Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-01-27
-"No pent up Utica contra cts our powers,
But the whole boundle SO continent is ours.

"No pent up Utica contra cts our powers,
! But the whole boundle So continents ours"
! The editor Of the NJ lwaukic Sentinel
alludes to the late advance in the price OF
sugar; and Pounds upon il an argument in
favor of a protective tariff. He reasons in
this ways: Sugar, under the t1riR of A.,
was cheaper ih1n it is now-ergo, high du.
ties on the article lessen the prlce to the
consumer, and rice rersd. This mode Of
jumping at conclusions is very common
with whig ed.tors,tul j, is entirely reversing
the common philosophy as respects cause
and effect. A protective tariff on a certain
article, we had supposed, means protection
10 The producer Of that article 81. e., by ex~
eluding foreign product ons, and giving TO
him, 10 certain extent, the monopoly Of
the home market, he is enabled 10 gel high
or prices than. would otherwise be the
case. But, according 10 Wig logic the
higher you make the tariff, the lower will
be the prices Under such circumstances,
j, would naturally be expected that the
manufacturers, iron-moDsers, aud sugar
planters of our county, instead Of camor
ing for high tariff would demand low
one, and that the LIST instead Of The fist
should be demon mated proiectiee tariff
1t is a singular fact however that tie c,ass
of men alluded TO ure the Fl S: 10 cry Out
against any reduction of tariff rates, aud TO
preseLt figures in abund ince to show lfa
such reduction must result in luin TO The
interests of these who ore engaged in these
particular branches of industry. A week
or two since, we noticed the petition OF
louisiana sugar planters 10 Congress Tor
restoration Of the tariff Of 10 on sugar.-
On The question in the Senate Of re .er;ng
this petition, i, was stated that the price Of
sugar had raised Instead or'allcn since the
new tariff law had gone into effect, and
that. consequen,iv,th interests of Louisa.
IA sugar planters did not require res'ora-
ton Of the old tariff Johnson. Of Lou,
replied 10 III &, that the present advanced
price Of the Article was occasohcd BY lie
more than usual smallness e the crop at
home and abroad; that as soon as there
was the usual supply. the price must fall al
least 10 The extent of the reduction, if no,
10 greater ex'ent; and that in view ofthis
un Ivoidab.c result, The Lou siana planters.
whose interess were 10 be "fu nously AT.
| tecled,' had asked for the restoration Of
the old tariff. Hcte is The true cause OF
the advance in the pIice of sncar-less
production q, home than usual, and less i'm
portaton !Ioin abroad than usual, because
OF the partial failure Of the crops. The
Sentinel editors must have known this;
and we are surprised that they should have
cndcasored 10 impose upon theirreade's by
statements such as those referred 10. One
would think that q duly Of 25 cents on
every dollars worth Of sugar used, was
| SulHCfcHs iOI me In!lIlbES vi CONSUMERS 10
pay for the benefit Of few hundred Lou.
siana sugar planters. But our friends of
the Sentinel, in their zeal for protective
to riff, think otherwise, and we may expect
TO find them advocating tax on tea and
coff'e for The purpose Of making these ar
tic.es cheaper to the consumer ~ az 70.
Brit sh statesmen with the idea that
reduction Of corn-law duties would enable
the masses there TO purchase bread more
cheaply, favored the beral pol cy which
hos been adopted. Bread-stufs however
instead of decreasing in price have increa.
sed. Shorts; GIFTED men there seem to
think that this increase is 10 be attributed TO
the failure of the potato and other crops in
Great Britain, rather than to the reduction
Of tariff rates, and are absolutely, in their
simplicity, co.iending for all entire removal
OF duties, as means OF relieving he con-
sumers OF the country What a pity tina,
they could no: have few lessons in whig po
lItcal economy, aud learn more truly the
relation Of cause and effect.
@ The message Of A. d. Smith, the