The Arkansas advocate., 1832-06-13


without the expense of foreign trans
poitation, can sell their raw material
hefetoour manufacturers, as high as for
elgners Can sell them, after tie expetts,
and risk Of sending them long voyages
( BY sea; I'd, our agricultursts can fur
iiish all articles for the consumption OF
our manulacturers-as bread, meat.
&c; Sd, our agriculturists will be saw
ed, III the price CT the articles they buy
and consume. to the amount of man,
millions OF dollars. The reduction oil
the general taxes $l2.500,000 will OPP
crate 10 the advantage of every consu-
mer. The anti-tariff men will object
to the Secretar9's plan, Of making the
duty on raw materials lighter than Oh
manufactured articles; but the real
friends OF protection will admit that
the Secretary has avoided the anti-tarifi
provisions which they have often aileg-
ed were forced into the act of 1928, by
the votes Of the anti-tariff men.
"Atter securing in this way all exist
ing establishments and interests, the Sc
eretary on other articles, endeavors to
place the duty for revenue principally
on the luXurIes consumed by the rich,
and lighter on neeessaries consumed by
the poor; and he has made long list
OF articles consumed by all free from
taxation.
son these principles, the Secretary
has endeayored TO adjust the revenue.
The reduction will take place after the
public debt is paid. Ii we should COM
plain that too much is proposed to be
taken off on some and too little on 9TH
er articles, it should be borne in mind,
that either these taxes must be reduced,
and the people saved Sl2,500,O00; or
they must continue to pay these taxes:
and the money levied in New York,
must be taken to make for others the
railroads, canals, roads and BRIDGES.
which the people OF New York have
made for themselves. The New Eng
land and other monopolists viii com
plain, because now II they pay us 6 or
even 10 cents more for a pound of
wool, they sell us the cloth made from
this wool 50 or 100 cents dearer than
they can after the taxes are reduced.
All the wool, flour, and every think
else, New England buys of New York,
will not come to more than the $4,000,
900 extra taxes now proposed TO be
saved to that State. The nulliiiers too
will complain, because if this question
can once be settled in reasonable
manner, qualifications, disunion and re-
bellion will be dead and buried.
''Proteetlon does not arise from the
amount Of the duty, but upon COM
parison: For our surplus products, over
and above what we can consume in the
United States, amount each wear te
about 0,090,000 dollars. This we
must send abroad and sell; and the
payment must come home in money and
goods-aDd forever will come home.-
If every thing brought back as pay is
taxed alike, it will come in those arti-
cles whereof the consumption is great
est; but tfsome things brought back as
pay, are taxed higher and others lower
it is natural that the imports which are
the pay 9or our exports, should come
back as far as possible in the articles
not taxed or taxed lowest. While it is
expected that the duty will be reduced,
the imports will be as small as possible
For no man will import goods when
the duty is high, if he knows that next
month or next year the duty will BE re-
duccd. Great imports therefore can
not be expected this year, as Congress
will probably pass law reducing the
duties for the next year,