The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-04

of Pennsylvania for the past three decades
are as folloWs: 1850, 1856. 044. $40; 1860,
1920, III, loo; per cent. Of increase on pre-
vious decade. 90; 1870. $712. 894. 344; per
cent. of increase on previous decade, AS.
This 145 per cent clear Increase In
m manufactures tells the story of
tribute which the other industries of the
country, especially of the South and West,
pay to the enhanced wealth of Pennsyl-
vania monopolists. IF they fleece us to
the tune that they do the railroads in the
matter of steel rails, Pennsylvania alone
drags out of the agricultural industries no
less than 1855, 100000 year, or over a
hundred millions more per annum than
the whole cotton crop of the South would
amount to should it reach 6 900. 000( 400fb)
bales, and sell at an average of ten cents
a pound. And. looking back to table No.
%. Report OF the Bureau of Statistics on
Commerce and Navigation, for 1878, we
find the chief exports of the country for
the same period of 1869 amounts as fol-
lows: Breadstuffs. etc., $53. 724,OO0;
bacon, beef, lard. cork, live stock. butter
and cheese, $2S. 693. 900; total, $82 BIZ
600; cotton, $3.50. 25S, 900; tobacco. 49,
345, 900; wood, etc., $l2.000,000; spirits
turpentiue. etc., 81 100000; total, $27e,-
400 600: coin and bullion, .$42, 915 900;
total. 1922, 1886, 900. This. out OF 4l3.-
O0O 600 of exports, and excluding some
twenty or thirty million of less important
AGRICULTURAL exports, aud those mixed with
manufactures. 1t would thus appe ar
that it took the whole agricultural and
coin exports of the South and West to
satisfy the enormous demands of the
Pennsylvania protectionists alone. But.
thank God, the chickens are now fast
coming home to roost, land 1t is not only
the South now which is furnishing the
great exports of the country, but the
teeming West has an absorbing interest 10
the question, as a plain matter OF bust
ness. The supreme interests OF the
Great West" no less than OF the 'Solid
South" point to reduction of duties to
revenue basis, as the only fair, and the
most enduring and reliable business basis
the ''Drigadiers," then, is too thin to scare
a baby. Watch the vast interests the
western states have in this free trade
question. 1t has the interest at heart
that the great lines of transportation
should not be taxed $28.000,000 year,
which comes out of the western producers,
and their vast grain exports. Again. the
west exported in 1878, as shown by the
Bureau of Statistics" as above: Bread
stuffs, $lel,777, 900; bacon. beef lard,
butter. cheese. pork. Sc, Sis, $50 900;
total, $500, 359, 900 The solid south
exports: Cotton, $l9l.044. 900; tobacco,
SIS, 623, 900; wood. &c, $4,000 900;
turpentine. 1888. 900; total, 1924 000.-
900. Now, il this be true, as we have
frequently maintained, and are ready to
show. then the protective system. shutting
out foreign goods such as We want from
our market, reduces the price of our
exports, or, as we are glad to see SO well
taught by Prof. Perry in his valuable
article, Tariffs and their Reaction. in a
recent issue of the North american:
But If importations are lessened by
duties. expectations are lessened also.
Whatever, then, artihcially aud forcetully
lessons the imports into the country,
destroys the market for the exports of
that country Whoever will not buy
cannot cell The prowers of
agricultural goods, which would naturally
go abroad in payment for what would be
i'm ported but for the tariff duty, realize a
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