Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-09-16
PR0TECTIoN OR NO PROTECTION.

PROTECTION OR NO PROTECTION.
The tariffof '46 is emphatcalIy intended to be I
revenue tariff and SC it would be if the country hat
some exhaustess store of coin with which TO pay iol
its imports. 1t is SO contrved that the greatest
amount of value shall be imported, to the end that
low per cent duty shall produce large receipt Of
customs For this end it taxes the raw material
more than it does the products; for cargo of cloth
is worth vastly more than cargo of wool. The to-
tai amount of al our importatons would be vastly
less if the raw material bought and the value OF
labor added to it here than if the value of is added in
that the ad vaorem principle is established $500
worth of wool becomes, say $4,000 worth OF cloth;
as much revenue can be raised, therefore, on the
cloth at 90 per cent. as on the wool at 80 per cent.
To secure an ample revenue, therefore, with the low
est possible duties encouragement must be given to
the importation of manufactured articles in prefer
ence to the material. This the tariff does, and
plainly has it been exposed that the free traders,
alarmed at the effect likely to result from this fatal
blow at-not the "lords of the LOOM but at the hum
BILE journeyman on his shop-board, at his bench OF in
his loom, are crying out 'protection, and loud
ly asserting that the tariff of 46 gives greater
mount of it than that of ~. To establish this false
hood is industnously employed. The usual way
is to reduce the specific duties of the former tariff to
advalorem standard upon an article at the very
highest possible retail price in the market where it is
purchased by the consumer, and calculate the specE
ic equivalent of the advalorem of the present tariff
Al l. 4 II
ton. One such table we recently exposed, and this
week we give the exposure of another from the Ad-
vertiser.
The Pittsburgh Post, published in the midst of a
manufacturing and mechanical people, has devised
one, which was copied into yesterdays Free Press
journal that denounced unequivocaIly short time
ago, the protective doctrine. This article of the
Pittsburgh Post attempts to show that shoemakers
better protectedby the tariff of 46 than by that
of AZ In order do this 1t states by false
ton that the tariff of 46 imposes 80 per cent. ad va
loren upon boots. The duty on this article is not
specially fixed in the schedules, and therefore
under section of the act which provides for duty
of 20 per cent. ad valorem. But If the duty 30
par cent ad vaorem, it would be far below the specf-
ic duty of 81 % pair imposed by the tariff of a.
The advalorem duty of 80 per cent. Is imposed a
valuation at the place of export, (say in France)
where the finest mems boots sold at retail at less
tnan spo pair, and Where wholesale valuation Tor
export would be less than So pair, making the du-
ty by the tariff of 49, 60 cents-65 cents less than
the duty of AZ. But the Pittsburgh Post fixes the
lowest price Of boots imported at So 80, and from
that up to So pair! And then it cries, behold
a pair of imported boots costing So in Europe pays
duty of 81 40 by the tariff of '46, and only 81 25
by the tariff of '42 See the protection of the tariff
of '46.
1t is not necessary to say that pair of boots
ting one-haf of So in Europe has been import
ed since 1916, and never will be again. And that
the specific duty of 81 25 pair by the tariff of 40 is
a much higher protection than duty of 80 per cent.
on the first cost of boots made in Europe.
This same Pittsburgh Post In order also further to
show the protectire character Of the Tariff of 46
sumes that mems shoes cost in Europe from 81 to
So so pair! Chdren's shoes 81 pair! Womens
and mems laced boots 81 25 par! Chlldren's la
ced boots 70 cents-women's leather boots 81 80 to
81 IS! Do. leather slippers 81 co. Do. pruneIla
slippers 80 cents.
1t then computes upon these assumed prices, lat
least double the retail prices in France) the amount
of duty at 80 per cent and in this way makes it
y equal to specific duty of from 80 cents to 81 25
pair fixed by the tariff of 40.