The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-31


would be merely local. II we assume that COM
merce will thrive best whenleft free and unshackled
he would reply that commerce is but one OF the lead
ing interests of the country, and one INFERIOR IN the
estimate of Congress TO the manufacturing interest,
which cannot exist according TO his theory, without
protection.
In that case, TO conduct the argument fairly, we
must call in third party-the farmers
In one Of exchange papers, the following
comparative table of taxes is given
ARTICLES,
Us,d by the Manufacturer. BY the Farmer.
Hides per cent Leather, 80 per cent.
Linseej, D per cent, Llnseed oil, 10 per cent
Wool 8 per cent Woollens, % to 20 per cent.
Raw silks 80 cents per ID. Manufactured 81 90 per ID.
Brass, crude-iree. Manufactured brass 40 per
cent.-in kettles - cents
rib.
Hemp 80 to 81 per cent ship cordage 100 to 80 per
cent Cottonhagying, 50 to
80 per cent.
Cotton % to 80 per cent Cotton cloths, 80 to 40 per
Flax, 7 TO per cent Flax manufactured, % to so
per cent.
wood, rough 20 per cent, Wood manufactured 80 per
free. cent
Upon this the writer, who handles the subject
with great ability, remarks: ''This table might be
carried much further, but time and space will
not permit Three of the above articles, to wit:
hides, hemp, and cheap wool, imported by the man,
ufact,usrs, amount to above "a 600, 0OO paving
duty Of about 600, 900; while an equal amount of
cheap cotton cloths, imported by the farmer, would
pay a duty of more than S2 ,000,000 or more than
ten times much.
81 will now give you few articles which will show you
articles used By he manaetss, in under this iar
free 0 duty models of machinery berries and nuts used in
used dyeing; barilla and Brazil wood burr stones IN
wrongful cochinea madden; sumach SC And the follow
ioows cotton cloths 80 to 100 per cent handkercSie
is2 cent; cotton gunny 100 per cent? clothing ready
"a per cent lead as per- cent? moasse 81 per cent? pep
per- 1870 per cent? SALT so to l per cent? brown sugar II
Cent ioschans iso per cent. &C. wish haI spaea to
contrast greater number of these articles show the
difference made between the rich and the poor"
With regard to that portion of the iniguitous
tariff, which, under the guse of minimum duties,
perpetrates gross fraud upon the people Of this
country, we avail ourselves of the remarks coming
from an agriculturist, conveying our own we'll
known opinions on this matter more forciby than
can state them ourselves.
One clause of the tariff says that oil cotton cloths
that not of the value of 90 cents per square ward
shall be valued at 20 cents and a duty of 30 per
cent. laid on this twenty. All those of 80 cents and
over shall be taxed 30 per cent. the price. Cali
Goes are to be rated at 80 cents instead Of 20, and
fairfield IN the same manner This is called u mi
mum duty. 1t should rather be called dttrnuding
duty 1t abstracts from the pockets Of the people
TIER hard earnings, and yet keeps them in igno-
rance as to the real amount well es to the man
ner in which it is done. AT first sight, you may
probably not see the snare artfully laid by de-
u
will break upon you. You that there are six
cents tariff on the square yard of all cotton cloths CT
twenty cents and under per yard; the tariff is equal
on the yard, but most unequal in roiue. Cotton
cloths can be bought in the European markets as
low as two cents per yard Well, if this article
were imported, it would have to pay a duty of 300
per cent? that at three cents, 200 per cent? that at
four cents, $50 per cent; that five CENTS 100 per
cent; that at six cents, 100 per cent that at eight
cents, IS per cent? that at ten cents, 60 per cent?
that at fifteen cents 40 per cent? while that at TWEEN
ty cents and upwards, would pay only 30 per cent?
Calcoes and silks are fairfield on the same princi
Piles. Now, who buys the fine, and who the coarse
articles Those tcho 1eaihy, mud able to pay bun
the fine articles ph osc spho poor haze 10 buy the
coarse. Here IL is, then. The wealthy have TO pay
duty of 30 per cent. on what they buy, while the
poor have to pay duty ranging from 80 to 300 per
cent!
1t is acknowledged ON all sides that the manufac-
turing interest Is 10 very fourshing condition, and
the agricultursts are barely enabled to support
their families by unremitted toll Neither class as
we maintain, is entitled to protection, in the tariff
sense OF the word; yet what can be more grossly
unjust than the protection of that interest which
'hrives by tax on that portion Of the population
which is starvng'
eve find Says the authority from whom we quote) by
the OF s.o that there the United states 266
favored by The present tariff with capital so4
producing manufactures 10 the value OF 1924 ITO per
mum; giving the average product Of each hand $685.
being aPros Of sIs every 500 Of capital invested We
also find by the that there 37I7b6 per-
sons engaged IN agriculture farming with capital
81 (r Woodbury. estimates 900 600 OoO
hand Of sas and profit Of s5a on every soo of
capital invested With these iacts before is it too
much for patience herself to endure to hear these msnuac
tnrers sti calling for proectionl But pray protect
S them nS from wh From 0sga No rob
having the privilege OF buying cheap. This is the proec
ton for which they are calling loudly Win you the
swered Shall political names so sway you as 10 make Won
osds own and those country God
"But let take another view Of this tariff The average
import OF these the value Of about $50 900 600 giving
some $4,000 900 Of revenue into treasury manu-
900 Now is evident that the per cent laid on
imports enables the raise the price OF
make that X. res ea Hn
rers make by this tariff They have TO make some
takes sa per annum from he elias. whose average
labor is worth only S2l3 per ard gives that
600 from the class whose profit capital is only 81 per
cent and gives 1t to the class whose profit rs per
It takes s72oooooo from the a7l7756 gives to the
265,032"
districts, every item of intelligence, which bears
upon the actual operation of the tariff will be found
copied with great eagerness The "News" the
other day published the following apt little table,
which is every letter of il true. Truth, however, is
proverbnlly slow coached and is but now reaching
some parts of the country, where error, with her
seven-leagued boots arrived some two years since.
The following are specimens Of the present du-
ties:
Per cent. Fer cent.
Coal ~ Champagne wine -
Coarse cottons so Silks %
Iron SO Fine linen 2h
Salt IS Precious stones I2t
The poor, who consume salt, in any of its nu-
merous preparations, pay tax Of IS per cent. on
every particle used The factory stock-owner, after
getting 80 per cent dividends, buys champagne
wine, and is taxed IL per cent. only. The work.
man, who buys cotton shirt, is taxed so per cent
The manufacturer, whose wealth makes him afford
a linen shirt, is taxed IS per cent
The Argus, published at Madison, Wisconsin
Territory, claims as the true doctrne--whioh every
democratic paper in the world ought to advocate
that tariff not only as a means of 'protection,'
either objective incidental hui Of