Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-01-23

10 time appeared In Inc We" VI
June and other Republican sheets, ana
never been before shown up, to orr
knowledge. Ii is more than probable
that the statistics Of Helpers lying book
were prepared 10 the Tribune office, the
conductors using Helpers name to tain
or false figures, which they wouid nov no.
risk the little reputation they nave iei'
to 10 openly. Ill
Again, Helpers endorscr in the Jour
nal writes :
When Mr.. Helper touches commerce
and manufactures the figures scald with
their farcasm. Tonnage of the free
states four to one ; exports (foreign ex.
cbanceable vaIuc,,) l67 to l07 imports
10 to ].
tonnage Of the free States, four to
one" Where was it employed ln
carrying the hay crop to foreign ports to
pay for linportatiors or take cash No.
For in the annual report Of the Secreta-
~ Of the Treasury to Congress for
1872, the succeeding year, it does not
appear that single ton Of hay was ex-
ported (-ee page 42.) In exporting
Northern manufactured articles: VI
the total exports (Sl02, 360, 9s4,) more
than one hundred and niuetytwo NIL
hons, the South exported more than one
half, not including specic-say full one
hundred millions. OF the balance, nine
ty-two millions, nearly thirds, was
IN specie (s31 ,437 $500 and manu'ac-
lures Of all kinds furnished only (s7,-
G-2,15l,) less than eight millions. This
show. where the tonnage of the free
States was employed, 50 far as it was
paying TO carry abroad our exports, and
thus help support our industry and pay
for over two hundred aud twelve mil
lions of foreign goods imported during
the year. (s2l2, 1913, 442) We have said
that hay paid nothing. Northern man
ufactures paid fraction over seven and
half millions. Vegetable food raised
North and South, including wheat, flour,
corn, apples,ric and potatoes, paid near
ly twenty millions (si9,S82 $3.50 Here
is some thirty millions all told paid by
the North in productions that year for
our ilnro rtations. Where did the bal
anco come from! From the export Of
specie and Southern productions. The
export of cotton was over eighty-scven
millions (:e7 1915, 1922 nearly twice the
export of Northern manufactures and az
ricutura produce The value of tobac-
co exported exceeded ten millions $50,
O3l.2s3) more of rice two and half
millions (s2,47l,oI9); to say nothing OF
the products of the Southern forests, aud
making no account of the Souths pro-
portion of the thirty seven millions of
specie which was exported to pay balan-
ces against Us, less by about five millions
imported during the same year. Onr
Northern Tonnage, then, must have been
employed to very large extent in ship
ping Southern cotton and tobacco to
pay FIR the iron for our Northern rail
roads, wool for our Northern manufac-
turing establishments, dry goods for the
ladies', linseed, sugar, coffee, tea, hides,
&c.
In this view of few plain facts, what
then must be thought Of the sixty-eight
distinguished Republican members OF
the last congress who have endorsed,
over their own signatures, this lying
Helper book, to further excite the North
against the South, and thus make little
more ''bleedrng Kansas capital for the
next Presidential campaign What will
cur commercial men think of the jour
nal and its correspondent, who calls
Helper the "Brutus Of tie hour" and
tho Democratic farty Nggercrats,
&C.?