Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-10-30

The Farmer and his Salt.
Some of the most iniquitous features of protec-
tive tariff-so called by those whose purses 1t fills
are its unequal and unjust operations upon Sections
and classes. 1t is than agrarian in principle
for it aggrandizes the few rather than the many; il
adds to the riches Of the wealthy by subtractng from
the means of the poor and it erects into privileged
class few wealthy individuals TO whom 1t compels
all others to bow down and pay tribute.
The article of salt, illustrates this as well as any
that can be selected The tariff causes the farmer tO
pay 81 30 cents for quantity which without II
would cost him but In the United States there
about l4000,000 bushels of salt annually con-
sumed, about half of which is foreign. Of the
home product over one half is manufactured in New
York. The whole number of persons employed does
not amount 10 7,cc0. To these. twenty millions of
people are compelled by law to pay tribute of 40
per cent on all the salt they The following
tract will prove this
"By the completion Of the Canada works, Liverpool
salt be delivered along the lake border at astonishing
ly low prices being brought out ballast in lieu OF
freight and the Turks Island holds strong COMPETE
ton with the hest ksnswha at Cincinnati and along the
whole Ohio valley At st. Louis, Pekin, Alton and the
principal pork packing points the Mississippi we be-
Ieve the Bahama salt has the ascendancy Vessels trad
ing at the West Indies may obtain bushe Of salt at
Turks Island for FIVE CENTS. Five cents a bushel
is ordinary freight New York New Orleans, and four
cents bushel more will place in store at Cincinnati or
81. Louis by steamers"
Let not Une WING reader QenOu0Ce tne dDONe as
ocofoco le,' for we have copied it from of the
most rabid high tariff papets-the Bgfeio CONNER
cial AdrertSerfor the double purpose OF proving our
position by wing authority, and of disprovlng the
many contrary assertions with which the wing press
teemed previous to the late election.
A few additional facts and reflections cannot fail
to convince farmers of the injustice of
these oppressive salt duties and of the exactng dis
position Of eastern capitalists IL appears then, that
the best foreign salt can be delivered Cincinnati
St Louis free of duty, for IA cents 20 cents BAR
rel. When the Canada works, now nearly cOmplet-
ed, shall De finished vessels of 800 tons burthen can
leave London, Liverpool any other port with their
cargoes and, without breaking bulk, touch Chlca-
CO. ST. Joseph any other lake port and unlade their
goods. When this is the case, salt may be purchas-
ed on the Lake border as low at Cincinnati-TU
cents barrel free of duty, 81 10 cents duty IN
cluded But then the farmers taskmasers, the salt
manufacturers will petition Congress to deprive him
of this advantage by raising the duties. OF what
value are western rights compared with the demands
of New York capitalists Must they not, hereto
fore, succumb And When this is attempted, will
not the proud and mighty West IF under ohtg rule,
humbly their eastern overseers, and say In the
language of the ass TO Balaam-'Am not thine ass
upon whom thou hast ridden all the days Of thy lfe
pay on, master
But the New York salt boilers are not satisfied
with tax of 100 per the salt of the western
farmer, and to monopolse the trade of the lake
gon, they impose such heavy tolls upon the carriage
of foreign salt over her canal altogether to exclude
it from western consumption. This is virtually a
tariff upon the West laid by a sister State. In con
sequence of these accumulated evils, the western
farmer is shut out in great from competing
with the eastern farmer in the sale of beef and pork
1t gives the latter an advantage over the former Of
dollar on every bbl The United States buy vast
quantity of beef and pork for the Army and Navy
but the law is that it must be cured with St Ube:
Turks Island" salt. Farmers in the Lake country
are by law prevented getting this, and thus the Go
vernment market is monopolized by eastern men.
New York and homemade salt is poor that i
does not cure meat sufficiently well for sea-voyag
or long keeping Its quality is so inferior that heavy
losses are often made shipments to New Orleans
and New York, from souring on the passage. VIVA
does not sour must be repacked at expense of ont
dollar bbl which reduces the value to the producer
Western butter, in part from the same cause, sell
for but little more than grease in N. Y.
Indiana consumes seven hundred thousand bushel
of salt, on which she pays tax of fftyslx THOUSAND
dollars. Her loss by sourage, repacking and dmin
ished value of butter &c. is certainly much more
making an aggregate of more than hundred thou
sand dollars Of tribute money ched out of the har
earnings of this State to fatten the dividends of tn
salt manufacturers. European nations admit salt du
ty free. We tax it $50 per cent, which come
mostly from the pockets of the aboring classes. o.
the two articles of salt and sugar pay enough an
nualy TO liquidate the interest on State debt.
Now that the facilities are soon to be Offered b
cheap route through Canada of obtaining both at hal
their present price, will not the great of farmer
go with the Democratic party to make salt free, an
{ tax mere duty of 20 per cent sugar instead G
100 as now levied !-TOcSin