The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-07-25

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ed articles to the foreign price, was when the sys
TEN commenced The truth IT, that from great variety
OF causes natural and artificial the cost OF production
varies IRON oEe TO thousand per cent in different
countries, and legislative ensctmens change the
soil climate, OF seasons, reverse all existing circum'
cies in all countries. Compatiton therefore, cannot
produce this result and II II ultimately could the
system of taxation is going and generation is
being subjected to heavy burdens in the hope that
another still remote generation at dist mt
period OF wears Centuries NAV be enabled TO get the
domestic article the price if there were no
duties But this theory seems to overlook the fact that
competition and struggle for the trade Of the world
are going in all other countries and that this very
competition, striving TO overcome protective duties is
pro using, perhaps, nearly the Of reduction
abroa the domestic competition home, leaving the
difference Just great when the process
But in the meantime the of duties going
on-taNing one class for the benefit of another and
greatly reducing the entire of the national eath
by having driven so large amount Of capital from its
natural channels into artificial pursuits for which the
country was either not prepared, its soil and climate
unsuted The true measure Of the progress of
tons wealth Is the progressive profit Of all its indus
ry and the aggregate Of this profit must be reduced
restricting its reducing exports forcing its
capital by Legislation into otherwise unproductve pur
suits thus taxing portion of tho people for the
fit of another, being Legislative transfer of money
from one class to another and not creation of wealth
As illustrative of the difference between free trade
and high duties is proved that in the absence of any
tariff agricultural products are dearer in Oregon than
with us whilst vast number of articles that per-
formed the circuit OF the globe around the Cape of
Good Hope or Cape Horn Notwithstanding the heavy
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very late history of Oregon, by George Wilkes, 1t is
stated that woolen goods and ready made clothing be-
ing introduced here without duty Gas considered an
English por) are greatly cheaper than with u.s." A
very good strong quality of blue broadcloth six quar-.
tiers WIDE can be had for 81 % per yard All articles
OF cutlery are also cheap for the the
above" Chains tools. and farming implements
very reasonable Such is the present condition Of
things IN Oregon; and would be fact worthy of
to note the difference of price and its exten
in regard to protected articles if the tariff of sa2 shall
be extended that Interesting portion of our common
I however,
all our protected articles there would be rise in the
example in point and by actual results the enhance
ment IN price occasioned by such duties.
We have seen by table that the articles therein
morated amount in value TO 1891 l9s s59 producing
net revenue Of $7os2 2ss and gate taxation Of
s9il2o s57 From this Of sss 1913 $50. is to be
deducted very small cenago for exports Of these
protected domestic articles. Something be de.
Quoted for material sc. There is be added how
not designated in table A. because impossible
classify them in the short time within which il is
the amount of taxes upon them. reference however
TO table b. from statement of the register Of the trea-
great variety OF additional protected articles together
with the imports of such articles and the duties.
Table i. list of additional articles of import into
New York. furnished for the second quarter Of the last
fiscal year by the collector together with the rate of
duties paid on the same always heretofore returned
unenumeraied several of which, also are protected to
greater or less extent and would still further swell the
amount
Hereto is added table marked D. of domestic pro-
ducts from fuckers Progress Of the United States COM
piled from the census OF $780, presenting aggregate
OF this amount there is $3.50 224 for manufactures
nearly all OF which is protected there is S42 35s 76l for
mining nearly all protected; there 900 for the
forest small portion OF which is protected; there is
Sl.9s609s for the fisheries small portion of which
is protected; $6s4,3s7 o97 for agriculture very in.
hemp, &c is also protected, and $40 72l 0S6 for
merce lis clear from reference to these tables that
leaving nearly 300 100000 of the amount Chiefly agri
cultural products unprotected Now it has been often
various products of tho United States are very i'm
perfectly givenrst because the requ number of
questions were not propounded second, because
answers were often refused to these questions from
fear OF direct taxation and other causcs third from
want Of accurate knowledge. nadverence in many Of
those collecting the information From all these causes
as well as from many known facts the total amount of
our products has been estimated by practical men,
well distinguished at not less at the present
period than $4,000 900 being nearly double the
shown by the census Of 1870, and much larger than
products, although they accumulate more sseediJv
than population That this does exceed S. 600.
believed to be rendered nearly certain by the
ioilowng facts There was compiled by the authority of
the legislature OF Massachusetts, statistics Of the cond.
ton and products Of the several branches industry in
census OF 1870 there product Of of
when. according to the of ls45 had
been increased 10 Sl7O42645. That this amount large
as it is is far eow the actual result is distinctly
announced in the publication of the work. by the
tsry OF the State OF MASSACHUSETTS Taking however,
the anouA returned and estimating the present popua
ton OF the Union at twentyonc millions of people, and
Oh MASSACHUSETTS,, in lSa3, at 81 470 would make in
the United States an aggregate product of 02s 900
as shown in the table a. hereto annexed New whilst
manufactures have not increased SO speedily in other
states as In Massachusetts, yet population and agricul
tura products have aug nented in larger ratio in
many states and Territories; Massachusetts, IN that
spect being far below the medium increase.
The official table of statistics of for
1913 is given, (marked F) similar official statistical
return OF Connecticut for the year ending October ST.
lslo, IS hereto annexed. (marked table O.
In any view OF the case the totally of the annual pro
ducts OF he United States at this time cannot be less
than two thousand millions of dollars and tho
articles hve hundred millions upon which the people are
compelled to pay tax of S42 09 1855, the rate be the
same on me hve hundred millions, comparing the total
tax oil with the amount Of 1881 S5g being
the value oi protected articles in table A.
Table II is hereto nnexed being a statement of the
projected and unprotected products by the for
MASSACHUSETTS, Mississippi Ohio, New York. and North
and south Carolina Such table for all the States
would be interesting but in the brief period allowed
there Is not time to communicate the results for each of
the States separately Sufficient examine ton however
has been made by this department the fact
tha neither under the of 1910 l5l5 do the
protected exceed the unprotected products of the
states or Territories except in Massachusetts Rhode
Island, and Connecticut Comparing Massachusetts in
lS4o, with Mississippi in ls40 and several other States
there is exhibited the following result -
I .a,isi.s U .ss,ssts:
MMi NJ; is!s ss,,sssS.s 2ssa3sg1
,ssssippi 1870 6B3,28l % 6057
SSs s% iyir......... 1870 i2ts3'7os .Issos1!
sew Lork .......... 1910 d3 1874, 563 H8,62l86
south Carroll ina. 1910 eli2l8 26259'3i8
North Carolina. ....,... 1910 2N7lY 1855 O63
In further confirmation OF the estimate of the tax
arising from the enhanced price of protected articles
Doc No 70, 18th Congress, I'd Sess, being q communi
caton from the Secretary of State Congress- of the
turns IRON our consus abroad of foreign prices current
charges, &C. These consular returns are official and
ctaAor all. -