Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1843-06-06

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sion, but limits will only permit
neccsaries of life for the mechanic aborer as to
TIE AMOUNT OF THE TARIFF TAN
The last tariff law provides that all imported manufactures
that farmer or Iaborcr buys at the store one dollars worth
for shirts, lie pays thirty benefit manufacturer.
This is small tax, for persons in their condition in life. But
when looked into IS far For. mark the deception. i,
provided part cotton cloth which
Is not worth than twenty square yard shall be valued
up twenty Now there Is deal that article
onIy from X eight cents make It the factory. And
this generally especially by laboring
people yet THIS unjust this high as the
articles thai at twenty cents yard That Is all cotton
cloth, however inferior, low priced. be valued
twenty cents yard iii fixing the of the Now let
take yard this cloth, which but make That
svalud at twenty cents Then TAX of thirty per cent put that
value. And thirty per twenty
X 30 the tax sN cents equal to the cost OF making cents
which really hundred cent the real value. instead
of thirty per cent So cco prints the
rate; bat however o or lar Pc they all valued at thirty
cents the square yard 1t only about nine
make cacoe> such generally worn by the people in the W
Take yard of calico t cents yard to make it. 1t
valued at thirty cents Then thirty per cent tax that nine
oaking the tar just qa4 70 The original cost!
Some articles OF ts sort arc In tins dct7e ray taxed as high
hundred and forty per cent! There other articles
of necessity for the mechanics and borcrs that taxed
in the same partial and unfair manner which we are sorry we e
not time to notice applies to almost all such articles But the
finer and better article, mat really thirty yard to make
IT. and which used by the rich and onable pays only the same
duty The poor pays then just doue price for his article on
not quit Mirt nor for the tax!
For instance The poor buys the "stoe six dollars
worth of the article. three dollars of ahih the while
the rich who buys dollars worth superior article, pays
less than doiiar and hog Of 1t as tao!
Let make this plain by reference to State revenue law:
suppose required to pay tax per cent? which
that like orr 6oas'd faf @ it provided that all horses not worth
than one hundred dollars, should be valued by the up
his children, would plough with old blind horse, worth on,
fifteen dollars would have to pay much tax for it. the rich
We ask farmers and boring without distinction OF
criou they approve of such law We ask them
abused?
We have heard ths-ayc, Ms vcy lac impudntly praised
complaint only hintcd told naaerg
the rc! If thu friends of the poor. who ground under
told rich! The rich be pro-
cced but if is made against the poor. to be
allowed the privilege OF d.tindi"g III mvrives!
This unjust distinction against the poor made still greater in
other articles The kind of woocn goods much used by
say for infancy, for old and sickness is taxed still higher by this
bill Ilanncls that made for eight cents yard pay tie
fve cent And the profits charged afterwards on the t. well
the makes heavy burden the aborng But the
competition.
pay. should mo the Treasury for the benefit But
where. have the high the foreign article
tariff on it, of into the pocket OF the manufacturer
SO to salt Salt that prime necessary life, which the wealthy
farmer extensively M pork and beef and bacon and
to salt his stock &c. This article in oppressed England
absolute But. in this hd Of Hby where we have
stump professions for the poor. the poor mans salt IS or
Our Western farmers will be surprised learn that Sa i made
OF the Vest India Islands. and eight buhc:
that it made tie coast OF Spain for four and t"oir
cents and in Sicily and fvc-cg bu,.
eighty pounds weight 1t made quantities in those
and other southern countries by cporadng drying away
the 1t and far superior for curing
meat compared with that made salt works. Pork and heel
cured with it. docs not need ro-pac>ing
Under present system produce dealers compelled to
pay cXtagant price for damp. inferior article of only fifty
yix pounds TO the buhcl and have their beef and pork
pqcCd ut New Orleans at expense OF dollar barrel This l.
a back their profits. and hcasy burden
the prime staples OF state The produce dealer must buy with
profits consequent, able the farmer
much for his hogs AMI cattle Like laws 10 the
burden Is a la borne BY the industry OF the country.
The taken in 1910 shows tha the salt companies Nc OF
the United Elite six millions OF bushels
in the year. The public docam slow that imported in tie
year little above eg millions o. bus',. The tal tx
this imported r largely above hundred per cent Ia,
enabled The a compau to Il high the tariff would soier
them 70.
The consequence i at p1 of the imported
ar h j would buy far greater GUAM
til, the best al, from abroad. Ian made in the whole United
States,
Ought tn. be continued for shc benefit OF a monopo
the people the West be forced bay Indifferent article
higher price aud les weight and frequently at sill further
weight If bought by the barrel occa,oncd by drainage!
all the articles OF that
BY this BILL it would exceed limits We shall