Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1846-08-13
FROM THE PHILADELPHIA U. s. GAZETTE.
THE EFFECT OF TARIFF REPEAL.

THE EFFECT OF TARIFF REPEAL.
We Were informed yesterday that gentleman
who is largely engaged in the Cotton manufacture,
had already stopped one of his Factories and was
curtailing his business TO the point necessary to
weather the storm that will burst forth OH the first
of December next.
The example will be, through necessity, initiated,
and in all the ramfca,ions of trade there will be
the torpor which want Of markets for the sale of
products will inevitably create, and we have thought
over some of the consequences which will immedi-
atey be felt soon the niquitous law begins its
operation. Take, for instance, the Booksellers
They have been hitherto paying duty on import
ed Books of 10 cents per pound, while by the new
law the duty Is but ten per cent. The exceeding
cheapness OF printing in Europe will permit the eX-
port of books to this Country i'm sheets or without
covers at such low rates that our Booksellers will
lose most of this, at present. the profitable portion
of their busness,-the reprnting of foreign books
And how many concerned in this who set up
type, print, bind, make the paper, manufacture the
leather, and all others who furnish the materials for
hook making. They TO be counted by thou
sands and independent of the loss of employ
which will bring misery to them, there is the great
evil to be added that this privilege granted to TO
reign literature, will place still farther off than
heretofore the prospect of true National literature
and discourage authors, by filling the mar
| ket with foreign productions.
! The Sugar Refining interests will be in danger
OF eXtnguishment; for while refined sugar now
commands at least l2s cents h., foreign refined
sugar can be sold under the law, at from 81 TO
9 cents per pound Holland allows bounty upon
refined sugar, and the reners in that country will
of course, be enabled to take us mt advantage For
this, therefore, our own interest is be sacrificed
and the country made dependent upon foreign sources
for IFS supplies of this article. when few wears Of
protection would have enabled us TO compete with
any nation have secured the wealth arising from
its manufacture; and sustained portion of the
population by the labor it demanded.
The Wool growers will feel the iniliction sorely,
and the farmers scattered all over the Union, who
gather from their focks annually an amount of
wool which they consider worthy OF being offered
in the market, will scarcely like to know that the
reason why heavy per centage is deducted from
the usual price obtained, is that our wise Locofoco
Legislators have thrown open the door to the foreign
article to supply the market and crowd the Ameri-
can wool grower from his proper place, Ohio espe-
cially, and some of the counties of Pennsylvania
will be tried with fire, in the ordeal they arc
about TO pass, and ruin will be, almost inevitably
their portion.
These are but few among thousand evidences
of the evil operations of this bill for the benefit of
foreign commerce and labor and for the destruction
OF our domestic prosperity, but they will suffice to
show how the people of this country and their Just
claims TO be protected have been disregarded and
as if to add TO the depth of injury and make the
destruction more sweeping and certain. Ware
housing Bill has been added. which completes what
the tariff may have left untnished--which kindly
provides stores at all ports at little COST for
foreign merchants, wherein TO store their stocks of
goods and control the market by letting forth OK
actly such quantities their interests may direct
or withdraw them entirely if market does not
please them (which makes our people, whether
they will it no. so long as this law lasts, support
and secure by their support, the domnancy of Eu-
ropean manufactures at the expense Of our own
We copied, n few days ago, from the New York
Express, table showing the old and new rates OF
duty on iron. We find in the New York Courier
the following calculation showing the operation of
| the new law:
| INVOICE.
5 tons-l ! 200 W.T., round iron rods
cost Gl4 10 Cd per ion g72 10 O
Liverpool charges o IA 6
.s73 G
Add per cent commission, as charged
by the n. Y. Custom House, upon
entry 2
Duty paid-on els O
Under the present Tariff
The duty in PC. pei Id. | 200 lbs. is $3.50 90
Underth new Tariff 1885, the duty will be pr CT
Els o $4S4 is
Dolls. 365 so per ct. is 100 SO
$40 SO