The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-09-02
PRICES AND DUTIES.


Whenever our contemporary Of the Tribune
is driven in a corner by the argument of its
opponent, and as Hal" asked of ancient
Jack, the public inquire, "what quip will
avail thee now?" it throws out an appeal like
the following:
E" The Post has several times paraded its
tables of enormous duties imposed on GER
tain manufactures by our Tariff, yet never
once responded to our civil request that il
would state hon much dedrer generally and
severally, those articles now are on achich d"-
ties of Is to $50 per. cent are no'D charged
than they acere in July, 1925, 'rhen the duty
on them was but 20 per cent! Why wont
the Post consult its Price Currents and ans
wer us this question?
Now perhaps it never occurred to our con-
temporary that Price Currents can DE consult
ed. If it had done so itself previously it
would have found result as follows:
rs Da,ss sss; ls4a q ysis' .Si s is45 !, 5;s *
Scotch pis ......45 % OO"95 90 SO 5OaS5 90 10 90
su;ar, CuHn, BIo.9S s5a so S9o 5oa 90 Ss1
sn sTs e ,s, Sa co., 900 GOA GOA Is 90
Coal, New astIe, chal. .65 OOas so OOalO 90 OO
Coffee Brazil, bl......free IA 6}a
Here is large increase in price on every
article except the single one Of coffee, which
is free of duty, and that has declined. As
far as the Price Currents give the prices OF
dutiable articles, the same result is manifest.
This is the result of the Tribuae's appeal to
the tariff; but it will answer Immediately,
all prices have advanced, and they are no
cheaper than you could buy them without
the tariff" We will pin this in anticipation,
by taking the latest foreign Price Currents,
and comparing the prices at home and abroad
at the same time, as follows:
Price in London Price in N
PIG Iron, ton....e5 '5' S25 50 50 SS 10 s35 o(
g! par, flo s. 80 % 90 70 OF
HempRussia ce'n29O l39 90 40 90 200 o.
Shrt'gs36 in pi'ce 86l 90 lO0yds. II o.
Sur, H. B. aroba rls 9 90 lO0ars. 80 O'
The sugar price was that of Havana l2tt
inst. being s reals per aroba, or equal to ~
25 per lOJlbs, on board. The other prices
are from Baring's Circular of July Sd, excep
the Shifting, which is from a Manchese
Crcular-being IS. 7!d. for piece of 81
yards. The result is that one ton each, Pig
and Bar iron, one ton Hemp, 100 yards Shirt
ing and 100 lbs. Sugar could, at the --latest
dates, be bought abroad for $2l0 40; anc
the lowest for which the same articles car
now be bought in New-York is $326-1n ad
vance of $ll5 81, or 60 per cent. This is
the g Protection enjoyed by the producers
of those articles here, and as the Post justly
asks, =" Protection against whom? Against
what?" Why, against the naljenable rlgh'
of the consumers of those articles to buy
where they can do so to the best advantage
There is no quibbling about terms or date:
in this matter. The prices in New-Yorb
have advanced under the duty to the extent
of that duty. and are now higher in New-York
than in foreign countries, by the amount o.
those duties with the expenses OF transport
added, and the prices always rise here pre-
cisely as they advance abroad, keeping al
ways higher by the amount of the duties
Our contemporary will find the stern facts
laid down in price currents, most potent
enemy to wire-drawn superficial theories.
THE BRANCH M1NT.--Orders have been
sent to the Custom House and to the Post
office, in New Orleans, to send all the for
eign coins received by them to the br anch
Mint, to be recoined into American pieces
the gold into half and quarter eagles, ane
the silver into quarter dollars-whenever
may be done without loss. The importation
of specie at that point chiefly consists o
Mexican dollars, on which, when recoined
there is light gain, especially on the cein
ace of Durango. The mint of Zacateca'