Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1846-08-08


WAR CANNOT Nh RBpgALp.-Tho
New York Tribune, in ~ indignant article
upon tho passage Of the Mckay bill,
SAYS
IL ~ most unwise 10 calculate that any.
thing uetH not be merely because Il shouid
not be. The safer course il to presume that
a L0cof0Go minority Of seventy in tho
House and six In tho Seqatr, stima a'rd
by n party necessity 10 subgeri whatever
tho Wings established, anl they have cried
down-stimnIaied also by Tho immense
patronage and interruptions efforts If Polk
aud bis Cubnot-wlIl do all The mischief
possible. We ought therefore, to rejoice
that The bill is no worse. Let az revsfenily
thankful, then. that there is very much
which Boc6focoism, however besolled
and maligne at, however Desperate its
necessities or or ample lts majority, cannot
repoaII
II cannot repeal tho fact TINT the aA
ydtorem revenue tariff IN force under Van
Buteh's Administration failed 10 proyide
anything like Sufficient revenue for The
wants of the 0overnment, and that under
1t tho tfeasufyeactnaIIy ran behind more
than forty million Of dollars within five
years.
Il cannot repeal tho fact that tbs Wing
tariff of 1872 was yehenenlly a~ssaiIed by
its L0C0foC0 adVersaries as calculated to
diminish tho %Feyinue from customs, and
that james K. Polk eleetionsbrgd against
1t in lS43 expressly % the ground Of lie
~inad6qdagy rs n revenue measure, fnsistinp
that We must 90 back loa 30 per cent. adj
Daiortm tariff 10 order 10 supply tho wants
Of the Government.
II cannot repeal tho that this tariff
has shown the fdtility ef all these pfophe.
clos, and the want Of statesman ship on tho
part Of those who MAIDS them, by yielding
a revenue, ever since the country had limo
to feel lts effect, If twenty five 10 thirty
millions per annum, and, that foreign war
and commercial smbarrasgm6nts have not
sulFiced to diminish the amount Cor Tho FIST
half of tho present year.
ltseannot repeal the fact TINT labor has
boon more fully employed and more
adequately rewarded throughout the
country under this tariff than under apy
four yents Of comparative free trad6-that.
new branches Of industry and art have
beeH established and old ones extend.
ed-that not Iess than ope hundfedlullliopa
per annnm have been Hddod to t~hoadnntul
product Of oBr J4tion IN manufactures Of
iron, cloths. glassware, cutlery, silks, &c.,
&c. without subtfhGtlng4 y doliar from
branches previously IN thriving opera.
ton.
II cannot repeal Tho fnctihat poariy All
the articles # VIII h tho homo protection
Is pr tected by The present tariff nro this
day afforded cheaper 10 our consumers lhtn
they ever were before 1t was enacted.
whIIo tho very few in rcgardto which this
Is not the case, raw iron, for instance, have.
risen 10 price all over the world, in cdnsg.
qlenee Ut an extfa ord 0aty md sudden ex
tension Of tbs demand for them.
II cannot repeal the fact lhat lh4ro have
been more new buildings erected, new
work shops opened, now vessels and steam
boats built, new machinery fabricated and
PIT IN molten daring the operation Of this
- Af' ''N"y AvH J5ata vi comparative |
ffeetfade, ADD that more mechanics and
artisans have bought or built comfortable
for their families than in any
Ii cannot repeal lb6 peoples knowledge
hat tins mriR found tho NATIONAL Industry
parnIyzed, trado ~Irngpishlag, labot vainly
employment, and tho treasury
bankrupt aud that It has wrought for oh A
glorious transformation. Not tfl the nppte. |
of n reduction If The tariff be-. m
10 lnllOene0 the operations IT enterprise
md capital was any cD1nterchange per
And nov, had Hsnty Clny bsen5
President Instead Of Polk, We should
have bad vastly more work Of al kinds
going Irward, with bster wages md
products "a eyefy department of
manufacturing industry, where the cost If
ioy article ~ diminished by the extension
nd stehdIno4s of the demand for it..
Finally, II cannot repeal Tho peoples
+Ight and opportunity to restore al that
Congress seems bent on und0,ng. Swlndled
Pennsylvania speak to your betrayers this
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