New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-04-06
MIR, Walkers Mexican Tariff.


Senator Westcotts sensible suggestion that Mr.
Folks best chance for terminating the War with
Mexico would be found in sending that country
Financial Chief, TO wit, his own Robert j. Walker,
n, he had already sent her Military Chief in the
person Of his friend Santa Anna appears likely
after fashion, to be adopted. Secretary walker
ON the apparent suggestion of Mr.. Polk, has framed
a Tariff for Mexico, which Mr.. Polk has enacted
and our Army Paymasters and Navy Pursers arc
directed to put it in operation. We wish we could
have seasonably made room for this novel Thrlii,
for though its practical uses threaten to be slender
its value as of the Curiosites Of Politics is not
siebt. The duties are nearly all specific, as duties
should be. (but as Mr.. Walker will not allow ours
to be j they are all payable in Specie to the ex'
clusion even Of the Secretary's own shinplasters
and they are rather stiff in the average, consider
ing that the Secretary is so stout Free Trader
and in his Manifesto proclaims the conversion OF
Mexico to his own school of Political Economy to
be among the legitimate objects OF this most OBJ
jectless War. Cotton Goods not over yard wide
are TO pay duty of FIVE cents per yard, with
cent added for each additional four inches in width
Fabrics Of Hemp and Flax six cents do Silks,
three dollars per pound. Wooden goods, hty cents
the running yard and OVER Flannels twenty
Carpets, forty Blankets, 81 each, and so on. Pig
Iron $40 per ton: Bar, $40 Sheet Nod, Hoop
Nails, Spikes. &c $50 Castings $50 Tn ESQ
brown Sugar 3 cts. per H. White do s. Potatoes
20 cts pcr bushel Corn 10 other Grain, 40; Flour
20 per Dbl Blank Books. 30 cts. lb. Printed, 90
do. Tobacco 4 to 10 cts. ID. Brandy $50 per
nine; line e5 cts per gallon and 25 per cent
Whisky, three cents per pound most other Liquors
81 do Clothing 40 per ct. Hats 81 each. Boots
o. per pair Salt Is cts per bushel--and SO on
Steel, Powder, Gun Cotton, Satpetre, Lead, Sui
phur. Arms and Munitions Of War, are strictly
prohibited as coutraband Of War, There is any
amount of Commercial Regulations but these Will
only interest those trading TO Mexico. who are
doubtless familiar with them ere this.-Ihe
money! 10 be collected under this Tariff If to be
paid over at once to our Military and Naval dis.
bursing officers who are to use it in defraying the
expenses Of the War-so that never having been
technically in the U. 5. Treasury, there is needed
no appropriation by Congress to draw it out. All
regular you see. and according to Gunter.
of course, we are not about to indulge in any
such folly as to ask for the Constitutional authority
Of Messrs. Polk and Walker to legislate and enact
Tariffs after this fashion. In War Law is silent,
is IN old maxim and Mr.. Polk kindly informs us
that the conqueror meaning James X. Polk, not
old Rough aud Ready may do all manner OF
things. And although we cannot now recall an in
stance in which the ccnqueror has ever done just
saeh thing As this, we readily agree that con-
qaerors In all ages have done many deeds far worse,
and, since the greater is held to include the less
we concede that, once admit the right to tear in
pieces the women and children Of towns like Mon.
terey and Vera Cruz by firing shells and red hot
cannon balls into their dwellings, it would be un-
reasonable to deny the right Of imposing Tariff
by sheer prerogative of the conqueror.' So let all
questions Of right take care Of themselves. What
has Right to do with War OF INVASION IL is a
matter Of Might altogether.
As to the money to be made by this continuance,
We shall be content to chronicle rather than proph
ecy. The Sun, we perceive. estimates the swsg
at Ten Millions Of Dollars per annum and Messrs.
Polk md Walker evidently expect large haul, or
would fam induce the People to expect it We
shall See The duties are high enough certainly
they will mainly be paid, we doubt not, to the ex.
tent Of the legitimate importstions; but the Mexi.
cans are not green 1t smuggling and are apt to be
allow In importing and consuming foreign goods and
they will not be likely 10 import the more because
Mr. Polk tolls the grist as 1t touches their shores
1t strikes US here is the old csse-ope man leading
the horse easily to water, but twenty insufficient, to
make him drink. OF course, it is understood that
the goods taxed by Mr.. Walker viii not the sooner
be admitted into any part of Mexico not in our pos
session--that there will be row Of Custom Houses
inside Of our row, aud that the fact that duties
have been paid to US will be more likely to subject
the goods to Mexican confscation than otherwise.
To render this Tariff decidedly productive, We must
conquer not al piece merely, but substantially the
whole Of Mexioo-the bulk Of her population well
q territory. And then--she horse is only pulled
and pushed 10 the wstcr-his drinking is still to be
provided for.
Alas Tor the fsithlessness Of History the inyea
tor OF horn gunaints lives or mouders unhonored
cave in his works, and the prnaval architect Of
Eastwood cucumber seeds is denied by cnyious
Fate, the glories so prOiasely showered on Watt
and Arkwright, and Fulton. The authors Of the
project Of supporting the Mexican War by tax
on Mexican commerce are more Fortunate. how.
ever and admiring Mccullochs shall transmit to
sdmirng posterity the Financial giories Of Polk
and Walker.
FoUK Days LATER FROM EURorE.-The ship
Clvde Can't Pearson arrived at this port yesterday,