Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-03-01


make the Richmond Wing, i, does not fall within
-four jurisdiction TO notice them 1t is family quarre
sin which we have right to interfere.
TIE WING MERCHANTS TABLES
4 Mess-s. Editors; There il'msy piece OF patch
work in the Wing Of last friday @h'ch the young men
s. io goad the "buiI in the china shop o. that PRINT
ssend forth with loud blasts of the trumpet as al "im-
/ portaat Doeamsn;," OF very high consequence J
Hook mp the thing this morning, 10 see 1t III" boys had
Sless horror OF political economy ana education
agenery than they evneed last summer, and really II
Hmakes me melancholy 10 think how the mighty have
afalen Afler the youthful bnnder of publishing Mr.
Newtons States evidence against The party, they put
forth the very next day paper which dSprores IT'S
Its scarcely worth serious nocebn, Us the names OF
ssome mercantile in Richmond are adduced to give
f. weight and this circumstance may Cause 1t to mia
aence The minds Of sone who find II fkome 10 look in
Ito details and NAV take its alleged results for granted
sit may be well to point ont lis gross errors.
It's "got up" 10 show, that anaer rirh Tari!i PR
ces are lover than under law duties: aud tbs they
5undcttaka prove by giving the prices Of ISIS and
! those Of 1871! which higher tan the former Is
n Genii of Ml-blgs Messrs. Editors, what haS be-
come of the OF the call intelligence party -
Have they been blown away in the address OF the
Windy Orator, which their late Convention issued
ANY scbooboy would tell the youths of the Wing that
4 The question is not, Are the prices of January. 15,
which are bytbeby, the prices of goods 'mDorfed du
FIRING the previous year when the duties, under lie Com
promise .7c were lorest-oh, most far and candid
youths lower than those of Al but, Are Hcy i"'ecr
lih2R fiey ,ro,id be. ccrc the 0id i0,c i0rT stu IN
soperGti0rP However poor good souls they have Ia
ken special plns in ihs very Document, 10 furnish
Is evidence a liz Newton, that their argument u
worth rush. 1t says, "lFish Linens were mPorsd
1871 duty Free 10 1913 they paid duty Of - per Ct
nd with the duty added cast - per cent i0rc
han in ls4I:" thus showing that Irish Linens ha"e
aslien in value (at the place RI manufacture 10 per cent,
thereby enabling the importer t. pay the duty and still
sell prices at least % per cent lower than III -i
Hence ii we had the old Tar,G, would get Irish
\ Linens at least IL per cent less than in 4l-say al
shaif prize, while the Wings wish TO be contsned
with reduction of only one fifth go per cent?! The
I'D ,cument also SAYS: "Sewng Silk, etc, paid duty
:of - per cent lin lcIl and in ISIS they pay duty
- ID about fortyve per cent, and yet the
sartlce can be bought for considerably less. English
5anI French cloths and casmeres IN ISL paid duty
.nf b per cent, and in I3 pad 10 per cent; and
shsse goods MT Tess than ~ per cent lower IN -
,r,9n dry goods Inns been affected IN the rno
shnsc here enumerated: aud nat mtst1a.th u"
hese quotations, for they copied from our ortg'ne
nroictS and inventory, under the respective dates &"
iiS4l and l!s3" We learn lhen on their arm a"'a@T
.ty that there has been such general aud great fai
the prices Of foreign goods at the places OF manu-
acturs that the importers pay the Increased duty,
land still sell at greatly reduced prices; and conse
quen,ly, by their shomng, If we had the old Ia
,r these articles would be still toiccr, and more artth
the reach cf the poor.
So much fnr foreign goods of domesiics, they IN
form rs that the manufacturers, by the aid Of the sums
They draw out Of the pockets OF the consumer under
the Robbery Tariff system, can sell 10Th pr9t al prices
si03rsf than those al which the goods SOLD III IL
md which ruinous 10 them Now, IT IS obvious
sthat the OF t5@!r loss IL, added 10 The rate OF
lthe gain under present prices, viii maze about Tue
amount Of the adAtonal reduction IN The prices OF
these domestlcs, the old Tariff IN force, ana the
sforepn manufactured permitted 10 Offer his goods IN
HALL in the price Of labor and the rate OF interest oil mo-
aney and other causes enable them to do
Their oun statements show then, that were the low
Tariff Compromise Act in force, we should have 10.
sregn and domestic goods at prices from " t. 81 per
icent less than in January, Si3 which ls about The
rate of The decline in the prices of labor and OF agrl'
3cuural products generally, except cotton, which has
risen recently in consequence OF the shorness oil the
sciop
No, content with ,his they 70 bangIing along nto
ssta,ement that sin $40, when prices ranged al the
shiahes rates va had the old song of hard times, (Which
Us name nearly worn out, ringing IN our ears, all
the land money was excessively scarce and hard
so obtain the very best securities, at The h'ghes'
| rates OF duty ['nteTesH-'he Wings very often con-
found the things as well as the words! our Stlte
! and Bank stocks selling at one half or three
rourhs of their true valuc-domestic exchanges va
ried from 3 TO 40 per centum below the specie s,nd
Gard What was the fact in lS43 Money so album
dant particularly 10 The large cities, 1t Difficult; to
Achanges ranging from par to per cenum, and from
but one State out of the weny-six does II range al
nover per cent Here is truly precious confession,
s(dssused 81 10 gull the unsuspec,ins0 OG' OF
atls,r own mouths does it appear, that although ex-
acbances are more regular and lower, rates Of inter
lest are immensely diminished, aud money abundant ai
stLa, and the expenses of importing goods into Nirg,
gnia from the North as we'll from abroad, diminish
3D. and The prime cost OF imported fabrics and mate.
Erias FOR manufacturing domestcs, we'll as the price
J,rr a-,d altru Gl N
E30 per cent cotton fabrics, Kentucky jeans blan
Ekets &C., offered US by the home monopolrst, Will
Ethe prices Of foreign manufactures with the duty oil
4 are some so per cent less And when we remember.
z hat dollar now s worth much more tobacco,
S wheat lnbor, than it three years ngo. w
amay easily see how i. is quite possible that nrl,
Acle NAV be dearer at ) cents now than it was o. 10
cenis three years ago, tn the poor man. whose means
7 prrchas, not derived from rising State stock
4 and Bank dividends but from wheat, OF his own
labor. After thus showing you how much better OF
we are as regards exchanges, rates Of interest," prices
s.Ec under the present hard money system, than
lsier the Old corrupt Rag Baron msrule e 'mpo tan'
Edocument" winds up with parcel oi figures, show
Hnp The import of specie into the country under Our
Hha1d money system bringing into action the well
aknown principle where commodity is wanted, there
Ri, will co-and specie is commodity, though some o
1.-THE ant-university school may doubt it, and
Elton that il is owing TO the Tariff hunibug So
Ecompleely ploded that did not ina CINE that II
Ecoud fnd refuge in the murky den OF pre- JUDGES,
& @hicl. les in The NOODLE of Wing sctlbber)
4 With regard 10 the gentlemen who are brought on
i the stare 10 give effect to The "mporant document
z~e know none of them personally, and have had such
"a hearty laugh their very funny expose and the
every amusing figures they ft, as well make in IT,
iha, we are Overlooking with the milk Of human kind
3ness towards them. Gu, at the same lime we warn
ahem that if they suffer themselves 10 he led by the
nose into the political arena, they may expect pckes
sunder the ribs, which all the brayug in the world and
sall the believing of The "Whig bull will not avert
Elf they had confined themselves to calm, dignfsd
sand ungaIbed statemen they might expect some ten
xde7ness in being handled but they not TO know
that those who I've in glass houses should not throw
Estones-and in speaking of edemagogues' and "the
sEnquireE, and such ike prints, have forgotten thai