New-York daily tribune., 1844-02-19
SaIt-The Tariff.


the Commerce and Revenue of the Country.
salt-The Tariff.
We trust the Ecening Post Journal Of Com
merce. and other Free Trade organs OF TINS
Ctv. circulate freely in the Saline regions OF this
State. Their bitter hostility to our great Salt
manufacturing interest, their reckless mlsrepre-
sentations and decrials Of the character OF New
York Salt. and their unqualified devotion to the
Foreign Salt interest, need only to De known IN
the Onondaga region to secure the night sor' % :"
vote there next fall. For example, the following
sn,ears in both the Journal of Commerce ana
Post:
W. have as fine dairy farms and good butter-makers 10
our as good eoopels to make rs Orange
Delaware Sussex county I'm New Jersey5 anu ann @
91ase iase ss for t the bess not S
iad h u pTedafa s a
swer the one uses Liverpool salt and the other our
trash full Of lime glaube salts on and other impurities,
Witch Completely neu,raize destroy the sweet properties
ohs mura.e soda would gladly buy the Liverpool
salt but the toll three 1909 lbs t2o bushels, els, per per
mile his pocket te too deep ne Mn0~ Una. Ea M
cannot make believe that paving s. ~ per % bass fS5
make the difference in sale OF his butter a! the
market Yet the only reason why ms out{ M not
SEEp The best begins in January, aud May
it good for nothing but grease H. Il. ,,. - rho State or
New York alone using sSn n a III ene o I
sour pork and oeeJ
There must be something very detenoratlng
las Button contended) in the soil or atmosphere
of this Country according to Free Trade notions
All our wares and fabrics are pronounced inferior;
our Glass is smoky and dirty; our Iron won't
make screws ; and at last our Salt won't preserve
butter In fact it appears to be no salt at ALL but
"Western trash, full Of lines ,glauber salts, iron,
and other impurities."! This is fully equal to
Sam. Young. What the mischief is the reason
that Salt, unless we buy it in Foreign Countries,
Is not Salt
Now we are quite aware that there haze been
impurities in the Onondaga Salt, in the infancy
of the manufacture, but we are assured by our
State authorities and by private advlces that they
have been corrected, and that New York Salt Is
now pure. But many people have seen TIT to put
down their beef and pork with the same quantity
of Salina Salt, weighing Sc pounds to the bushei,
as they had been accustomed to use OF Liver
pool or Turks Island Salt, weighing ~ pounds to
the bushel and OF course have lost it, as any one
with two ideas in his head could have told them
they must. The fault was solely in their mig
gardliness or want of gumption But where the
same weight of New York Salt is used it cures
meat as well as any other; and for the various
uses of the familyit is worth as much, pound Tor
pound, (heing fne,) as the choicest Foreign Rock
Salt.
The Post and Journal assert that Turks Island
Salt could be imported, in the absence of an I'M
port duty, at ten cents measured bushel,
whereas it now costs twenty-five. Then why
,oas MT it ever afforded here for ten cents BUSH
el, or any thing like it, when there was little or
no duty Surely all know it has never been sold
here at any such price-why not, if, but for the
Tariff, it could be so afforded? How often must
we dare the Free Traders to an swer this ques-
ton /!
But why ,oould MT it be imported at nett
cost of ten cents, if there were no duty-Since
the Free Traders say it could be delivered on
shipbeard for five cents, and that the freight is
but iive more I've answer, Take off our duty,
and Salt would begin to pour in upon us in thrice
the quantity now imported, increasing the de-
mand for Sal. at Turks Island and of course the
price of it there, with the freight thence to our
ports If Salt may now be obtained there at
five cents delivered, it surely would not be If we
wanted four times as much nor would it be
brought thence to this port at five cents more per
bushel. Salt might be trifie cheaper on the sea-
board, by a sacrifice of the revenue now derived
from tha, article, but it would rise more abroad
than it would fall here, and the interior would
probably pay for the article more than, certainly
as much as, at present. Our State Salt-Works,
with greatly diminished and irregular demand,
could not make the article as cheapas at present;
while it could not be gathered in far greater
quantities in the West Indies as cheap as at
present
Bear in mind, 0 Free Traders while you are
grumbling at the duty of eight cents per bushel
imposed by the present Wing Tariff, that S'tas
Wright concocted and Martin Van Bmren voted
for the Tariff of 1928, which raised the duty on
Salt to ttoeaty cents busiel Where has slept
your thun der TILL now?
3ITH CONGRESSIONAL DIsraIcT.-At meet
ing of the Wings OF Columbia and Greene Coun
ties, held in CatskilI on the 18th inst. k1LLIAN
MILLER ESQ of Columbia was chosen Deleea te