The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-09-29
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
WEDNESDAY, NIGHT. SEPT. go, Is47
Unshaehlsd Com~srcs versss Restriction.


wings dodge for the present. their favorte old issue
of high protective tariff They stand aghast at the ut
ter and signal classification of their loud predictions Of
"rttn" both to the business and the revenue of the
country, under the tariff of 1916. The almost unparal
eled prosperity of the country under the existing law
the great activity and the fair prices which now pervade
every branch of business among us-the vast foreign
market for our agricultural staples, which recprocay
liberal commercial policy between ourselves and England
has united with the scarcity Europe to open to our
farmers-he great increase of exports and imports
within the last year, distinctly foreseen and predicted as
sure to follow adoption OF just and liberal aril
systematic consequent augmentation OF our revenue to
the amount OF three millions of dollars during the hrst
nine months of the present tariff, over and above the
amount received during the corresponding nine months
Of the last year of the tariff of s42an augmentation ex-
ceedng the estimate OF Mr. Walker which Messrs
Webster and Evans and all the smaller wings denounced,
and affected to laugh at rdiculousy large-al these
notorious facts, combined with the almost universal ap-
prova by the people, which the tariff has vndicated
for tsen its practical working have led the wings in
many parts of the country TO back out with all haste from
their high tariff ground and to proclaim, with the Louis
vile Journal (Mr. Clay's ogan that high tariff
is longer issue between the two parties and that
the present tariff is ''protectivs enough"
STILL when the wings hard pushed, and when they
can do better, they will even now make fighter at
least show of ghon their old restrictive policy, which
processes seek the prosperity of the country by putting
manacles its commerce This is just now the plight
of the wings in Maryland and especially in the city of
Baltimore, where they have strangely enough, taken up
as their candidate for Congress Mr.. j. p Kennedy,
e
who, to say nothing of other matters operating against
him, is most unfortunately for his friends known to be
ultra protectionis of the most vruent speces-hat
is to say, politician good deal farther behind the age
even than the of the hold back party to which he
belongs.
The friends of the hghtar creed in other States are
therefore rushing to the of the wings of Baltimore
and yesterday mornings National Intellgencer contains
elaborate article from s.. of Unionown" (probaby
from the pen of Mr. Andrew Stewart of Pennsylvania
which of goes the whole length in favor of Grip
ping foreign by ultra restrictive policy,
and which is manifesy designed to rally the wing
chants of Baltimore in support of that policy. This
would seem to be very formidable task Yet in this
cause the writer Gf he be Mr.. StewaD is an advocate
of long practice and of very Observation-Disclosures.
His present effort is in the form of a letter to Vice
President Dallas and, after referring to Mr. Dallass
recent address at Pttsbug, it opens the discussion
follows:
1t is my purpose, therefore, make few brief and
has comments on the main topic only of your address,
wit the vindcation OF the tariff of 1885, which you say has
fulfilled the highest hopes of its friends by having produce
vast increase of foreign imports and revenue
Now, sir, Mr.. Walker informs that the duties by the
late tariff reduced about one-hrd WIS from an aver
age OF about thirty cent under the tariff to abou
ttu,pt ,,Ja t,r,tT 1St IN
crease the revenue, you the imports
least onehird! Instead of one hundred millions (the
usual amount) must not imports be increased one
hundred and hiy millions to get the of
nue. And il the ta of 1912 in operation would
not the revenue be third than is Wis
millions instead of thirty millions And do not there
fore, lose this year fifteen millions of revenue by you
boosted tariff OF 1916! But you may say that under the
tariff OF 1912 we should have had this increase of i'm
ports, which would have remained as usual AT about one
hundred millions instead of hundred and ty millions
My answer is that other produced this
But suppose you are right still would not have had Jus
as mach revenue on hundred millions of imports I'M
der the tariff of 1912 receive on one hundred and
fifty millions under the tariff of 1876 and would we no
have thus savedb the tariff of 1912 fifty millions of dollars
to sustain American industry, instead of sending abroad
to reward aud enrich the labor of foreign countries
If this be specimen of what the advocates of restric
ton can say in favor of their cause may they not as wei
leave it unpeaded' Mr. Dallas, as here represented as
oei'e di ue eASung tH has produced "a vast increase
of foreign imports and revenue Can this assertion be
denied Does MI. Stewart attempt to deny it.! Not al
all On the contrary, 1t appears by statement of thu
Secretary of the Treasury under date of the I'd inst
that "the new tariff went into operation on the Isl
OF December last; and the nett proceeds under it, after
deducting all expenses of collection, actually paid into thu
treasury during the first nine months of its operation is
as you perceive, S2296l 1893 2sbeng greater by the
of 3,l76,01s 81, than the paid the treas
ury during the period of months under the tar
if of 1s42 and exhibiting gain, at the same ratio of
increase, OF 23469l AZ of the first twelve months un-
der the tariff of 1916 compared with the tariff of 1912
This is conclusive to he increase of imports and OF
revenue of which Mr. Dallas speaks But more is true
1t appears from official statement made in the office OF
the Register of the Treasury, and published with the
above statement OF the Secretary that the rate of this in
crease of the under the new tariff progrespe
Thus, in the month of December 1885, under the tariff
OF 1872 the amount paid into the treasury was 81 $780,
asa 81. During the month OF December 1916 under the
new tariff, the receipts vi ,45l O76 CO. Here indeed
the increase is very considerable But compare with this
the increase of the receipts under the new tariff at later
period. During the months OF July and August 1916
under the old law the receipts $4,si7ss4 7s Du
ring the two months of 1S47, under the new law
the receipts swelled to the amount of S755741t a.
showing increase for those two months from the ON,
year to the other OF about seventy per cent This ex
hibits what MIR Dallas well terms 6 net ;rcro,,.,