheers) 1.-The freedom of Faneuil
Hall, until it fills the hemispheres This
should be, in a word, the clear and unmis-
taken policy of the American people.
We want commercial intercourse and COM
mcrcial peace in place of lust for dominion,
at least that dominion which is sought in our
day.
Then l sny, fellow citizens, that the clear