Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, on the Tariff: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 25, 1844 Compare the proceeds of agriculture With these proceeds of manufactures Does the farmer get 100, 200, 300 per cent. Annually upon the amount of his capital invested? Are' his gross proceeds the equal, the double, and _the treble of his capital invested? His lands, liouses, slaves, cattle I thank the senator from Kentucky [mn Cairn-311111117] for his question. He has put the right 'question, and brings out a fair comparison - the whole against the whole'. Take the whole investment of the famier, or the planter, against the whole investment of the manufacturer, and compare gross proceeds with gross proceeds. I 'have no means of ascertaining net profits, and that depends more upon the man ager than the subject: take the gioes against the gross, and let the Jlanter and the famier answer. Can he give you the third or the quarter, instead of the doubgle or the treble> Can he even give you ten or 15 per instead of and 300 per cent No, sir. 9 he cannot! And yet this farmer and this planter is to be taxed in every' necessary, and _ih e've'iy comfort of his, life to swell still higher and 'to perpetuate still longer the enormous and exor bitant profits of a class Who are advancing to prince' ly wealth, while they themselves can hardly con trive to make the two ends of the year meet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.