The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-11-19
The Tariff.

of the present Tariff The failure of the Euro
pean crops and the consequent advance in the
price 6f American agricultural products has con-
tinced numbers of the fallacy fthe "Homel
Market" project. At no time since the fornationj
of our government has so favorable an opportu-.
nifty for carrying out the views OF the Democrat.
ic party on the subject of the Tariff presented
ITSELF An entire revolution in Europe in rela
ton TO import duties has taken place, and En-
gIish statesmen openly avOw the intention of mo-
difying the duty on imports down TO standard
that will give revenue sufficient to meet the cur
rent demands of government, with dlscrimlna-
ting duties for protection nearly the same prin-
cipEe contended for by American democrats -
They have tried the protective principle till eve
ry fifth person in England is beggar, and eve
ry three in FIVE are reduced 10 a condition worse
than the mdch-pited southern negro slave, and
now they have changed their policy. Owing toI
The extreme length to which they have carried the
protective principle this will have TO be slow and
gradual, but it will be eventually,
Now then is the time for liberal policy on
the part Of our government The true policy of
our country is agricultural, and the larger the
quantity of agricultural products we are enabled
to export 10 foreign markets the more general
and extended will be the benefits derived. The
ssHome Market cannot begin to compete with
the Foreign Market.
The Democrats have made revenue Tariff q
cardinal feature in their policy, and under this
principle we succeeded in electing James X.
Polk last year, and now we have as large ma
iority in both branches of Congress as we could
wish. This principle must be carried out now,
if ever. The people place unlimited confidence
in the President and his Cabinet, but difficulty is
apprehended from members whose constituents
are deeply engaged in manufactures, which the
present Black Tariff has built up But justice
must be done, and those who oppose it will be
crushed by its weight. If they cannot live with
out taxing their neighbors for support they must
90 down. There will be considerable distress at
first i'll the manufacturing districts, but I'VE musl
lave the nerve TO meet it--theTe must be no
evasion. Every days delay will but add 10 the
misery. Besides ii Unnecessary that the manu-
facturers who are rushing headlong into the bu-
siness under the impression that the present Tar
iff will be permanent, should know the tlcklish
ground on which they stand. They should know
that The people never will submit 10 such onerous
taxes for their benefit,
The Democratic policy must be established per.
manenlIy now. 1t is what we have been strenu
ously contending for, what all true hearted demo
Gratis confidently expect, and they will be salts
fed with nothing less.
A Pennsylvania paper, in an article on the in
erests of that State, says that there has been es
tablished "since the passage of the Tariff Act ii
1912, thirty-two anthracite iron furnaces in Penn
sylvana, some of them making from 1000 to 4,
500 tons of iron annually. These furnaces woult
not have been erected unless the Tariff had bee
PASSED, and cannot be kept in operation withou
it," and that these furnaces give employ 10 "a
least $500 aborers. One OF these furnaces
erected in Harrisburg, and pays $4,000 toll /
naces, says the paper, would pay the whole lnte
ast on our state debt, or 81 O,OO0," e. "we'
make the other portions OF the Union pay US 5
per cent. more for our iron than it is worth, an
then our manufacturers will grow rich and ar
tocratic, improve their machinery and oppre:
their operatives, and we will be able 10 pay OF
state debt of $40,OOO,oOO without any trouble
Pennsylvania IS good old democratic state, al
has never detected but once from the true LIN
of democratic principles, and she has the goc
wishes of the democracy of the whole UnIo
but still we cannot consent 10 pay her debts /
her.
A very able writer in the Washington Unio
over the signature of "Bundlecund," is shown
up the beauties Of the present Tariff Amo
other absurdties, there is duty laid on cotto
wheat, rye, OATS, corn, potatoes, and other ag
cultural products. These are appropriately ter
ed "hunI6ag' dutles,'' for every body knows Il
we supply the world with cotton, and exp
largely of all the others. Nonalion on the ia
Of The earth can compete with ns in the prodt
tionof these, but this was thrown in TO catch
eye Of The ignorant, and reconcile them to
6nerous exactions Of the Tariff calculate
is made of the amount contributed to the mi
ufaclurers by the other citizens of the Union,
the shapeof protection, which shows that in or
to get $l3,S90,0S7 revenue into the Treasu
they are compelled 10 pay 800, ,l77,3Sl-m
thaa "FlFTY-FlyE MILLIONS of which
mainly In the form Of Bounty, into the pocket