Delaware patriot & American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1828, 1828-02-08
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ner pound, 10 be increased annually 2 IL cents
until II shall reach SO cents per pound. ss recon
lnended in the Harrisburg Memorial, was deemed
by the convention sufficient protection 10 wool Of
domestic growth. Increasing annually l-2 cents
per pound, it win not arrive at so cents until the
expiration of IL years. BY that time It was sup
posed sufficient wool nigh; be grown in the United
States folly to supply the demand OF the WOODEN
manufacturers, even should they extend the manu-
facture OF woolens beyond the consumption OF the
country. The duty having risen to that amount, ii
was thought also that the door would then De clos
ed on any further importation OF wool. 1t cannot
be objected thai 20 cents the first grade or start
ing point, is too high. Nsr can it be said that The
duty advances TOO rapidly II may be doubted, in
deed whether it is not too slow in lis progression,
as it may also whether the minimum price oil for
cign wool that is to be exempted from the opera
lion of the duty, be too high, there being strong
reason to suspect that sales OF inferior wool will be
made in Europe below that sum.
The advaorem duty proposed on goods composed
Of wool, or Of which wool is component part. to
commence at 40 and rise to 30 per cent. in two
wears by an annual advance of per cent. ought
rot to be regarded as extravagant, especially if the
reduction OF the duty on imported wool in Great
Britain be considered. The American manuactu
ier will not be placed on better ground relatively
20 the British manufacturer by the higher rate pro-
;sosea than be stood before that reduction was
made. The first aud second minima recommen
ded, 10 Wit, SO cents and dollars and 50 cents,
are higher than the correspondent ones IN the
Mooien bill Of the last session of Congress. The
third which answers to the fourth in that bill j,
The same, being dollars. The next in order and
iast i dollars, intended for the finer cloths the
omission OF minimum to apply to which in said
bill. was made an objection to it.
The importers of foreign cloths, chiefly British
merchants and manufacturers, have by the means
Of false and deceptive invoices exhibited by them
10 the customhouse officers. injured greatly the do
inestic manufacturers Of wooens as well as detrau
ded the revenue to large amount. These eff
fccts have also in part been produced, BIZ their in
Producing into the United States cloths in an un-
finished state, which after paying the duties in that
state, are taken to factories in which thev undergo
a further manufacturing process, and are then Of
fered for sale as finished goods. II is to prevent
these frauds and eyasions that the mlulma in
the Harrisburg memorial IN relation to wooens
have been recommended; and, it is believed that
other legislative provision can be devised eff
teetual for remedying the evil complained Of.
1t will he objected, no doubt, that the proposed
duty on wooens coupled with the scale Of mini
mum valuations recommended, would. II adopted.
amount to prohibition Of foreign cloths. And |
am willing to admit, that such would be its effect
IN respect to the greater par, OF foreign cloths 81
intermediate prices between the severa. mnraa, to
supply the utlidHu LOT Which tNS AHltFtCuI
tactuiers are competent without the danger Of np.
preston to consumers. The competition among
chem would prevent this. But the cloths which
correspond in price with the established minimum
valuations, or approach them, would continue to be
imported This would be understood by merchants.
ard their importations regulated accordingly.
Some persons who are friendly to protecting du-
ties, cxcalm, nevertheless. against prohibitions
forgetting that protecting duties when once they
ha,o No., IA,
ductlons and fabrics the victory over foreign com
petition. they become then virtually prohib!tory
Such Is now the square yard duty OH coarse cotton
cloths as we'll as the duties some other d0mes.
&c articles that have been efficiently protected.
There are not few agricultural products, the
importation OF which is admitted into the United
States from toreign countries on the payment d
low duties, that ought to be absolutely prohibited
Such are the different species Of grain, potatoes,
hams. beef, and tallow to which may be adlec
the articles OF cheese, candles, soap, beer, ale, an.
porter. No longer aso than last winter shiJ
from same part oi Europe arrived at New Yorl
with cargo Of 10000 bushels of grain and pota
toes. Aud there have within few wears beef
many such mportatons. Now although the pur
chase and transportation Of these articles may Well
some profit to the merchant ship-oWner, and adj
something TO the revenue, they operate more 4
the injury OF the agricuturist. BY surcharginr I'll.
market already too full of such commodities
The additional protection that would BE given I
hammered bar iion, by substituting a duty Of on
cent per pound for 90 cents per hundred ~ lbs.
tie present duty, would not raise it higher tia
has been several times proposed in Congress.
would be matter of regret as well as Of reproac
to the Government should the manufacture Of thi
most valuable, this indispensable article be brous
again into danger from not having Sufficient pre-
lection.
From the repeal Of the double duties in 1916
the passage Of the tariff law IN 1924 it anguishet
aud, as heretofore stated, was losing ruinou
concern to many Of those engaged in it. The pre-