Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1843-06-06
FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE
PROT ECTIN T. TARIFF;
4 BRIEF REVIEW OF THE OPERATION OF OUR Ia
RIFF LAWS SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE
GOVERNMENT, INCLUDING THAT OF 1912
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let u. not nsunicr,tood We do not say that no rG bill
should have been passed the last session We say
the bill which d pass many respects, gh objectionable
The imposed, entirely high articles Some
kind OF tariff desired to supply Ant indeed
few OF the Democratic members felt themselves compelled for
the BILL but they protested unequal
wicked and oppressive and avowcd their intention
they had the power The vlios had ro majority the vote was
taken the close session. the
voted for it. did because the yrannica majority would suffer
democratic amendments be made the bill and had
passed the shape did, the wing majority would have adourncd
and left the country REVENUE Their
have BEEN GOVERN
MESr! The first thought the may
asked # the Wings had the majority why not let them pass Why
the necessity for any Democratic member
the Wings would unite to democratic amendment
TO the biomc of them all the intending
its final for ar Of thar constituents They willing
help their friends IN thing about the bill except the final voc
We but view this the effect of party feeling
party prejudice. They looked with d,tt upon proposition
coming from Democratic member. No good could
Nazareth They but apt lose sight of the
our common country to indulge IN mere parry warfare They
flushed with victory revengcu and yndictvc We wish be
poehatable We are far from charging all the Wing party
them, especially those who desire make honest living by their
their support from such leaders. They desire be lei their
ruin merely to crafty the ambition of a few men,
Our limits will only rmit us point out few of
TIE EVILS IN THE TARIFF BILL OF 1912.
We have that long nearly twenty years. Mr.
Webster said that the manufactures in Massachusetts, &c had
then passed the point of competition that IS they needed
by the of the people especially in the Western States such
cheaper this country Europe. The high tariff
insist that the English manufactures has advantage
the cheap there But labor but one item of the expense in
carrying mandatory of that kind, and it is but gg small
tem The principal items of expense land buildings
po provisions.
these FIR cheaper here lngand They much
cheaper here, that the afford lis worlmen much
higher and yet nc much larger profits In proof of this
hearing daily of manufactures stopping in England.
because they found Improbable. although the wages paid
the hands employed extremely low that the
point of aaon striking for higher and quitting
work fqrm instances of this take place during the last
btore tariff 6 passed. Our tariff therefore, did not cause
this distress. Vt the mcthat Is about three months before
paper; "F,croRiEs-Wc learn from the Troy Wing that Mr.
Benjamin Marshall, of New York about erecting
The of money to be expended about m udd thousand
dh Several factories to be built in Pennsy ana
and the large factories Lowell hal been enlarged This let it
be remembered when the tariff was low compared with the
bill that has since passed Have proved then, that fac
tories better and yet make larger profits than the
English iactoics And where the necessity prolcc
ing and wealthy factories against the half starved
and broken English ones!
This is all Before late tariff passed. published
paper hc Portland Argus follows: Mer ~ n ~ Law
hand $4,000 bales about twenty-five millions of yards James
w. Page x Co. and james H. Mills X Co.. from other
establishments New Eng land have about equal
making my millions yars goods piled up in the stores of mer-
cha waiting for market
than three yards of cotton goods American make. cycy
and eH irhi and black in the United States THIS
But there other large
tories in New York. New Jersey pcnnsy and other States and
The, had also doubt large quantities of such goods on hand
Now the object OF protective tariff is friends enable
make goods. But fifty millions yards
already made. Thy needed protection They ready for
protected by the last tariff bill enormously. We ask every reason
able. thinking man, c. tbs be riglt9
But proofs. 1t al that tue
object of protective tariff goods made in our "ntry
cheap they his have already seen was
stated by Mr. Clay be the object 1916 That foreign goods
then made cheap abroad that unless they e:e taxed when
they brought into the the, would undcrsc md dvc
goods out OF the market and stop factories But ac
have. long goods cheap
that they not only furnish all home that description. bu
large quantities OF them actually crpofed Yes They
American South
landed there at the foreign Custom House. alongside of the English
ID Eprl.a of
ing the and the American article only fully completes
with the English article BIT actually OFT t L. Did such articles
need more protection!
We ask the honest abong farmer and mechanic of all parties
them still higher benefit
Ii export such goods and sill compete paupcr
labor of England, it has been called ports.
follow that such English goods be brought
for SAFE when compelled high Custom Houses
And tins Is the fact. If into of "store in In
DIANA bale of cotton shing heotng with the
mark of English factory You will find of English
make. They all have the American MILL And this