Mobile register and journal., 1845-08-14
From .he Now York Evening Post.

| HE IAHIFF IL IS some titue since we mHdS h promise to the Tribune to give him an occasional echo of the murmurings from the agricultural por ion of the country, against the iniquitles of lhe Tariff of 1912. He knows the faith of The Post ihia subiec, so wel that il would not be worth while to repeat to | him arguments of our own, or even to state again l facts which occur under own Knowledge in this commercial metropolis. For he would tell US that although the interests of the city are decidedly for | free trade yet the expression of that opinion would be merely local. If assume that commerce vii tqrive best, when left free and unshackled he would | reply that commerce is but of the leading inter- ests of the country, and one inferior in the estmal of Congress, to the manufacturIrg interest, which exIs according to his theory without proiec. | ton.
 In that case, to conduct the argument fairly, we must call in third party-the farmers
 In one of our exchange papers, the following com | paratVe table of taxes is given
 ARTICLES
 1 Used by the manufacturer. By the Farmer. l Hides per cent. Beather, 30 per cent. Linseed, per cent. Linseed Oil, 25 Ter cent. Wool, per cent Wooens, 26 to to per cent. Raw silks, 50 per b. Manufactured g 50 per lb Brass, crude-iree. Manufactured brass, 30 per eent-in kettlesll2 cts per Hemp 30 to 32 per cent Ship cordoge, 100 to Iso per coat Cotton bagging, 50 to 80 per cent.
 Cotton 25 to SS per cent Cotton cloth, 30 to l20 per Flax, to 9per cent. Flax manufactured, 25 to 50 per cent.
 Wood rough, 20 per cent, Wood manufactured 30 per
 or Tree.
 Upon this the writer, who handles the subject witl, great ability, remarks: "Ths table might be carried on much further, but tune and space will permit. Three of the above articles, wit: hides hemp and cheap wool, imported by the manVfaciurers, amount to above 100000 payinga duty oabout s200 ,O0Cg while an equal amount of cheap cotton cloths, imported by lhe farmer, would pay duty of more than s2,0O0, 900! or more than ten times much "l will now give you few articles which will fha atntu anTth tarsn ErL The following articles, used by the manufactmers, in under this tariff free of duty: models of ma chlnery; berries and nuts, used in dyeing; cege tables ssed m dyeing; all dyewoods in sticks used
 in d eing; Barilla and Brazil wood, burr stones, un- | wrOught cochlneal; madder; sumac, Szc. And the
 following articlee used 6y The farmers and labor9s, | are taxed as follows: cotton cloths, 30 to l20 per cent; handkerchiels 132 DOT cent; cotton gunny 100 per cent; clothing, ready made, 50 per cent: glass, l l86 to 243 per cent; pig iron 40 to 72 per cent; lead, lI6 per cent; molasses, 51 per cent; pepper, 130 per cent salt, 80 10 IA per cent; brown sugar. 7l per cent; anys 70 per cent; bright trace chains IA per cent; log chains, l60 per cent, &c. wish had space to contrast greater number of these articles, and show lhe difference made between tue rich and the poor
 With regard to that portion of the nqui,ous tar l iF, which under lhe guise of minimum duties, per- petraes gross fraud upon the people of this coun- | try, we avail ourselves of the remarks coming from an agrIculluralist, conveying our own we'll known opinions on this matter more forcibly than we can state them ourselves.
 One clause of the tariff says, that all cotton cloths that are not Of the value of 20 cents per square yard shall be valued al 20 cents, and duty of 30 per cent laid on thus twenty All those of 30 cents and over shall be taxed 30 per cent the price. Cali coes are to be rated al 30 cents instead of 20, and taritfed in the same manner This is called mini mum duty. ft should rather be called dsrauding duty. It abstracts from he pockets of the people their hard earnings, and yet keeps them in ignor- ance AS to the real amount well as 10 the manner 1 in which il is done. A, first sight you may proba- | bly not see the snare 50 artfuy laid by designing politicians; but examise it il little, and light will break upon you. Yousee that there six cents tariff the square yard of all cotton cloths of 20 cents and under pei yard; the tariff is equal on the yard, but most unequal in value. Cotton cloths can be bought m the European markets as low as two cents per yard Well, if this article were imported it would have to pay duty of 300 per cent; that at three cens POO per cent that at four cents, l5O per cent; that al five cents, 120 per cent; that at six cents 100 per cent tat at eight cents, 10 per cent that al ten cents, 50 per cent that at fifteen cents, 40 per cent while h,t at twenty cents and upwards would pay only 3Ope cent! Cacoes and silks are tariffed on the principle. Now who buys the fine and who .he coase articles? Those who are wealthy, and able to 1ay bay the fine articles, while ! those who are poor, nave 10 buy the coarse. Here it is then. The wealthy have to pay dniy of 30 per cent on what they buy, while the poor have to | pay duty ranging from 30 to 300 per cent. It is acknowledged on all sides that the manuac- turing interest is ina very hour,shlng condition, and the agricslturas.s are barely enabled to sup. port their families by unremtled toil. Neither class as maintain, is entitled 10 protection m the tarh sense of the word yet what can be more grossly un-
 just than the protection ofhat interest which trives by tax on that portion of the population which is starying2
 "We find. "aays the authority from whom we quote "by the census of 1s40 that there are in the United States 265,O32 persons engaged in manufacturing the articles protected or favored by the present tar ifi-wlh a capital of $l97 200 ,304, producing man ufacures to the value of s234 ,643,l76 per annum; giving the average product of each hand $S86, and being profit ois1l8 on every SlOO of capita in- vested. We also find, by the same source, thai there are 3,7l7,756 persons engaged in agriculture or farming, with capital Sl 500 900 900 (Mr Woodbury estimates il at $3, ,000 ,000 ,000-see hls speech, Feb. 7 &8, 1S44) producing a profit to each hand of $2l3, and profit of $s52 on every $l00 of capital invested. With these facts before us, Is t not too much for patience her self to endure to hear these manufacturers still calling out for pro. foreign enemy? No. From robbers and plunder ers2 No. What then? From the farmers having the privilege of buying cheap This is the protec- ton for winch they are calling so loudly. Will you, he farmers of the country permit their call to be favorably answered! Shall political names so sway you to make you forget your own interests and those of your country! God forbid
 ''Bnt let Gs take another of this tariff The average duty on protected articles is 30, probably 40 per cent. We import of these to the value of about $50 ,00O 900. giving some s20 ,OCO 900 of revenue into our Treasury, Our manufacturers produce Of similar articles about the worth of S24O, ,00O ,00O.- Now 1t is evident that the 30 per cent laid on our imports enables the manufacturers tO raise the price of their articles just 30 per cent likewise Thirty per cent S240 ,000 000 will just make SIP 900 900 that the manufacturers make by this tariff. They have to make il out of some class, and who but the farmers pay it? Ths tariff then takes Ss72 ,00O 900 per annum from the class whose average labor is worth only $2l5 per anIIm. and gives It to that class whose average labor is worth SSS5! It takes SIP, ,000, 900 from the class whose profit capital is only 52 per cent, and gives it 10 the class whose profit Is 1I8 per cent! It takes $72 ,000,O00 from the 3,7l7, 756, and gives it to the 265. .632"
 In several of the papers published in the farming districts every item o intelligence which bears upon
 the actual operation of the tariff will be found copied with great eagerness The News the other day pub lished the ioowin apt little table, which is every letter of it lrre Truth however is proverballv slow coached: and is but reaching some parts Of the country where with her seven-leagued boots rived some two years since.
 The following are specimens of the present du- ties:-
 Per cent. Per cent. Coal 72 Champagne wine l2 Coarse cottons 50 Silks 25 Iron S9 Fine linen 25 Salt 75 Precious stones l2t
 The poor, who consume salt, in any of it's numer- ous preparations, ray tax ol 75 per cent on every particle used. The factory stock owner, after get ting 30 per cent dividends, buys champagne wine and ! taxed l2 per cent only. The workman who bays a cotton shirt is taxed 50 per cent. The man. uacturer, whose wealth makes him afford Il linen shirt, is taxed 25 per cent.
 The Argus, published at Madison, w. T. claims. as the true doctrine, winch every democratic paper m he yyD douu adv a nOtO