126] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



should be levied as may be suffi- 

 cient to favour the sale of our 

 own productions 5 but so as that 

 foreign commerce may be as little 

 as possible obstructed. 



4. That the export of all arti- 

 cles of internal industry should, 

 as much as is practicable, be fa- 

 voured and free. 



Articles of foreign manufac- 

 ture must in this way of course 

 become dearer to the consumer. 

 But it should be recollected, that 

 a revenue will thus be raised, 

 which must otherwise have been 

 levied in some more oppressive 

 mode ; and that the destruction 

 of our intern;il nianufacturing 

 establishments would, too pro- 

 bably, be the result of a free and 

 unimpeded import of foreign 

 goods. The foreign manufac- 

 turer would then be able to dic- 

 tate his own prices, and render 

 the domestic merchant and con- 

 sumer wholly dependent upon 

 him. iJesides, would not the 

 value of our domestic raw mate- 

 rials be in great part lost by the 

 fall of oiu' manufactures ; or, if 

 the foreign manufacturer pur- 

 chased them of us, would it not 

 be with a view to send them back 

 to us in thd wrought state j thus 

 compelling us to pay the price of 

 the manufacture ? 



In fine, what would be the le- 

 sidt, after the fall of our internal 

 fabrics, when wars arising should 

 render our foreign supply of 

 goods dithcult or impossible ? 



In fact, if we take counsel from 

 the experience of otlier nations 

 on this head ; if we look into the 

 recent laws and tariffs of com- 

 mercial and manufacturing na- 

 tions in Europe, and even in 

 America, we may thence derive 



the lesson, that they, in order to 

 favour internal industry, tax hea- 

 vily foreign, and, therefore, our 

 manufactures, on import, or in 

 some cases prohibit them ; that 

 they in all possible ways favour 

 the export of their own manufac- 

 tures, in order to furnish the fo- 

 reign consumer with them. 



It thus. Gentlemen, requires 

 no further proof that our internal 

 manufactures, which have reached 

 such a measure of perfection, 

 cannot remain in that state, un- 

 less care be taken that foreign 

 manufactures be charged with 

 such 1: duty as may proportion 

 their price to the consumer, to 

 that of our own [)roducts, — a price 

 which, in consequence of the bur- 

 dens and taxes here bearing on 

 the manufacturer and workman, 

 cannot be diminished. 



Our hatters, our glass-makers, 

 our tanners, our flax, cotton, and 

 wool-spinners and weavers, our 

 manufacturers of arms and iron- 

 smelters, with many others, must 

 thus be supported by laws, and 

 maintained in their present state. 

 And this, the rather, because no 

 choice remains for us to act on 

 certain theoretic principles, but 

 in conformity to the actual sub- 

 sistence of so many valuable esta- 

 blishments, whose permanence 

 can be exposed to no one moment 

 of interruption, to not one day of 

 discontinued protection, without 

 endangering their fall, the dis- 

 charge of industrious workmen, 

 and establishing the triumph of 

 our enterprising neighbours. 



It is not, however, meant that 

 the protection and favour afforded 

 to our domestic productions, 

 should ci'amp and circumscribe 

 our extensive and beneficial com- 

 merce. 



