New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-02-27
The wings I'm Congress-The Tariff.
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The wings In Congress-The Tariff
From ne Courier & Enqurer-26h
Tur T.aur-Our Washington correspondent stated
in Yesterdays paper. that Mr. WALKERS farm ph' 49,
probably become alaw Conhding as We 90 =, I'm,
ersi accuracy OF cur correspondent we ~, re sc
such will be fact uuess come otnei az - hropgbt
cep,able TO a majority OF Congress- sH'"- ~
forward. aocs,ed .b. constitution.
s,v md necessity Of Tariff tor ai,
and legitimate Protection wnich shai nos 49,.
ono ~ 60. Nd thus exclude compenuon-we nave
pI ed upop the Tariff o! 1912 as by any means
e,,sct When /, passed we opposed ~ oecause
w.s passed the sacrifice OF the "a" ois
- s,s,es the proceeds of the sales oil the Puplc ahub
- in The Winter OF 1913 we repeatedly calico upon
Cnnoress 10 materially modify many OF !ts provisions
syoving at the same time that we should DC perecuy
,.nt with horizontal Tariff Of twenty i've per cent
mon every article imported into the country except
Iron and Wooen-the duty on these 10 oe hxeo al lue
lowest rat. compatible with Legitimate Protection
M WALKER's bill, adu many artcles-arnongo lnefs
Tea and Cotee-du,y Free while it varies on all other
articles not exceeding however. twenty per cent upo
any thing except Iron and Sugar Inc - ~ In rJ
of and Louisiana desire hat neif iron nu
sngsr ,bould be protected and having voted ior JAMES
x borg their demand is scceded TO by Mr. walker
Nov his sbond not be and the friends oil the exist
T., ara .nti,ed Il Is about be changed upon
the njnn OF Mr. Walker. we think II would be sound
policy TO offer substitute bill providing Tor ROT
sonta Tariff of .uenfy t,oentytDo aud haU per ct
upon fpeyv thing Nth exceptions uhdtscT. Such
Tariff once established would be more permanent IMAM
any other and beyond all question what this country
very soon accommodate itself TO such Iarl 90 IL Gun
and would 10 any one having permanent cua.sc"'
and do not know that any interests "ouu ; -
cent those Identified with the manufacture Oh iron anu
II thew should not quite prosperous hs 81
preseat those interested in them would have me con
ISOLATION OF knowing that they elected mr. rok ~ ,no
prasidenrv and of cour,e that would be glory enough
Horizontal Tariff been the standing cry oil the Soata
and Free Traders for fifteen years and II now tenceeo
10 them by the friends of the Tariff we do not well per
neive how they could reject L. Assuming that We re-
CURE at @ 500 600 from imports and that our I'M
ports do sl00OOO0O0 annually hofi-
ronta Tariff OF 223 per cent would appear 10 % Jus
what the Free requires We hope the friends OF
Projection will think OF this wrong Ed. IT.
~ Reluctant rs we are to appear in collision
with the Courier or any other Wing journal we are
vet constrained TO set forth some of reasons for
believing The above suggestions most mistaken and
unwise, and experimenting the mos, disastrous con
sequences from their adoption by the Wing Mem
beers Of Congress.
THE TARIFF AS IT Is is VIGOROUSLY q Wing meas
ure, with which we have been proud 10 stand iden
tilted before the Country and the World. Ii was
virtually and clearly sustained by the People at the
last Presidential Election wherein although lis ad-
yersaries triumpbed they were only enabled 10 do
90 bv the deceptive letter of Polk TO Kane OF Penn.
gvlyania and the incessant given 20 the
People of that State by Buchanan, M'Candless, S.
tioneerers, that Polk was thoroughly for Pro,ec.
ton as Clay. The only Polk journal in the State
which openly opposed Protection and the Tariff OF
AZ was denounced and secuted as traitor, secretly
working for Clay and the Wings. By letters,
speeches. resolutions and banners euloglzlnS the
Tariff of AZ as Democratic measure-(which II
truly is but not as they meant TO be undcrstoodl-
the State was barely carried for Skunk and after
ward for Polk, drawing New Y orl< in its wake by
still slenderer plurality which the defeat oil Skunk
or Polk in Pennsylvania would have given 10 the
winds. Manifestly therefore, the public judgment
In tho election of 1874 sustained The Tariff as Ii Is,
and there have been no Indications Of, there
tainly have been no for, reversal OF that
judgment This Tariff has palpabiy renovated the
Industrial and Commercial energies Of the Country,
increased it's Wealth and Produciiveness. very
largely extended the employment Of Labor restored
solvency and thrift TO the National Finances und
respect to Public Credit Our Government could
not borrow dollar on six per cent. Stocks just be
fore this Tariff was passed. those same Stocks
with the same time to run, would now sell tor TWEEN
ty. five per cent more than they could have been
negotiated for then This is but fair Indication of
the general Improvement in Business in Property.
In Credit There are half dozen States now pay. .
ing or preparing to pay their interest which would
have been and remained sunk in hopeless Repudia-
ton If the Tariff had been left where the Wings
found il.
This great and benefcent change having been
wrought by the influence of a leading Wing
measure-almost the only monument which Gu
lamity, treachery and atuity have left us OF the
triumph Of lS40-what course shall we now take in
regard to il In our judgment, there is but one
true and manly course, and that is TO STAND BY
THE TARIFF AS IT Is Our adversaries have the
power and may destroy it if they choose; but that
Is their affair. for which shall be wise
sponsible. But we who are friends Of Protection
and Of the great measure in which the principle is
here embodied. will disgrace ourselves, contound
our friends. and relieve from their just RESPONSE
bility our adversaries, should attempt TO antici
pate the latter in destroying our own Tariff We
make no professions Of especial Conservatsm-we
are ready TO DO accounted Radical wherever there
are wrongs to be righted-but we cannot perceive
that the friends of good and wise measure can do
better than let il alone leaving all the responsibility
of it's destruction to its enemies il they choose 10
destroy 1t.
THAT the present Tariff has defects Of detail is
quite probable, since no act involving much va
riety and com pexty of detail could well be deemed
absolutely perfect. But we most undoubtingly be-
leve this Tariff more nearly perfect than any pre-.
viously enacted and infinitely more benefcent than
any bill which the present Congress will SANCTION
Then why should Wings involve themselves in any
change which is to be made1-Nhy should we incur
the imputaton, however false. of having abandoned
and turned against Protection The thoroughly
informed might see the fasi,y Of this charge, if we
acted as the Courier suggests, but how should we
make ii apparent to all And for what purpose
we to forfeit all the fair advantages of presen;
attitude and subject ourselves to thick fog of mis-
representation Can any one imagise'
That the Courier found fault with this Tariff
years ago and called for its mod 6caton. is but
did another Wing Journal in :he whole Union do
Hkewisef Possibly two o. three GU, of the thou.