Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1815-04-24

hons OF Democrasick Legislators. -aith-
eHo the ignorant and uninformed clsass
of the community, have been gull1d by
artful and de6gning men, into the belief,
that the nunberlrfs acts of folly and
wickednefs with which cur rulers have
been charged by the Federaliifs, were,
Fe4eyai myreprej sn-atioas."
We however fruit that, on this occa-
lion, the people will not fuffcr therniclves
to be deluded by certain men IN our TO-
ciety, who, if their will were law would
keep them in utter ignorance Of the true
fate of things. and endeavour to prove
TO them thar 9 Democrats could do no
wrong !"
The prelent fubjctf is TOO plain to be
mifunderifood ihefe,enormous loads Of
taxes are the refulr of war waged to fes
cure " Sailors Rights" but of which
not fyllable is uttered in the late Treaty
of Peace But to the point
Who, purifying the occupation Of a
Halter, will fay that his profits, after de-
fraying the rxpenles Of his family, houle
rent, and every expenle incident to his
bulinefs, equal s per cent, on the gr,is a.
mount Of his lales9 We venture to fay,
none will = We have taken fome pains
to collect information on this oulineis, of
which the refult is thar in the pr'nci-
pal ihop in this borough, there have been
employed from eight to ten workmcn,
who have manufactured forty hats per
week, or 1880, per annum, which, at 6
dsllars, will amount TO I2,48o dollars
On which, charge per cent, and it will
yield to The government 1900 dollars
In The frcond belt fhop, there are manu-
featured fine hats to the amount Of 5000
dollars which will pay to the govern
ment o4c dollars Prudent and econom
ical as thete worthy neehanicks have
been, they have ailured US that their pref
It's are ihort of 1000 dollars per annum.
Indeed, we are aifnred by ore Of them,
that when the buiinels, fome years lnce,
was almof excluiiveiy confined 70 him
felf, and his profits greaier, by far, than
at prelrnt, his ihop reduced an average
profit of but 1000 dollars per annum ;
but thar, for the lait feveral years, on ac-
count Of the increaic of his family, the
enhanced price of every necehary Of life ;
the increafc of journeymen's wages, and
competition which has been produced,
by the eitabhihment of many other fhops,
he has not been enabled 70 do more than
lfupport his family. The idea, that this
tax Will ultimately fall on he confumer
will prove fallacious inafmuch as the
necefities of many, puriuing thar and
other occupations, will put il our of their
power 70 adhere firmly, IL demanding
what might be deemed, fair price, TN,
Guiding the tax, for their wares the
conlequence will be, that many will be
obliged to contribute mere to the gov
ernmsnt, than their net profits amount
to and in few years, ruin and dsftrncs
ton mutt follow
With refpett to Saddlers, although the
tax impofed on their manufactures is but
per cent, it will bear even more opprcf-
iively upon them than upon Hatters.
We have been aiinred by two Of that
protection OF objectionable integrity and
yeracity, that in the mott profperons Pc
Rod of their buiinefs, it never produced
clear profit of 6 per cent. In a ihop
employing four hands, the produce of
their labour may be fer down Executive
Of Incidental jobs) at Paddles per week,
or about 400 per annuin.
Say at ID II each amounts to $500
300 brides at d. so 1900
d oooo
On which he will have to pay, 10 extin-
n 4 ,ol