The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-03-08

Raw Materials Free.
By the removal of duties on raw mate
rails used in manufactures Il il designed
70 benefit manufacturers, 70 bensat their
employees, and to benefit foreign trade
i. e. to increase our exports of mAnufac-
tured articles It is the latter oonsider-
alton to which we direct attention IS
mainly enabling the others, and Is being
in itself Of sufficient importance to i'm
peratively demand free materials for
manufactures, for it is to foreign trade We
must look almost exclusively for all addi-
tions to the wealth OF the country IS .
whole-indeed for any addition beyond
the precious metals mined in our country
and money that may be brought from
abroad by settlers or visitors. The paper
money of government aud banks is of no
intrinsic value-simply the representative
of values, and adds nothing to the wealth
of the country as whole, but simply to
that of individuals while they possess it.
The product of ten thousand looms,
though representing vast value of mer-
chandise, adds not dollar to the wealth
of the country if all the cloth is used in
the country; one yard sold abroad adds
more to the common wealth than all the
millions of yards sold at home. Sold
here, money but changes hands; sold
there, money is brought here. Sold here,
the country is as person who takes
money out of one of his pockets and
puts it into another of his pockets, and is
no richer; sold there, the country is as
person who takes money out of another
PERSONS pocket and puts it in his own,
and is richer by so much.
Large expectations, then, means con-
tlnual additions to the wealth Of the
country, keeping money easy, prevent
ing stringency and panic manufacturing
industries constantly active, furnishing
abundant employment at just wages !;
American ships engaged in the commerce
of American merchants and showing the
American flag in every sea where the
British flag is shown by the myriad ira
ders that have made the tight little ISL
and" the rich centre OF colossal empire
an empire extending round the world and
held together by trade-the vast expense
of its government machinery paid for by
trade-the immense outlay for its army
and navy establishments supplied by
trade. The little island cannot even feed
its people from its own soil, but its busy
factories send abroad the wares which pay
for food, and yet make it rich and keep it
at the head of the nations of the old world
by maintaining the balance oftrade in its
favor. America with all that is necessary
to existence and comfort within herself
cannot hold her own-indeed, has no
hold-in the markets of the world against
her rival. Republican policy built
Chinese wall around her-shut
her up within the Lacquer of pro-
hibitory tariff, for her people to strug-
gle and strive and wrangle together
as to who should gain and possess unto
themselves the certain amount of money
within her borders, instead of opening to
them the gates of the world for fair enter
prise and endeavor against the peoples Of
the world in the contest for commercial
supremacy and the acquisition Of outside
money. Magnificent as is her domain,
and vast and various her resources, she
would long ago have been bankrupted
but for the raw cotton product supplying
q principal article of the whole export to
bring money from abroad to keep her f.
nances in tolerably healthy condition
offsetting the fatal drain of specie to pay
for imports by counter current paid to
her for our staple. But this cotton ex-
port is quite in one channel We need
trade in manufactures with all nations,
and adding such exports to that Of king
cotton" the country would enjoy pros
perity as yet unexampled among the ma
tons