Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-07-16
NEW YORK TRIRUNE--THE Ia
RIFE.


very able extract upon the subject Of the Tar
if, from the New YoRK TRIBUNE; and an
nexcd they will find another, which covers a
great deal Of ground in few words, and we
commend it to their attention. Every true
| Wing VIII assent to every line and word Of it;
and our Democratic friends will not say much;
but it seems to US here are truths upon which
they might be benefited, by initiating Pad
dy's Owl, 'in keepingup a decil ola thinking"
sit is most unwise TO calculate that nything
,cM not be, merely because II should not be.
The safer course is to presume that Loco
| Foco majority Of seventy in the House and SIX
in the Senate, stimulated by party necessity
to subvert whatever the Wings established and
they have cried down-stimulated also by the
immense patronage and INSCRIPTIONS efforts
of the Adininistraton-will DO all the mischief
possible. We ought, therefore, to rejoice that
the bill is no worse Let us be reverently
thankful, then, that there is very much which
party. however besotted and malignant, how
ever desperate its necessities or ample IFS ma
ljority repeal!
Ii cannot repeal the fact that the dd rdlorenl
| Revenue Tariff in force under VAN BUREN's
Administration failed TO provide anything like
sufficient Revenue for the wants OF the Gov
eminent and that under ii the Treasury ran be-
hind hand more than Forty Millions of Dollars
within five years.
Ii cannot repeal the fact that the Wing Tar
| i'll 1912 was vehementy assailed by its Loco
Foco adversaries as calculated 10 diminish the
Revenue from Customs, and that JAMES K.
Polk eectioneered against il In lS43, express
ly on the ground OF its lnadequacy as Reve
nue. measure, insisting that we must 60 back
10 20 per cent ad raiorem Tariff in order TO
supply the wants of the Government.
| Ii cannot repeal the fact that this Tariff has
shown the futility of all these prophecies, and
the want of craftsmanship on the part Of those
who made them, by yielding Revenue, ever
since the country had time to feel its effect, oil
tceniy- fire 10 thirty millions per arunnm, and
that Foreign War and Commercial Embat-
easements have not sufiiced 10 diminish the
amount for the frs, half of the present year.
1t cannot repeal the fact that Labor has been
more fully employed and more adequately re-
warded throughout the County under this
Tariff than under any four years of compare
tive Free Trade-that new branches Of In
dustry and Art have been established and
old ones extended--that not less than One
Hundred Millions per annum have been added
to the annual products Of our Nation in Manu-
features of Iron, Cloths, Glass Ware, Cutlery
Silks, SC. Sc, without subractng a dollar
from branches previously in thriving opera
ton.
| Ii cannot repeal the fact that nearly all the
articles of which the Home Protection is pro-
tected by the present Tariff are this day afford
ed cheaper TO our consumers than they ever
were before il was enacted, while the very few
a L. Il al, A.
Iron, for iustauce-have risen in price all over
the world, in consequence OF an extraordinary
and sudden extension OF the demand for them
II cannot repeal the fact that there have
been more new buildings erected, new work
shops opened new vessels and steamboats, built
new machinery fabricated and put in motion,
during the operation OF this Tariff than in any
four years of comparative Face Trade, and
that more mechanics and artizans have bought
or built comfortable dwellings tor their families
than in any former four years.
! Ii cannot repeal the Peoples knowledge that
this Tariff found the National Industry paraly-
zed, Trade languishng, Labor vainly seeking
employment, and the Treasury Bankrupt, and
that il has wrought for all a glorious transfer
nation. Not till the Apprehension OF a reduc-
ton of the tariff bagan 10 influence the opera
tons of Enterprise and Capital, was any couu-
ter change percepdble And now, had HEN
RY CLAY been chosen President, instead of
JAMES X. Polk, we should have had vastly
more work of all kinds going forward, with
better wages and cheaper products in every de-
partment misunderstanding Industry where the
cost of any article is diminished by the extern
sion and steadiness Of the demand for it,
Finally, 1t cannot repeal the peoples right
and opportunity to restore all that Congress
seems bent on undoing."