The Arkansas advocate., 1830-10-13
-- POLITICAL.
Front ti5e Burner offhe Consultation.
 TIE TARIFF.

HE TARIFF.
 Amongst the advocates of the tariff system, there is q class of individuals whom We have sometimes distinguished by the appellation of settled policy ase7s, and in reference to whose theory we propose to say few words. These ias dVldaals are at heart believers Tn all the doctrines of free trade, but having attached themselves to a. particular par ty, or 10 q particular candidate fer the Presidency, or, considering their own political elevation to depend upon sup porting the policy called for by ma. Jyaeity of their constituents, have thought proper to desert the standard of what they know 10 be the truth. In doing this, however, they have met with diff cuities not easily surmounted. \ con scientlous man, who considers himself subject to the law of political as well as moral honesty, cannot at his pleas. ure turn and twist important principles, 50 as to adapt them to his interest; and hence has originated the necessity for some exPedient, which should have the double effect of blintling the eyes of the. public, and ta q certain extent those of the individual himself. This expedient is, tojustiiy the support of the tariff up- on the ground, not that it is founded up- on true principles of political economy, but that having been once adopted, it ought to be adhered to.
 Any one who reflects for amoment. can see the misehievous tendency of such a doctrine. Itis doctrine calculated to perpetuate error, and is at WET with all the lights of the age, and with the ad- vancement of human knowledge. 1t would be as strong warranty for the perpetuation of the blue laws of Con- neclicut, did they still exist, or for the drowning of witches, had that once sei- aed policy not been abandoned, as for the continuance of the tariff. But. say Its advocates, regard must be had to the vested interests of those who have enl- parked manufactures, upon the faith ot the laws of 1916, '24, and '2s. And why so we would ask. Was any pledge given by the law of lsle, that cven the comparatively moderate du- lies of that day would be rendered per petual? So far from t, that law express y declared, that theiduty of tzcelaty-fr per cent. iiaposedupon cotton and wool len fabrics, gss ossty;t to 5e eos,tiuueel i7sree gears, aud zuas thcn to De red1ced to tzvent,, PCT cent. And even so late as ISIS. when the stipulation for three years was cancelled, it was only by proionging the temporary character of the protection TOT Seoen additional years. There is Lot therefore shadow ofjustice in any claim set up by those who embarked in the cotton and wolIen manufactures prlor to lS24, since the then existing Jaws positively declared, that their pro- teetive operations was ocease in 1896. sah any thiitg be clearer than this? Laws exist, declaring, that certain du- ty of D per cent. shall continue until the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty six,'' upon cotton and woollen fabrics, and shall snen be reduced to twenty per cent. With these laws staring them in the lace, speaking a language not suscepti- Die oi misconstruction, some hundreds of Individuals invest their capitals in iashufnctnring establishments, and then With a hardihood and eflronterynot easily 'o pc Imagined, come foreward and say. zySe ~ % sfe eiltliiedi 10 anetcrnaI tax uponthe Industry of the country, because We emeo,arkedinmanufacturesupon e uponthe faith Sas it.may be said by the sssleapolies,