Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-01-13

For the statements as of fact in the follow
ing article We have authority on which we re-
ly, and which We thi ak will not be disputed
And, being true, are they not of the grayest
importance, and deserving of every mans con-
siderationi Who does not see that they COM
pletely subvert the main pillars of Mr. Wal
kers theory of Duties increasing Prices by their
full amount and thereby costing the People
many times the amount they put into the Treas
ury Must not these facts be invaded or
the Walker, theory abandonded!
Let it be thoroughly understood that we do
not claim that the Foreign Producer of articles
we purchase alacays raise his Prices as we d.
minish our Duties. The truth is that he does
so Just scheaerer he can-that is, when his SO
advancing will not destroy his market. When
he can do so in full, he does; if he can do so
10 part only, he stops at the point indicated by
his interests. Read and see ~. Y. Tribune.
+ SALT DUTIES, sc.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
The Free-Trade advocates have ever burden
ed us with their song about the oppression of
the duty on foreign Salt. This article paid
specific duty offs cents per bushel Of IS pounds
under the Tariff of 1912. At Turks Island.
the great mandatory of the article, the price
to our shippers under the Tariff Of 1912 has
ranged from to and 8 cents per bushel.
Mr.. Walker tells US in his Treasury Report
that the cents duty under the Tariff of 1912
was a tax upon the consumer. Taxation
'taxation!' Taxation hus been run through all
the changes to the end Of the chapter, in his
Treasury Report of lS45 and as. Now just
let US see how the Free Trade of Mr.. Walker I
workssRnder the Tariff of 1916:
AS soon as the specific duty of s cents a
pound was taken off from Salt imported into
the U. States by the Tariff of 1876, the Turks
Island manufacturer raised the price of the ar
ticle from and cents to ID cents per bushel,
and this is the price he now asks and receives
at the Salt pits, where the salt is rakod out,and
readyto be loaded on Board of the American
vessels.
Mr.. Walker has lost the cents Der busbel
duty which he much wants to carry on hi. fay-
orte .Nerican Wa,, and the Turks Isla nd man
ufacturer slips Walkers duty of 8 cents BUSH
ell. which he might have received, into the man.
ufacturer's pocket
Just so with Sugar. This article is no cheap
er in market since Mr.. Walker has killed off
the specific duty of % cents per pound under
his Free Trade Tariff Of 1876, but is just so
much dearer at the plantations in Cuba. So
with Molasses, which paid about one-half
cent per pound specific duty under the law of
1912.
What pattiot-sages these Free Traders
are Everything to encourage the bushes,
of foreign countries, but nothing for their own,
Thus Business and Capital are taken away
from our own plantations, manufacturers, arti-
sans and laborers, land given to foreign countries
and people.
What say you, Salt-Boilers of Onodiaga,
Kanhawa, Ohio, Missouri and Pittsburgh =
Do you think it helps you to see the foreign
manufacturer make one hundred per cent. on
his Salt,under the Tariff of 1876, over and a.
bove what he made under the Tariff of 1912?
OBJ SALT.