Democratic banner., 1845-09-20
THE BAN II.
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SATURDAY, SEPT. %, l345.
THE TARIFF.

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oil the heAt Congress, TO modify, if no
repea! the present ~iniquitons Tariff law
None would rejoice more heartily thar
ourselves, TO see o%verthrown the last re.
manning measure, we believe Of H.,
Wing Congress of 1912. We are fal
from wishing 70 see it repealed simpl,
because it Was 4 Wing measure, bu, be.
cause we look upon it as extremely un'
just and unequal, anl consequently dan.
gerous. Ard there certainly never was
aquestion as much mocled as this has
been before the public, which has been
less understood, we mean as 10 the po-
sIlion OF parties. Our opponents say
that they are in favor of a protective TAR.
If; a tariff not solely for revenue, but
for protection. Democrats in the South
are denominated free trade men; they
call themselves free trade men, and their
opponents taking advantage of The evil
dent %perversion Of terms here. boldly
proclaim them hostile To any tariff al all.
An examination into this subject will
show that this cry about Southern poll
tIcians being for no tariff, is all an error.
We venture the assertion that there are
not 4 dozen sane men in the whole State
Of South Carolina, who, under the pres
ent arrangement Of international law
will avow himself in favour Of Ere.
Trade and direct taxation. Although il
might be right SO far as abstract pripci-
pie goes; yet all know that il would
never do, under existing circumstances.
The correct position which the most ul-
ira occupy is, that we .heuld have a tar
III sufficient for revenue, and not for bro.
lection; and there may possibly he some
difference about the details of the tariff;
but their great leading object has been
TO battle necessarily against any thing
like protection. Believing as they do,
and knowing III fact from every days
experience that IFS operation upon the
different portions of the Union mus,
necessarily be unequal. We hear of
protection TO the manufacturer in every
eiecti9Ees:ing campaign, their distress
ing condition is dwelt upon with al the
pathos and feeling Imaginable; DO we
ever hear Of protection 10 the farmer?
Associated companies who can com
mand al a moments notice funds enough
10 purchase perhaps the mos, wealthy
county in this State, and who have a
round them hundreds of pale operatives,
who labour from the rising 10 the going
down OF the sun, for d mere pittance,
are The LOrdlings who first raise
the cry Of protection.
Protection to them that they may a.
mass immense wealth from the hard
earnings Of the poor. Protection that
they may exclude foreign competition en-
tirely, and force the accommodating
States 10 purchase their own merchan-
disc, however exorbitant the price
they may place upon il. The a
vowed object OF Mr.. Clly's American
system, is TO protect American manufac-
turers from foreign competition, and to
effect that purpose they would raise the
tariff so high as would amount in fact
to a prohibition 10 all imported goods.
Now we may well look 10 England
TO see the effect produced by this policy
on her part; she has tried the expert
ment fully. She commenced her system
Of policy by laying a tariff Of from 10
to 100 per cent. upon all manufactures
brought into the Kingdom. subsequently
she passed a statute making it penal for
any p~ersoniO be found with cloth, on
which had not been wove and spun with
in the Kingdom. The consequence Of
all this, was that the manufacturing in
terest became strong-all who could
crowd themselves into factories did So
population increased, and the farming
interest called loudly for protection a.
yainst foreign breadstuffs, which was i'm
ported in large quantities into the King
dom, Ihey then imposed a tariff Of more
han n hundred per cent. upon bread
and all the necessaries of life i'm
into Great Britain, and lis deplo-
able result is told by the fac, vuuched
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