New-York daily tribune., 1844-03-12
The eVandal Tariff.

The Vandal Tariff.
We cannot believe it possible that the Tan
bill reported by Gen. M'KAY to the House will
become law Let US glance at some of It's
| provisions
Coarse Wool (such as does not enter into COM
petition with our own product is taxed fifteen
per cent, while cheap Blankets, the product ol
that same Wool, are charged but ten per cent
Here is a discrimination Of five per cent. against
our own industry and in favor of British work
shops
Wool "a good artcle) is charged thirty per
cent. by this bill, instead Of the three cents per
lb. ind thirty per cent. now imposed, while
Kerseys, &C., woolen and worsted mits gloves,
stockings, socks drawers, shirts, &c. &c. are
charged but taoenty per cent. Here is dis
elimination Of ten per cent. against Home fabrl-
cation. On wooden yarn twenty-five per cent
"a discrimination Of fpe per cent against the
American spinner. 1t is not possible that such
ruinous injustice should be perpetrated by an
| American Congress.
Readv-made Clothing is charged with thirty
per cent duty by this bill. Well says one,
| can't American industry live with thirty per
cent. Protection p Why, sir, have you considered
that wool is charged 80 pr ct. and is much higher
here than in Great Britain that most of the
cloths and stufs 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 seam
stresses The importers Of Foreign Clothing,
made up by poor women who work for SIX cents
day, will swear in their clothes as cheap as an
American importer can swear in the material,
and there will soon, in fact, be no Protection to
the clothes.makers at all. So of Boots, Shoes,
Sc on which there is a discrimination of barely
five per cent allowed in favor of the American
workmen. Let this bill become law, and the
importation of all these articles would be quad.
rupled within a year, to the great injury and de-
preston of our own workmen.
But the climax of insanity is reached on the
various descriptions of Hard,oare. These are
fabricated from Iron, which, all are aware, can
not vet be made nearly so cheap here as it can be
brought from abroad. The cost Of Iron abroad
must, therefore, 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 to hundred per cent, yet lets in the
Hardware, the manufactured fabric, at thirty
per cent. Here is swindling appearance of
Protection to Iron for the sake of binding and
Supplying Pennsylvania; but the word of PROM
ise kept to the ear is broken to the hope by letting
in Foreign Iron at thirty per cent in the shape of
all descriptions Of Hardware, and thus crushing
the Iron and tool interests at once. The passage
Of this bill would destroy Fifty Millions worth of
American property at 4 blow, and turn one hun
dred thousand American Freemen out of work.
But it cannot pass, thanks to the indomitable
Wings of Tennessee and Maryland!
Railroad Iron, it will be seen, is to be allowed
to come in at ten dollars a ton, while that used in
the poor mans og.chain,' &c. &c. is taxed
twenty dollars We are not here objccting 10
this per Sc; but the crocodile tears shed over
the different treatment of poor men and rich
corporations by former Tariffs are beautifully
exposed by this bill
I0Id NdtcheS, Jeicefy, PRECIOUS STONES, &C
which the Wings were abused for letting in at a
low duty ~ 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,
gentlemen Locos why does your Congress tax
the rich mans jewelry, gold watches, &C. only
one. fourth as much as the poor mans log chain
We have more to say yet of this most fatal
(were it not fore-doomed) bill.