Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-08-29
DEMOCRATIC REASONING pers.s DEMOCRATIC
AUTHORITY.

N FROM rnk Harrisburg /" DEMocRAric UsIos."
Tux LAsr FREE. TnADE RrPoar.--Tbe Report Of the
Secretary Of the Treasury Of the 2sd Of July, which
friend Of the Washington Unidn says viii be "Me greai
document of the ee-ade party every portion Of the
country, advances such novel doctrines that feel consan
ed to take brief notice Of it, with view Of exhibiting its
utter absury The broad and sweeping assertion made
this report that the people of the country taxed
sequence of the tariff from three four times the additional
of the duty, and sgular table is prepared to
prove this fact
The Secretary takes sixteen OF the leading items Of anuac-
ure and consumption la the country, via iron, and the
nufactues Ihereo the manufactures of tobacco cotton
WOOL and leather coal salt sugar noasses glass, paper,
codage cotton baggng, hats and caps straw hats, bonnets
and braids and earhenwae amounting, in the aggregate
to $751; $50, and lays down the position that upon these
items, to bring nett revenue Of 1902 1888 into the
Treasury there imposed by the tariff of 1912 tax Of
S94 upon the people Of these United States OF
which BIS, Asa gross revenue and the remainder
S5 405, constituted the enhanced price of these pro-
footed domestic articles The mode Of proving the above
extraordinary position is this The Secretary takes the whole
consumption Of the above named manufactures and adds there
TO the duty, assuming that the domestic article is raised in
price to precisely that extent Thus he down the
sumption Of coal at 4347 $50 TONS valued at
ou ouus eelo the uu OF pilo per Ton, asserting tnat inc
is taxed So, 092 with view OF bringing
the Treasury Sl3O22l the of duty collected the
foreign coal brought into the country year In other words
the Secretary lays down the position of coal
Harrisburg wharf raised in price rs by the tariff Of 1912,
and that its repeal would lower the price Of of coal
that extent Now, is there in this borough,
anywhere else throughout the length and breadth the Com
nonweab who will say that coal is raised copper this
place, Philadelphia, Ptsburg by the tariff law Of
1912 The fact is that the price of coal has decreased
throughout Pennsylvania since 1872 and might if
chose advance absurd theories declare that this reduction
owing to the passage of the tariff bill The books Of
coal dealers show that Wyoming anthracite coal reaed
Harrisburg wharf follows In s4l at 81 1912 atS3 rs
ls43 at 1874 at 50, and 1915 So so. In Phila-
dcpha the reduction in prices has been in much greater
proportion II be exceedingly rich joke neigh
bos Of Psburg, who get their coal for about eighty cents
tom to be told that they paying duty Of upon it.
Again. in the item of cotton manufactures the Secretary
contends that the duty to be added the value of the
whole S55, 04S worth manufactured and in the
country, and hence the people pay tax Of 0,4s7, l45
in order get into the Treasury SO, 73 OO5 Now, by the
report of the Secretary and navigation APP
that exported last year domestic manufactured
ton goods namely printed and cooed cottons white nam
KEEN twist yarn and thread, and other manufactured goods
the neat little amount of 81. 1877 1928 worth and if we can
export these cottons competition with all the world will any
in his believe that the duty be added the
any Of the articles Of goods
Again. in regard to ron and the manufactures If iron the
Secretary that the taxed some twenty
millions of dollars for the purpose of putting the Treasu
ny about three millions and quarter As what the
Secretarys theory may apply to these manufactures
unable to say precisely but the assertion that
grossly in the of goods possibly
made of iron such stationary and locomotive engines
printing machinery and heavy castings cheaper the
sent time than they in S4 under the operation of the
compromise act.
If this celebrated theory will apply in any case will APP
ply in the following which put by way of exhibiting the
absurdy Of the Secretarys position During the year 1887
there imported into the United States upwards of four
million dollars worth of wheat We do know what the
duty amounted to this wheat but presume paid 20
per cent under the compromise act which yielded
to the Government Of $780, As there produced and
consumed in the United States that year about hundred
million bushels Of wheat according to the logic of the Sece
ary of the Treasury, the people Of the United States
taxed $40 900 to get into the Treasury this $780, 900
And, nasmuch there is duty of IS cents
bushel wheat the people taxed last year upwards
Of s25, 100000 without giving dollar of to the
Government We venture the assertion that there is
farmer breadeater in any part Of the country where
schools have been established who will believe this doctrine
and if the free trade party to sustain itself upon such p
ciples, apprchend its will soon be run.