Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-04-05
THE VANDAL TARIFF.

We cannot believe it possible that the
Tariff bill reported by Gen Mckay to the
House will become law. Let us glance
at some Of its provisions.
Coarse Wool (such as does not enter in
TO competition with our own producD is
taxed Is per cent while cheap Blankets,
the product of that same Wool, are charged
but ten per cent. Here is discrimination
of s per cent. against our own industry and
in favor Of British workshops
Wool "a good article) is charged thirty
per cent by this bill, instead of the three
cents per ID. and thirty per cent. now i'm
posed, while Kerseys, &c, wooden and
worsted mits, gloves, stockings, socks, draw
ers, shirts, &c. &c. are charged but t'6enty
per cent. Here is a discrimination Of ten
per cent against Home fabrication. On
wooden yarn 25 per cent-a discrimination
of fire per cent against the American spin
ner. Ii is not possible that such runous
injustice should be perpetrated by an
American Congress.
Ready Made Clothing is charged with
thirty per cent. duty by this bill. "Well,"
says one, cant American industry live with
thirty per cent. protection ?" Why. sir,
have you considered that Wool is charged
thirty per cent. and is much higher here
than in Great Britain that most of the
cloths and stuffs of which ready-made
clothing is fabricated are also to be charged
thirty per cent. and are higher here than in
Europe How then will this duty protect
our taiors and seamstress! The importers
of foreign clothing, made up by poor wo-
men, who work for six cents a day, will
swear in their clothes as cheap as an Ameri-
can importer can swear in the material, and
there will soon, in fact, be no protection 10
clothes-makers at ALL SO of boots, shoes,
&c on which there is discrimination of
barely 5 per cent allowed in favor of Amer
lean workmen. Let this bill become law,
and the importation of all these articles
would be quadrupled within year, to the
great injury and depression of our own
workmen.
But the climax Of insanity is reached on
the various descriptions of Hardpdre-
These are fabricated from Iron, which, all
are aware, cannot yet be made nearly so
cheap here as it can be brought from abroad.
The cost Of Iron abroad must therefore, to
a great extent, rule the price here for some
years to come. Yet this bill taxes various
descriptions Of Iron, the raw material from
sixty to hundred per cent. yet lets in the
Hardware, the manufactured fabric, at Mir-
tn per cent Here is swindlng appear
ance Of Protection TO Iron for the sake Of
binding and SUPPLYING Pennsylvania: but
the word of promise kept to the ear is bro
ken to the hope by letting in Foreign Iron
at 80 per cent. in the shape Of all descrip-
tons of Hardware, and thus crushing the
Iron and tool interests at once. The pas
sage of this bill would destroy Fifty Mil
lions worth Of American property at blow,
and turn one hundred thousand American
Freemen out of work. But il cannot pass,
thanks to the indomitable Wings of Ten
nessee and Maryland
Railroad Iron, it will be seen, is to be
allowed to come in at ten dollars ton,
while that used in the poor mans log chain, f."
&c. &c. is taxed twenty dollars We are
not here objecting TO this per Sc; but the
crocodile tears shed over the different treat
ment of "poor men" and erich corpora
tions" by former tariffs are beautifully ex-
posed by this bill.
Gold Watches, Je1eL,y, Precious Stones,
sc. which the Wings were abused for let
ting in at low duty & ID per cent? are
left undisturbed. What will the dupes who
have been told and have repeated that these
articles were let in so easily, not to avoid
smuggling, (Which was the fact) but to favor
the Rich at the expense Of the Poor, say
now! Where can they hide Say, gen.
tlemah Locos why does your Congress
tax the rich mans jeweIry, gold watches.
jewelry, &c. only One:fourth as much
as the poor. mans log-chain!
We have more to say yet of this most ia
tai (were it not fore-doomed) bill.-N. T.
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