The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-04-07

and if they fair quota of paper they only con-
sumo one. seventh OF the whole that Is manuac-
tured and as they are not so guilty of the crime of
reading and wriuDg to the extent that we are here
in the north the proportion Is even less than that
whilst they receive protection fourIh-itths OF
the raw material, loud cheers] and only pay pro-
ectIve duty OF One-seventh OF the resulting manu-
featuring article. So much then for paper and its
necessary evils reading and writing. daughter and
cneers Now let rs take the article OF sugar.
mere are l2O,OOs ,OD pounds OF raw sugar produced
IN me SIX cotton states; and only $1,000 goo pounds
imported from abroad, other than that used by re-
Iners. In these SIX states only "A 600 900 lbs Of
gar are consumed. And the protective duty on su-
states ,he ac.s as protection to these SIX
s'deS, 'hey oelng the only producers of the article
ahu inc ratio In their favor is as 1874 is 10 IL,
IN the protective scale tf duy. Applause Then
there Is ne article Of glass-Ant glass. This is
made OF si!ex and oxide Of lead one third is lead
Wen, lead pays duty Of FIVE per cent, and flint
glass pays forty per cent the horizontal tariff would
putlesd up to ~ and glass down to 20, and so not
Pe9no OF glass; would then be made in the country.
Indeed, in anticipation Of this horizontal daty gosg
into operation in June, every glass house in the
country has shut up shop. (Laughter) Then there
Is brushes; they formerly paid large duty bretlss
to twenty and brushes down to twenty and 80 not
brush will be made in the Uni ed States-ali will
De imported, (ApPause.) word or two about
the Home Valuation as it is called Suppose in a |
slnce-two cargoes were to arrive in this country
one at New York-one at Philadelthia. The ex- |
change against Philadelphia being six per cent, the
goods are sold accordingly the importer here would
have TO pay duty on 300, whilst the importer in |
would pay duty on sos. The |
would be unfair. And whenever great prostration |
took place in commercial affairs, every importer |
would say, now is the time 10 import the price |
is low, consequently the duty is low it can't |
go lower, and must profit by rise, whereas il an |
aisicle be very scarce, and is really wanted, and
eonse quenty the price is very high, he would not
import then, because in Of fall, others would |
pay less duty on the article and he would have
to sell at sacrifice to compete with them and this
would cause overtrading TO the greatest extent in
what we did not want and continued scarcity in |
what was necessary. A word or two in conclusion |
IN relation to the documents, you may deem it ne
cessary to send on to Congress. All papers to be |
sent to Washington must be strictly STATISTICAL 1t
g all very pretty to give the public mass CT words
inely strung together, and nicely rounded in the
periods, but they have no weight in Washiagton.-I
Amid the multiplicity of documents that reach the |
hands OF members Of Congress, unless when they
open paper, they find figures in it, they throw It
aside, But II when they open it, they find figures,
hen they off coat, and 60 at it, daughter and
lpplause) II papers contain no figures, they never
,ut them on file; and unless they occupy aplace on
heir files, they occupy place in their report
slr. Mapes then sat down amid loud and repeated
lpplause.)
Several Others addressed the Convention. but no.
hing important occurred till the hour OF adjourn.
nent.