Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-07-12

pool fifteen cents; Turk Island, nine cents; ST. Ubes
six cents; Mediterranean, five cents; from the Adriatic
three cents;-yet all put up TO forty cents busbe Of
fftysix pounds, (Which is about two pecks and hsl)
and then forty per centum upon IL if il comes in
foreign vessel Thus the actual duty salt would Le
from one hundred to two hundred per cent, with the
further mischief of 6xing the price by law for when
the law values the bushe in The seaport at forty cents
that must become the standard price of the salt mr.
10 which the duty being added will knock Up the i'm.
portalon Of foreign salt, and throw the people, ted
neck and heels into the tender hands of the home
monopolIzers
cents per pound oil other at
nifty pound all black teas at forty cents Found;
pound; cocoa a, eish, cents per pound"
Green tea at fifty cents pound!-black tea al forty
cents pound-Java, Mocha, and West Ind coffee
all rated alike! Twenty per cent to be added for
foreign vessel for coming from beyond the Cape Of
Good Hope We forbear comment upon the enornIy
of these the scandal Of thus conoundinp
in one uniform value, articles so different in quality
and so various in price
We cease our extracts. We only give few BY way
of example. We hope some practical hand will take
up the whole BILL lay il open 10 the core, and display
its enormtes and iniquites. This is the fourth bin
now on hand to establish protective tariffs In the
shameless invention of false valuations, il beats them
ALL In other respects, it is ike them ALL 1t holds
10 the land revenue, while violating the condition on
which the land bill was passed. and, while pilagng
the people by plunderng tax on the necessar;es
OF lie, Oh lea, Gomez, SAT-, suSal sHoes, coats,
shirts, and hats-to make good the amount lost
by the lands. Ii taxes everything which the peo.
pie consume, and exempls from tax everything that
the manufacturer uses. The farmer is sacrificed TO
the manufacturer. Foreign materials are import
ed duty free, (hdes, for example, three millions
of dollars worth per annum,) and on these JOrtga
materials domestic manufactures are established
Tile people taxed one, two, three, four, five hun
died per centum, to protect these manufacturers in
working up foreign materials which they get free Of
= IL tto ,,In
II is plunderng tie American people 1t is transfer
ring property by law 1t is egislating fortunes 10
classes! II IS voting money out Of the pockets Of
venteen millions Of people, TO put II INTO The pockets
Of q few thousand manniacturers-io give them m
comes of tens Of thousands Of hundreds Of thousands
per annum while the wages of labor, the price of pro-
duce, and the value Of properly sinking lower and
lower every day. This is WhIggery-Federal Wing
gery-as much than the old Federalism of 1893
was-as The coonskin campaign of lS40 was baser and
meaner than the Federal campaigns of l19S and 1890
We wish TO coll public attention 10 this subJect-to
these four Tariffs the anvil in The two Houses
of Congress They will all pass-al four will pass
not in four separate bills, but mixed up and rolled up
together-cong omerated into one huge heterogeneous
eli driven through together under the ON.
nipotent argument OF the gag. They will all pass
that say, the worst Parts OF every bill wall be put
into single BILL and then crammed down the ,lroa,s
OF members, and showed through the House The gag
may be looked for soon No dttate On items rW 10
QUDlCEd
retical speeches, for and against Tariff in the gene.
which decide nothing, and which show
nothing Of the bs-may be tolerated for fl " days
longer; but the moment the items are touched, and
practical views taken, and the ineuiiy OF the thing
displayed, that moment the gag will be clappcd on,
and all discussion silenccd. And what is tie rene.
dy for all this abuse II is the change of rulers
1t is the expulsion Of the from the high places
into which they have climbed-drving them back
10 their holes and and restoring 10 power
the men who legisla,e FOR The muss-wh Sc policy has
forever given prosperity 10 tie country, and Which
will do again, they are restored. Federal.
ism has now been tried three times, and gets worse
every time. The second Adams was worse than the
first aud the coonskina of the present day worse
than all. Political power alone was the object of The
old Federaliss the present Federal Wings go for tie
same power and for plumber added to it-plunder by
means Of tariffs, banks, monopolies corporations, and
legislative transfers of money from The many 10 the
few II is the union between the politicians, tah'es,
and National Bank which makes Whiggery Of ls40 SO
much worse than Federalism Of 1900.