Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-24

cure the Review will be sufficiently interested TO
procure it and read The entire aricle2
o. The Baltimore Patriot thus exposes new
fraud that is to be palmed off upon the public
and this, under the potent name of The Secretary
Of the Treasury.
THt Two TARrrFs.-The Washington Union
is engaged in publishing what it calls " compar
alive statement" of the duties levied under the tar
if Of 1912 and the tariff of 1916. More than ten
columns Of that paper are filed with this statement,
which is signed by Mr. r. J. Walker, as Secretary
of the Treasury, thus giving 1t his official sanction.
We have looked over this settlement, and must ex-
press not Only nsonshmcnt, but our deep regret,
that Mr.. Walker should have loaned himself 10
such n fraudulent attempt to mislead and deceive
the people, as is maniiesly made ia the statement
to which he has given his sanction. We wonld
not undertake 10 say, that Mr. Walker w9s aware
that his comparative statement was untrue, in rea
ton 10 almost every article 10 the manufacture of
which the home luborcr was intended to be pro-
tected, but If he is ignorant of this fact, he has
given to the public most conclusive evidence of
his untitness for the station which he hods-so that
he is in the horns of the dilemma, in which his
choice is between admitting his ignorance or plea
ding guilty OF an attempt to deceive. Let any
man, at all acquainted with the cost in foreign
countries Of similar articles manufactured in this,
on which specific duty was laid by the tariff of
ic4<, look Ut What Mr. walker mas set down as
te au Va'ore uu'y on suCu afticIes under that tar
III anu ne VIII see Ut giance' the deception at
tempted. For Instance, he will find articles of
" mems boots and bootees," which, under the
tariff of lS42, duty of 5 ,25 per pair was charged
set down us being subject to only duty of 3 -
pol .oi' 40 II S"Ol' ooo'9 a"u oo'oes cost % 1870
r. pun '"'Uy, "Ie"oo t''' 7. pa. i,'PUi
up"s VI 'ueili co,"', oe'ore t'ie act Vi loi-! ne
u.' 70 "'"' 1y w NV VS. ~ ue''''u"y one-'ah
ua' sum anu .hat nsteao o' Sl'<o per Pair oelng
o"'y u"y ., 81 - per cent. au Vaiorem, u Is
"'"' u"' "u"ute' pc, cent ne san'e hl'srepre-
sG'.oi'on Is ''ane III '''c s'a'eneh' IA regard TO tae
az Nu'o'et' ou'y 'iPoseu ny '''e 'a''h OF lot@ on
0"oeS anu pumps VI al Minus; ah', as ldr us we
can ueclue' from casual examination OF II, on all
We" seu WI" 'Pcein' uu'y uhuer Tue act
Vi iof|'
Yet the attempt to deceive, by this comparison
of the two tariffs, is too bold to be successful with
my one; and Mr. Walker ought to be ashamed
that his name has been given to it. But the dis
grace OF the thlng, so lar as the administration is
concerned, does not STOP mere. lhey have set up,
through theIr organs, me claim tor the tariff OF 1916,
that II Is revenue iar'h; ana that no article Is
charged with duty III IT, so nigh as to prohibit It's
importation NOW, is notorious to every one, and
TO none more than to Mr. Walker, that previous to
the passage otth etarii ot ~, common seears were
imported INTO TINS country from Germany, III great
quantities, so that the manufacturers here were al
most driven out of the market--nnd that since the
passage OF that act, imposing duty OF forty cents
per pound on segars, none have been imported from
Germany. And vet this comparative sta temeut
re uces The specific duty OF forty cents per pound
OF the act OF lo43 to an advaorem duty of twenty
eight and fraction per cent, whilst the duty i'm
posed by the tariff of 1916, Is tOriy per cent h rs
making the rev act more prohlbhory than the old,
whilst Mr. Walker and its advocates declare that 1t
was passed 10 encourage not to prevent, hnporta-
tons To be sure, the statement that duty OF
| forty cents per pound is only a duty OF twenty
eight per cent. ad valorem on common segars, Is
untrue but Mr.. Walker having stated 1t as fact,
| is not at liberty to plead lis untruth, when the
charge is made against his tariff that 1t Is more
prOhibtOry than is that of lS12-a charge which