The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-02-19

QallOeFhtely WauB tlGlT estimate luuE illlllHNs
more than they expected to receive Can the
S~ecretarf explain This? Iii pc he Will trN, but
I predict he win not
But Mr. WatKcr latenis that the tariff 6f 1886
having grcatly Increased the export Of domes-
tic products, has as a matter Of course brought
in a corresponding increase of imparts and rev.
enue. But has the tariff Of 1916 increased the
amount Of domestic exports? | cay it has not,
an I will prove il by Mr.. Walkers own fig
ures. | will show conclusively thai the only
increase in exports has been breadstufs and
provisions required to prevent starvation, and
would have been taken to the i'm extent, and
paid for in the same way, without regard to our
tariff OF anything Of the kind Now take the
exports Of domestic products for ten years past,
from 1885 to l845, and dcdnct thereirom the
amount Of breadstuffs and provisions, and it
? will be found that the annual export of domcs-
tic products, exclusive OF breadstufls and pro-
visions. was 9l,8 / 1889; then take the export of
domestic products during the last fiscal year,
under the tariff Of 1916, viz: l50,637,464, and
deduct the breadstufFs and provisions, 65,9O6,-
273, and it leaves off everything else but a.
720l3l-more than seven millions less of do
nestle exports last year, exclusive OF provIs-
ions and breadstufFs, than the average Of the
the preceding ten years; yet in the face OF
these facts, furnished by his official report OF
Commerce aud Navigation, he gravely tells the
American people that Free Trade and the tariff
of 1916 and not the famine in Europe, has pro-
/, duced the great increase OF exports and I'm"
ports. The Report not being printed, cannot
!. refer to the pages from which | derive these
:. facts, but they are accessible to gentlemen who
wish to inquire.
Next as to the modus %operandi, the legerde-
main, the sieigbt-ofhand, by which talsehoods
e are made to appear true, the plan by which the
-, President and Secretary attempt to make it oul
fla theg have rectjYed mere revenue under the
tariff ul 1916, thea VA l~cratved undrr that OF
l842. How is this dAne! l. IS done by cut
tug u The yea,s, taklug a tew months "f one
~. vear#Ad a lew months q unnluer--lve months
% u4der the tariff Of 1912 and seven under ths
!" tariff ofl846. Nov every body knows that the
" tariff OF l845 was passed IN July, and dd not
90 into operation until December; during iais
neriod of four or five months imports paying
- duties we're almost entirely arrested. lht
Z" TACT being that the duties would III a lew
: months be greatly reduced, avery large apoun'
Of goods which would have come N o2d Pal'
duty according 10 the then existing tafih Q
" 1910. were Withheld I'LL the duties came down
The, were piled upon WAREHOUSES OF Kept II
" bond till the tariff of 1876 and low dotles toof
: effect; besides goods whichhod paid heav du'
ties were re-exported, and the duties withdraw
lat rrnm the Treasury to be returned when the du
ed ties came down-thus a pipe of brandy Tor IN
stance, which under the tariff Of l342 had pal
rs one dollar per gallon dnty, the owner, by re-ex
lp- porting it with a drawback OF the duty, sna re
lat importing it Immediately after the tarlff O
re' l846 took effect: reducing the duty nearly on
so half. would clear forty cents a gallon. thus rou
we bino the tariff of 1912, and giving its revenue t
t6e tariff of l846. During this period OF nv
cen months, of course little revenue, IN comparison
was coming in. though the country was sA
the nominally under the tariff OF 1912 As soona
ual The reduced tariff of 1916 went into operatlo
e it al lhese goods which had beenheld back wa
lue tieo tor the reduced duties, at once poured u
l46. and in oour revenue b. '.iioHs. The goor
av- md duties wit'gdrqw7 'fa taF'if o. 'o4
of nave re,9,n Gn8ar d. al4ffo IT. 1885, aivipta Ii
der tg ayer sayeu milliius#n f7a a%IyatHsi wh1
no foftwa ypsrs before, tae r@etenoe Fad eSe7e
MS. Cd all av, rage NJ weat} seven millions! AZ
ons taIs is p%pttorh as lair eompaassn fh's
no Dc eptioa, Oh, MOI tlisi Is AR. rms 10 !
e oil way to bring truth 10 the people! He mig
has ps we'll compare he strength OF q giant and IN
airs. Of "a child, by pouring down the giant wh
rvs The child could lift in the vigor Of health al
not undera sudden and violent excitement WOW
i'm ibis be a very satisfactory way OF proving IN
! in The child was strongerrHa an the giant! Yet
still comparison wauld be just as lair
(the The next thing the learned Secretary
49, tempts to prove is, that under the low dut
hlch more revenue is always obtained .nah unu
1916 high duties. To show this, he selects !
1857 wears income under high tariff, and ten ye'
ID it under a low one. lie selects ten years y
lived l842 to 1892 under the compromise Olii' y :,
es Of tow tariff and 10 years under the high taFl'i
nue.? 1924 and 1928, with two years under
1916 the tariff Of I842 of the high tariff period
roth Now | assert that in these very years, his Q
q av- figure prove that we got eighty t'Fo mllli'
$ 80 under the high tariff than we o'd unuei
re % low. For the proof, | refer gentlemen ana
i the Secretary to his own official Report on the
that nanees In 1916, page 956. Here you have
d un- own report. Take it down gentlemeni !
eived sire you to make a minute o. wat ! s'a'V'
viz: what | say can prove. lhope 'ne eA.1p
suits. cellor Of The exchequer (Mr McKAYf will
and special attention to these statements