The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-05-29
MISCELLANY.
TConcluded from our last. |

CONCLUDED from our last.
We further represent to your lcnour.
able bodies, that the highest ad yalorem
duty proposed by Mr.. Baldwin's tariff.
was only forty per cent. that very few
articles were subject to this duty that
manufactures Of cotton, wool and iron,
which comprise three-fourths of our i'm
ports, were proposed to be dutied, The
two first at thirty-three per cent. and
the last at twenty-five; and that the al
legged danger Of encouraging smuggling
by the adoption CT that tariff, cannot Be
supported as an adequate reason fer its
rejection, while so many articles are SUBJ
ject to duties so, 60, 20, so, 100, and
200 per cent. higher.
That the alarm d the danger of ex4
tortion from monopoly, the consequence
assumed from raising The duties as pro-
posed 10 that tariff is equally incapable
OF being maintained; as this point has
been fairly tested and set to rest forev-
or, in the case of coarse cottons which
are subject to duties averaging SO to IS
per cent. and actually prohibitory. The
consequences have been highly salutary
in various points of view. 4 market
has been afforded for avery large guam
tity of the most important raw material
OF the United States; whereby depre-
citation of the price in Europe has been
preVented-employment has been given
TO thousands Of our citizens, of. whom
many were in state of pauperism-the
poor rates in our cities have considera-
bly, diminished-housc-cents and MILL
seats have risen ID price-the internal
trade of the country has greatly increas-
ed-and the manufactures thus protest.
ell, are better in quality; and more rea-
sonable in price, than tie rival articles
formerly imported, but now excluded by
prohi6iiory duties. Were it necessary
we could add a variety of cases of other
articles which afford full and complete
proof of this theory.
That the. accusation of extorticn on
the part of the manufacturers; during
the late war which was the principal
reason for the reduction of the rates of
duties proposed by Mr.. Dallas's tariff,
was wholly unfonnded-as the great rise
ct raw materials, Of labour; and of sites
for manufacturing establishments, would
have warranted greater rise Of manu-.
features than actually took place and
The extraordinary rise in the price of
tie fruits Of the earth, wheat, cotton,
and tobacco, which have been often adj
vanced forty; fifty, and one hundred Der
cent. in the course of one, two or three
years, and likewise the enormous advan-
ces laid on imported goods, fully eyince
the Inconsistency Of the accusation Of
extortion preferred by so many Of the
cultivators of the soil and the merchants.
That The assertion so confidently pro
mulgated, that "he nations of Europe. in
Gd'airat;on Of the success d FOUR rolicy, are
RELAXING TIE rigour Of their svs.sms.n il
wholly destitute Of Foundation il
proved, among other things, by the war
of commercial regulations now actually
waging between this country and the
two greatest nations in Europe, France
and England, which pertinaciousiy adj
here to the most obnoxious restrictions.
notwithstanding repeated efforts on the
part Of the United States to induce s a
relaxation Of their systems" by negotia-
+ ton and by cnuntervailing laws. And
in no country whatever is there any
proof of such relaxation. Moreover,
b" the success Of cur policy" for the last
seven years, holds out nothing for other
nations to initiate, but much 10 avoid,