Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1844-03-21
From the .Nesc- York Tribune.
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HE VANDAL 1AhlFF.
| We cannot believe il possible that the Tariff
bill reported by Gen. M'Kay to the House will be-
come law. Let US glance at some Of it's provi-
sions 80 d. 'f.' ~ =S"N -07.at o.
Coarse wo0l (such as does not enter into com.
petition with our own product is taxed fifteen per
cent, while cheap BlaRkets, the product Of that
same Wool. are charged but ten per cent. Here is
discrimination of five per cent. against our own
industry and in favor of British work shops!
Wooi "a good afticle) is charged thirty per cent
by this bill, instead Of the three cents per ID. and
thirty per cent. now imposed, while Kerseys, &C.,
wooden and worsted 1nits, Gloves stockings, socks,
drawers, shifts, &c. &c. are charged but t,ce'ety
per cent. Here is determination often per cent.
| against Home fabrication. On wooden yarn twenty
FIVE per cent. "a discrimination Of tve per cent.
against the American spinner. II is not possible
that such rGinous injustice should be perpetrated
ny an American Congress.
Ready-nsade C!oihsng is charged with thirty
per cent duty by this bill. We'll, says ones can't
American industry live with thirty per cent. Pro-
tection'P Why, sir, have you considered THAT
wool is charged 30 per cent, and is much higher
here than in Great Britain that most of the Cloths
cd sa q whe B Rsa y
higher here than in Europe! How, then, win this
duty protect our tailors and seanstresses. The
impoftersof Foreign Clothing, made up by poor
women who work for six cents day, win swear
in their clothes as cheap as an American mn
porter can swear IN the mateIla1, ana tfefe VIII
soon, in fact, be no Protection to the clothes ma
kers at all. So'of Boots, Shoes, &C., on which
there Is discrimination OF barely FIVE per cent al
lowed in favor OF the American workmen. Let
this bill become law, and the importation of all
these articles would be quadrnpled within year,
to the great injury and depression Of our own
wcrkiheR.
But the climax d insanity is reached on the va
rioas descriptions Of Hardscare. These are fabri-
Gated 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, there
fore, to great extent, rule the price here for
some years to come. Yet this bill taxes various
descriptions of Iron, the raw material, from sixty
hundred per cent, yet let's in the Hardware the
manufactured fabric, at hHty per cent Here is a
swinding appearance Of Protection to iron for the
sake Of binding and SIMPLIFYING Pennsylvania but
the word Of promise kept to the ear is broken to
the hope BY letting in Foreign IRON at thirty per Ct
hSs crushing she Iron and tool interests at once
The passage Of thisbiN would destroy Fifty Mill
sssa sn.a sn sr 'n, q
work. o'"'' thanks be to the indom-
liable W. and Maryland "r
to come in at ten dollars ton, while that used in
the poor mans bg-chain,' &c. &C. is TAXED twen-
ty dollars We aee not here Directing to this per
se but the crocodile tears shed over the different
treatment Of poor men and Erich corporations
BY fof%er tariffs aye beautifully exposed W this bill
:, Cod Watches, Jescehy, Preeigss Stones, &C.
which the Whigs&ere abused Cor LETTING 10 at .
low duty (7 IL pef cent? are ieft undisturbed.~ ~
What will the dupes Who have been told and have
repeated that the articles were let in 30 easily,
not TO avoid smuggling, (which was the iact.l but
to favor the Rich q the expense Of the Poor say
now /? Where ca they hide! Say, gentlemen
Locos! why does your Congress tax the rich mans
jewelry. gold witches, &C., only onesl6s6A as
much % the poor mans log chain
=, An INc1pEENf@ AT the Mass Convention or the
2ed inst, at Hartford, Connecticut, a gentleman
who evidently, frsrn his air and manner, was a
prominent citizen Of the place. talked to one stand
ing by his side II Main street as the various pro.
ceSsions with tkeit Tariff banners we're passing by
81 have been urging sand the speaker s our De-
mocratic papefs to come out boldly and openly in
favoF Of Free Trade tits bad policy for our partv,
continued he. ..to disguise our Principles By pre-
Such . veil Il too hin NOT to be seen through by
every body, by our political friends well oppo-
/ hents, and we lose more than we gain by such
course. ~Onr party here" he added, IS would 90
for the party just y readily under d Free Trade
banner, As under one Of incidental Protection, and
We must come up u tlie Free Trade doctrine final
". or we shall lose the support Of our Democratic
brethren Of the Sytith Indeed. the Democratic
Members Of CongfeSs from the North have agreed
Sifeaiy to unite with the South on the Free Trade
principle" The multitude moved on--the process.
Si6nsthe Heightened cavalcades with their almost
countless banners bearing alott Inscriptions Of d
RFetectise Tariff. passed IN review before the rest.
lees eye Of this Free Trade politician. Then came
Bristol. the Banner Town, with an almost endless
train Of hardy yeomanry-and like their predeces-
sCTss the PvOtectiUe principle was written their
bannsvs, shown in the faces-exhihited in their &c.
tiOls-in ten Thousand various forms-each and all
demanding PFstedise Tariff The Free Trade
man began 10 Quail-his nerves relaxed-he was
silent-at length, a. u unconscious Of being heard