Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-08-26


30 cents do 30 per cent
3oV cents do oil per cent
$40 cents do fS per cent
400 cents do 10 per cent
400 cents and all above 80 per cert
But not only is this mode Of fixing the duty fraud;
II is even fraud to call the duty an al raioren duty
IL Is as much a specific duty that upon sugar. and
operates precisely in the same waythat is the lower
the quality OF the articles the higher the duty Thus
the poor working man, who is obliged TO be content
with coarse CLOTH is made pay from 40 TO Ill per
whilst the rich man pays more than so per cent
Tor the finest of his apparel.Ths is the System called
the '.anierieda Sysien,"-this is the policy which
men, protesting 10 consult the interest OF the farmer RS
and working classes, endeavoring 10 render "the
settled policy Of the country, and, unfortunately this
is the delusiOn which has now such strong hold up
msority of the people Of the Northern States as
TO lead them regard their foes the phanthropss
the statesmen, and the patriots, who laborng to
extricate them from the fatal heresy
A merchant of this city, who has been an importer
of cloths for 80 years and who may therefore he con-
sdered competent Judge of their quality has commu-
nicated to the following facts, which from his re-
spectabiliy in this community, eaders
may be relied upon with the most implicit faith
On the 18th inst he devoted considerable time 10 a
close examination Of two parcels of cloth, consisting OF
thirty forty pieces each, offered for sale at the
wholesale store The one parcel was of American
uacure, and was invoiced and held So % per yard
of the usual width of broadcoth of that quality
is, abont yard and half The other parcel was of
English manufacture, OF the same width, and offer
ed at So 81 IL per yard. Our informant SAYS, that
according TO his Judgment the English cloth was the
oest oil the ana that he would preferred
at the same price But this Is not the material
point in the That point is that this English CLOTH
he had occasion 10 kOc paid duty Of 45 per cenum
and profit besides TO the importer of 25 per centum
Now, with such facts before them-facts known TO
every dry goods merchant in Market Streets il not
evident that woollen manufacturers cannot stand
against British competition, under the present Tariff?
For if they require So % for yard of cloth which
can be imported under the present duty, and sold, OF
the quality, at 50 81 I2 how is il possible that
they avoid gre at loss after the competition AMONGST
importers shall be pushed. IL will he
bring down their profits TO ten per or less. Our
ntomans perfectly convinced that the present rates of
duty do not constitute adequate protection for many
qualities of cloths, and he considers it quite probable
that application for increased duties will be made al
the mex, session OF Congress. Banner Of the Con.
TIE duty Iugraln Carpets i, rory cents per
quare ya'd Ingrain carpets are just yard vide; so
that the duty upon them IL forty senta the RUM lao
yard A parlor In hous, OF nddng sizs, such AZ IL
usually occupied by persons whc csnuo, ford Brus-
'eis carpets, qnre' from twenty Eve - thirty va ds
aud, sonseqleny the ias paid for the liberty OF Gov
erlng single tioor Is ten 10 twelve dollars. l. two
psrors and two climbers earpeied he tax il forty
10 forty eth. dollars and II The entry ard siars re-
qnre as they will twenty 1--WE to thirty yard, mora. OF
Veni'itn or KddermiI ser, which as suhjeci TO the
same duty, the additional tax 10 TIVE We do,srs
m"king in the whole fifty TO Srty dollars for set Of
carpet.
This tax Of 40 cents SEARS most exravagal profo,
lion TO lie cost OF the article. We have ascec aimed
from an nro ter, that the present price in England IL
to 80 l., eqisl to GO and rs cents re.pecively for
suPerEne anf consequently, 40 c' per yard duty is
equa TO 81 10 III per een,um the ST tosi. Th- ac
tusi selling prices, in Philadelphia, from 40 to
100 per ard for home cousump tio but il want
ed Tor expectation, we have a'ceraned hat he prices
are ieriy sen's per yard less-;hat IL, fem 10 90
cents per yard. Now, az the season will be al hand,
10 Two three months, for procuring nter carpets
to make ouf houses comfortable, wish every house
keeper 10 reh'c, that ware l. not for tbs AmeIeen
SY'tem three eTpets could be I'd for II pie- that is
paid for ftco. A for In,iane,:
Two carpets, tw enty Eve yards eaeh-'sa, isffy
w rpe nj
per yaTd, 500 90
But wi'hOu, the duty, three eaype;g, OF twenty
FIVE yards each-hai is, seventy Ave yards
AT 40 csniT, would cost only S52 so
Thsse are tact', srd theories, and the only rsa-
son assigned for the imposition of this tax upon tie
comfort OF tamiiie,, beyond duly Of eight or
ten ceut yerd H. that il will enable probably two
CT three hundred weavers who are just as able
TO earn their living by doing meihing else, other
people, TO charge Tor their dome stc carpets than
they are WORTH and thus TO pu, money into cir posk
cts without giving an equivalent Who saunoi see
thai, IL law compels to give Ito cents for an
article witch he could buy 20 cents, IL absolutely
deprves him Of 40 cents, whc any value received n
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