Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-08-31


duties modified by the act OF ihJuy 1882 predcoted
upon the imports during the year ending sept 1880
which have lett with the Editor the Southern Patriot
Upon the assumption, that the duabe articles will be the
same in quantity and price after the 81 Of March next
they in the year 1880 this statement shows that
der the tariff OF July 1882 there Will be reduction OF
$lS69,O56' from the amount OF duties protected ar,i
cles, ami of So, SLOTS tire OF be
derived from the customs
Notwithstanding these deductions from the revenue
and from the duties protected articles is an
Address 80 the People Of South Carolna from our
majors and six OF Representatives, that the burtcns
imposed upon the Southern States will be greater by the
Act Of Juy, 1892, than they by the existing 1arn
rs this assertion may make an Injurious impression upon
the public mind VIII iransciibe thOt part OF the Adj
dress WINCH intended to establish it, aud briefly annex
surH remarks "a may prevent the which it is cal
culIed TO Disseminate According 10 certain passages in
"tc Address, ''he burthous OF the gr0tecing duties
are decidedly Increased, estimating the cash duties
nnished credits they now actually stand Al an crge
oi more than 30 per cent, while the duties the uDrO-
tected articles which upon every principle OF equality
and Justice should sustain the principal part OF the bur
thens OF taxation, with few uncomfortable eXcep-
tons, entirely repealed Upon those manufactures which
are received in exchange for the staple productions the
Southern States the aggregate increase OF the burhens Of
taxation, beyond what ey under the Tariff OF 1925
is believed to be upwards of O00 while the reduc
ducton repeal OF the duties those imports which are
received IN exchange Tor the productions OF the Tariff
States, amounts 10 about SI,OOO,0O0. While, therefor >
the aggregate burthens of~aXaon diminished ST.
ooooVo ny this Bl The po3ve burthenS OF the Southern
States are not diminished at ALL and their relative burthens
are very greatly Increased"
II has already been noticed, that the Tariff Act of 1892
compared with that which in force reduces the
duties upon protected articles by the amount OF & SGD
O06. IT, Notwithstanding this reduction the
duties increased this increase must be occasoned bY
estimating The cash duties and diminished credits y
Now the cash duties are confined to the mpor,aions
Noolens, aud their amount would be equal to per
cent In the rate OF duty, upon Mooens costing more
than 80 cents the square yard, upon which the duty
par cent aud on Woollens costing than cents the
square yard (Of which the value of between and mil
lions are imported) tits l2 per cent increase IN the rate
OF duty, such cloth being subject TO duty OF 80 per cent
the rest oil impOriaiiOns, hc diminished credits
are equal to an increase Of fraction less than per
cent the average rate of duty all mpor,aons except.
ing Woollcns being about % per cent?
ItnOt little eXccs my surpfize that paper of so
character "the Address, which it is presumed was
drawn up with the utmost deiberaton should hoza,, ia
assertion, that he duties the unprotected articles
are, to'h fer uncomfortable erccpi0ns entire re-
IeGed when the amount OF all The duties declared free
Treasury, at no more than $l00,O0Ot "The Address
has not furnished Us with any data support the positions
that upon the manufactures received in exchange for
staple productions OF the Southern Staesthe aggregate
taxation is believed 10 be increased uptcdyds of : 900
oOO beyond the tariff OF 1873, "whe the reduction or
repeal oil the duties on those imports which received
in exchange Tor the productions of the States
TO about $tOOO,000." How this gross inequality in the
distribution oil buthens aud benefits Is produced, by the
Act OF 1892, am unable to imagine Upon some wool
lens, the duties will be rather higher than thew are now
but the aggregate of the duties upon wooenS viii he
Gerry considerably less The duties upon cottons will he
reduced IN almost every instance increased i'm none
Upon Silks the duties viii be largely reduced The dt.
ties upon ion hemp, cotton bagging sugars and wines
arc all diminished IN greater smaller ratios The staple
productions OF the South being received in exchange or
Ia
Al the duties upon them be reduced it necessarily follows
far relates these commodities land they consiite
the great articles OF impordtion) that the hurthen oil
on those imports which received in excane. fr u,
productions of the tariff States, amounts TO abo7t q 400
OoO have specified the important articles upon yLic
the duties will be reduced, after March 1899 , :,
known TO every merchant that for the more valuable
proportion oil them the productions the South ore c
ceVeI exchange in greater degree than are those OF
the NORTH whilst the Cotton and Rice of the Southern
States are almost, exclusively, cxchanped FIR Tho W.
3i spain and Portugal, aud Tor the Silks and Wines ri
rance and their rice and lumber for the sugars of I
YES. ihuies' nc North will be benefited by the re-
ducon OF the duties upon indigo and upon raw WOOL No,
ccsu"S more Than cents, the pound, by the reneaI
OF the duties upon nader wOad, cochneaI ami r,na
oiher materials used in dyeng and as ingredients in tho
process oil manufacturing; but the community nar,icio,
IN those advantages the effect must n,cess,ril, M
10 lower the price OF manufactures With resnoc, - 81 y
repeal OF the duties upon and coffee and The r,
ton OF the duty upon India silks will s,h", t ci,
AhS communication which have received iron, one of
most enlightened and experienced merchants IN dis ci,.
HH''g Is more certain tha" that the Southern States
wiz De more Than proporionacly benefited Lv onv IN;
creased consumption OF teas aud East India silks ho iu
take place IN consequence ofthc reduction of the duties
on them; because the OF trade is now So chant
N Oo'',Pd'e" WIN lorncr times, little or no specie
IS exported The India merchant NOW eilher G,r
5tSheS himself with bills drawn by the United States
ndhN on i.ohdoh' or at twelve months dates (which
pay IN INDIA at a prcmiuR); for he purchases NOR
chants bills, at ordinary sights London and odae HE
funds there, ordering his ship TO touch at (iblt,
hc can draw for his London funds at 10 70 TX ncrc,
vance, and he has dollars par or at most from 10 > ~
cent premium, these dollars BEING nrocnroJ -; PeI
IRON Spain, in payment of our rice cotton ,ob, ~
earned into that country by her own subjects
~ ii me Bank furnishes the India Bills il covcrs tIo
by merchants drafts England. Thus ,vbefbcr Ill.,,
da cargo be procured by Bank bills or specie he, arc III
raised ny bilis on England, which bills are almost
found by Southern rice and cotton. Thus il nIanl, i
lhcOhuoverubly appears, that the South furnishes tI,
PTlhclpai part OF the funds for India carpocs and
quehuy must be greatly benefited by the inc reased
sumption oil those articles aud who will DENY fLot in %
increased consumption Of coffee, by being free of Int,
tnat e sOuh Is benefited i'm double ratio when n,
arc o mat the Island of Cuba alone takes about no oo1
S@SAs Oh rice WIN lumber and other articles of its proc
NO state ia The Union furnishes more ir as much of Wos
inua cargoes, az South Carolina The want of The sem
nahcG oil foundation for the assertion in sh, Adres
that the positive burthens of the Southern Stat.so -
diminished, and their relative burhens vcrv iC
creased, Is plainly demonstrated by the facts ,Licb
nave stated As TO those items cxenpted from tJ,n ,,,
inent OF duties by the act Of 1892 to which have NOT ~
ucuiaTy adVerted, will only remark that the Somtl, a
INC North are relieved by those exemptions cx,cty ~
Iauo PIoPorlonate TO their consumption.
Upon tho protected articles Alolasos and Salt ,Ic
uHoh OF tho duties by the Acts Of
OF 1893 TO DO S2,S2ii11 ' '''"' non since the Act
Ine ySlno imported in 1880 protected articles,
Consisting Of Wool, Woocns Cottou. Wool , S'o,l@o,62o
st',,'o,.,as q" co. CLASSY afo Iron and Stool AMI
potog Sail Duck, Cotton Iis,ng Nol"Ss"s u, az
60 iuHso' NUiIase aud Twinc Hemp Salt. Co,
tflnlgw 1lns Leather, and Manufacture of do MAJ
"t iM MlnuIlctutrs Of do, Ud Cloths. Jn,,tasJ pr
tei' NIi, Ntefs Br1ss and loudrn ~,
ahnNe articles under tho existing Tariff ' ''
10 under the IonH ofJuly, ls53, iI'q,.5t,,s
Reduction protected nr,iclos -,
"a close calculations emitting the 10 and ~ DO, conf
20 tho value goods vaIYron, ,, c 'nion
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