Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-08-20
THE cLovEN FOOT EXHIBITED.

purportng TO be "luxuries," "articles OF general
USE" and miscellaneous" from the Washington
Union, and thus remarks:
1t is our business at this time to afford the con-
sumers of the country who make nnety-nine Out
Of every hundred of our people, an opportunity to
see whether they are not benefited more than the
manufacturers are injured by the new Tariff"
This is as much as to say" Consumers, behold
how the protection to domestic manufactures is re-
duced behold how much duty we have taken off
from foreign iron OF all sorts, foreign glass; foreign
gloves, foreign paper, foreign sugar, vinegar and
salt, foreign BROADCLOTHS, CASSIMERES,
COATlNGS AND PADDINGS, FLANNELS,
BOOKINGS AND BAlZES, (wool. growers, note
the Patriots table,) foreign manufactures of silk
and cotton, muslin de laines, pins, linseed oil, ca
bles and corduge, hemp, &C.. Behold these re-
dcctons--runous they may be to the manufacu.
rers, but consumers will get the foreign articles all
the cheaper" This is the doctrine of the British
Free Traders, the doctrine of the Slavocratic Brit.
ish organ at Washington the Vermont Pdiri-
oil endorses II.
We call upon the people 10 remember that the
Vermont Patriot has now thus openly become
British organ-thus openly an enemy to American
openly dE duVOCdle IOT lne III
portation of FOREIGN GOODS to supply the A.
merican people, instead Of goods manufactured by
american capital, skill and labor! 1t is thus the
advocate of Il false doctrine to boot, for it is not
true that reduction in the duty on foreign goods,
which can be produced here, will be beneficial to
the consumers. All experience proves the reverse
to be true. Fifty years ago, foreign cotton goods
thp ronsuu,or frorn ~, 40 which nnv
! can be had from American factories for one.ftth
that price. Fifty years ago, suit of broadcloth
was thing hardly thought Of except by few of
the richest OF feope but, under the protective
system, every body has worn that cloth, and gets
not only cheaper but far superior article. Man
ufacturcs Of iron STEEL glass, all have worked out
4 similar results To say that the consumers tax
ed for the benefit of the manufacturers by the pro-
tcctlve system, is TO give the lie to 10 the practical
experience vi The last half century. For fifty years
\ these taxes have been imposed, and 1t is certainly
Il time to learn how they have operated. We have
d yet seen the consumers the poorer for them
D 1t perfectly apparent to every man, that under
4 the protective system, The consumers-te people al
\ large-have become richer the Lighthouses have
given place larger, healthier, and more comfort
y able abodes; the slab table, the pine chests, the
pewter plates and spoons and the tin cup have ht
exchanged for better and more abundant furniture
for deprvatlons, there is Abundance; for poverty
there Is competence widespread; there is more
X comfort, more intelligence, more independence
3 more enterprise more of all the elements of ma
B tional strength, Astounding in the masses of thu
people -abounding among those consumers, who
if the British free traders to be believed, have
r been for fifty years grooming under the crushing
weight of protective duties But the Patrio
swallows this British Free-Trade doctrine, and II
hp N a La
dence we give its table of "arices in general US,
&c" copied fro the Union, designating the arti
4 cles produced at home by a star. Before do
inp this, let remark that this statement is prece
ded by table of turur;es, which is extremely par
tal and erroneous IN its character. For instance
4 but few wines are specified. On wines importe
TO the amount of 81, l60569, the new Tariff in
Il creases the duty actually paid under the Tariff Il
d AZ; tut, as with wool, the duty paid in some in
\ stances on wines has been far less than the dut
supposed. On wines imported to the amount U
u S3OS,4i7 the Wing Tariff imposed the highes
4 duty. On Installations from grain, from brandy an
I. from other materials, imported TO the amount o
81 l6l 040, the Wing Tariff imposed far the high
est dutv-but these mol admitted into the UNI
on's class of" uxures' Again: certain carpet
are specified as "luxuries" charged with an in
4 creased duty but examining we find that o
n these The imports amounted to only SSS OO0 Will
Brussels, Venetian and other ingram carpetngs ar
q omitted: the reader may guess why, when we in
4 form him that the imports exceed $4,000 per an
mum, and that the new Tariff dimnishes The duty /,
Still again: polished plate glass, % by IA inches
IS said to be charged higher by the new Tariff
This is untrue. On polished late glass IA b. 1
the duty IS increased, but the imports amounted I
only $64s. On all other polished piaie glass, i'm
q ported to the amount of S20,64 this bill reduce
The duty!! So much for the accuracy, fairness an
honesty of this table of Injuries, got up by Brit
& ish Free-Trader to gull honest Yankees. Now t
n the extract from the Patriot. 1t will be observe
y that all but ten of these articles can be produce
in this country, by American capital, skill and Ii
D Dor, and almost exclusively from American ra
& materials la order to show how the two Tariff
n will compare, we add columns showing the i'm
4 ports in 1915 under the act of 1912, aud what the
must be under the Tariff of 1916 to produce a
n equal amount of revenue. We have also note
sundry IN the Patriots table in parenthese