Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1845-10-11

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In our last We ssid we wo11 s1anins
be sssiaF X " and give ;ons Of our OBJ /
lections toh. III i'll /,
W. are oppssed 10 hat tariff because
The Of ject and spirit Of it il not expressly
for the purpose Of raising revenue to de-
fray the expenses Of the gevernment.-
Protection is It's primary object, and reve-
nue. the secondary. The principle, too, on
which that protection is based, is the .
grossssk fraud that was ever pracsiced On !
the American people BY any Legislative
body. i purports 70 lay duty Of thirty /,
per cent. on all nanufactures ofcottun not j
dyed; and yet BY . system Of puluatior,
which they have adop,sd, they make the
poor man pay for the coarsest articles one
hundred and fifty per cent. while the rich
man who uses the finest article pays only
thirty per cent The system is this: All
cotton cloths not dyed and Of less value
than twenty eents yard, shall be valued
at twenty cents yard. The man then
who oayes cloth which originally cost only
fcnf or Eve cents "a yard, has 6rst to have
It called worth t'ce,,fy cents, four OF FIVE
times its value, in order that he may paw
as much duty on that cloth as the aristo,
crat does who gets his shirt of Of the cloth
worth twenty cents yard. Calicoes or
dyed manufactures, stand on the, same
principle, only rorse. Calicoes rangs in
price, in England, from three cents yard
up to thirty, and from that up, and yetsby
this tariff, all these calicoes have to be VAL,
ued at thirty ceuts yard, making the poor
man pay duty Of one dollar and sirty-t,oo
cents, while the rich man who buyes the
calico worth thirty cents, pays only thirty
cents duty. % Z e
Woollen manufactures are so valued as
to cheat the poor. Flannels, bookings and
baize, are all valued at the same price.
They are all, good and bad, valued at four
teen cents yard. So, too, with carpet
ing. The poor man has to pay as much
duty on square yard Of Competing, which
costs fifty cents a yard, as the rich man
does on a yard which cost three dollars and
fifty cents. The duty on wool, too, is a
complete hoax on the farmer. He is told
that he is protected by duty Of thirty
per cent, and. SO he Is, on wool which is
SO fine and valuable that it Is not profit
able business to grow or manufacture it
here. 1t was this kind Of wool that the
wool-growsrs Of Pennsylvania exported
last season. The real fact is this: all wool
which does not cost in a foreign country
over seren eessts pound pays . duty Of
only .tsre per cent. There are millions Of
wild sheep in South America, and the
wool Of them is picked up, coarse and fine
together, mixed with dirt. This wool is
sold there for seven cents or less. When
It gets to this country, in that state, it is
worth more than twice that sum. This
wool is sorted and cleansed, and the finest
is used for the same purpose that the wool
Of our wool-growers is, and the coarse is
made into fannels, bookings. baize, Sc.
Here, too, we can see SIN sticking out Of
this tariff. The wool which the nabobs want
to manufacture, and which they could pur-
chase Of our ,cool growers, pays duty
Of only flee per cent, but on the articles
which they manufacture from this foreign
wool, there is duty Of forty per cent. for
the rich man, and one hundred for the poor
man to pay.
Silk is another thing worthy Of notice.
The duty on silk is So SO per Id. now why
is this, but 10 discriminate in favor Of the
rich aristocrat? Surprising that q yard Of
rich silk will weigh as much as yard of
coarse rough silk, which most Of our read
ers Wiu doubt. Now why should our girls,
who york for their clothes, pay asmuch
duty on coarse cheap silk dress a. rich
mans wife does for her fifty dollar dress?
and why should she pay as much duty for
her five dollar shawl as the wealthy and
extravgant lady does for her RAN fred dol
lar shawl which weighs no more? The
democratic doctrine is, that every article
shall pay according to its real value. This
P or man taring tariff has properly been
designated the "dlaek tariff Of 49," We
might go on and enumerate, as this tariff
is black with inlamy Of this kind through
out, but we rest here for the present.
| The Reddings, father and son, who
were arrested in Lee county last week,
lclarged with being concerned in the muir