The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1844-12-03

greatest good Of the greatest number.
Let them learn that the great amount Of
trade now going on devours all the pro-
ducts Of their labor. They should learn
the cause aud prevent lie evils. Or tley
must continue to slave On.--[Essex Banner.
The Taxes paid by the LabOrlng
Glasses.
\ Il is possible for a man Of ordinary
knowledge Of trade, and an average degree
Of fairness Of mind, 10 look ever the tariff
as it is"" the wing tarifFof 1872" az the
wings themselves call it in their handbigIs,
without acknowledging that, if the express
object Of It's trainers had been to Cypress
the Iaboring classes, they could not have
devised any thing more efficient. The only
reason why that class, holding, as they do,
the political power Of the United States,
have not before this risen up, and, with q
common voice, demanded iIS repeat, is that
they have not been allowed to know what
taxes they were paying. The realamOuDt
Of what they pay as tax, is so blended
with the prices ofthe articles they consume,
60 covered up by gsiHimwnas and other de :
vices oflhe framers Of the tariff, and only to
be got atby referring 10 the merchants 10
voices. which they never sec, that they pay
their money without knowing how much Of
i might have been spared if they lived un>
der On equitable government.
Il the reader will accompany US a little
way ia this article we viii give an exam
pie Of the manner in which the laboring
man is cheated into the payment Of nearly
twice what he ought to pay for bis working
dress.
The wooden mills Of this country weave
large quantities Of kind Of coarse cloth
worn by labOrfng men, under the denomi,
nation of kerseys. II has q cotton wool,
but the principal material is the cheap
wool which lie allowed by the present tariff
to be imported on the payment Of the nom.
inal duty Of five per cent This wool is
brought in enormous cargoes from South
America, purchased by the ageat for the
mills, manufactured into kerseys, is sold a.
an immense profit, to be worn by laboreFs.
The price Of these cloths 10 our market
--the Wholesale price we mean-is seven
teen cents yard. They may be bought
in England at seven cents and three.quar.
ters. The importer pays a duty OF eighty
per cent, the shipping charges and commits,
sions amount to about twenty-five per cent
and selling these goods at the market price
for they still continue to be imported
he obtains the moderate profit Of about FIVE
per cent.-These goods or 10 be seen ex-
posed for sale ia The warehouse along our
principle commercial streets, where any
person can satisfy himself Of the exacIness
Of our statement.
L follows that, but for the high duty,
laid on keTSeys, the labOrer might purchase
them eighty per cent cheaper than now
not eighty pee cent. merely; but, If we es-
innate a profit Of FIVE per cent 10 the mer-
chant on that duty, eighty-6Ve per cent
cheaper than nov. IfhePurchsseS IheAmer
lean article, be pays this eighly-liVe per
cent to the manufacturer. When he lays
out dollar and eighiy.fvs cents in the
purchase Of these coarse cloths, the eighty |
Eve cents is tax-a tribute.
Yet these people boast Of being, the
friends Of domestic industry. These milll
owners and their attorneys and agents who
have had the dexterily 70 procure the pas
tase ola law making their machinery a
source Of immens profit, Vaunt ihemselVesi
10 be the friends Of American labor. They
iEst reduce the duty on that kind Of wool
Tor which they have most occasion % q
mere nominal rate; they then raise the do.
" on the cloths forWhich the working man
has most occasion 70 the oppressive rate Of
eighty per cent. Having lhus taking care |
that be shall be taxed, and they exempted
from Iaxatio0, they issue handbills-one Of
which is now before us--caliing upon the
'mschanicu, caumsn, butchers SsiloTB, and
IN th0ss who earn q livelihood D their oBn
urms,n 20 attend meetings designed b sus-
lain he very tariff byuhich the miltOUnsr
is favored and the labOring man oppressed.