The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-03-08
4 E.nw Passed To make the fortunes Of
Men,

possess 1t are protected by severe penal
lies of law from all competition, and eve
ry tavernkeeper and retailer within the
district is obliged To purchase Of them
only. THAT is the rcason," sad a llano-
verlan to us one day, "why our beer is so
much worse than that of Bavaria"
We smile in this country, a, nation
which wears so conlentedly the letters of
monopoly; and we congratulate each
other that no such folly is committed by
our government. We are in the United
States free and nlightencd--too free to
submit 10 the compulsion Of buying, en-
cept where and of whom we choose, and
too enlightened to adopt laws so injurious
to the general welfare.
Yet while we indulge in this self com
placency, we pass laws just as foolish,
just as lyrannical and just as oppressive to
the mass Of the people. We are taxing
millions of people To make the fortunes
of half dozen; we are taxing the in
iant's pap and the childs gingerbread in
order that an Euglishman from the banks
OF the Thames, may grow rich by rein.
ing sugar ON the banks of the Hudson.
/ The following brief statement Is furnish
ed us by a correspondent who takes the
signature of CincinnalGs, some retired 2
and hot over rich Statesman. probably,
who in taking his moraing tea and coffee
before lie goes t, the tolls Of his fum,
cannot help thmHIng Ihd loai. sugar is
/ dear.
1.-The present b'a,k tariff make the
duty on refined sugar loafj six cents per
pound. The las, quotation in liverpool
for refined Ioal-sUgr was 3ls. serIiug
per ll2ibs., which, at 1854 tie pound
,tcri'ng, is G73-l00 ccnls per ID.
The price Of this r,Iiagd Ioaf->ugar
here, which Ivy this heavy duty, is pro-
hibilcd, is, 10y the liuc boxes, II cents
per pound cash and the consumer pays,
/ If he is able to purchase it by the barrel
or box, II cenis---iI by the single loal,
l3 cents.
"'fhere are to; NO than sin sugar re-
liners in The United States, and To protect,
them this large duty is laid, and oil tie
loal-sugar eaters are com PEELED 10 pay
this price 10 project these large establish
ments. This TAX would, in one or two
years consumption OF Ibis article, buy all
these sugar houses. 4 great proportion
Of the Inhabitants are compelled 70
use brown sugar. because they are
not able to give such price for the loaf.
al only add il serves them right
when by going TO tie ballot boxes they
might vote for men who would not lax
The many for the good of the few. a
duty Of twenty per cent. AL valorem, on
this article, and twenty per cent. charges.
would furnish it to us at hllle over
nine cents pound, and with The great
Increase Of consumption, perhaps less"
We hear that these half dozen Of
sugar reGncrs are absolutely coming mo-
ney, by the help Of the tariff, TfeY
great establishments in this city are su
many minis, turning out not thousands
bu, hundreds Of thousands of dollars, if
report be true, in the shape of profits.
We hear Of one house owned by an
EugiShman, who used to refine sugar in
London. He comes to New Nork sends
an agent to Washington or attends him
self, gets law passed for his special
benefit and that of the half dozen pep
pie who follow the same business, and is
now quietly receiving tihes from The
millions tina! make our population.
This is the sort of liberty we enjoy in
this country. We threw Of the yoke OF
Great Britain because we would not pay
taxes at the pleasure Of an English parla-
ment. What have we gained in poiat Of
commercial freedom, by he with. us ,ss,
which our fathers vnf1' mat bosfiong
aud bloody war! We Have gained the
satisfaction of paying taxes 10 an English
man in New York. Really if this is all,
our fathers who threw over board the
cargoes of tea at the Boston wharves,
might as well have left them undisturbed.
They little thought tha, all they were
struggling for was change of masters
for their children. They little thought
that an American congress would pass
law compelling their descendants 10 pay
half dozen sugar refners a more obi
Gus tax than England had imposed on
tea. They could not have thought it
possible that congress would force the
American citizen to resort for every rag
of cloth and every scrap Of iron and every
lump of coal, to a set of dealers consti-
tuled by law the lords of the home mar
ket, instead of allowing him TO carry his "a
earnings into the great marke! of the
world. and purchase where he could pur-