Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-09-01
TIE PATRIOT ON THE TARIFF.

uAied ns to Weld sufficient revenue. Dih the arnis
Of The public lands (.l to support the government,
I've it higher or lower and no more and they nre
for such tariff The year round, while their oppo-
ncnts grow much more jealous ~ favor OF pro.
teci n, (a] well rs uholiIl1n) before each annual
election. ~ One objection we hive to the pres
ent tariff is that it is either too high or too low to
yield adequate revenue tor government purposes,
even under this economical and retrenchug adj
ministralion by some millions nnnually-that il is
too high upon SOME articles, and TOO low upon
Others, and hot is especially Too toV, eren Ior REP
enue purposes, ,ooot, ohich comes in competition
Uh 0us, and other products OF agriculture gen
orally t3) For Instance. what propleiy or JUS
tice is there in taxing tho Vermont farmer 2OO per
cent on Turks Island salt (4.) which is almost as
indispensable rs the hay me feeds his cattle, while
tie duty OH his wool is only per centP 70
Patrim.
~ Then the first condition the Patriot demands
is the sacrifice of the ands-ihat is, Vermont must
sacrifice 100000 year to begin with. But again
the land fund must n, The same time go into the
Treasury to reduce Protection tmiud that the Pat
riot goes only for Tariff high enough to give
sufficient revenue y we'll, the average of the laud
fund was over millions year from "a to 40 or
more than oue-third Of the revenue annually re-
quired, so that the Patriot would not only cheat MS
Of HE land money, but also give us one-hird less
Protection Than would I've afforded by the Wing
policy. We Lave only TO say, let the people choose
for themselves.
~ This is very contemplate. Does not the
/ Patriot, aud every other paper, usually discuss all
matters of purty interest more zeaiousIy just be-
| FIRE an election than at any other time?
t3) Yet the Locotocos in Congress tried their
prcitest to got it LOWER ON WOOL, and The
n'Iio coEctalsdhe proceedings Of The dug on tcIich
his raS done from lis readers Has the Patriot
ever Condemned lis party for lis hostility to wool
growers: Never You are IL beauty, sir, for por-
cdl houesly and consistency.
a. The lu'y on suit Is cents per hushe aud
il that is 200 per ceut. we have studied arithmetic
III sGI1. Equally at liu't is the Patriot in call
ing this II "iax" On looking at the New York
price current lin Locotoco puper, too,) we find
| that Turks Island salt stood % cents in Aug.
1872 before the Tariff and In the sme market
AS stated in the snne paper we find Tie price in
Aug. 1s13 was from 81 TO 26; average %, pre-
cscIy as last year. Liverpool salt was quoted
81 60 to s. G5 per sack in Aug AZ bejOre the Tar.
1T went into operation aud it is nO,O quoted S AZ
TO S 80 A marvellous trr is that upon Vermont
is it not?
(5) Does the Patrio, act upon The maxim-"i
lie well stuck to-" &c? While the Parrot says il
insists upon its old story, it constantly forges tia
The imporia'onS Of ihe cheap fine OooL hare cease
almost entirely Indeed, worse than that, for W.
are expressly Told that this cheap fine WOO ccmno
come in under the minimum duiy, but pays 3 cts
specific aud 80 per cent. al vooreni.
denies the justice Of imposing 40 rer cent. dui,
on broadcolls, kerseymcres &c. This is anolhe
remarkable specimen OF Patriot ic consistency
for be- ii remembered that The protection to manu-
lacturers Of wOollens fixes the price which the
IRE ehabled pay for the labor Of the operative
and lie wool Of the farmer. On the whole, III
Patriot hardly improves in lis notions, lit doe
not adopt The old: fashioned democratic doctrine @
protection for the sake OF protection even thong
il is just before election.
But what, after ALL are the Patriots views O
Protection? The plea that the new bill is oblec
tionable because some duties are too high and som
, too low, amounts TO nolhmg indeed it may b
made against any Tariff which ever has hee u, c
ever will be enacted. This is mere sub erfug
on the part Of the Patriot Is that paper in fay,
of Tariff, with Protection as one specific objecl
Yea or Nay. How simple ana easy is it Tor 4
honest friend Of Protection 10 express that frent
ship without equivoculion and yet how our neigI
Dor ever avoids that plain question. The truth
our neighbor still rejects The doctrine Of PrOle,
, tomas did the Locoioco State Convention
l64l, and dues Mr.. Dillingham; now In II
extract above, nothing but mere rerenue Tar
is couneuanced for Il moment. That was Il
doctrine which the Locoloco party adopted
5 '32,--and then il meant .4h Pr otsttion. We spei
= within the record when affirm, ha, the then [.
coluco administration abandoned The old Repu
:. lcan doctrine of Protection in 1882, and that Il
: leaders Of tie party have never changed III
(. ground. The Patriot knows it it knows that Il
policy Of the party will be unii-proIeclive in f
4 lure and hence its suberluges. There are tr
friends OF protection in the rank aud file of Il
; l.ocolocos, who should be warned not to be Ion
or deceived