New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-27
MIR. Secretary Walker on Taxation for the BEN
eft OF Manufacturers.

II il related of an eminent advocate that he was
once holding forth to jury in calculation OF the
wrongs endured by my client, the plaintiff IN this
case when that client after listening for time III
rapt attention to the glowing periods OF his lawyer
ut length burst forth in irrepressibic tears and
wailings. which fairly nstonished the Court and
auditors What is the matter, man! said the
.,ern Judge to the chap who had his pumps going.
why do you bubber and take on at this rate. =
why" replied the anguishstricken wccper, as
noon as his suffusons would suffer him to be audi
ble II nercr had any idca ho~ 6adly had been
treated till Ihea,d thts speech. Very like this, we
doubt not must be the amazement and constcrna'
ton Of the good People Of this Country when they
learn from Report just submitted to Congress by
the Hon Secretary of the Treasury. purporting to
show that they have been paying Ntnetyio"r VA"
lions of Dollars indirect tax-not into the Treasury
of the United States, but to certain OF their own
number-under the operation Of the Tariff OF lei2!
Even this startling aggregate II Mr. Walkers
principles are at all sound is not half high enough
We must have been swindling each other at the
rate of at least Five Hundred Millions per amum
by means Of this abominable Wing Tariff For
Mr. Walker had asserted in his Annual Report that
Protected classes by reason of the Tariff The Sen
ate very wisely asked him for estimate OF the
amount. Whereupon Sir Robert proceeds to make
out a list with estimate OF the quantity OF GER
tain articles produced in the United States then to
state what the duty on these articles would have
been il imported; then TO calculate that all these
articles cost the the fail amoant Of the
duty moro than they @ouid hare cost j there had
6cen no Tariff and the thing is done. For IN
stance the duty ON every yard OF Calico imported
is nine cents the square yard or about : cents the
average running yard You can buy Just as much
American Calico YOU can shake stick ut io'
four to IRE cents yard. Every yard OF this nc
cording to Mr. Walkers first estimate, costs The
consumer seven cents more than 1t would II there
wcrc no Tariff that we have only to take OF the
duty and get as much Calico rs we want for moth
ING and two or three in cash besides for every
ward we choose TO take Who that believes this
can help being Free Trader In this way, Mr..
Walker makes out an enhancement OF price to our
consumers on sixteen articles of one Hundfsd and
Ntneteea Millions per snnunl.
But this calculation. Mr. Walker is aware is
really too gross. rather easily rctuted al
though he rested broadly on this basis in his Annual
Report he now iavors US with another column IN
his table, purportins to set forth the actual Enhsnc
ed price ocoasoned by the duty, amounting To onlv
s7s7sA40S, to which add the amount levied ON SINH
lar Foreign articles and paid into the Treasury and
we have $9&, lHosS?, as aforesaid Let us glance
mt the items
Irpn comes FIRST of course We are supposed
to make 74so7s tons of Pig Iron per annum. O,
which the price is enhanced the round sum OF
ss.7ss,s6o by the Tariff. This would seem pretty
srrcnS but Mr.. Walker gives us S,2.sS6 tons o!
Bar. Sheet Hoop &c on which he Computes 3
farther enhanced price OF sa,sso,72O; and ike
amount OF Castings, ON which We are paving the
neat lit.e sum of Stl9ol, iio mor1 than we shoull
40 if there were no Tariff l, never seems to en-
Ter the Secretarys head that the Iron he has
valued once as Pig is the very same that he here
charging up AGAIN Bar. Hoop &c, and Castings
40 tina. his advance on Pig should n, least be dc
Quoted from those following. Pursuing the sam,
plan, he gives us IS $4,000 as the increased cos
of our Hardware because OF the Tariff forgetting
that he has already taxed this ts-ics rs Pig sn'
then as Bar, &c With such oonveaien, arithmc
tic, it would have saved time and been an cas-! lo
60 cipher up the whole Seventy.ive or Ninety-'oo
Millions on Iron alone
Cool. too, stands high on our list of expressions
Those rascally Pennsylvanialls have been sucking
out our life bood-to VIII, our cash-a, the rate o
AZ. 1851 by means OF the Tariff. 1t does no
,ccnr 30 Mr.. Walker that he has charged most o
,bi. also in his Iron account; for the cost OF Fue
!. large item in the manufacture Of Iron, and i