Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-08-08


10 six cents on the square yard. For ex-
ample, two pieces of plain cotton goods,
one worth 20 and the other worth but
cents the yard are brought from Manches-
ter, (Eugland) to N. Y. both are valued
alike at 20 cents. and both required TO
pay duty of six cents on the yard, being
in the one case 80 per cent, and in the
other 100 per cent on the value.
Here then, according 10 locofoco logic
the case is made out, that the poor man
pays 100 per cent duty on bis coarse shirt,
while the rich nabob pays but 80 on his
fine one-the rule always holding good
according to their theory, that the cost of
the article or yard ofshrting is increased
the exact amount of the duty charged on
it. 1t is fact shown by the amount of
sales at Manchester, (England) and Low
ell, Mass; that plain coitons bave been
sold, for some time past, at nearly a cent
the yard less at Lowell than at Manches-
ter; while. on the contrary, the finer fa-
bricks have been afforded cheaper at
Manchester. How stands the matter from
this view of the fact? clearly as follows :
The protective feature of the law and of
The wing policy. has driven the cheaper
and palmer articles of foreign goods from
our markets, and supplied it with chea-
per and better article Of American manu-
facture. Instead, therefore, Of the poor
man paying 100 per ceat. duty on his
shit cloth, as the pettifoging demagogues
of Locofocoism represent, he pays not a
farthing in the form of duty. and at the
Same time gels his shirts cloth of Ameri.
can manufacture, cheaper than England
can now furnish it, even if it was admit.
ted duty free. This 100 per cent bug.
bear with which the demagogues are en-
! deavoring to freighten the uniformed, has
produced its effect, by making us indie.
pendent of any foreign country for This
necessary Of life. affordiug i: cheaper at
home than it can be bought abroad.
The duty on this quality of goods a
mounts, as it was designed TO do. to an
absolute prohibition, and the securing of
our own market, to our own manufac-
lures, while it admits, at a comparative
ly low duty, the finer fabricks of cotton
that are consumed by the more veal
thy, and from which the duties are col
lecled, to meet the expenses of the Gov
eminent. The same principle that gov
erned the trainers OF this law in relation
TO the various articles of cotton goods,
is scrupulously observed in relation to
wooden goods, and every other article. -
While the duty on common ingram car.
peting, such as is in general use, is levied
solely with the view to drive the foreign
article from our market, and procure in
IFS place that of American manufacture.
The Wilton, Brussels, and Turkey car
petlng, (arilcles used only by the more
wealthy are admitted at lower ratio Of
duty, and for the same sound reasons:--
first, that they do not come in competition
with anything that we at present produce;
and Cd, that they are designed as articles
from whence the revenue is to be drawn.
In the one case the duty is levied for the
encouragement and protection of the
home manufacturer, and in the other for
the purpose of collecting the revenue re-.
CURED by the Government of those best
able to pay it. The effect is, as in the
case of cotton goods, that the duty on the
common carpets has driven the foreign
article out, and our market is fully sup.
piled with an American article, at a
cheaper rate, aud on which no duty what
ever Is paid. What then becomes of
the scare-crow falsehoods of loco foco
qublers aud pe!lifegers, with which they
have been laboring to deceive the unIn-
formed. and impose upon them their
British system. by means of misrepresent-
ing and classifying the present American
system What becomes of the misera-
BILE falsehood that this law Expresses the
poor by raising the price of his necessa-
ries, while it favors the rich by reducing
the cost Of his Injuries.
OF We head our editorial to-day with
the banner of Clay and Protection,
presented by ourffiend of the State Jour
nal, T. M. Laid, Esq. Our business
shall be 10 keep it proudIy floating, till it
waves in triumph over the PROSTATE and
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