SERIES. No. 24-VOL. VIII.] BALTIMORE, AUG. 11, 1821. [No. 24-VOL. XX. WHOLE NO. 518 THE PAST THE PRESENT—FOR THE FUTURE. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY H. MILES, AT §5 PER ANNUM, PATABLE IN ADVANCE. Wishing to dispose of the subject for the pre-opinion, it is remarkably clean, thanks to the offient and appropriate a larger portion of the RE- cers operating there. 1STER to other matters, we have monopolized a With the same frankness that the preceding is arge part of this sheet by some remarks of our own, written, we may also observe, that we do not behat our views may be fairly understood-illustrat-lieve there is, at present, any more danger of mad by some references to facts which, we think, are lignant fefer in Baltimore, generally, than there is vorthy of the public consideration. in any other place; and the city, at large, is quite as free of ordinary diseases as ever it was at this season of the year. HEALTH OF BALTIMORE. "Honesty is always the best policy," and the most effectual way to put lown idle rumor, is to tell the truth. The "National Intelligencer," of Tuesday last, says "In "Niles Weekly Register" of Saturday last, the first paragraph which greeted our eyes was of the following alarming import: There is again some little alarm about "the feer" in this city-exaggerated reports have alrea ly passed into the neighboring country; and, no loubt, will gather force as they get distance--progressing like the well known story about the man at was said to have vomitted three black crows." We invite attention to the remarks of our correspondent on those of Messrs. Gales & Seaton, recently published in the ‘NaWithin a few days past some new cases of ma- tional Intelligencer,' which he has touched with the spear of Ithuignant fever have appeared, and from six to eight riel. We think that these gentlemen will find it a difficult matter persons have died of it in about as many days. So to explain some things they have said, to the public satisfaction." far, the number of cases or of deaths is not of gene-leaf which was to disclose to our eyes the burning "With some trepidation, we turned over the ral importance, except to shew that the former causes of disease were not removed, or that new spear, whose touch was to sear our nerves, and ones have been generated. Under either circum. whose lightning glance would harrow up our very stance, the locality of the poison is proved, and the souls. But we were consoled by the discovery, tha, fault belongs to the police and ourselves. We were although the editor of the Register had been in fairly and fully warned-we have had one of the spired, even to SCRIPTURAL allusion on this occasion, nest seasons to act against this disease that ever our antagonist was neither angel nor fiend, but the was known; and, if it spreads, no excuse can be same good easy writer whose lucubrations in the offered for it--nor can it any more be covered by Register we have already had occasion more than calling it a "dispensation of Providence," than if man should be killed by the falling of the wall of a So far I am directly concerned, as their rehouse which he saw coming down, and neglected marks are on my paragraph; and I must endeavor or refused to give room to: for it is shewn that this to defend myself against the suggestion of the sofever is local, that, at present, it belongs peculiarly lemn reference conjured up by Messrs. Gales & to foul and filthy spots, and, from the experience Seaton. Aniversal belief. a once to notice," &c. had, it is also evident that those spots may be divested of their destructive qualities. This is the afford them pleasure, (for misery loves company) If they were alarmed at opening my paper, it will By what we see in some of the New-York and to know that I was CONFOUNDED on reading theirs! Philadelphia newspapers, and what I myself per- his spear, was the coinage of the brain of an obscure I had always thought that Ithuriel, and the power of sonally see and smell in Baltimore, an idea might old blind man, (though a most splendid illustration be entertained that an experiment was making to establish the theory of this dreadful disease, and lived in England, and indicted a book by the name of the might of TRUTH), called John Milton, who put the advocates of non-importation to shame, by of Paradise Lost," at this time a very scarce work, Suffering its supposed seeds to be cxtensively nur tured in these cities, in confidence that they would not being to be met with in more than 999 out prove innoxious. I am willing to hope that what of a 1000 of our book stores;-but the editors sayis said about New-York and Philadelphia may noting that I was "inspired even to SCRIPTURAL allu be so bad as is reported of them, but my senses of sion," instantly caused me to put down my segar, seeing and smelling must be very much improved, (an evidence of the perturbation of my spirits), and or the thickest built parts of Baltimore are more run to a "learned divine," to ascertain the book, filthy now than I have known them for the last seven- chapter and verse in which Itluriel was named in teen years. A remark to the same purport has the scriptures. He could not tell-we then referbeen made to me by several strangers:-..but there red to that ponderous work, Cruden's Concordance as some prospect that certain of the worst places it was not mentioned therein; we next took up will be cleansed. That part of the city called the Brown's Concordance-still disappointed; then exPoint" is remarkably healthy...because, in my amined Brown's Dictionary of the Bible-"even" yet wholly at fault: at length, we happened upon *For the 24 hours, ending on the 9th inst. there some book that told us "Ithuriel was one of Milwere three interments of persons who died of the ton's angels"-thus re-assured, I turned to his malignant fever-on which the board of health ob- works, and in the 4th book of his "Paradise Lost," serve, "there were appearances of malignancy in found the following lines, which I shall give place the above cases, but they feel fully warranted in to to assist the scriptural" recollections of the stating that these were sporadic cases, and they gentlemen: arose from causes which have been discovered, and which will'speedily be removed." VOL. XX. -24. Ithuriel and Zephon were ordered by a superior (spirit to search for Satan: "Him they found Squat like a toad close to the ear of Eve, Yet still a doubt existed as to the meaning of the word "scriptural," and I argued the matter with myself after the manner in which Messrs. Gales & Seaton themselves lately noticed me and my correspondent-thus: Scriptural. Contained in the Bible.-JOHNSON. "Scriptural. Belonging to the Holy Scriptures, [BAILEY. "Scriptural. Contained in scripture; related in DrCHE. the Bible. "Scriptural. Contained in the Holy Bible. [PERRY. "Scriptural. Writing, sacred writing, the Bible. [WALKER. teen per cent." as the editors have it, (though such Now, all these authorities, except the last, pin the meaning of the word to something contained in the Bible: so I referred again to Johnson-he says that scripture is from scriptura, Lat. which I find, by He will, no doubt, speak for himself--and he Young's dictionary, means a writing: so then, "scrip- shall have room to do so; for the subject, at large, tural" may refer to any thing contained in the Bi-is the most interesting and important that ever was ble-to the manifestoes of the holy alliance, or submitted to the consideration of the American "even" to the editor's essays themselves--and, people. certainly, they have a right to this explanation if they please to use it. It is furnished gratuitously, for I always like to understand my opponents! PLAIN TALK-continued from page 341. Having cleared away the rubbish, or manifested the conI shall not take up their remarks in detail-but I temp in which it is held, I shall now proceed to the must say this, that my correspondent has quoted main subject of this article, and endeavor to shew them honestly, and drawn fair deductions from their that the advocates of national industry are the best assertions. They did say in their paper of the 9th and most true friends of government-notwithstandof June, (not the 7th, as erroneously printed), that ing there is a want of evidence that the administra"there is not a reputable merchant in the United tion is really friendly to national industry, as applied States who will not contract to collect your whole to domestic manufactures; seeing that it has leaned revenue from imports and tonnage, for a commission upon and adhered to the principle of depending of three per cent. while government was glad to get upon the products of foreign labor for revenue the direct tax collected for fifteen per cent. being with surprizing tenacity even until the surplus o just the difference of five to one." My correspon- the sinking fund, solemnly pledged for the ree-pay. dent shewed the reason of the latter, and proved ment of the public debt, has been swallowed up in that it saved the U. States ten per cent. on the amount the current expenditures, as well as the proceeds levied; and, in this respect, he spoke to the point of two heavy loans effected in the two last years, and only of the direct tax--it was a separated, speto eke out the funds of the treasury; which was cific object, to which attention was positively direct- still subject to much embarrassment, if not labor. ed, and without reference to any other matter: oning under a deficiency; and it does appear also, which the editors of the Intelligencer observe--that the retrenchments made by congress, were "He has quoted official documents to shew that the generally opposed by the heads of one or more of expense of collecting the internal duties has ave-the disbursing departments-which shews the ab. raged 5 8.10 per centum on their total amount, and sence of method and concord in regard to the nathat the expense of collecting the direct tax has averaged 6 3.10 per centum. It is all very true; and it is all equally true, though it is of little value to the argument, that this is nearly a third greater than the average expense of collecting the imposts. But, the writer exclaims, this not fifteen per cent.-- We feel that our commerce is almost every day as if we had ever said that the United States had reduced into a lesser range. It may be said, that paid such a per centage for the collection of the there is nothing which we can raise or produce internal revenue." He did not say any thing like that commands a profit in the foreign market, but as if they had ever said that the United States paid cotton and tobacco; and it is notorious that the prosuch a per centage [fifteen!] for the collection of fit on these has suffered so severe a diminution that the internal revenue"--he had distinctly shewn the some have began to calculate upon the rot as a gedifference between direct taxes and that revenue;neral blessing, though ruinous to individuals, by and his remark, that 6 3-10ths per cent. on the reducing the quantity and so keeping up the price; amount of money actually paid into the treasury, as the cost of collecting the direct tax, was "not fif tional finances, a matter of the most serious importance at all times, but especially so in the present, when public wealth and private comfort is retrograding faster than it ever advanced in the United States. [a] [a] See the notes at the end of the article, of American shipping and for increased supplies of American produce. This is the morality of the PRESENT impost system and of dealing men, without disguise-and no one will deny it. on the principle about which we have spoken frequently, that an excess may lessen the aggregate value of a given quantity required, in a far greater amount than the whole value of that excess. As to tobacco-see the lesson under the head of France, Why, in the name of common sense, should we page 382. Let sophistry do all that it can-twenty not look at home, for comfort, for security? Are volumes of argument, each as big as the whole de- there some so stupid as to believe that any nation bate on the Missouri question would make--a ter- takes of us any thing because we receive goods from rible mass of words!--would fail to convince us that that nation? If so, let them point out the solitary the amount of our imports must not depend on case. But there is no instance of the sort. It is the that of our exports, for the hire of labor and cost of policy of all the nations with whom we deal, from subsistence in their transport, will not do more now China down to little Portugal, to take nothing, than pay the interest of our stocks held in Europe, not one thing, of us, on the fair principle of exif even that. From present prospects, the [na- change, which their own soil or industry can sup. tive] exports of the United States will probably ply; and ought we not then, also, to do so? The settle down at a less amount than 40,000,000-- people of what are called the Christian nations ergo, we may buy foreign goods to that amount; in Europe once thought, generally, that every and if the average duties are estimated at 25 per priest, however mean or impious he himself might cent. on the cost, we may expect that the amount be, could open the gates of heaven at his own good of the taxes levied on the people by impost will pleasure, for the reception of sinful men, withbe about 10,000,000, less the cost of collection, out any act of contrition and reformation on their losses by bankruptcies, &c. I apprehend that this part [b] and some perhaps, believe so still: but is a very liberal allowance; and so it appears that should we not think a person a fit subject for the impost will not nearly meet the ordinary expendi-house of correction that would now assume such tures of government, much less pay off the enor- a power, and condemn him as proper to become mous debts that become payable in 1825, and the an inhabitant of Bedlam, that would now acknow succeeding three years--in all about sixty-five mil-ledge it? The admonitions, reproofs, instructions lions of dollars, being war-debts. and prayers of good men avail much; but if the subThis is a disgraceful state of things. No prudent ject of them does not do any thing for himself, if individua, no honest man in private life, I'venture he does not examine into matters in his own heart to say, would suffer himself to be placed in such and refrain from the commission of sin-he has no a predicament, if he could avoid it. He would re-more chance of getting to heaven with than he duce his expenses, gather his resources, and put all would have without such admonitions, &c.---or than his means into requisition to relieve himself from the United States have of being really free, sove. such a dilemma. Though it oftentimes happens reign and independent, happy at home and respectthat some of the most careful persons are compel- ed abroad, while even the payment of the presi led to borrow money to pay borrowed money, that dent's salary is suffered to rest on foreign contintheir faith may remain inviolate--yet it would not gencies and events, over which they have no man. reflect credit of any one, nor would he be long ner of controul. trusted, if it was known that he relied upon that My principle about the degree of protection that practice as a system, and made all his calculations should be afforded to national industry, consists in upon it: for it would shew that his dependence was this: I would put a duty of ten cents per lb. on cotnot on himself, and that he was at the mercy of ton, if the growers of it desired it, because we can others; that one crooked bank director might stop make enough of it for ourselves; and, for the same the wheels of his business and shut up his shop. reason, when it was so as to sugar, I would put a But so it is, that the United States depend on the similar duty upon that article: as our farmers can caprices, wants or misfortunes of foreign nations for supply a sufficiency of the materials and their ma the means of raising a revenue, and trust to bankers nufacture will employ many persons, I would tax and money-lenders to borrow and re-borrow, and foreign spirits to an amount that should be equal re-re-borrow money to supply the treasury in case to a prohibition of their common consumption, and that such foreign nations are pleased to prohibit levy a tax on the domestic product, to be paid by the introduction of our articles because they inter- the consumer, in aid of the revenue. So in respect fere with their own industry-because they hap- to all other things in which the produce appears pen to have plentiful harvests-because they will capable of being safely rendered equal to the deODgingly engage themselves so busily in cut-mand--such as ponderous works of iron, [c] the ting each others' throats, as to open a market for coarser manufactures of cotton, and a partial assist. the surplus products of our soil! What sort of ance to those of wool, generally, until the stock morality is it, that this condition of the United of sheep and machinery and work people was in States produces? Why, nine-tenths of those who creased to a proper extent, when they should be shouted and threw up their hats for the victory of put upon the same footing as the other things menWaterloo and the triumphs of the holy alliance, tioned. These are noticed only for examples, and by which our enemy was enabled to direct his whole to shew my opinion of the discrimination which I force against us, and nine-tenths of the merchants think it necessary to observe, and to evince also, and traders who compose our peace societies, (of one my desire that no legislation should be made by the of which the Russian emperor is an honorary general government in favor of any section or peomember!!!) would shout ten times more sincerely, ple of the country, unless under a certainty that if not quite so loudly, on receiving news of the there can and will exist in them a sufficient quanescape of Napoleon, of his landing in France and tity of the materiel for competition that will insure arrival in triumph at Paris-not because he might a moderate price for their commodities. [d]-Thus, restore France to her greatness, and defeat the in the case of coarse cottons-the duty is equal to schemes of the most infamous conspiracy that ever 80 or 100 per cent. but such American goods can existed against the right of persons and things-be furnished at cheaper rates than they ever were but because a general war in Europe might be ex-imported at. It is impossible to believe that t'.is pected, and a demand be made for the employment principle and effect can apply to one article only. [Y and gress, and some of them ranking as leading men, And, if honored as aforesaid, I would also have proposed that congress should stand pledged not to vote one cent of money on account of the ordinary expenditures of government, until some plan was adopted by which the sinking fund should be restored to its honorable operation of redeeming the public debt, and ways and means were provid ed to defray the usual peace disbursements without borrowing money, on long or unlimited loans for that purpose. What one of my friends calls the "legislation of necessity" is doing much in support of home industry; -the people cannot get money to buy foreign goods, and are compelled to make clothing for themselves. Here is cause and effect; and a further consequence is;-that, though domestic industry is depressed, it is diverted, so far as it exists in manufactures, to the immediate reduction of the public revenue! This is certainly one of the most strange things that I ever met with. In every other coun: try, whatever may be the application of its industry, the effect is to increase the public wealth and assist the public resources. I beseech attention to this fact-it is worth all the theories that ever were tendered on political economy. Distress causes the people to produce, and production is in enmity to their government-a government of the people! What a rotten condition-the citizens of a free state working against themselves! Why, this might go to verify a once famous saying that "the people I am quite serious in these things-there must are their own worst enemies;" and, by natural rea be a stopping-place somewhere, and the sooner we soning, admit the necessity of a master-some wise arrive at it the better. Yet, by such a procedure I man like Louis, of France, or some virtuous one, should be liable to a charge of being in "the opposilike George, of England, to govern them. tion" as one of the "disaffected," and so forth. But, With such views of this great subject-involv-would any private friend regard me as his enemy, ing at once the happiness of the citizen and the if I said to him, “you must desist from borrowing dignity of his government, how can we be regarded money at the rate of two per cent, per monthas "enemies of the administration" for advocating you are wasting your resources and robbing your a change in the manner of doing things, and for children, by a perseverance in this practice; it the erection of a system, to be built upon ourselves, may be allowed on extraordinary occasions, perto provide for our own comforts and supply our haps-but if pursued, it must terminate in the own wants? It is manifest--it is as plain as the wrong of your just creditors and your own ruin: day-light, that the amount to be paid by the govern reduce your expenses, waste nothing, increase ment cannot be paid by its present plan of raising your application. On every hundred dollars thus a revenue-that the expenditures must be reduced, saved or made, recollect that you not only have so or the receipts increased, (and both might be pro- much more capital, but also avoid the payment of perly attended to, the former as well as the latter, the INTEREST upon it. If you cannot then get along as we shall perhaps shew in some detail hereafter) stop payment at once, and shew all interested that or that we must resort to borrowing, and reduce you have not thrown away your substance—thus, borrowing to a system to meet the expenses, though your character will remain unimpeached, and it it will inevitably terminate disgracefully, if not in will serve you as capital to begin with again. You the ruin of tens of thousands of well-meaning in- are a slave, a very negro, while you depend on dividuals and the final stoppage or bankruptcy of such accommodations!" A person thus addressed the government itself. But the people will not might not in his heart thank me for the interferput up with the borrowing system-they will not ence, while he would be compelled to acknowsuffer money to be voted away without seeing ledge the justice of my remarks,-yet if I stood some other means of paying it, unless in cases of in the same relation to him that a representative great emergency, such as occurred in the late war. of the people does to the administration, there is If I had been honored with a seat in the last con- no rule that he would dare to avow as bearing gress (which I never expect to hold, and, indeed, against what I had said. But a nation cannot wipe have not the shadow of a desire to possess,) I would off its debt like an individual-it cannot be accom have offered a resolution directing the "annual re- plished without a national convulsion; and, as the port" of the secretary of the treasury to have been people will bear much without resorting to force returned to him to be rendered intelligible, and that and arms, a public debt hangs like a mill-stone his "supplementary report" should also have been round their necks for ages-perpetually advancing sent back for explanation. I know very well that the power of those interested in lending and les some will be ready to say, "if you have not half the sening the influence and straightening the com. perspicacity of other men you should have double the forts of those who have to pay the interest. After patience," and this is right-a wholesome admoni- an established monarchy and nobility, with a na tion; but here my vanity would compel me to ob- tional priesthood, the most certain way to arrive serve, "as a free citizen of the republic, I have a at despotism is through the agency of a public right to understand the state of its finances," "We debt, beyond the means of the people to liquidate. will admit that-but you are not able to compre. The present debt of the United States bears an hend the subject." "Perhaps so-but I cyphered interest more than equal to one third of the amount through Dilworth's Assistant before I was fifteen of all that the business of government should cost years of age. The reports from the treasury do us-it is one third of our regular disbursements, not go beyond the rules of addition, substraction and or more: shall we increase the force of this ravemultiplication; and, though it may require much nous moth, which eats up our substance whether labor to make them, no great skill in figures should we are sleeping or waking, and must and will be be necessary to understand them." "Yes-yes- satisfied? In very truth, we act in many cases but you must know the state of the stocks, the con- pretty much like a man in Kentucky is recently dition of expenditures and receipts, &c." "Very said to have done, who mortgaged his farm to ob. well--who will tell me? When at Washington, Itain the loan of $130 on interest, which he got I enquired of at least twenty gentlemen in con- so easily that he immediately gave the odd 30 to his wife to purchase a Leghorn bonnet!--Pay-day try should be promoted. Mr. Madison followed will come, in spite of all the stay-laws and stop his foot-steps-and so common had it become for a laws, and it will be a great chance indeed, if the president of the United States, on opening a sesfarm is not sacrificed to his folly. sion of congress, to speak warmly about manufacAlways having denied the doctrine that "a pub.tures-so clearly were they understood to be a nulic debt was a public blessing," because I held it tional concern, that the laughable fact occurred at a self evident truth that the government of a free the last session, when, even after Mr. Monroe's People should be only bolstered by its own virtue message had been printed, Mr. Cobó moved that and talents, I have looked with delight to the pe- that part which related to manufactures should be, riod when the United States should not owe any referred to the committee on manufactures--but man any thing. The statements in the presidents' the motion was not seconded, because a member messages, shewing the actually annual reductions from North Carolina observed, that nothing on the of our debt, were referred to with triumph, as fur-subject was to be found in that message! This is a nishing conclusive evidence of the economy, jus curious anecdote, and well worthy of preservation, tice and good faith of a republican government: though it never has appeared in the "National Inbut how stands the matter now? The reverse has telligencer!" ` What a lesson doth these facts teach taken place, and in what is the welfare of society us? It is needless to comment upon them. It so better promoted than it was in Mr. Jefferson's ad- now, most unfortunately is, that the production ministration? For my own part I am about to give of certain articles at home to the value of forty or up the hope of living to see the public debt of the Unit-fifty millions a year, to be added to the common ed States paid off-but I shall part with that hope stock of national wealth and prevent three-fourths as if I had lost a dear friend; and even yet seek to of that amount from being sent abroad, would dere-possess it by a change of policy, which, howe-prive the government of ten or twelve millions of ver, cannot be brought about while the "æra of revenue! That is, a disposition seems to be manigood feelings" lasts. Both of what lately were the fested to deprive the people of SEVENTY millions of two great political parties of our country, have lost dollars that they may be compelled to pay TEN, or that scrutinizing zeal and rightful jealousy which in that proportion for a greater or lesser amount! kept things straight. I am told that now it is And withall,it is demonstrated that a revenue raised thought "disrespectful" to make a call upon a de. at so great a sacrifice, is insufficient and cannot be partment for information, without previously con-relied upon; and that government will be forced to sulting the head of it: but such an idea must not abandon its practice or sink into bankruptcy, when long and generally prevail among the representa.the ever-borrowing and never-paying system shall tives of the people-they are not all courtiers, fail, as it certainly will do. all office seekers, and a portion of the old leaven We may be mistaken-the distress that prevails remains that may "leaven the whole lump." If it among the people and the embarrassment that bedoes not-if neither the executive nor congress longs to the financial concerns of their governwill assume the responsibility which the state of ment, may exist in causes different from those the times imposes, they may sink together, and the which we have attributed them to, and may rest people raise up new men and new measures as they for their relief on the application of different have done heretofore, for self-preservation, "Pre-principles: but if so, let it be shewn-let our op. vention is better than cure." Let nothing happen ponents come out and tell us what they mean to do that can weaken the love of our citizens for their to relieve the country and disburse the public exrepublican institutions-but if the debt is suffered to go on and increase, the influence of the creditors and the power of their intrigues will be so great, that a mighty effort, abounding in ill blood and enmity, will be necessary to cause a return to the old and approved course, adopted and followed twenty years ago. penditures. If they will depend upon loans, let them say so, and then we shall understand them! And, after all, if to be opposed to permanent loans in time of peace, and a constant increase of the public debt, is to be opposed to the administration, I shall not hesitate to say that I am as much opposed to it as Samuel Adams was to that of Great The revolutionary congress did not think it be-Britain; and for the same reason, because the end neath them to pass a vote of thanks or of approba- must be nESPOTISM-the despotism of a "holy altion, to Kobert Bailey, for printing an edition of the liance" between those who lend money to the Bible on American paper, &c. In the interval be- United States and those who use it to pay their tween the termination of the duties of the old con- own salaries, as well as disburse it for other gress and the establishment of the present govern- purposes. So sure as there is time and eterniment, the people were every where laboring to ty, so certainly will be the result of present proencourage domestic industry—and the late soldier, ceedings, if they are suffered to go into a sys in all parts of our country, felt assured that he was tem. I cannot believe that such are the designs helping to secure that independence which his of any one at present in power-rendered comfortsword had won, by appearing clothed on the 4th able by their own emoluments and tolerably conof July in home-manufactured articles, which he tent with the mighty influence and power possessmarched in proud procession to display. WASHING.ed, they do not see or feel things as other peo. TON was their zealous friend--and he obtained a suit ple see and feel them; and I am afraid too, that of "home-made” for the purpose of first appearing there are too many round about them whose inte. before the people as president of the United States: rest it is that they should remain blind and insenthen came Hamilton's famous report on manufac-sible to the wishes, wants and necessities of the tures. Mr. Adams spoke encouragingly of them; community, and regardless of the progress of and Mr. Jefferson with all the frankness of an ho- events. nest and enlightened man, fairly, fully and com There is nothing that can be more dangerous to pletely renounced the opinion which he had expres- the liberties of the people of the United States, or sed in his "Notes on Virginia," and has ever since press upon them more onerously, than an establish been zealous for the establishment of our "worked national debt. I would rather see a bench of shops" at home. In his messages to congress he bishops seated in the senate chamber, than have manifested a constant desire that domestic indus- the executive on this subject in counsel with mo |