The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-06-27

third Of /. cent per poaaL GA tobacco stems. 'Ths,
will be perceived, amounts on the average to re-
dueiion OF about third or Thirty three and third
per cont Lard was to be admitted at moderate
and reduced rate Of duty cotton to be admitted rss
of duty sand nee TO be continued at the pressn' re
dueed rate of duty. This Is what was surrendered TO
| US in the treaty
| Now what were We 10 grant in tetuini A reduce
ton Of the duties now ersesed on the manufactures
Of Germany named in the treaty, bu, few OF which
| core in competition with any Of our own manuae-
lures the most II which or the ten years prior to
the enactment of the ,ard of 1912, were re-
oeised free of any duty whatever The rates oil
duties established in the treaty are, twenty, NJ
| teen and ten per cent The bulk Of the articles
on which twenty per cent was 10 be Ia,d, pay duty
now under the existing tariff Of thirty per cent
| those which fifteen per cent was TO be charged
now pay duty Of twenty Ave per cent, aud those
on which ten per cent 10 be charged, now pay
duty of fifteen per cent IL will thus be perceived
that the average reduction of duties that We were to
grant, is less than one-hird those and but re-
Gently imposed and less than thr,ylhree and third
| per cent reduction, granted TO us tobacco.
About forty-ihousand bogsheads of tobacco are an
of each at twelve hundred pounds the reduction CT
duty, at one cent per pound, would amount to four
hundred and eighty thousand dollars ON this article
alone. Blu, when the duty became reduced, and con-
sequently the price of the article cheaper, the con-
sumption would undoubtedly become augmented
In regard TO the value Of the products and manu-
features of Germany which we import, we find that
between October, 1884 and September 1896, max
ing two years. the value of the articles imported
through the Hanse towns, other parts of Germany,
through Holland and France, estimated to ave-
rage, each year 81 10000 Suppose that the reduc-
ton of duty which asked TO yield reached
ten per cent, which II does notthe aggregate would
be only S74s,OOO on the importations of 1885 and
1886 But it must be recoilecied that of the amount
imported each Of those years, 81 SOC, 900 admit
ted free Of duty, which Of greatly enhanced
their consumption-that those two of the years
of inflated currency, enhanced prices, and of excess
sve importatons and also, that part of the value
of the articles imported consisted of breadstufs =
We doubt if the value of the importatons from Ger
many at present reach one half the amount Of 1885
and 1896, and consequently the duties should have
surrendered could not amount to more than one half
The estimate on the importations on those years.
No one can fail to perceive that in place of being |
truly reciprocal, the inequality of the value of the
stipulated equivalents provided for in the trea-
ly, is altogether in our favor--that we should
have received much than we gave, had the |
treaty been ratified This conclusion can be reached |
without resort to the of " weight and measure"
The population of Prussia and the other States
constituting the Germanic Confederation Of Customs
and Commerce reaches nearly, if not fully thirty
millions of souls. A treaty, which it has required
many yearS, as well much skill to negotiate with
country containing this vast population which offer
I'd immense advantages to majority of the agricul-
tural classes of citizens of the United States, by
opening enlarged, and for some articles of their
products, new market, has been cast aside and
trampled under their feet by tyranncal Wing ma
jority Senate-a body who would rob the farmers
and planters of the products Of art Of their labor
to deprive Mr.. Tyler Of any participation in what
would prove beneficial TO them and serviceabe to the
country Such conduct has near approach to des-
potism, and we doubt not will be SO regarded by
those whose interests have been thus shamefuly sac
rihced