Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-08-19

ruin of the American laborer, and who are
IN favor of reducing duties on the highest
luxuries of human life.
And now | say that when this bill he
passed, there will be no need of writinp on
the body of it whether it is democratic or
an aristocratic bill. When laboring man
sees that the duty on the raw material
which forms the staple of his work is rails.
ed, while that on silks, on spices, on pre-
served fruits, on rich carpets, and on rich
cute glass is lowered, he will not ask any
man to give the bill its name--its name is
on its face. 1t is an aristocratic bill, and
every item in it correspondents to that
general character"
Mr.. McDufie, always ready, met these
assertions of the attorney of the manufac-
turers, with the following brief but over
whelming reply:
"The Senator from Massachusetts, in
characterising this is as an aristocretic
bill, imposed on Mr. Med. the duty of saw
ing few words before the question should
be taken, that he might disabuse the pub
lie mind of any such impression. The
Senator had asked with great confidence
and surely with the expectation of not be,
ing replied TO, where was the democratic
feature in this bill? Where was the pro.
vision for the laboring classes He had
selected few articles of luxury on which
the duties were reduced, leaving it to be
inferred that these were the principal re-
auctions in the bill.
81 will lell the Senator what are the de.
mocratic features of the bill. In the first
place it has reduced the duty on salt from
3 cents TO cents a bushel. 1t has redu-
ced the duty on sugar from 81 cents to
cent per Id. On all the consumers of cali
Goes, plain or printed, species of goods
used by all farmers, and mechanics, and
labOrers, God knows how much. | be-
Ileve that on all the articles consumed by
the poor and by the middle classes the re-
duciion is greater than on all other articles
IN the bill. The simple repeal of mini
NUNS on coarse cottons "a sort of tax
never known till the tariff of 1916 either
in this or any other country will alone
enable the people of the u. States 10 con-
sumo an increased importation to the value
of S1O,O00,O00, at prices at not more
than two-thirds of what they now pay.
"What is the great reduction in this bill
which it is thought is to prove so injurious
to the country? Ii is the protecting duties
on manufacturers made in large establish.
ments by the power of machinery owned
by heavy capitalists, who are realizing
from 30 to 30 per cent. profit. The re.
peal of these duties will operate to reduce
the profits of these men to or 10 per CT.
do not myself believe that the money
price of labor will be reduced one-half as
much as the price of the commodities used
by the laborers; and, therefore, that the
practical effect of this bill will be most ia.
vorable to the great mass of our laborer<
and to nineteen twentieths of all the PEG.
pie of the U. States. The laborers in
their factories will get, on the whole, more
for their labor than they now do"
We might leave Mr.. Webster with his
"staked reputation" here, but to show the
utter worthessness of his assertions, end
to put the country on its guard, and our
readers in possession of arguments to meet
the war which has been declared agains
this great Democratic measure, we inser
the following comparative table of duties
under the two acts, taken from the Unior
of the 2Sth instant. Old Dominion.