Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-01-07

es0 '"o ihore we snail suffer. Let us at once
break this dependence, though it should even be at
with the retirement of the lovers of the dea,
people from their dearer Offices. Let us place ON,
manufactures, and consequently our markets bv kht
SIDE OF our agrculturists, thereby saving all the
ser productions, the freight our finer and the cost
of such shameful imposition as we are liable to sr
under the system sought to be perpeuated and per-
fected by the present administration.
] How DO YOU LIKE THE MESSAGE ISN'T IL hottie,
than you expected These questions have been 70
peatedly asked us since the publication of the first
annual message of President Polk, and occasionally
slight tone OF exultation is manifest in the inter-
rogators Speech as though fully confident that the
excellence OF that production had put us to complete
silence.
We beg all to understand that our silence bv no
means gives any assent to the spirit or principles of
that document. Its length alone prevents us from
applying to it those structures it richly merits in one
NUMBER but we shall and anon call the attention
OF our readers to particular points, and give the am
plest nd clearest refutation of their arguments
which may fall under our notice, or occur to our-
selves.
we are happily furnished with such refutation
OF MIR. Folks Revenue Tariff doctrine by writer in
the Trenton State Gazette. We wish it NAV be
read In connection with the Message on that subject
Our readers have not yet perhaps, fully compre-
enoed 'ne theory OF this protec-
''oe Administration of "a better Tariff man than Hen
~ clay. 1t Is very simple theory, theory of
zone dea and it thus stated in the famous report of
the Secretary of the Treasury sthat no duty be
imposed on any article above the tocest rate which
Will yield the largest amount of revenue.
Very well. Now let us see how this theory is to
be put in practice. We assert that in practice. if
Will amount to sliding SCALE and sliding scale not
like the British in favor of domestic interests but A.
gainst domestic interests.
Suppose Messrs. Polk and Walker and their CO.
workers in Congress fix upon twenty per cent. on
iron as "the lo,oest duty which will weld the arpest
revenue" We'll, it breaks up most of the iron mills
ior whlie Imported iron rushes in, and the slar
gest revenue fills the Treasury to the great de gbt
OF the Secretary thereof. At lenght, however, the
iankee ingenuity of some iron manufacturer triumphs
over the hostility of our Government he contrives
10 make iron in some cheaper way, and thus again
colnpete with the imported iron, drive it to some
extent out OF the Market and thus reduce the ouan
'ity imported Of course the revenue falls Off Well
"nat is Mr. Folks remedy Why, reduce the dutv
s'in' rut IL down SO that the foreign manufactu-
ct may break up his American rival-so that the i'm
portatlons of iron may again rise to the largest a.
mount Or to use Mr.. Walkers words put the du- |
ty at the "owest rate which will Weld the LARGEST
mount of revenue"
Inls Is the system of the Administration in Drac- |
nee. 1t Congress shall undertake to put this theory
In iorce they can only do it perfectly by establishing
Snoing SCALE by which whenever meddlesome in |
genlous American contrves to sell his manufactures
lower than the imported and thus diminish importa-
tons' the duty shall drop down upon him like dead
fai enable foreign manufacturers to underselI him.
ana break up his business. In this way the Admin
istratlon will efectually prevent the recurrence Of
that which the Secratarys report treats as serious
evil-namely, ''the dminution of the importaton of
many highly protected articles, and the substitution
OF rival domestic products would thus be driven out of
the MARKET as they deserve and British manufact-
ers would monopoize the market What riobt have
American manufactures to 'srivaP British in American
markets
such, them is the theory of James K. Polk-tbe
man who before his election, represented himself as
friendly to the protection of American industry #
is foreign industry he would protect American in
lustry ne would pursue, down. and hunt out of the
land. Let his countrymen understand it, and prevent
MS unnatural, unpatriotic policy if they have not.
unfortunately, given him power too strong for them
now to resist.