The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-09-17
FrOm tho WssLln Union.
THE TARIFF MUST BE REDUCED.

THE TARIFF MUST BE REDUCED.
We have received let or from Boston,
10Th inst which confirms the few statements
which we made last week, respecting the
immense profile Of the manufacturers. 1t
Informs 10 that the dividends Of first class
cotton factories, under Boston management,
have averaged full twenty per ceOlum the
last year, and their reservations Of profits,
40 a general remark, may be said to be
from twolvO TO fifteen per cent. more: be-
side keeping their stock good, by cutting
down The valuation Of mills and machinery
ia their trial balance sheet. Their raw
material has been at an unusually low cost,
and the recent improvements in machinery,
with crowGiDg their he p" to tending four
looms instead Of three, and at tho same
wages o. Tor three, have altogether given
them a nett profit Of over OnO-third upon
their capital in twelve months. From this
their 20 per cent. dividends, reservations,
and reductions Of valuation, have been
made" Our correspondent gives US par
agraph copied from high wing paper iOto
one Of the sane ik, which furnishes good
text for comment;
1.-THE BEST DIVIDEND YET.-The New
buryPorl Herald u yesterday says, that the
Essex Steam-mhl, in this town, yesterday
made dividend Of 421 per cent the earn
'ngs If the mill the past year."-BostOn
Courier.
THE reader will please TO remember
that this paragraph iS copied from the Boss
ton Courier Of only last Friday morning
IA wing paper. F0ely-twO and halt
per s6Ht.! a very comfortable dividend,
tbisD
Here are . couple from democratic Pa'
PerS:
"Ths Great Fall Company New HnwP.
shire! make . Semi.annuSl dividend Of
$50, or ten per cent. on the last omission
pr,ce OF stock. "-BOsIUn Post, August 5.
+" The AmOSkeag Manufacturing Water
Power and Land Company have declared
a oemi'apnual dividend Of 10 per cent, and
are understood to have g very large surplus
or reserved fund 10 hand beside. A New
Hampshire journal states the reserved fund
TO be- 5000. O0O.- Concord (Mass.) Free.
man Of August 8, (IasI FrIday.)
And now we ask the friends Of the other
interests OF the couhtry-thO fsTmsr (the
great staple interest Of the land the mer-
chant, the professional classes, the ship
owners, sc what they think Of the justice
aud equality Of the protective system, 40
Get forth 10 the act Of 1927 Can they loo
ger silently aequiesco in its PROVISIONAL
Here the farmer sees the manufactures d.
vide 90 per cent. or more, and in one case,
the enormous profit Of 42i per cent, whilst
be himself must DO content with 3 or 4 per |
cent. The manufacturer makes this i'm
moDse profit out Of the other cltsses. Il is
a tax which the present tariff ensbleS him
% lay upon the other pOFiious OF the con-
for bis own profit. And still, we
are 70 be told By the National lnlelligeaceF,
ind the affiliated Whig presses, that Il is ell
eight; that the protective gyStsm must be
maintained 10 ell ils V'ROF sad 10 llP lie
beauty that the Law Of lS42 iS, like the Law
Of the Modes and Persians, uOt 10 be chaD.
god ; and that the taFif must not be reduced
We are. not the onomies Of manuiaciureO,
When they ere established upon proper
instead Of being forced 10 lhs
iOl,hed Of protection. We are satisfied
hat many Of them would spring up Of them
.slves, il lei alone: aud that the ingenuity
d our countFymen is 90 great, SPFingihs
naturally from that boldnesS Of 60 enter
prise, which iS Taslered By the freedom Of
Dur iasIiiutiOns, that Il WOnld never cease
% invent Ihs mosi excellent laboT-SaViag
nachiaes; sud these iaVaniiOns have been
Iaado more freely undsF = low than undeT
1 high tariff, Zoe necessity d he mOshsF
,f inVoution."
The Esauou Why We eau make NOS
Eoollen eioihs, end many coitOu siutis'
shospsr per yard Than he English manu-
d, tarsF, ., because our machines are bet
srthan Ihoiru--ouf CARDIAC machines sno
laF loous, 10 PariieulaF-bssices our tPiu-
aing machines, and oFsa our uiziug pro-
,ssSss. We beard q singular suecduis %
relation 70 Tie sizing process TIE ether Day.
Al American manuisgiuToF vas 10 Ea-