The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1844-03-20
HE 6 Ajax 7.
MIDDLEBURY:
Wednesday March 90, 1874.
MIDDLEBURY:
THE BEAUTIES OF THE LOCO
TARIFF.


The last card Of his followers to secure the
election of Van Buren,, has nov been played.
The ndisposition of the northern section of
the loco party at the commencement of the
: session to disturb the tariff awakened the
ire OF their southern allies. 1t at last broke
out into threats of abandoning the northern
man with southern principles, unless the
! black & abominable tariff be surrendered as
n peace offering. The sacrifice has been
made. As in the restoration Of the gag, the
north again como under the yoke OF their
southern task-masters. Under the auspices
of the sleek and cunning Senator from New
York the house committee Of Ways and
Means have introduced bill TO reduce the
present tariff to a degree which must blight
all The great interests of the country. Il con-
templates sudden reduction Of the present
rate of duties 25 per cent. changing specific
duties into ad raiorem, and thus restoring the
old system Of fraudulent valuation. II is to
be slid through congress by several insiduous
provisions. Iron is 10 be reduced but 3 per
cent. to secure Pennsylvania, and sugar only
a half cent per pound TO secure Louisiana.
But the most thin clad disguise to escape
from the odum of abandoning the wool-g grow
ers by reducing the tariff on fine wool at least
ten per cent. is, pretending 10 raise it on wool
On Lace fl,ap
ad raLorem. The cheat consists liz emitting
the guards & checks contained in the present
tariff to prevent fine South American wool
from being imported into the country at the
lowest rates. The bill makes no discrimina-
ton in the duty, whether the wool is in the
dirt in sacks containing different qualities, or
whether considered coarse or fine. What
will the brawlers against the present tariff
now say when the improved qualities of Bue-
nos Ayres wool which come in competition
with our domestic fleece by the bill of the
committee, can be imported at the lowest rate
of duty, i. c. paying with the additional ten
per cent. ad valorem a duty in the whole Of
about one and a half cents, which before was
| so per cent al valorefn and 3 cents per pound,
amounting to between forty and fifty per cent.
nd raiorcm. But it is even SO. The great
Safeguards, the 3 cents per pound, and the
checks against introducing the fine woods OF
South America into the country at the low
est rates, by this bill are most treacherously
abandoned under the pitiful pretence of a
happenuy pound upon coarse wool never
produced or desired to he produced in this
country Besides, the reduction of the tariff
on wooden goods is even more Obstructive to
the wool-grOwer lhan its reduction on the raw
material.
But such is the iulhlnent of the promises
of the loco press during the last election, that
their party would correct the tariff on wool
for the benefit Of the farmer. Yes, promises
made by the lips to be broken to the heart
whenever party expejiency demands it. To
avail themselves of the distempered hostility
Of the south to protection, the wire workers
of Van Buren, wantonIy barter the welfare OF
the country for Tie miserable mess of pouage
which the spois of Office afford them. But
will the people ratify bargain by which the
cup Of prosperity which they are just begin
ing TO taste, is ,hu5 wantonly to be cast from
their lips to CRAFTY the ambition Of pack Of
Office seekers more greedy for the spoils than
wolves for the warm blood which they have
just been licking. Heaven forbid.