The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-07
From the Albany Argus.
THE TARIFF AND THE WOOL GROW Rs

Appeals to the agricultural interest to come for
ward and sustain the "tariff as il is" are to be met
with in almost all the WING and ultra tariff prints
that we have opened for the last week or two. The
farmers and the woo-growers particularly, are told
in so many words, that the present tariff is the very
root of their individual prosperity, and of the
prosperity which, as nation, the United States
now enjoys! The National Intclligencer, the lead
ms wing organ in the United States, and which
puts forth great pretensions to fairness and can
dor, falls readily into this game of impudent de-
cepuon. In recent number, taking for its text
the remark of the 'Union,n-- sit is highly
probable that there will be a majority in both
houses sufficient to effect decided reform of
the revenue system'--makes proclamation as fol-
lows
"FoREwARsEp, roRsARM.b.-Take notice, all we whom II
may snywse that the purpose breaking down
the tariff at the coming session Of Congress thus distinctly
by the paper a majority can be
mers merchants ye who have any interest in the con-
nuance ofhe present national prosperity and
man to prevent IT, the will be laid to the root OF
that national prosperity by those whom you have set to
The National Inteigencer will soon learn and,
we suspect, not much to its surprise either-that
this tariff business is about as well understood in
the back woods il is anywhere else and that its
attempts to rally to the support of the "tari as II
the great agricultural interest of the country, had
better have been spared, The farmers understand
clines, the manufacturer grows rich. They know,
because they feel il, that the present tariff was
framed expressly for the benefit of the manufacture
or, and that he reaps nearly all the benefit of it
that the idea of protecting the farmers beef, and
pork, and butter and cheese, and what not-arti-
cles that seldom, if ever find their way into the
country from abroad-is all moonshine, and was a
mere cover to the high prohibitory duties laid upon
certain manufactures; that the duty on wool--the
only article Of importance that comes in competition
with the farmers products-amounts, in fact, to
protection at all; that nearly or quite two-thirds Of
the cheap foreign woods imported into the country
under the low duty of five per cent, in direct
competition with the average of that grown here
while the manufacturer Of that wool is protected on
his fabrics to the tune Of 40 per cent? and that
more than l3000,000 pounds Of this South Ameri-
can and Smyrna wool was actually imported last
year, under the ''tariff as it is"
You will scarcely End wool-grower in the coun-
try that does not understand the precise operation
Of the present tariff and who does feel and know
that il is most unequal and unjustnot in this par
tcular only, but in many others that might be spe-
CITED bearing as it does most heavily upon articles
of common use and necessity, and light upon the
Injuries of the rich. Nor, we suspect, will any Of
this class of citizens feel themselves particularly
complimented by these appeals of the Intelligencer
and its adjuncts. Indeed, the more shrewd of the
wing partisans, though ultra-tariff any, and
as much disposed to keep up the present inequality
begin to see the importance of diverting attention
from this subject and already We find the Evening
Journal significantly coughing down agitation. 1t is
little remarkable, that the very paragraph in the
"Union" that drew out the Intelligencers note Of
alarm for the safety of the tariff is secuted by the
Evening Journal here as an idle or impotent threat!
And it tells its readers that, after all, Col. Folks
election will not affect the present tariff hair and
that its own predictions of ruin to the manufacturing
and industrial interests all electioneering blair
ney. Hear this consistent print:
Gan these threats either idle impotent The tariff
Of 1912 black It represented for the purpose Of
ludng the South during the presidential
DISTURBED Louisiana cannot live without protec ton
for her sugars Northern Locos dare not lay hands
upon the tariff We sadded with Polk and Texas, but
the tariff will be preserved