New-York daily tribune., 1844-08-13
From the Erening Post of Saturday.
Taxation OF A American Industry.

The other day as nn mG Of ours n ~ hard
saw handed him inquired price and WINS told thai
was tan shlliuss. u>ed says he two or three year
may be-" said TIE trader but nre Obliged to pny
heaverdu,es than did NJ the time you mention
and we cannot uif nd them chenp The mechnn'c lie The
shop dissatisfied aud complaining, without having purchased
law The trne nd told our irsnd Tint tn. occurrence wa
On compsrlng the present with the former tarfs we lind
This tax reduced by the effect oil the nt from
yea, I'LL brought down To twenty per cent But
hca rased the dity trty cent that the mechanic
new a2 wa, aped % nd no only tnn but an udd,ona
profit to the merchant an the additional duty -....
American industry. Thousands of mechanics and men Ell
Snsed N aboLoas , leg & nnd HUNDREDS & Of
t,w hundred owners OF ron mnet ma irs,
sign of the tariff.
o. The above from the Euening Post is a
fair average Free Trade article. Let us compare
it with the facts:
l. 1t is a fact that Handsaws no,o pay only
thirty per cent. duty. This is precisely the same
duty proposed by the Loco -Foco Tariff bill Of
Mckay last winter, except that it was to be re-
duced to twenty-five per cent. after one year.
2. 1t is a fact that no Handsaws are made in
this Country except very few of rare excellence,
and these haze no: risen. All common Hand.
saws are, and ever have been, imported SO that
the duty docs not give higher profits to "a few
hundred owners of iron mines and forges."
3. II is fact that the price of Handsaws in
our market declined shortly after the duty was
raised from,twenty to thirty per cent. by the pre-
sent Tariff. 1t has very recently risen fifty or
sirty per cent not on account OF the duty, for
D. loy 20 ,bopt tha nr,cp ppo
lowest, but because the British Manufacturers,
who still enjoy monopoly of our market, have
advanced their prices who MilLSaws, which
are protected by higher and specific duty of one
dollar each and which in consequence are in good
part made in this Country, nop as lO,c IN this
but Hand Saws which the British make for US
exclusively, hare risen (he Post says) from seren
shilings to ten shings each.
Such being the facts, which we are ready to
substantiate if doubted, we would respectfully in
quire whether the POST hardware merchant, who
attributed the advance on Handsaw to the Tariff,
is or is not deceiver and knave.
The Post chooses to add to its mistakes above
that Smoothing Irons are now twice as high as
they would be but for the Tanff, Brass Kettles
fifty per cent. higher, and Glass. Ware two or
three times higher We have a short answer to
these assertions. Smoothing Irons were ncuer
cheaper under any former Tariff than they arc
under this Brass KETTLES are afforded to the con-
sumcrs throughout our Country cheaper under this
Tariff than ever before; (their wholesale cost in
this City being 35 cents a pound, which is as
cheap as they ever could be prcftably imported; }
while Glass and Glass Ware arc at least t,oenty
per cent. cheaper under the present high Protect
i've duty than they ever were before ii was enact
Cd If the Post shall seriously undertake 10 dis
pute these statements, VIC stand ready to sub.
stantiate them.
The Post talks Of Z" the tax OF six cents a pound
on Refined Sugar" Very good Refined Sugar
never was cheaper, as compared with the price of
raw Sugar, than isnow is. Ii there were no duty
ON Refined Sugar-,ho duty on raw Sugar ro.
maining-it could not be cheaper than it now is.
Five cents pound on Al!spice exci,es the ho,-
ror of the Post. That is in no sense "a Protective
but purely Revenue DUTY, and we are quite vii.
ling it should be abolished as soon as the Revenue
can spare it. It's not in any way identified with
one essential feature of The Tariff as 1t Is
U The Plebeian follows the lead ofthe Jour-
nal OF Commerce and ciphers away at North
Carolina, undertaking to make Loco gam out
OF the Wing victory there Weapprehend these
twin oracles of Loco Focoism will have good
deal OF such figuring to do before November
1t is not tue-it is the reverse of truth-,hat
our opponents have not had the Legislature OF
North Carolina but once III ten years. They
had it in 1867, after one or tworof the Wings
chosen in 1886 had died o. resigned and were
succeeded by Locos. Can The Pebeian tell
how Messrs. Brown and Strange, Locos, hap.
pened to rspresen. the State in the U. S. Senate
In 1883?
The Plebeian says nOv that VIC had 5000 ma
joity last year in Congress. When did it fine