The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-03-18
The Working of the New Tariff.

The eloquent silence OF the Federal prints of late in
reference to this subject which well interpreted by
the New York Evening Postin the following paragraphs
speaks volumes in favor of the Revenue and Commercial
policy which the Democracy of the country have estab-
shed in the Tariff 1t is not however, on that ac-
count the less to be regretted that the Federal party in
Congress enabled, through the want of unanmitv
mong the Democratic members to defeat the measures
or raising additional ,rar rerenue which the Execu
i've pressed urgently upon the attention OF the National
Legislature In the establishment of the existing Tariff,
he tweny-ninth Congress placed the Revenue system
upon basis the principles of which will be permanent
because in harmony with the dictates of Justice and sound
policy, and with the provisions of the constitution In
hs great deed the pledges given to the country by the
party in power were nobly redeemed
But the Democracy would have now stood in a still
rouder position, il the recommendations of the Presi
lent had been met fully and promptly in the spirit in
which they were given, by additional revenue measures
justified and commended TO the people by the necessary
expenditures of war; which the Tariff of 1916, udicious
Pnd productive it is, was not designed nor framed
Il lone to sustain.
EXPRESSIVE sENcE.A very significant silence prevails
st now among the wing journalists and wing orators in
respect to the new tarT-an eloquence OF acurnity-a
IL
uasion in it than any words they could write or utter
we were told by the friends of protection when I'VE re-
nd done what would lessen public revenue at the time
hen we wanted money The fact has contradiced
ng more money from the new tariff than accrued from
old The cash received for customs in this port alone
as quarter of million than in the month of Feb
parry IN the previous year, under the old and in the first
m sy o. Inc pfesen, mare the receipts Of cash at this
the first nine days of March last. There is now every
liberal as many thought 1t, will be considerably exceed
IN the income we shall derive from the new tariff Nv
"a by, after we have concluded the Mexican war; and
NO us expenses, we shall probably hear call made upon
congress TO lower the stop the exorbitnnt aeon
aa,,on OF money in the treasury.
We told by the class of men that Tho mann
eturer would be ruined by mitigating the duties on i'm
r,ed goods and Obliged to let their mills for stables The
huhcturers instead OF being ruined, prosperous
stead OF abandoning their factories they are buldng new
, new rev, manpacurng town has sprung up on the
zen Incorporated in Massachusetts new f1rpes and G,r
nave been in Pennsylvania and elsewhere
eoon mills IN almost cverc State from Maine 10 Ccor
ana capitalists IN this city only waiting for the an
~ ~ Renefn law 10 govern interpretations in or
Again. an attempt made by the friends of nroec
pn to alarm The work people in the mills by telling them
IN consequence OF the new tariff many OF them wonJ
utheG out OF employment and the pu, on low
ages They We're answered the part of the friends of
trade, that the tariff n warrant for steady en-
meht and increased wages. The result has proved this
oe rue the workmen in the iron mills very soon after
d passage OF the tariff prnied by nm incraase al
d cr wages, and we read n Springfield pap tba,
wages OF the carpet in Thonpsonvie and Tar
e, Connecticut, have lately been raised. The owners
he carpet mills, readers win remember were among
o VINO Tuned and bounced violently at the pas
p &c OF the tariff " Wy pas
me silence that now prevails among the wings on this
n est imports all that have said it ackpowIedges
q doea un Is productive one to the revenue thai
ss no injustice essential harm to the mann facrer
,nal u raises the wages Of the work peoRle Abl,ot
Y ehce, who wrote the famous letters threaiening lie
VI commercial world with ruin, aud who is now nvs
Quhdanon ota new Carthage the Merrimac o,1iys al
y IN MS unwritten letters. Mr. Clay who wrote Ie,,e
9Pnesyng similar calamities and OF whom The nevsna
eu US that he has Just reached the end of his
~, IN vigorous and lusty health, proclams nil This il,
~ ae 1lce more eloquent than one of his speeches
lhese predictions Of mischief from the Introduction f
uade were of the greatest political bunders of The
- nat they should have been made and vehcmcntly
uy selfish men 10 prevent the repeal of the odios
ue law OF 1872, did not surprise but confess
~ surprised to hear the persons, after the pas
VI tne new Tariff camorng If they believed their
predictions No doubt some of them sincerely thought
n.rne and are very much puzzled account for the
eIsV u fortune in not allowing them to be verified
I'd revenue ought to have fallen off, they no doubt think
nuns ought to have stopped, and the worSmen ought to