The daily gazette., 1882-02-11
oar Enormous Exports and the
Tartff.
From the Congressional Record.

TariH.
From the Congressional Record.
When felicltating the country on our |
enormous exports for the fiscal year just |
passed amounting TO $SS3, ,o2S, ,947, he
omitted TO state that S2A per cent. or
$72o, $50, ,016 OF the whole, were agricul- |
tural products, raised by farmers who |
are more thoroughly heeced and skinned |
under his protective tariff than any other
class and he might have added that
from 1880 up to 1880 official records
show this same class to have furnished
from 79a to 82A per cent. Of eur exports;
and tue honorable Senator might have
continued, that this same class, while
| thus producing the wealth of the coun
try, in order to pay the tariff tax on
everything they and treir families eat,
drink, wear, or use, sleeping or awake,
at work in their fields or at leisure read
ing their county paper-a tax averaging
As per cent. which has pursued and does
now pursue them, alive and dead, III til
their coffin-lids are screwed down with
screws taxed 62.SS per cent. over grave
clothes taxed from so to 100 per cent
live harder, wear palmer clothing, prac-
tice more rigid economy, have fewer Of
the luxuries Of life, are more troubled TO
"make both ends meet" at the end OF the
year, and realize less profit On their la
Dor and capital, ana have lets money
than any other class Of our pc ople. And
still the honorable Senator could have
continued, that while this great wealth
producing class were receiving an aver
age of less that per cent. on their cap
tai and labor, the manufacturing con-
panies, for whose protection they are
} bowed down with taxation, as the re-
cords show, were and are receiving divi-
dends ranging from 8 to 10 and II, 15
%, 25, and in q number of instances as
, high as 40 per cent. on their capital in
{ vested, being net profit.
Commencing in 1e46 with tonnage
J of 1852, ,0s5 is grew to $3.50, ,s13 tons il
1861, the highest figures it eyer reach ed
4 and from that time until this it has gonC
n steadily down Notwithstanding our ma
tional wealth has much more than doub
led aud our import aHd export tradI
d has nearly quadrupled; and every indus
a try which existed before the evil wa
In this country, without a singls excep
20 tion but this, has doubled or trebled, t.
= 4,05T, ,734 tons on the 30th of June, 1881
70 as against 4,06S, ,035 tons at the close O
the preceding fiscal year, the official re
port observing 'thas the increased ship
% building was not, however, quite suffi
Ie cient to offset the reductions of tonnag
d incident to the decay of vessels" Il
1866 3S1 ships and barks were built; il
N- 1866 306 were built, in 1878 81 wer
y built, and in 1879 only 81 were built. L
" 1860 American bottoms carried Is pc
!. cent. of our exports and imports, and tC
day they carry a scAnt 10 per cent.
l. We now pay to foreign ship-owner
ir $120, 600, 900 per annum for carrying ou
rs exports and imports, our mails an
passengers and Of that sum 10 per CEN
!" goes to the owners of British ships. Ou
IA people are not permitted to buy foreign
GO built ships, but must buy from one {
,a the four or five ship-building monopoliC
In the United States, and pay IS pc
!" cent. more than they would cost in Ell
ts rope, and therefore cannot compete wit
D. foreign ships in the carrying trade.
al The American farmer produces th
:" surplus we export to foreign market
10 His is the class most interested in stron
az and keen competition IN the ocean
carrying business, and upon him fal
most heavily the loss from the destru
tion of American shipping. Our nam
facturers produce comparatively lit
VI for export, and do not feel this loss.-
<. Extract from Senator Cookies Speech.