The Arkansas banner., 1844-09-11

hand. in 1843. amounted to S231 1000, andin Nav. 1844, to S315,000. The clear profits of manufacturing for thirteen months were half million of dollars, or about twenty three per cent. a year.
 COMMERCE..
 6. Keep it before the people, that exper- ence shows such tariff as the present most destructive of commerce. For from the year 1900 to the year 1910, period of the low est duties, our commerce increased over 3O0,- GOO tons. or almost one-half But during fifteen years, including the tariffs of 1916, 1924, and 1898, and although cur population was increasing at rate of over fifty per ceht.s yet our foreign tonnage diminished almost 100000 tons, or over one-haf From 1924 to 1880, six years of high tariff, our ioreign tonnage fell off from 640000 to ,OOO tons, and the coasting which had been so confl- dently predicted would increase under taf1i5 fell off from 7l9,000 to 6l5,000 tons. But from 1881 to lS40, under reduction ot du- ties. our foreign tonnage increased from 516,- GOO to 900000, and the coasdng from 6I5,- GOO to I.281, ,000 tons, or more than double And thus 1t went on incfeasmg during the next year, but the tariff of 1912 has thrown it back already 130,000 tons. Such are the blighting effects of high tariffs on commerce. Nor are they at all surprising for not con- tent with cutting off our exports and imports, (the former of which were nearly double ln- der ten years of low duties what they were under ten years of high ones,) inc present tariff increases the cost of each ship five doi- lars q ton in the shape of duties on hemp, iron and cordage.
 LABORERS.
 7. Keep it before the people, that under the present tariff, the very highest duties, ln- stead of falling on the gold and laces, the wines and silks of the rich, fasten themselves like harpies on thefood, and clothing, andim- plements of the laborer Stripe shirting, for example, worn principally by the laboref, pays a duty of 65 per cent. which has an et= feet to increase its price two-thirds, While gold-edged cambrics pay duty of tut 33 per cent which increases their prices but one third. Iron trace chains, used by farmers, Fare taxed over l00 per cent, while gold watch chains, used by dandies, are taxed only 7l per cent Brown sugar, iH use i'll every cottage, is taxed 20 per cent, and the wines of tie dIlSlOGtdt OQ' COetlt tIlC i4 VI iie poor of our cities, is taxed 62 per cent, while kid gloves are taxed only G0 The hammer and anvil of the blacksmith pay 70 per cent, the saws of the carpenter 75, and the irons ot the natter and tailor l40 per cent, while the silks of the belle and the cigars of the beau pay 40 Common ingram carpets pay 103 per cent while the finest Wilton and Brussels pay from 30 to 50. Ourcoarser cotton goods pay 100 per cent, and the finer only 5 per cent; and thus the cost of the former is doa- bled, while the latter are increased only one third The cheaper prints and calicoes pay 100 per cent, and the dearer B 5; the former being enhanced in price three times as much as the latter. The low priced darfnels pay 875 per cent, while the higher priced pay 5 per cent. The low priced velvets pay 150 sper cent, and the higher priced 40 per cent. And thus are all the fundamental maxims and principles of a republic violated and set al naught by tariff which taxes necessaries higher than luxuries, and the poor higher than the rich.-PoEghLeepsie Telegraph.