Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-07-21
Tariff Publication.

New Highlander as a Customer" The
Interest of the West and South in the Pros
perity of the East" By Edward Stanwood
of Boston.
This is clear and able statement of the
practical advantages Of Protection to all
sections of the United States. In showing
by statistics and logic the great value of the
prosperity and trade of New England to the
Middle States, and to the South and West.
the author conclusively proves that the adj
vantages of American protection are not
local only, but national. He shows that the
five million of New England population
take almost as much of the products of the
South, West, aud other States, as the thirty
eight millions of population of Great Brit
ain, and that the amount which the latter
obtains from the United States is little in
fuenced by our tariff policy, but is governed
by the necessities of the British population.
Mr.. Stanwood well says: 1.-The Briton does
not buy either wheat or cotton in this coun-
try because he loves US. He is not refusing
to buy as much as he wishes of
either community, because We do
not adopt his nostrum of free
trade. He is not proposing to show his
gratitude to us if we reduce the tariff, in
the touching form of more liberal purchas-
es of our productions. No; he
buys of us because he cannot do
better elsewhere; and he could
not do better here, after reduction of the
tariff" He clearly demonstrates the ex-
treme unwisdom of those who would injure
home prosperity and lessen home trade for
the hope of increasing our foreign trade.
He plainly puts the common sense truth that
"All Americans are in partnership with each
other. Their foreign trade is, comparatively
speaking, in volume and value greatly infe-
rior to the domestic trade. The total carry
ing capacity of all the vessels entered and
cleared from American ports during the year
1861, in the foreign trade, was less than
carried by the railroads of the United States
in 1886 was 482, 900 900 TONS" or more than
seventeen times the volume of the
foreign trade. "A tar to help
the domestic trade is fifteen
tunes as useful as a tar to foster foreign
trade, and any law that promotes foreign
trade at the expense of the home markets is
the height of unwisdom."
1t is easy to see that if the manufactures of
New England are of such inestmable value
to the South and West in creating home
market, the manufactures of the great states
of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Ohio in building up great cities and
commercial centres requiring vast food and
other supplies from the States producing
wheat, corn, cotton, meat and other supplies,
must be of far greater value. It's strange
folly to highly estimate trade with Halifax
low value on the trade of New Orleans, San
Francisco, and Chicago, of which Americans
get all the profits Serenteen parts of good
thing are clearly of more value than the one
Seventeenth part of it.
This terse, yet comprehensive argument of
Mr.. Stanwood appears opportunely. Written
by one who commenced his editorial work on
the Kennebec Journal a quarter of century
since, he shows loyal devotion to those sound
views on the Tariff which this paper has
always incucated from the days of its found
er-Luther Severance, an able and thorough
apostle of the American system.