The Arkansas banner., 1845-11-26

uemen button manufacturers go to France O j England, purchase the material for covering buttons III webs, have t torn or cut intt .stfips, and Iii that form they introduce tn immense quantity they use ip their business at duty Of , per cent The buttons art protected with duty of 5 per cent. incon sequence oi this faeoritism of aa unjust tarii Jaw, which resorts 10 all kinds of devices ant subtefuges to benefit the manufacturing in. 'efeSIs, the button manufacturers of Massa chusetts are rapidly accommodating immense fortunes, at the expense of their iellow-citi zens of the Union.
 might adduee long array of instance. Tn winch the present tariff discriainates ir favor of the manufacturer, against the produ. cer ol the raw material and the consumer but must pass on to the last proposition winch shall attempt to establish in this com. mnncatlon, viz: that the present tariff dis dfImiEates III favor of the rich consumer against the pcor consumer-in other words 4 imposes tte AgAteSt duiy oa Me articles consHn'eG 5y tbe rich, aad tae heapiest datg on tfose consumed by Me poor; tAus eremptiae cdplldI, and taring labor,
 4 few examples must suffice It taxes the rich man but 3l 10 34 per cent. on his fne Wilton carpet, while it makes the man ia middle life pay from 46 10 So per cent. on his common ingrain carpet
 Il taxes the rich woman but 30 per cent on her fine french muslin dress, while it ta:.- es the poor woman as high as lG0 for her cheap calico.
 1t taxes the rich man oaly Ii cents per yard on his fine flannel, whch is equal 10 a duty of 40 per cent. ad valorein; while it tax es the poor man Il cents per yard on his coarse flannel, which uosts in England only IA cents, being equal to an al yaloFem duty of 100 per cent.
 It taxes the rich silk dress worn by the lady of fashion but 9 per cent; while it tax es the pool woman for her silk dress, made ot the poorest and cheapest material, 42 per cent
 It taxes the sad-iron Of the poor washer woman from 80 to l50 per cent; the haiier's and taiIor's irons from so to 150 per cent; the blacksmith, for his anvil and hammer, from 36 to 65 per cent; and the farmer, for his axes, hoes, shoyels, spades, and chains, from 90 10 l75 per cent.-whiIe it taxes the gold watch of the dandy but z per cent; diamonds, gems, and canoes, T per cent; and jewellry, generally, 20 per cent.
 On foolseap writing-paper, used by all classes of people, 1t imposes duty equal to 97 per cent; but gilt paper pays only D per cent, bllet-doux paper 30 per cent, and French envelopes, "plain, ornamented, and colored," 30 per cent.
 It compels the planter and farmer 10 pay from 50 to l50 per cent. on the iron and iron implements which they use; from 65 to 190 per cent on the sugar they consume; 35 10 TO on the molasses, and l06 to 170 on the salt they have to purchase.
 But 1t IS unnecessary 10 multiply instances of this enormous extortion upon the produ- cing and consuming classes, for the benefit of the manufacturers, through tie instrument talily of the present tariff. And what is the effect of this infamous system-inamous, with is piratical devices of the minimum and specific duties? Itis to transfer money from the pockets of the consuming classes to the pockets of the manufacturers. Its tend ency Is to impoverlsh the maay, and to en- rich the few. Its direct effect is to create immence fortunes for the recipients of its bounties; while it abstracts the substance from, and degeades, the masses of the people 1t establishes an aristocracv of wealth. Me ney brings with 1t political as we'll as mora power. The rich employers control theil dependents; they dictate their votes at the ballot-box; they control thejr bread, and ilas coerce their subservience; they weave abou them the web of memorable necessity, which makes them victims of a worse spstem q slavery than the inherited seryitude of the AZ rican. If the system which produces such sesulls is not itself subyerted, 1t requires no prophets eye to see that il will not be long in working radical change in our republican institutions, which will find their catastrophe in an orjstocracy oftjtles, ''nobic 5lood," ant a CROWNED HEAD!
 Ia my next shall endeavor to show the cost of protection to the people of this couN- try, and the immense which they pay under the tariff system of taxation, in revenue 10 thc government, and in bounties to the manulac- turers. BUNDELCU ND.