Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-07-08

Wy. AhG EtaplgB spGcifiuu Nh being tHuH abs
g. 10 gain a new or better market In the wor
i are rice, cotton, tobacco, indian corn, and
con. These are particularly mentioned,
though the lure to tho agricultural IL intend
10 DO ~ generous posaible. Mr.. Webster q
! pressly admits that no alteration In tho En-
|, liah Corn Laws can possibly bc had. In !
1 own opinion. He tells liz that no reducti
on the present enormous duiies upon Anne
can whea, and -four ID 10 be expected fro
England. But he ID kind and candid emu,
. 70 assure up oil, In the most emphatic In
guage, that tho only equivalent which En-
land will descend To accept from III, In retul
iol her reduction Of duties on the articles sp
cited, III a modification Of our own Tariff, q
noraliy. We are not given to understand hp
grcat the reduction will BIO In amount Of d,
ties which will be demanded from us nor
u single article named, the manufacturer
which In destined 10 be ,ha victim Of thin con
merciai arrangomept-~The spoech.make
with all the tact Of n veteran lawyer, deals on
iy in generalitinH when touching this most do
licate part of hia case and we are left To th
lair inferenca--the only one indeed which W
can draw from his remarka--that the Amer
can reduction Of duties on the Importation d
British manufactures In TO be- general, and u
general too, ~ will fully satisfy tho demand
Of England, and tho wants of her starving op
e~ra,ivea. Every mechanic and manufacture
among 10. when searching for the ratio Of duty
at which tho article Of the class produced b.
him In TO be admitted into this country, will, |
he DO II man Of sensa, All the blank left by Mr.
Webster Tor him with such 40 impost a. will
admit The British operative 10 d full competitor
| NTH him L.. tLu .An IL as. .f III. s.t. sa..at..
While about 10 inquire into the practicabil,.
~ Of tho proposed arrangement wit, England
we ought, one would think. 10 ask ours.lvcs
whether she would probably assent 10 any con.
siderable reduction In her duties on the arti.
cles produced by u#. On the elh of Lac,
month, the annual budget was laid beforcsthe
House Of Commons by tho Chancellor Of tho
Exehequer and, in the debate thu, enHued,
Il wac demonstrated that there wan q falling
of in the gross revenue anticipated by Sir
Robert Peel, Of nearly two millions sterling
for tho year. The Chinese silver has saved tho
Exchsquer moat oppor,uncly from some Of tho
disasters which niuHt have ensned from No
groea q characterization. ! leave others 10 indre
whether. under such circumstances, Mr. Web.
stcr. or any Secretary At Washington, with
the aid Of President Tyler to helm him, could
persuade the British Minister 10 reduce the
duties on tobacco, az Mr.. Webster has ima-
gined, or, ihdead, upon any one OF the trticles
OF American produce enumerated In his liet.
Let IL be remembered, that, during the year
1871, the whole importation from foreign
countries into the United States was Sl27,-
0d5,OOO, upon which tie whole amount of du.
ties laid by us was $l4,467, 000--being MT the
rate OF III per cent only while on the other
hand, in tho came year, the whole amount Of
expectation from The United States to foreign
countries, was 1871 600 600, and the amount
Of duties levied on these by foreign countries
Sll3,b00,O00. being Mt the rate Of l24
per cent. The average value of tho tobacco
in 1880 and 1910 was $g,225, 900
upon which Europe levied a tax OF $32. 463,-
D00, being a tax OF more than $50 per cent.
upon the value OF the article. In these exac-
from us. evory knows that England has
had her full share, and more than her full
While she keeps us, under tho ope-
ration of her tariff, in this condition. the Tx.
of State 10 striving to persuade bis
,ountrymen that tho leopard is aboutto change
,is spots, and that England really means to
with us an arrangement by which reci-
'rocal advantages are to be gained by a CON-
nercial--or, TO speak more properly, by a Ia
if treaty with England. A fair treaty of this
description, or one approxima'ing to fairness,
would require Of her to take off 60 per cent Of
Ter duties upon our expectations, and for ia 10
evy on hers an increased duty of 80 per cent
more than we now exact from her. Without
longer upon this branch Of the sub
act, and leaving the fond and visionary en-
who is willing to cherish the idea
hat England ia in n condition to make a fair
ommercial treaty with us, and 10 really will
ing to do it, TO the enjoyment of his own
ancies, / choose to demonstrate the absolute
npracticability Of this whole projet, by turn
NJ you attention 10 what our own govern
tent can do on this subject. and to what any
ian Of any considerable experience in our
ublic councils knows il neper wiu do.
This proposition is presented by different
in two distinct aspects. According
, some, it ia, in effect, to make a Tariff by a
'reaty; according others. it is to do the same
hing by a Commercial Arrangement. Every
'ariff act of importance which we have ever
aseed, has been enacted by a very small ma :
rity in each branch of Congress. One vote
the Tariff act of 1924 one vote car
ed the Tariff act of 1928 and one vote,
each housse of Congress, carried the Tariff
i of 1912. Yet each member who voted
r those acts, knew at the time he gave his
,te, that the act he voted for, was, like any
her law of Congress, capable of being re-
saied, if found to be injurious in it's opera
on, and capable Of being revised, modified
Id altered at any time to come, If the exigen-
es of the country should require it. The
ongressrnen who passed these laws, were
It called upon to vote for a perpetual Tariff
one which could not be amended without I
Q consent Of England. With a perfect con. !
on their part that they could fu- I
rely correct any error thus made yet we see {
at, in almost every instance, it was found G
to allay the iealousies and fears.
appease the animositias and the rivalries
the muitlfarious interests conflicting with
oh other in the different sections OF our I
and greatly growing country. And. in t
nsequence of this, in every instance. they
ssed their Tariff law, the most important Of
laws to the nation, by the smallest possible I
During the session Of 1912, Mfr.
'ebsier was present at Washington, with an
%portunity of infusing all his opinions into
e public counsels on this subject, quite as {
nple as he or any other man can expect Z
be INDUCED in, who shall undertake the
lghty labor of ~reconciling Congress to ano- Q
or Tariff under the name Of a Commercial a
reaty. He knows well thar while the Sc
te of the United States could be induced to t
sa q Tariff. after many months labor by a G
shortly OF only one vote, he or any other who II
practically 10 carry out this new n
sject. now has to obtain the assent of two f
lrds of that Senate TO any modification of 6
1T Tariff which shall be establish BY a b
Gty. Does any advocate Of this experiment 0
peci to obtain the requisite constitutional 8
ajority Of two-thlrds To any Tariff in the d
ape of a Treaty which the wit Of a man p