The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-20
THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF!

Such articles as the following are calculated to
show the true character of the present tariff. In
the same proportion it is protective to the manu-
facturer it must be oppressive upon the rest of the
community. The former must derive his high profits
from the pockets ofthe consumers. The whole sys-
tenn is at war with that equalization Of benefits and
of burdens, which ought to be Of the great cha
racterstics Of our free, equal, federal institutions
We must ask the favor of our brethren Of the
press to publish, in conspicuous part Of their
columns, such facts, like the following, as demon
strate the rate of the dividends and still further,
to call our attention to those several articles, as they
respectively appear in their papers:
"rwo or three of the Lowell companies which made
good dividends last year. earned them altogether by
featuring for foreign markets where their products came in
direct competition with the cheap fabrics ofEngand."
[Nep York Tribune .aug IA.
Then they certainly do require protective tariff to
sustain them against competition with the foreign manu-
acturer al home il they him abroad
Boston Morning Post, Aug. Ie.
at the possibility OF between the United States and
Mexico account Of the injury IL will be to shipping
interest Does concern Of this kind enter their minds
when they advocate prohibitory tariff
The Suffolk and fremont manufacturing corporations
Ibid
"srsu..sNuAL piv,prSps--The York. Mcthuen and Ded-
ham manu- companies have each declared semi
annual dividend of 10 cent? and the Norfolk Msnuiac-
turing Company ditto Of ~ per cent "-Bcsfon Post
This is 25 per per annum profits; and how
much is reserved nobody knows Do manufactures need
exclusive protection People beginning seriously to ask
| this question. and il is time that they should.
We have no hostility towards manufactures The great
profits they make the better; for is
scrbed from entering that business But object to
the many being GENEROUSLY taxed TO help swell those profits
60 into the pockets Of few There must he more equal
ity. Yes, is the word The farmer must not much
longer be tramped in the DUST work the hardest OF
class and fare the poorest Strange, that with the in
his hands, he III not II for his elevation. Wake
up-Reene tN ny Republican, .9pg. Ia
We extract the following structures, equally pun
gent and just, from the St. Adams (Vt) Re
publican" of the 18th inst
! THr VINO PROTECTIVE srsrrN.-The whole policy Of
the wings half century has been to extend the priv
leges Of the wealthy and abrdge those Of the poorto
row the field employ thus deprive labor Of ito
lust demand But the injustice which the manufacturing
have been allowed practise under the present
tariff law towards the lsborers Is awakng them true
sense of their condition. and the deep and dsmning inus
tce that practsed upon their easy creduly
The darkness which overhadows their prospects IL made
y,s;be Inv the daw light fair trial been gver
10 protective that TO bring upon every class
alike xampIed prosperity What has been the result
Precisely might have been expected from its unequal
nd precisely what oreold by thoss
.bo amapded that il should foster interest at the
exrense OF another-that Il should place ALL UPON AN
| EQUALITY. :.
There Is no class in the community who feel more di
rectly the evils Of the whg protective system than th'
farmers Through It's woodworking power they wer'