The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-07-30

What Cannot be Repealed
Tie New York Tribune. in an lniig-
nani article upon the passage Of the Me-
Rays bill, SAYS
II il NEST unwise 10 calculate that any
thing uiH not be merely because il sEoi.i
not be. The safer course Is to presume
that Loco FOco majority Of seventy in
the House and six in the Senate, s.imn-
lated by Party necessity to subVeri what
ever the Wings established and they have
cried down-siimulated also by the i'm
mense patronage and inscriptions efforts
of Polk and his Cabinet-will do all the
mischief possible. Wrought, therefore, 10
rejoice that the bill is no worse. Let US
be reTeIenily thankful, then, that there is
very much which Loco Focoism, how.
ever besotled and malignant, however des-
p9raie It's necessities or ample lis majority
--enanOt repeal
Ii cannot repeal the fact that the ad va
lorem Revenue Tariff in force under Van
Buren's Administration failed 10 provide
anything like sufficient Revenue for the
Government, aud that under il the Trea-
sury actually ran behind hand more than
Forty Millions Of Dollars within Eve
years.
II cannot repeal the fact that the Wing
Tariff Of 1912 was vehemently assailed
by its Loco Foco adyersaries as calculated
To diminish the Revenue from Customs,
and that James X. Polk electioneered
against it in 1913 expressly on the ground
Of its inadequacy as Revenue measure,
insisting that We must go back TO 20 per
cent. all valorem Tariff in order to supply
the wants Of the Government.
1t cannot repeal the fact that this Tariff
has shown the fllility Of all these pro-
phesies, and the want Of craftsmanship on
the part Of these who made them, by
yielding Revenue, ever since the coun-
try had time to feel IFS effect, of Twenty
five to Thirty Millions per annum, and that
Foreign War and Commercial Embarrass-
J amount lot IHc INST naTr OF INC present
year.
1t cannot repeal the fact thatLabor has
been more fully employed and more ade-
quately rewarded throughout the Country
under this TariGthan under any four years
of comparative Free rrade-that new
branches of Industry and Art have been
established and old ones extended-that
not less than One Hundred Millions per
annum have been added TO the annual pro-
puct Of our Nation in Manufactures of
Iron, Cloths, Glass Ware, Cutlery, Silks,
&c. &C., without subtracting dollar from
branches previously in thriving operation.
It cannot repeal the fact that nearly all
the articles of which the Home Production
is protected by the present Tariff are this
day afforded cheaper TO our consumers
than they ever were before it was enacted,
while the very few in regard 10 which this
is not the case--raw lren, for instance
have risen in price all over the world, in
consequence Of an extraordinary and sud-
den extension FOR the demand for them.
ItHcannot repeal the fact that there have
been more new buildings erected, new
workshops opened, new vessels and steam
boats built, new machinery Fabricated and
put in motion during the operation Of this
Tariff than in any four years of compare
tive Free Trade, and that more mechanics
and artisans have bought or built comfor-
table dwellings for their families than in
any former four years.
1t cannot repeal the Peoples knowledge
that this Tariff found the National Indus
try paralyzed, Trade languishing, Labor
vainly seeking employment and the Trea-
sury bankrupt, and that i: has wrought for
all u glorious Transformations. Not tilt
the apprehension of reduction of the Ia
riff began to influence the operations of
Enterprise and Capital was any counter
change pereeptible. and now, had Hem
nv Clay been chosen President intead of
Polk, we should have had vastly more
work of all kinds going forward, with bet
ter wages and cheaper products in every
department of Manufacturing Industry,
where the cost of any article is diminish
ed by the extension and steadiness Of the
demand for it.
Finally, it cannot repeal the Peoples
| right and opportunity TO restore all that
Congress seems bent on undoing. Swim
died Pennsylvania! speak to your betray-
ers This Fall!
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