Indiana Palladium, Volume 3, Number 31, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 11 August 1827 — Page 1

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FEXELOjV.Xo. VII. Tb the People of the western country, awl particularly Indiana There seems to Ue much excitement at present in the Western country con

cerning the woollens bill, so called. A great deal of pains has been taken by the opposition to the present state of thing?, to convince the people that the measure was an improper one, and that it ought

not to have succeeded. I mentioned in one of my numbers thai I might find it necessary to say something more upon that subject hereafter. I have thought it proper to devote a number to it alone, as being a topic in which we are all deeply interested, and about which there ought to be no misunderstanding. When I say that much pains has been taken by the opposition to convince the people that the measure ought not to succeed, I do not mean to attack their motives, lor I have no hesitation in saying that

many, who are friends to the present liberal policy, are sentimentally opposed to it from, the supposition that it is unjust in its inception, and radically wrong in principle. The principle of protecting our agricultural and manufacturing interests, being cleared of all constitutional and other objections, and being desirous of avoiding prolixity, I shall, without preface, enter upon the subject on hand. Our Southern brethren are opposed to the measure upon general principles, and many of the opposition, as they are called here, oppose it upon the ground

that the provisions of that particular hill,

giving protection to the woollen manufactures, are unjust and iniquitous. The objections made to the bill by those who profess to be friendly to the measure generally, are, 1st. That in its practical results it inures to the advantage of the great incorporated manufacturing companies and rich capitalists of B ston, oils ew England, without benefiting the community at large. 2d. That thduty on the raw material was not to commence! at t lie same time with that of the dulv ml ! on the manufactured article. 3rd. And lastly, that the protecting duty was already sufficient to insure them succes?,if the business were properly conducted. I will examine those, objections in their order, and I think I shall be able to show that they are neither of them tenable. With respect to the first objection that the bill results in inriching these large companies and capitalists in Boston or New Iv-gland: I have in a previous number hi. iled that when the British found a new branch of manufactures set on foot in this; country or one unprotected, their invariable practice was, to aim a blow at its des; ui lio! in some shape or other, generally in throwing a large quantity

of the article into tue market, thereby

mies, are more obstinate, and more difficult to expel than foreign foes. Sup

pose by a redundance and cheapness of

the raw material, a business should be enabled by an obstinate perseverance and vast sacrifices to surmount every obstacle in its way to perfection, without any protection from the government, it can only happen where immense capitals are employed ; but the very employment of such a capital operates as a monopoly itself, and it is only the rich and powerful that can succeed to the entire exciu-

sage of our cast tariff bill, and even atbo 1-3 per centum, rather increased than! per cent, which operates as a premium

this time there is a duty on the exporta

tion of it from that country of a half penny sterling per pound, which is equal to about 7 per centum upon coarse wool. It will be recollected too there is already a duty of thirty per centum on nearly all the wool imported into this country; which added to the duty paid in England on its exportation will mak it here equal to about fort v percent, and which I should think would entirely f xelude ai least Great Britain from out

sion of every inferior capitalist, and markets, and indeed nearly the whole

thereby prevents a general extention of world. 3id. Another consideration the business and robs the community of which weighed with many was, that no all the benefits resulting from a fair and very great addition to the flocks of cheep honest competition among the citizens, could be made in less time than a year.

and throws all the profits of the industry

of the countrv into the hands of a few individuals. Such, indeed, in some measure, is the case at this time, with regard to those large, incorporated companies in Boston and elsewhere. They had combated every obstacle, and by making great sacrifices, had brought their business to a considerable degree of perfection, and were enauled perhaps to realize a reasonable share of profit; and the fact is, they did not desire, nor did they ask, but on the contrary rather opposed the laying of additional protect

ing duties. 1 hey had completely excluded all domestic competition and it may be truely said that they and the British had fairly monopolized the whoh of the woollen business in the United States, to the great hindrance of the progress of that branch of industry. 1

and the duty being fixed to take effect

at that tim i would be a sufficient inducement to farmers to apply the means of producing the quantity necessary to meet the additional damand. That to make the duty take effct immediately w ould, if it did any thing, only tend to raise the price of the wool to the manufacturer, with very little benefit to the farmer, and to the disadvantage not only of the manufacturer hut to every other

member of the community. Ldecd it i?

diminished the importations; hut be that

:is it may, we see that in the two years

to the British manufacturer, and enables

him to eell his products that much lower.

next succeeding the passage of that act,' If it be (rue then, that by the kind of fi-

iiirif v-i3 i.vnsuwivu in me uimeu oiaics of British woollens, upwards of eighteen millions of dollars worth, which not only robbed our own enterprizing citizens oi all the profits of that much labor, the na-

nesse above mentioned, the British man

ufacturer is enabled to sell his woe Hens twenty three per cent, lower than he could at the time of the passage of cur

tariff hill, or in other words, evade the

lion of that much intrinsic wealth, butjdulies imposed by Corgiess on that arti

by so much glutted the home market,

and injured the manufacturers. In lurther corroboration of what 1 hae heretofore said, in relation to the era It of the British in inundating our markets with their products, it is a well attested fact, that itt 1 825, within ninety day s after our merchants had made their shipments

from England, woollen goods were consigned to British agents in the sea-port towns in this country to such an extent, as to reduce their price upwards of thirry per cent. The duty on the article of woollens is now nominally 33 1-3 per ct. ut by finesse, trick, and f raud more than one half of those duties are evaded. Could the revenue be fairly and honestly collected, I am very much disposed to think the protection would be amply sufficient : but this is not the case. In the

very problematical, whether a duty on fust place it will he recollected that the thirty per cent, is not sufficient to oxcludejac't of 1824 lays the duty of 33 1-3 per from our markets every raw material 'cent, on the sum at which the woollens

which is indigem us to thecounti y. Wooljwere actually valued at the place

is of a character peculiar, from every

other product of the fatm: there never has been a lime I belli ve when the farmer complained that he could not sell

its surplus wool (I mean las con iren

market for every tiling else, but that ian article w hich I believe has n verbecii

price

n more ofquar.lity than price. Thejput at a price far -i :e has generally been sufficient, hufiact ually sola lor, s;

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the wool grower; and this is evident lv owing to the depression of tin manufacture, and not to an xccs ol importation.

say it is a mistake, the great companies! wool) at a fair price, lie might wart a

and capitalists in Boston and elsewhere, did not ask or desire any additional protecting duty oi woollens, it was the people that asked for it not they. There is no petition to congress on file in behalf of these companies in Boston, but on the contrary there is a remonstrance by the citiz;ns of Boston and its vicinity" expressly against laying any such duty. In that remonstrance they say in so many words, uyour memorialists are fully convinced that the proposed increase of duty, would paraivz; many branches of industry and he productive of extensive injury" wherefore they say "that for

the present they confine themselves to the expression of their opinion a strong

and deliberate opinion against the mea

sure. Indeed as far back -s 1821, I find a remonstrance of sundry merchants, ni'tnufjcturcrs and others of the city of Boston, in which they labor through some eighteen or twenty pages to show the pernicious eff'ds of laying protecting duties on manufactuied articles and finally adopt the following resolution: "that relying on the ingenuity, enterprize and skill of our fellow cil iz is, w e

believe that all manufacture, adapted

whence they were originally purchased

or imported. Under every advhlorom system of duties, many advat gt s may be taken of the government by the importer, and tiiis has not escaped its share ot me frauds to which they me all subject. I will only notice one or two. The fol

lowing, it pretty well ascertained, has

a drug m anv country. i he mai ket torjoeen practiced loan enormous extent: the line wool?, I believe, has sorre-t imes J Invoices are made out at the place of the experienced a depression, hut that hasjoiigiual shipment, in w hicn the goods art

been more cfouar.litv than

belcw what ihe are

v 50 per cent, in ma-

:he demand has always been too limited inv instances, and the duly assessed upon i to command the peculiar attention ot (that value. It is true tin honest mer

chant yvouhl not he guilty rf such a fraud upon the government, hut there art wretches enough who "ou!d. It is liko-

Thei e never was an exeo-s of impel ta-; w "im ti ue, thai ihere are valuers appoint-

tions so as to affect the price of the arii-ied,by the propr r authorities, to assets a

cle in the leaist, beide, the object of the value upon the goods, vvi.eie such fraudtariff is not to.. raise the pice of the ar-iulont practice shall he suspect txl, hut it icle, but to obtain its production, to se-jappenrs by letters fiom some of the t fficure the profit of making it to ourselves, jeers of the customs, that they have al

to furnish a market to the farmer for hiswavs felt a delicacy about interfering.

raw mete rial: not to raise the price ' hut land indeed say, they never ha e interfer. rather by creati; g competition to reducejed, where the shippers-, have attested to the price of the mumii ti tut c v ill ushhe correctness ot the invoices exhibited, the raw material; and mv word for il en-IIio.- c nuil.ieu hum-.- ea.-v than for a courage the manufacturer, create aiBriii-h merchant to fias.smit to hi:7 own

market for a suuieient quantity tf it, andiagei-t, go.ds invoiced at a price far be-jsold here," and by the provisions, the

the farmer will never complain of the;nealh the ir real cost, claim the assess- vvhole amount of that article excluded.

price. If however the protection to the meet of the duties upon them agreeably joy the bill, would not amount to more

cle, 1 think it may be safely admitted

that by fraud upon the revenue laws he shifts cut of iO 1-3 p r tent, more, and thereby ourow n woollens,areleli without auy protection whatever. Independentlyof all these considerations, it is a fact pretty generally known that the manufacturing interest of Great Britain has suffered immensely within these few y ears ; thousands have become bankrupt?, seme for fifty, sixty and an hundred thousand pounds steilirg, their stocks were nect ssarily sold tor whatever they would bring, this consequently caustd a vast amount to be shipped to this country,

and all fended to reduce the price ot the articles, and check the progress of the business here. This very circumstance tests the polity contended for by the oppesers of the hill, and proves beyond controversy, that until we shall consent, by protecting duties, to

shut the British cut iff our maikc ts, or at least keep them within our own control, we may txpect to he injuriously affected by the frauds, the caprice, and even the misfcrtunts of that nation. Semethini: has been said about the provisions ot the bill being such, as to raise the price of coarse woollens and net fine, thereby opt lating ngainst the poorer classes of people more than the tith. The same cl h clioi s were r aue by the epposition to d.e laiili tt 1816, in re la tiori lo coarse cotti U?. Ii was said, yon w ill distress the poor, tbc tourtiy will rite in arms against y ou, a poor man w ill not be able lo get him a s! u t, the southern people said xa e shall not be able to clothe cur nrgiccs, and, iriUtd, seme w ent solar as to thu aten to take up aims. Why it was Li.i wn thei , by men who undei stood any thii g contemn g the leal ii U rests ot lhe country, that cur n:arulactuics could supply any nnn unt of coarse (Otitis, that night be ya ant tutor home consumption. jiM as well as it is known now, that any amount of toaise cloth tan be lu'mished, and thai c ur own domestic tern pcitioi:, as in the case" of coaise cottons, will soon reduce the pi ice much lower than what it is now; besides the fact does not exist, coarse cloth can

not be imported cheaper than they arc

farmer or wool grower was not sullicient,' to theirvice price's, and so defraud the

that to the mnnuf icturcr was much h ss jjovt ri met t of its revei.ne, and defeat

to our character and circumstances, w iihso, and this bring? me to consider the last ithe protetive operations cf the bill.

be introduced and extended, as soon, andjo'ajectioa urged ag -.i.-t the bill to vv it:-Again, it is ascertained that very valua-jciling odium against the bill, but every

than about an half million of dollars.

Such an objection might answer to make a noise about, and use as a means ofex-

as far, as will promote the public inter

et, without any further protection than thev now receive." Fivm Bennsvlva-

uthat the duty was sufficiently high for hie goods have been sent to British a-tman of sense knows there is no validity

the protection ol the business it tt were; gents, here in an undi e:sed state, cc kxed s m it.

properly conducted." O-.e would tkink'at a price bearing no proportion to their

nia, and various other parts of lhe union.1 a very short answer might he given to; real aloe, and -unon that value the du-

tin- re ivere petitions in favor of the pas- this objection to wit, that with all thejties have been assessed; they have after- .- . 1 II 111 1 . " i . "ill .1 . I . 1 A . 1 I ? 1

reducing the price, so that tire manufac-isage of the woollens bill, but none, from' interest excited by the investment of; ward be-en carried to turer could not proceed. But this is' Boston; hence I say, it is a mistake, thej eighty millions of capital, and all lhe, i: the cities, highly ti not the 'only difficulty in the wav of t he j the gre rt manufacturing companies imskiil, industry and economy with which sold perhaps for three

been carried to their work-shops.

llnihhcd, and then

times the amount

iiraress of mauufai airing establish- Boston never asked, never required, nor: that capital could be managed, the pro- ot their original valuation, and in that

meets. la their infancy thev not only ever consented to the measure; but on prietors were not able to proce d in ttreii m:;nuer defrauding the government of

always require protection against foreign! the contrary opposed it. And I think it j business, but that it languished, was un-j three fourths of its duty, and the manucompMition, but very frequently mut I must appear evident to every man of re-' profitable, the capital liable to be lost or' facforer of his protection. But the

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Turkish Justice, The following extract of a letter, from Constantinople shows with what ease a Turkish court o: ineuirv can settle a doubtful euestion.

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he eijcour;ifed by bounties or monopo-' tlection, that without such general pro- diverted into other channels, and that trauds upon the rt venue, although great, 'Un i riday last, the 2od, the grand

In their incipient: they have to tection as congress only is competent to; bi anch ot our national induairy annum - a..i cascuiaieu very much lo thminishjseignior having gene to perform his

the

hor-

he

I have been as concise as possible, in

this number, I have merely stated facts and left conclusions to be drawn by the reader. Yours ccc. Fjexulox,

encounter many impediments such asigive, a41 our manufacturing business in ted or abandoned to foreigner-; this the protection intended for the wocllenjnoonday prayers at the mosque of tl want of capital, want of good material,! this great republic must be confined toj would, I say, seem to be a Mitiicien- an- manufacturers by the tariff of 1 CM, were; Bombardies, two vessels of war ancho want of skill, besides the want of perse-! the hands of a few overgrown capitalists; swer, if the fact exist, and thai n did, and not all the means by w hich ils protective! ed in the neighborhood, saluted him ns I

verance to sustain them against the ai-i"m our own country, or remain subject to' does exist, can be made lo appear beyond .influence was affected. The duty on the passed. A ball, discharged frcm one cf ,r.-t inHnitp variety of obstacles that oa- the contest of foreigners. So much for!all controversy: it is indeed a part of the' importation of wool into Great Britain,! the cannon. happened to wound one ofthe

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iio-e their success, and lie between their'thc first objection. I think the second hi-tory of the times. Uvas at that time, sixpence sterling perl rowers of the boat which followed imme commencement arrival at the point! will be found equally untenable. This' I have remarked, m a former number pound, and its exportation entirely pro-jdiately behind that of the sultan. The "'V . ... t t however there were! objection is, that the duty on wool did. that such w as the wretched condition to'hibited. After the passage of the tariffjevenl gave rise to many conjectures. It

pnonle in the world further advanced' not, by the terms Ol me mil, commence at; which we were reouceu in ioi j, we,oiu in it..-i, mis uuiy on me imponauon in ma'ecturin' than ouneivesor whoj the' same time,of the duties on the manu-jcould not supply SG000 worth of blan-jwas taken off by the British, except a lav protecting duties upon importations ofl factured articles, thereby neglecting the kets, we had engaged to some Inu.a.nhali penny m the pound. This was cal-tfianuf-ctured article we should require! protection of the farming interest. To tribes. I shall heboid that m 1G1G amhculated to reuuee the tax on wool upon none. " Every day's experience teach- this 1 answer, 1st. That the importationsjin 1 S!3-i we added largely to the tanil an average, about sixty per cent., and m :11 cnmn:iri'il with nf d ii ! ics ! admit the fact.for the sake of '.that degree, reduce itsurice to the Biit-

..,..;r..,i,..(n..n,!nn(titm;,vl1P. rpm.irpJthe amount of mnnuf rclures oi that arti- argument, but old it secure to the Amer-ish manufacturer. lhe wool, I behev

time and attention in order to its perfec- cle consumed in the United bta.es, that I. ii .i

tion; the least therefore that any gov-, the agricultural intciest couiu not have ernment should do, to encourage the in-hecn, at least within one year, at all afdustrv of its own citizens is. to nrotect it.fected by it. The whole amount of raw

against foreign competition, until it shall j wool imported being only about an half

have arouired all the strength which it million, while the importations ot wool

i capable of deriving- from the natural leu manufactures amounted to nearly

resources of the common country. After eleven millions of dollars, and the whole

is not known whether it was the result of accident or of a criminal intention. The captain of the vessel has been strangled wilii all his crew."

MrgJiolia. Near Fish creek in Virgin-

e,ia, 10 or 12 miles from the Ohio, there

ican manufacturer, the home market fori is considered to he about one third of "thesis a grove of the lofty magnolia, and in

his products? It did not. A view of the average cost of lhe manufacture, and if the season of flowering they till the yvih importations for the two or three years so, the taking off the duty of live penceiderness with delicious fragrance for sev-

before, and after tne enactment ol the halt penny per pountl, on the wool, would

last tanir, win prove me laci we un-j reuuee ue expence oi manuiaciui n

it has arrived to that point it requires no further protection, except against for-ci'-u competition. But until it does so

arrive at that point, il is often necessary,

as I before remarked, to protect it even against domestic embarrassments. It is better to make the protection general.

than to grant monopolies, (which indeed wool from England had been entirely are nerallv the worst of all kinds of prohibited for upwards of tyvo hundred

protection) fur they, like iiilcrn! eac-lyears, until the year 1824, after the pas-

consumption perhaps to about CO millions. Secondly It was generally tho't too, the duty on wool was very nearly high enough of which the sm illness of the quantity imported, was almost incontestable evidence. Besides it is a fact wor

thy cf notice that the exportation of

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ported of woollens in the year 1822, for . y

round numbers say, 1 -1,000,000 ot dollars w orth, in 1823 nine millions and a half, in 1824, the year the last tariff was passed, nine millions, in the year 1825, eleven millions and a half, in the year

to the British manufacturer, of about

twenty per cent., and would go so far, towards countervailing the duties imposed by our tariff bill, and defeat the pro

tection to our own manufacturers. Again,!

the duty on dye-stuffs used in woollen

1C2C, ten millions out of which were 'manufactures, was stricken from the

consumed in this country say, in 1822. ,911,552,000 in 1 823,S7,4O2,00O in 1824, $"7.530,000 in 1 825,N 10,21 C,000 in 1826, 8.000,000. So that it ap

pears, that the las ill of 1824, which pur . i . ii i

British tariff, as likewise the duty on

olive oil; these it has been calculated, constituted about three per cent, on the manufactured article, which added to the

twenty per cent, on the abrogation of the

eral miles around. The leaves are more

than three feet in length, and of proportionate w idth. There are no other tiecs of this kind within 500 miles. It has been stated that the flowers of the magnolia in Florida, have been smelt at the distance of sixty miles. Si Hi-mail's Journal.

ports to raise the duties on woo!!'jn3, to! duty ou wool, amounts to twenty three j

JVar. The holy war lasted one hundred and ninety years; the costliest that ever was, both tor time,- bleed and mc ney. No Conflict is so fierce and t rue; as when ieligion animates the -war, and makes it piety to be irreconcilable.