Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-07-22
BEAUTIES OF THE NEW TARIFF. :


flexible rule of Mc.Kays bill. Let us give single
illustration of the operation of this principle as bear
ing on protection. Take iron, for instance. Iarp,
amount of capital must be invested in order to man
ufacture iron proftaby, and the investment is deaf
property the moment the fires are put out Let III
suppose it to cost $50 per ton to manufacture mid
ding bar iron in this country Say the price in Eng
land is $4o duty of 80 per cent fairly levied ant
faithfully collected, Is protection enough It will
let In peculiar kinds of iron which we need but dc
not make, and keep out all others. Now let iron
take sudden rse and the duty becomes heavier for
bidding Importation just when 1t is most desirable i
ever But let the price, on the other hand. fall to
$40 in England las it has done, and the duty is d.
minished Just when the very existence of our works
demands that it shall be maintained. The ad valo.
rem principle thus becomes complete see-saw O,
sliding scale, but sliding always in the direction tina,
the stability of our iron business, and the interest OF
consumers unite in denouncing. So with all other
articles. Give us specific duties, and we NAV live
under them, though low but talk not to us of COM
promise with the deadly ad vaorem.
lien again, the astounding anomalies with which
the bill is Cheduered-how can we be asked to acqui-
esce in them1 Thirty per cent. paper and ten on
fannes. baizes, wooden yam, worsted sc. &c.
Did mortal man ever imagine that such discrmina-
TONS against our own industry could maze part of a
permanent revenue system Absolute Free Trade
cannot go farther than to put our own labor on an
equal footing with foreign in the supply of our own
markets, but here is direct bounty offered for for
eign, against home production. Do you cali this
compromise If We were suing to be taken back
into Colonial subsection to Great Britain, she would
not venture to impose such terms.
But the utter, glazing nfdelity of this hill to ev-
cry principle which 1t was advocated forbds the
remoest presumption that it shall ever form the ba
Sis OF permanent revenue system. To talk as Mr..
aker and his followers do of protective duties ta
King thrice the amount of revenue collected, from
the pockets of the consumers giving one third oft
TO the treasury and two thirds to the protected class
es and then proceed to levy thirty per cent on ron
COAL sugar, clothing sc. but let tea and coffee come
m free, Is plain proclamation that those who do so
either disbceve all they have been saying or are I'M
faithful to their own convictions For Free Ira
ters to refuse to tax tea and Coffee the poor mans
ur7es, yet tax his salt sugar, SC. Is paIpably hy-
pocrisy or idiocy. One of two things we must ulti-
mately have-genuine Free Trade, or a frank, open
bill as McKay's, ranging halfway between any
where and no where, can stand as an adjustment of
the tariff controversy is to forget the earnest search
ing character of the age.
F.. MuRDER.-MRs. E. M. S. Spencer, some years
since resident of this place, was murdered by her
husband, in Jersey city, on the 18th instant. He
vas, at the time under arrest for maltreatment of
lis wife, and after proceeding short distance with
he officer, obtained permission to return and speak
o her. Upon coming into her presence he drew a
stol and fired, hitting her in the neck and severng
he jugular vein, she died in 8 minutes. He was i'm
nediately committed. The parties had been marr-
d but about one year. Jealousy is assigned as the
ause of the act.
CANADIAN FoRrTFIcArloNs.-The Commissioners
ent out some time since for the purpose of examn-
ng and reporting the best plan of fortifng the Can
dian frontiers, have completed their labors. They
stimate the cost at e. 100000 to be expended on
he st. Lawrence, and Lake Ontario. Iron steam
rs also to be placed on the lakes. These plans
I'd not merely talked about, but are actually being
arried into effect. The Canadian papers filled
With accounts of the arrival of heavy ordnance and
Military stores of every description.
Who is TO BLAME.-The Tribune mentions as
act, that upon the trial of young man, that city,
7ho had satisfactorily discharged the duties of con-
dental clerk, book-keeper, cashier &c. for defalca
ion, it proved he received salary of but $3.50
er week And this miserable salary was his whole
ependence for boarding, clothing &c: We should
Ike to have "Western jury decide two or three
UGH cases for the New Yorkers-thcy would, most
kelly add the amount of dedication to the salary
eived, and If the whole did not amount to decent
wages, tell old Hunks to fork the balance.
DESTRUCTIVE FRE.-A most destructive fire took
lace, at Nantucket on Tuesday the 18th instant, by
which several hundred houses were consumed COM
rising the most important part of the city. The
ragged for several hours, despite the strenuous
rtions of the fire department and the citizens Es-
mated loss, $1,0UO,0O0.
ANorHER.-The Toledo Blade says that the Pack
t boat Erie, which arrived on the morning of the
9TH, announced that the village of Providence, thirty
hree miles up the canal, in blaze, and from APP
earances would be entirely consumed.
GT~John O'Donnahue, strolling son of the En-
sic, not having arrived in time to accompany the
ounteers to Texas, concluded to earn his board in
he County jail ne commenced business on Satur-
ny by entering houses and stores, and lifting hight
ny he received for his services order the coun
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