The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-08


on all imports, would have been adhered TO. As,
however, the democratic party succeeded, the ball
Of MIR. Mckay has been introduced instead; con-
sdered politically then, and with reference to the
position Of parties, we justified in taking the
compromise act the standard of wing protection.
We need not spend time in demonstrating fact
| so obvious ths. Mr.. Clay was the author and
champion Of the compromise bill, and upon the last
presidential election he avowed his continued adj
hesion TO its principles. The question: therefore, IN
reality is, so far as the democratic and whig parties
differ upon the subject, between McKays tariff, and
| Mr.. Clay's compromise, or the wing tariff
| We now present you with condensed statement
Of the duties levied by the act of 1916 You will
there perceive that all great interests to speak
in the phrase of the time actually better protect
ed than they would have been had Mr. Gays poll
cy triumphed in the elections OF 1874.
Schedule .A--l00 per cent.
Brandy, and other distilled liquors, cordials, &c,
&c.
Schedule 40 per cent.
Fruits preserved, fgs, raisins dates, &c, spices,
almonds, &c, wines of all kinds, imitation do,
game cut glass; cigars, snuff, and all forms OF man
ufactured tobacco, cedar, ebony, mahogany, rose-
wood, &c, manufactured.
Schedule B.-30 per cent.
Ale, beer, porter, baskets &c, &c, caps, gloves,
mts, carpets carpeting, clothing, ready made, coal
coax culm, cutlery Of all kinds, diamonds, gems,
earthen china and stone wares, essences, perfumes
IRE arms, all sorts, furniture, cabinet glass, and
glass ware, hats, hornets, &c, Except Of wool,
hemp, iron Of all kinds, manufactures Of do,
jewelry, all kinds, metallic pens, &c, oi-cloth,
all sorts, oils, olive, &c, paper, and manu-
factures Of playing cards, potatoes, sewing
silk, twist, sugar, molasses, tobacco unman-
ufsctured umbrellas, &C., &c, wool OF all kinds,
manufactures Of wool, do. of copper, gold, silver,
tin, and lead.
Schedule C.-25 per cent.
Baizes, bookings, Burgundy pitch, buttons and
moulds, cotton manufactures generally, do. goats
hair &c, cables, cordage, ealomel, &c., borax,
feathers and beds, Aannes, aooreloths, Floss silks,
haireloth, seating, jute, Ssal grass, mating OF
aags, &c, silk, manufactured, states of all sorts,
worsted manufactures, do. woollen yarn,
Schedule D.--20 per cent.
Acids, all kinds, bacon, barley blankets all kinds,
blank books, boards and timber candles, all kinds,
cotton, caps, gloves, copper rods, spikes, do. IN
sheets, drugs generally, fish generally, -four OF
wheat, &c, gunpowder, hair, moss, &c, hemp,
manufactured, Indian corn or meal, lead, pipes and
shot, leather, generally, linens Of all kinds, mahog-
any, rosewood, ebony, cedar, mlts, drawers, &c,
needles, all kinds oils animal or fish, oil of hemp
&c; oranges, lemons, paints, dry or ground paper
hangIngs, periodicals reprinted, pork, pitch, rye,
wheat oats, saA salts, generally SKINS all kinds,
steel, except below, stereotype plates, tar types,
&C. velvet Of cotton window glass, woollen stings,
wool hats and bodies.
Schedule ELS per esnt.
Arsenic bark, generally, diamonds, GLACIERS, silk,
raw, singles, tram, thrown or organzine, fax and
tow, leaf gold or silver, tin plates Sheets steel, in
bars, cast STEEL or German, zinc, sPelter, &c.
Schedule Flo per cent.
Books, magazines, pamphlets, &c, newspapers,
&c, bleaching powders, canoes, mosaics, chronom-
eters diamonds gems pearls &c, not set, furs, ex
cept dressed on the skin, gums, generally, hemp or
inseed, indigo, kelp, plates, engrayngs, or maps
and charts, music and paper, oils, palm, cocoa salt
petre, refined, stones, burr, do. building, talow,
marrow &c, watches and parts.
Schedule G-5 per cent
Berries, nuts, &c, for dying, manufactured
bristes, chalk, BELLS old brass, do, copper, do,
pig copper, clay, fints dye woods in stick grind
stones, horns, bone, teeth, ivory, manufactured,
ivory nuts, &c, hastings, for shoes, madden, mo-
har cloth, silk, twist &c, for shoemakers, potash
or nitrate Of soda, pewter, old rags all kinds raw
hides and skins, saltpetre, crude, she'll unmanufac-
tured, sumac, shelac, tin in pigs or blocks, zinc,
speler, do.
Schedule H.-Frts Of duty.
Animals for breed, bullion, gold, silver coffee and
tea coins, do, and copper, cotton, raw, felt for
sheathing, household effects Of emigrants, guano,
patina, models of inventions, oakum, junk, plaster
Of Paris seeds generally sheathng copper, sheath
ing metal trees bulbs, roots, shrubs, plants, &c,
United States products exported and returning,
wearing apparel in actual use.
We ask Of you fellow citizens, unprejudlced
examination Of the preceding statement, and the
accompanying facts; judge the bill fairly by it's own
merits, or by comparison with the duties which
The wings themselves would have imposed had they
been in power, and we have nothing to fear We
hold that the bill gives adequate protection to the
manufacturing interests of the country, without
crushing the consuming classes by enormous taxa
ton levied in the shape of duties.
But, allowing that the duties on iron or glass
are insufficient for the purposes of just protection
they are still ten per cent, or onethrd better than
those proposed in the compromise act, neither has
the action Of Congress upon this subject been final
Should modification of the tariff Of 1876 be de-
manded by experience, in this, or in any other res
pect, the democracy, and the democratic admins
tration, pledged to comply. At the next session
of Congress, should necessity for this alteration
become necessary, it will not be refused.
We regard the attempt made to raise "panc,"
because Of the adoption of this law as the work of
unprncipled politicians, seized 1t has been in
some instances by avaricous manufacturers, as
pretext for reducing the wages of labor. There
Is no cause for panic. The farmer, the mechanic,
the professional man, and the laborer, are alike
protected with the manufacturer in this bill.
We are among those who consider that the inte-
rests of Pennsylvania require modification of the
bill passed at the last session Of Congress, and we
consider that the only means by which the aera-
ton required can be made, is to have our State rep
resented in the next Congress by men whose posi-
lion viii give them the largest amount Of interest
with the general government. This we take to be
common. ense view Of the question. We will re-
quire the aid of the democratic party of the Union
to procure such modin,s. ton Of the tariff, az will
preserve our great interests from injury. 10 &C.
compsh this result, the aid of the democracy is
Indispensable. Shall we solicit this corporation by
sending whgs-their bitterest enemies--as repre-
sentatiyes to Congress- "Come, now, and let us
together" Who will be most likely to sue
coed in gratifying our wishes the subject of the
amendment of the tariff, those who are in political
fellowship with the party which holds the fate of
the measure in its hands, -or those who are in con-
slant hostility to them, and are, with ALL weak,
trembling minority. We are prepared to say, fell
low-ctzens, that the amendment of the tariff of
1S46, so as to meet the concurrence of Pennsyva-
nia will depend entirely upon the election demo-
cratic delegation to Congress. If she adheres to her
ancient faith, and does send to Washington
guardians of her interests, men who stand high in
III Of tba tbo hola IN