Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-07-13
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Mr.. IVhdytoR:-B agby of Alabama said i'm
the Senate on the 9th instant. speaking OF the
ball to repeal the whig protective tariff oi
1872, that he should vote Tor the bill mot be-
cause he understood its details, but because
he understood the great principle involved
an it--Damely reduction ol tdratiou Now
u Bs2by means To say that this bill will enable
us To buy our goods cheaper, especial; co,,ons
and woolens aud other protected ariicles.we say
ne - not only ignorant of the details of the
ohl, o"' OF iis practical operation. This as
scTuoh IS mere clap trap and unworthy of a
Senator-high time such ignorance Nas l,f,
at home. The Southern enemies of pro,er-
ion are always Roasting of their talents and
aud wisdom. They have talents we admit.
Out VI lhey mean they have more than any 9th
~ paris OF the country, we DENY it, They are
quite strong al mere paper argument but
| Try them blythe test OF sound sense or cxnc-
nence, and they are utterly at fault 10 hear
them ,s'k one would suppose ,eiSdOm irM die
wsth thtss, and that II they were suddenly cut
on 'ne world would instantly relapse into
thick darkness. But to return to MIR. Raeby' :
statement that IL il bill .sto reduce faqeg.
lie must moau that this bill will cause us less
taxes IN the aggregate, or less to the people
individually or both. That il will not eivc
less in The aggregate is clear. or else it, or
| lSlnators are Tools or knaves; for my Lord
| Walker SeCTetery OF the Treasury. and M'Ksy
oil North Carolina, its great patron in the
Lower House Vi Congress. avowcd that one
oil It's great purposes is 10 increase the amount
OF the revenue; that owing TO the Mexican war
an increase OF revenue is necessary. Then
VIII IL give us less taxes indiVidually2 ltis
hard TO conceive, how it can do "a. if the a
mount oi revenue is increased But will lor
charitys sake suppose that he meant that the
people VIII, under this act, paw less for their
goods ihan under the operation of the Whiu
tarin OF $50. For example. that under the
operation OF this law, the people annually ex
pend tor goods, Tor necessaries il YOU please
II VIII DC less than under thai OF the act OF SIP
Now say, will concede that this is what he
meant. is his allegation then. taking him in
tins sense, true as a waiter Of fuct7 For il is
aquestion, mainly OF fact at least. and to no
tired and tested by the past or the future.
According to the past II is certainly true that
those foreign goods upon which duties were
levied Tor protection, have uniformly under
ats operation become cheaper. As TO the IN
ture all that can be said is to draw our info
FENCES from the past, or positively assert what
viii be the practical effect.
And as MIR. Senator Bagby has contented
himself with giving us his mere ipse dixit-
ms mere .assertion-though | am neither
senator nor the son o. a senator will Ventur,
Southern loco foco tariff, (if il becomes a la,y)
goods or necessaries-as common cotton and
wooden goods-will not be cheapencd or re-
duced in price as much as they were under
'he operation OF the peoples good tariff bill
oil le42. And were il not true that the bill
Is to some extent protoctiU, ia lis charactcy.
made so to ensure it friends enough To pass
it-end 50 made, though its avowed aud prom.
lnent anu leading friends are in principle free
traders opposed 10 all tariff even Tor revenue.
say were II not trus, that the bill is. i'm snite
OF as leading friends aud in spite of The enc. /
mies oi tree labour (tor disguisei il as we may
Tins IS really southern mcasure) bin thai
VIII to some extent afford protection would .
venture the asserlion-ayc aud money too
upon ne asscriion-tha, goods, aud especial
ly woollen and cotton goods of common
use oS Coin"o" reople would actually IN ,
crease IN ptice--and | Will venture the further ,
assertion, that so far as the bin may have The
effect increase the importation ol goods now
made at home neither taxes nor prices will be
reduced, but rather Increased
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