Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-02-23
POLITICAL.
AN EVIL AND THE REMEDY.

AN EVIL AND THE REMEDY.
II is with some pam that hesr OF the increased
price of nader an important Ingredient in the dying
Of cloths Such 10 the activity oil our factories, tna
maddsr, are told, now commands twice the price
that did few months since-or TO speak IN the Phra
seolopy Of the markets, has risen hundred per cent
The manufacturers scrambling for II, and the ex
traordnary demand has had the usual effect OF making
it deaf
THIS is a hard case for the of factories -
1t will, doubt. draw tears from Mr. Evans, their
champion in the United States Senate, when he comes
TO hear of il, and we confess that il gave even us
considerable distress, and shed few 'ron tears
ourselves until after of reflection, We disco
yered an easy and obvious remedy for the evil.
High duties sccording to Mr. Evans and the disci-
Piles Of his school, make cheap goods BY the farm
Of 1912 madder is allowed 10 enter free OF duty NO
tax was put pom the manufacturer madder, when E
taxed the salt with which the farmer packs his pork
the housewives smoothing irons, and the poor man
molasses.
Here IS the mistake and II must be redressed forth
with. The manufacturers must have cheap maodcr ];
they are fairly entitled to as the farmer ~ TO he
cheap packing salt, the laundress 10 cheap oras
kettle uactured by Phe and Dodge, or the col
fee drinker 10 cheap refined sugar from the manutacto
~ of Mr.. Woolsey, who henevoleniy came all the
way from England 10 hell US ma lar'tt Tor the pro
lection Of domestic industry. Let the manufacturers
and their friends therefore, apply the same expedien
which has made Liverpool salt so surprisingly cheap
at Buffalo, let them demand madder tax why should
they be excluded from those benefits OF the farm
which are enjoyed by the rest OF the community
we CALL therefore, on Mr. Evans to show his TREND
ship to his clients the manufacturing corPofatlons
and the sincerity OF his belief in the maxim that hgn
duties make cheap goods by Immediately bringing m
bill reduce the price Of madden by subecting to
a heavy duty. We beg that he viii not be too mo-
dest IN his demands, be restrained by any feeling
OF delcacy or amabia dfidence, which is the great
failing Of the friends of high Tariff, FROM proposing
good round tax, such will do the business eiiec-
tuay and at once-a duty of that class which Mr..
Clay calls {" moderate and reasonable, namely, one
or two hundred per cen,um, after the fashion Of The
specific duties in the Tariff of 1912, highly COM
mended by him. Tais essential commodity will then,
no doubt, be sold at wharves for next to nothing
All the Tariff in Congress will doubtless vote
with Mr. Evans for this beneficial tax The free trade
party will also be happy to CO operate with hun IN me
relief of the manufacturers Ut least until the farm
question be arranged to their minds by uniform low
revenue duties They will not surely be guilty of such
Injustice to attempt, in the mean time, to exclude
be manufacturers from the same privilege as is granted
10 the poores. laborer,he privilege OF seeing all the
commodities, for which he has particular occasion,
cheapeDed by taxation.
Lest the suggestion We have made should escape MI
Evans en,ion shall take 10 send hun copy
of our paper containing ii. Meantime, we shall wat
with some Impotence for the proof OF his sincerity,
which he with no doubt hasten /, give.
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