The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-07
THE INTELLIGENCER ON SALT.

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THE INTELLIGENCER ON SALT.
The Integencer of Saturday, after the usual
phrases about Executive influence and party drill, /"
which have to be mustered whenever the democratic
party prove successful in any great measure. says
Of the tariff which passed the House:
"Tea and coffee the objects without which no
advantage to the revenue nationally be ex-
pected from the passage Of the BILL were struck out
IL by reclamation; but to secure the votes Of the
democracy fthe Empire State indispensable to tho
passage OF the billy duty Of hoeniy per cent upon
the value has been laid upon the article OF SALT the
most indispensable of all the necessaries Of life,
without the daily use Of which tho poorest man in
the country would be unable to keep body and soul
together. An examination Of the proceedings Of
yesterday, and Of tho yeas and nays the several
questions, will show that this duty probably would
not have passed the House, could the bill for strip
ping American manufactures Of their present pro-
lection have passed withoutlt.
Ingenious Intelligencer The twenty per cent.
duty on salt, he canddly admits, was necessary to
procure the passage OF the reform tariff bill. Tho
alternative, he reminds US, to impose that tax
on salt, or else to retain the tariff of 1912 II we
were to ask our nsighbor why he did not 90 on to
,
dr.d to one hundred aud fifty per cent. on salt, we
suppose he would tell us that it was the publlcs
business know, TO remind them oftha fact.
Besides, any hint at such fact might have some
what marred the effect Of his lamentation the
prospect, that "the article Of salt, the most ndis-
pensable Of all the necessaries Of lite without the
daily use Of which the poorest man in the country
would be unable TO keep body and soul together, -
is, by this wicked people defying democracy to be
taxed-yes, actuslly taxed TWENTY per cent
If the Inteligencers sympathies much
reused by the bare prospect Of tax Of little more
than cent and half per bushel on "the most inds-
pensable Of all the necessares Of life," how much
must not our neighbor have suffered during the last
four years, from the melancholy reflection, that
this indispensable necessary, "wthout the daily
use Of which the poorest man in the country would
be unable to keep body and soul together" has
been subjected to tax Of eight cents
But if, on second thoughts, the Intelligencer
cludes that that wing tax of eight cents inds-
pensable necessary, part and parcel Of the pro-
tective system, was great benefit, perhaps he will
deign to enligh,en in regard to the process by
which, when three-fourths of that tax are stricken
out by a democ ratio vote, the remaining fourth OF
that grea, benefit becomes a terrible injustice TO
the poor man-an oppression to be denounced-a
grave charge to be brought against locofocoism.
What we wonder at most, is the NAL adroitnes OF
the Intelligencers attempt so to phrase its state
ment of the salt duty, to convey to the public the
Impression that the new bill actually laid Tar
of 20 per cent upon that article, instead Of taking
/ IN hot
could the IntelGgencer expect to gain by such a
course. 1t must have known that single day
would suffice to refute its statement and in 80 far
subject its future statements to suspicion. 1t would
have been wiser well as more credtable to have
told the truth candidly at once, instead of uncan-
didy emitting suppressing the most material part
of it.
Where the Inteigencer finds its warrant for saying
that the bill passed the House Of Representatives
against the undobtsd ,oishe, Of the people, we are not
informed. We shall not take the trouble to refer
to what we have often before mentioned, as to
the admitted duty and pledge of the democratic ma
Ijority in Congress in obedience to the expressed
will of the people to modify and reform the tariff OF
lS42. The unanmity Of ten States IN favor of the
proposed measure, majority vote ofeight others in
its favor, and the equally divided suffrage of the
great State of New York seem to be tolerabe pri-
ma faci. proof that the will Of the people has not
been wholly disregarded in its passage.
The Intelgencer has been 30 much accus-
toned of late to aud the Senate in comparison with
tho House of Representatives, that it cannot avoid
upon this occasion repetition Of the disrespectful
and nsidious trick. The doing away of the tariff of
1912 was according to the Intelligencer the effect
of Executive influence and party drill" overbearing
the "undoubted Wishes" and "actual instructions"
of the people to extent "rarey witnessed epen in
the popular branch of Congress" So, then, ac-
cordng to the Intelligencers respectful insnuation,
"the popuaAbranch Of Congress" is habltually the
arena of "executive influence" and "party drill, "
swaying its measures against the will Of the peo-
ple and this its recent vote, Is only snecial in-
stance of an habual characteristic. Will the ln-
telligencer compare these dscourteous suggestions
of its own with the edifying lectures which it has
been wont to read US on the subject of our dsrespect
to both houses of Congress-