The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1844-07-12

imposition. Now, sir, does not this duty of 100
per cent, thus imposed, protect or enable the do
mestc manufacturer to sell his iron at the old price
of cents, by raising the cost of the imported ar
ticle to that standard Ifnot, what has the domes-
tic manufacturer gained by the 100 per cent. tariff
of "protection?" Just nothing. He in the same
predicament as before, which would certainly tend
to establish the declar alton of Mr.. Clay that "ere
is no necessity Of protection for protection"
But, Mr.. Chairman, this is not the state of the
case. Would our manufacturers exhibit SO much
anxiety, and be so lavish of their exertions and
their money, in obtaining the .ascendency OF the
protective party, and through them protective tar
if, lift resulted as the gentleman has assumed!-
No, sir far from it. The legitimate effect of the
duty Of 100 per cent is, as every man OF common
observation must know, the very reverse of the
operation of the tax as laid down in the gentemans
argument.
| The Swedish iron could not be sold without
sacrifice at less than cents per pound, paying the
duty of 100 per cent So, too, with all other arti
cles Good French boots could be imported here
under revenue tariff, and sold at $2 per pair, just
such as our boot-maker sells at So, in which case
duty of 33 l-3 per cent. will compel the import
er to raise the price of the French boots to 49, in
order to meet the requistion of the tariff. The op
GRAFTON of the law is clear. Upon every pair of
boots purchased either of the French importer, or
the domestic manufacturer, the purchaser pays 81
advance upon the price paid in the absence of the
tariff of 33 l3 per cent because the tax levied by
the government upon the imported article, is ad-
ded to its price, and this enables the home manu-
facturer who pays duty, to sell his article also
at an advance of 81, and realize profit, to that
tent, over the profit of the importer, concediDg the
prime cost in each case to be the same. Therefore
if, In the purchase of four pairs of boots, farmer
pays at country store l2 this year, for which the
year proceeding he only paid SO, in the absence OF
duty of 33 1-3 per cent, it follows that, in the
transfer of this duty to him, he lays tax of "a to
protect the home manufacturer upon four pairs of
common boots. The tariff of 1912, passed by a
whg Congress, laid duty of 81 .25 per pair upon
coarse imported boots, which has raised their price
to that extent upon the price at which they would
be sold were no duty levied upon them. The con-
sumer pays this additional charge inevery instances
for the tariff follows all the transfers upon the goods
upon which tits laid, until they fall into the hands
of the consumer, out of whose pocket the revenues
of the government, and the duties Of "protection
for protection" are all derived If such be the
fact, land it must be, or the doctrine of protection
is all farce,) have, by these two simple state
ments, demolished the paradox that 'high duties
make iO,0 prices"
But, Mr.. Chairman, lest the arguments of gen.
tlemen might not be so convincing as they could
desire, some of them have dropped all argument,
and attempted to drive us into the support of their
theory by designating the friends ofa judcious
enue tariff as the British party in Congress; and
they have appealed to the people to stand up for
their own countrymen and protect them against
the pauper labor of Great Britain Yes, sir, strange
as it may seem, though not strange considering the
quarter whence it emanates, the very party who
have been, by means the most invidious and anti
American, trying to fasten upon tn people of this
country the whole British system of banks, manu-
factures, privileged orders corporations, monopo-
lies, taxation, and pauperism with all its deplora-
BILE concomitants; and who take the British side of
all questions that arise between that country and
ours, and who seek Notwithstanding, through
portion of its MEMBERS to dives all foreigners seek
ing the asylum of our shores of the right citizen
ship;-strange as it may seem, such party talk to
us and denounce us as the British party--profess-
ing themselves to be the exclusive friends of home
industry and the only guardians OF the constitution
and the rights and liberties of the people May the
wisdom of the people save the country from the
tender mercies of such brazen-faced hypocricy.-
Sir, who are the importers that we are called upon
to throttle and drive out of the country by taxation
or high prohibtive duties for projections They
are from one half to two-thirds Of them, American
citizens, employed in the business of carrying off
the vast surplus produce of the country, and sell
ling or barterng it to other nations, and bringing
back in exchange the products and manufactures OF
those nations. They are the commercial class Of
the United States-a class next to the agricultural
in its contributions to the wealth, the power, and
glory of their country. They are branded as Brit
ish importers by the manufacturing monopolist and
his advocates in this House. The law Of 1912,
was designed to drive this commerce of interna-
| uOndl eACHhuScS Hom tho oSSah, anu mus NV ohiy
nhict suspension of their business upon the seas,
but an injury upon the whole agricultural commu-
nifty who are dependent for the sales of their
plus productions upon the owners Of ships that bear
them to foreign market. That may be under
stood in this position, will put case for lustra-
ton, by supposing that the county of Ross, in the
State Of Ohio, has surplus of flour per year OF
1000 barrels; and that A, trader, has been in
the habit of buying it annually and shipping it to
England or France, taking, in exchange, or invest
ing the money received, in the manufactured aiti-
ces Of these countries, at rate that would enable
him to sell them in the United States at an advance
Of so per cent, without ranscending the prices of
our own manufactures oflike description. We
will suppose that the law obliges him to pay rs per
cent. from his profits to the custom house for the
support of government. Hedoes so, and still re-