New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-24
The Tariff QueatiOn.

~ The Rochester Daily wishes us 10 state what
alterations Of the Tariff if any, we would approve.
We answer 30 many and all such as tend 10 gre
,aereased Protection 20 american Labor. We be-
lieve there are very few points on which this Is
needed bat whenever Experience has shown iha'
the present Tariff does not fully answer Its purpose
Of giving thorough Protection 10 American Lsooi
we are In favor OF increasing the duties. For IN
stance. we believe the duty on cheap Coarse " ooi
was right when the Tariff was enacted but no"
needs revision. The quality Of the Wool grown
without labor on the plains Of Buenos Ayres has Of
late been 80 improved by the Introduction OF MeTino
and Saxony Bucks among the immense HOOKS ihere
that II will now compete with much oil the " oo'
crown in this country; and this Wool Of good quail
ity may be sometimes mot usually bought In the
interior Of that country for seven cents pound or
under. OF course, whenever it il 30 bought II IS
sent here and sworn in, II fairly may be, as cost
ing less than seven cents pound and so subject to
but five per cent duty while the same buyers often
purchase similar Wool at higher prices and ship 1t
20 other markets We are in favor Of putting up
this duty essentially bat to do this the duty on
Coarse w ooen fabrics blankets must be enhanced
also 1t is now bat fifteen per cent
The Roch Daily objects to two principles In Inc pre-.
sent Tariff-frst to a higher duty on manufactured
fabrics than that charged the raw materials en-
Moved therein Now we hold that prncipleto be mol
merely sound bat Indispensable Pat the same duty
ON iran and on Manufactures Of Iron, on Wool and
Woolen fabrics, and you give the American produ-
Ger of many fabrics Protection at all Wool. we
M md 81. the dufy
Wool. on Drugs, Dyes and Chemicals, and on Wool
en- fabrics 20 per cent throughout and the foreign
manufacturer will swear 10 his fabrics at valuations
which will make the duty little il any more than the
aggregate paid by the American manufacturer on
his materials How is the latter protected
But who cares for the manufacturers says a
Loco Foco. Protect the Farmers, and let the 9th
ers take care Of themselves My friend you doHf
Protect the Farmers in your way. The Wool EN-
bodied in the cloth is but part, and not often ma
or part of the Agricultural products which are ab'
sorbed in the process Of Cloth making All who
live by manufacturing, whether directly or indi-
rectlv-whether cloihiers or carpenters machnisis
brick makers ,eamsters, timbercutters, or what you
please-are customers TO the Farmers among whom
they live II our cloth is made abroad the Farmers
suffer not merely in the sale Of their Wool but that
of their w God. Corn Pork, Butter, Eggs, Oats and
hundreds of articles for which factories at hand fur
nish cash markets.
Take a single illustration of the point we are
Calculating: Previous to ls42, Furs were charged a
certain rate Of duty no matter in what state import
ed In consequence. OF this, they were nearly all
imported cut and dressed ready for the ha,ers use,
The present Tariff charges fire per cent duty on
Furs on the skin, or undressed and twenty-five per
cent ON cut or dressed Furs The effect of this has
been TO transfer the business of Cutting and Dressing
Furs for this market from Germany TO this country,
giving employment at good wages TO many OF our
people Dressed Furs come as cheap 10 our Hat
ters as ever and Hats are sold as cheap; but GER
tain profits that formerly enriched the German boss
Fur cutters and their commercial agents here now
20 to our own people. This is but one ola thousand
instances in which the present Tariff benefits our
own folks and by means of the very principle which
the X. Daily condemns
Similar is the effect of the Minimum principle
which the Daily as stoutly condemns By the ope
ration of this principle. all plain Cotton fabrics cost
ING less than twenty cents square yard are estima
ted to have cos, that sum and charged accordingly,
or SIX ces,s yard. Printed ditto are estimated 10
have cost at least thirty cents square yard, and
charged nine cents duty, some six or seven cents
the running yard. So of Woolens except the coarse
goods known Wooden Blankets and some other
varieties One effect Of this Minimum is 10 keep
out the refuse and trashy fabrics formerly sent here
from abroad and fill the market with good fabrics
Another is to prevent, almost entirely, the fraudu
lent naturalization of fabrics imported. Another
is, to give American importers fair chance with
Foreign agents which they cannot have under the
naked al ralorcm system. The commercial agent
here of a Foreign manufacturer can always swear
truly that the goods he imports cost less TO the
maker who sends them here than on American i'm
porting merchant can buy of him any body else
For this reason. American importers have almost uni
iormly closed their career by bankruptcy, while
Foreign houses made all the profits and gradually
absorbed most of the business. We know that the
present mode ofestmating the duties on Silk fabrics
50 much per pound suggested and urged by
American importers Of Silks, and for this very
son We hope therefore, that Congress will not
abolish either Determinations or the Minimum prin-
ciple
~ ROBERT OWEN, the eminent Communist.