Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1845-08-08

Wool, per ct. Woollens, ~ TO oO per CT
Raw silks, SO cts. per ID Manuactd, S% oO per CT.
Brass, crudc-free. Manufactured brass, ~
per ct.-in kettles, IL
cts. per ID.
Hemp, 80 to 80 per Ct Ship cordage, 100 to 100
pei ct. Cotton bagglng,
SO to 80 per ct.
Cotton, IS to SO per Ct. Cotton cloths, 80 to 100
per ct.
Flax, to per ct. Flax manufactured, % to
Wood, rough, 20 per ct. Wood manufactured, 80
or free. per ct.
Upon this, the writer, who handles the subject
with great ability, remarks: "This table might be
carried on much further, but time and space Will
not permit. Three of the above articles, to wit
hides hemp, and cheap wool, imported by the man.
ufacturers, amount to above 100000, paying a
duty of about 5000 900; while an equal amount of
cheap cotton cloths, imported by the farmer, would
pay a duty of more than S2,OOO,O0O! or more than
ten times as much.
II will now give you a few articles which will
show you the injustice of this tariff in its true light
The following articles, used by the manufactures,
come in under this tariff free of duty models of
machinery; berries and nuts, used in dyeng; vege-
tables used in dyeing; all dye-woeds in sticks used
in dyeing; barilla and Brazil wood; burr stones,
unwrought; cochineal; madden; sumach, &c. And
the following articles, used by the farmers and Ia
borers, are taxed as follows cotton cloths, 80 to
100 per CT; handkerchief, 1872 per Ct; cotton gun
ny, 100 per Ct; clothing, ready-made, SO per Ct
glass; 1876 to 243 per ct pig iron, 45 to IL per ct
lead, LAG per Ct; moasses, 5 per CT; pepper $50
per Ct. SALT 80 to IA per ct. brown sugar, II
per Ct; anvs, 70 per Ct; bright trace-chains la
per Ct; log-chains, l6Osper CT; &c. l wish had
1hor0 ~ h0cn IL
cles, and show the difference male between the
rich and the poor"
With regard to that portion of the iniquitous
tariff which, under the guise Of minimum duties,
perpetrates gross fraud upon the people of this
country, we avail ourselves of the remarks coming
from an agliculturist, conveying our own we'll
known opinions on this matter more forclbly than
we can state them ourselves.
One clause of the tariff say that all cotton cloths
that are not of the value Of 20 cents per square
yard shall be valued at 20 cents, and duty If 80
per ct. laid on this twenty. All those Of 80 Cts
and over shall be taxed 80 per ct. on the price,
Calicoes are to be rated at 80 cts instead Of 20,
and fairfield in the same manner. This is called
a minimum duty. It should be called defroud-
ing duty. 1t abstracts FROM the pockets of the
people their hard earnings, and yet keeps them In
ignorance as to the real amount, as well to the
manner in which it is done. At first sight, you
may probably not see the snare so artfuly laid by
designing politicians; but examine it little, and
light will break upon you. You see that there
six cts. tariff on the square yard of all cotton
cloths of twenty cts and under per yard the tar
if is equal ON the gard, but most unequal in vaLue.
Cotton cloths can be bong hit in the European mar
kets as low as two cents per yard. Well, If this
article were imported, it would have to pay du-
ty of 800 per ct that at three Cts 200 per ct that
at four cts SO per ct that at five cts 100 per CT;
that at six cts, 100 per Ct; that at eight Cts, rs
per Ct; that at ten cts, 50 per Ct; that at fifteen
cts, 40 per Ct; while that at twenty cts. and up
wards, would pay only 80 per Ct! Caicoes and
silks are fairfield on the same principles. Now,
who buys the fine, and who the coarse articles :?
Those ,Uho are ,oe1khy. and able to pay, buy the
fine articles aohilst those ,Uho poor haze to buy
the coarse Here it is, then. The wealthy have
to pay duty of 80 per ct. on what they buy,
while the poor have to pay duty ranging from
20 to 800 per ct.
1t is acknowledged on all sides that the manu-
featuring interest is in very dourishing condi-
ton, and the agriculturists barely enabled to
support their families by unremitted toll Neither
class, we maintain, is entitled to protection, in
the tariff sense of the word; get what can be more
grossly unjust than the protection of that interest
which thrives BY tax on that portion of the pop
ulation which is starving!
> ave find (says the authority from whom we
quote) by the cencus of 1910, that there are in
the United States l65,O32 persons engaged i'll
manufacturing the articles protected or favored by
the present tariff with capital of Sl97.2OO, 3O4
producing manufactures to the value of 1924, 643
l76 per annum; giving tho average product 81
. each hand $685., and being a profit Of Sis on
every 500 of capital invested. We also find, by
the same source, that there are 3,7l7,55 persons
engaged in agriculture or farming. with capita
of ST. 100000 (Mr. Woodbury. estimates it a
$4,000, 000-see his speech, February and 1874
producing profit 20 each hand of S2l3, and
= profit of S62 on every 500 of capital invested
With these facts before us, it not too much fo
patience herself to endure, to hear these manufac
turers still calling out for protection But, pray
protect them from what From foreign enemy
No. From robbers and plunderers! No. VIVA
t then! From the farmers having the privilege o
: buying cheap. This is the protection for which
they are calling SO loudly. Will you, the farmer
of the country, permit their call TO be favorabl,
answered? Shall political names SO sway YOU
as to make you forget your own interests and thos
p of your country! God forbid!
"But let us take another view of this tariff
The average duty on protected articles is 80, pro
: badly 40 per ct. We import of these to the valu
o of about $4,000, 900, giving some $40 900, 900
revenue into our treasury. Our manufacturers pro
duce of similar articles about the worth of S240
OO0, 900. Now it is evident that the 80 Der G.
u laid on our imports enables the manufacturers t
raise the price of their articles just 80 per CT like
|. wise. Thirty per ct. on $4,000, 900 will jui
make S72000.000 that the manufacturers max
by this tariff They have to make it out of som
class, and who but the farmers pay it This tai
f it, then, takes S72, 600, OOG per annum from th
il class whose average labor is worth only S2l3 ps
;, annum, and gives it to that class whose ayerae
u labor is worth $685. 1t takes $72 900, 900 frol
the class whose pro6s on capital is only So per Ell