Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-09-22
Baty on Iron.

DUTY VA iFUH.
The sympathy of sarifTmen all over
country fol. the sufTerings of Pennsylvania
Under the new tariff act has been nnplor.
ingly appealed to in the Philadelphia S2ir.
itofihe Times--one ofthose papers which
proclsims that il is democracy for the
government to regulate the private purz
suits ofmen, and exercise the powers uf
iaxation, to make loosing business prof
liable to few fayorites al the cest OF les-
cry body else. Here is his complaint
briefly summed up: sz=zsss
"lhe duty unon a ton of iron under the
new bill wiIlnot, on the Average, exceed
eleven dollars. Iron can be landed on
Our ielsarres fer from Jftfeeaf0 tueaEg.Jfec
dollars per ton cheaper than 1T can be
Dadnuf dclured ttt ouraBeareSt mills and
brought here. This we know, and so
knowing, we have but little hope that Gus
manufacturers can continues Operations
for any leagth Of time .j5s1
The Iron duty in the bill is thirty per
cent. The statement assumes that it is !
about elereH dollars per ton;l aud the de-.
mand is that fifteen 10 twenty-five dollars
more per ton are necessary in the folnl Of
protection TO make the prices of foreign
and domestic article equal to the consufn
er. II follows that from twenty.six To-
thirty-six dollars, besides all the costs and
charges ofimportation, are necessary to-
Protecttbe Iroa manufacturers. l1
A dollar less would not allow of fmpor.
tation at all, AID there would be conse.-
quently no reuenuc collected. From
twenty-six to thirty. six dollars ton, as a
naked tax, without regard to reyenue, are
therefore, demanded for the support of, the
Iron manufacturer. If the thirty per cent
duty amounts, as stated TO eleven dollars
per ton, the duty on the same articles
would amount, at $40 per ton, to about
20 per cent; and at $36 ton, to about
100 per cent. Thus, every ION of iron
produced in Pennsylvania would cost the
consumer, in an increased price, from 10
to 100 per cent, under protective tariff,
such as the Pennsylvanians demand, be.
fore the government receives a dollar from
the imposition, which it has no power to
make except for ''reyenue." The tariff
of 1912 imposed various rates upon iron,
ranging from sc to l50 per cent.-the /
average being far above the rate demand
ed; of course, it was fayorite with the
producers of iron, for the very reasons
which oughtto setevery bodyeIse against
it-viz: that it levied enormous burdens
on everybody else fortho protection OF
iron i4sa 80 H
What these burdens are, exactly, is u
complicated question. But some idea may
be formed from the figures Of this writer
himself The annual product OF Penn<yl.
vania iron is said to be about 10000
tons, all Of which is sold at a profit. The
Times tells US that this cannot be prodtl.
ced for less than $l5 10 $25 per ton above
the cost ofthe imported article, which has
paid 81 per ton dirty, and paid other
heavy expenses. Setting aside these
and charges, for the case is strong eaoagh
without them, it is avowed that not ton
of this iron can be made AMI sold ue.ess
it brings from 90 dollars to 33 dollars
per ton more the imported article would
sell il in free market. The enhance
nsnt of price demanded, and heretofore
obtained on the product of Pennsylvania
iron, in consequence Of the taft, is ihere.
fore, at the minimum upon the fgares OF
their own advocates, % dollars to IS
dollars on every ton Of three hal lre1
thousand toas, or from $ 7,S10,ooo TO TO-
8 O,0oJ-ayerging $9,3gJ,00j per an
nun. II cannot be less than this--and
1t Is as much more, as the amo'int of in
ciden:al protection arising from The ex-
pense ofimportation, and all the further
increase of price which the iron men
obtain by the raising Of the duty beyond
the amounts stated to be necessary in
order TO make the two articles of eqaal
yalus in the market.