Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-09-24
THE TARlrF-AD vALoREM DUTIES.

The Boston Courier contains an article on tho subject
If al nlore1r duties. which presents soine striking facts.
and fIet4 which cannot fail to staftle candid men Of all
parties. wlen they conc To the consideration ot the la
n. in The next Congress. However the House may be
constituted. there is no doubt, WE suppose. thai important
mod ifratiuns Of the tirtlI will be successfully attempted.
The YaIea al starving LABOR will he hoard drowning tha
vail aad honls Of Displaced pensioners and e~x-siipei-
dlafle8.-
To eiyc u few instances Of the operation of thu ad ralo-
rem syslems Broad cloths pay duty on an invoice cost
Of sixty eight 10 seventy five cents per yard, and that.
to, not even the squire yard but on the innnlng yard, i've
and sis quarters WIDE. Bnudirs, that pay one hundred
per ct0i. duty, are imported 81 as 10 cost, landed. duty
pall mt ahoge IS conH per gallon. The pretended m
roice prire Of such Brandy ,on which duty Is paid, could
not haye boon aboye thirty csnts. ostllere are, be-
stdes tho datea, freight, insu rance, &c., IN ray. Enure
eareoes ar Imported At ibis rate. Champagne wine Is
imported At tIe cost oi ti.75 Ia y fer dozsn. by i've
hundred Ia one thousand baskets n a time. The average
nie oi duty un coal froa Nova Scalia dues not exceed
llree t1attas II oae cent per busllol, and ls bro,ghs ~
WY large quantities.
Now, every body knows, that 10 invoice broadcloihs al
sixly-eighi 10 seventy Gvo cents. and champagne at two
iuIlafs n dozen, is a fraud, and yet il is a fraud withauta
remedy, under Mr.. WALgER's sysen. 20, under the
system, the same article. Imported from the sahle place.
is made to pay ono rate OF dn,y at Bnston% another at New
York, anntheI at New Orleans, sc. The Importer
4hows his invoice, and the collector has his own way Of
del stnininp on what evidence it is to be taken OF not. Tor
the genuine cos, Of The article. The frauds already prac-
USED on mo revenue IliilliNt w HlllliuIs VI bohhio
From tho article 10 which w have referred IN tho
Courier, 10 which We are indebted Tor tho above
fncis. we make tho following extracts - pashnigfo"
Repnblr=
IL ISL. under The operation Of specjfc duties, the pro-
portion uf inspirations int New lork, ior foreign 40
count, WIS only forty )ou per cent; aud now. by a ie-
CEN relun under the operation oi the present. ad rdtorcfH
tltn, the proportion of the lmporiaileil there, by fnItlgn-
es. Is serenity eight per cent. Ia Boston. immediately
previous In tue Aulf of 1912, Foreigners imported nine
fHgy ~ ..n F.. uuIpr I'M, fnnH uI MI nina ppr cent.
aud now. under the presout tariff, thirty ono per cen'.-
Our merchants refuse 10 cheat the revenue. They leave
Inc cheating TO be done by the foreign importer. It's
NOW the universal rule for the American importers to buy
the goods from the foreign manufacturers The same as for-
merly. but deliverable in the United States, by which
they find they can save fr,m ten to fifteen per cent; in
stead u, taking possession OF them in Europe, and paying
the full duty on the actual cost. One Of The delegates,at
the Newport convention, stated a case where an invoice oI
cloths had been purchased in Belgium, which the seller
agreed 10 deliver in New York at fifteen per cent. less
than the American purchaser could do, II the tull duties
were pad.
The operation of the present tariff upon the American
manufacturer, is indicated but ,oo plainly in the follow
ing facts
Railroad iron in 1916 was in England Gle $500 per
ton. and pig iron rs (s25) The duty On The former at
$50 per cent. was SIS per ton, and On the latter $50
Al present railroal IRON is Is (s25) per ION in England,
and pig iron g2 0l0) per ton. The foreign article has
therefore the advantage Of not only a reduction of 700
per Ton in the price, but also 5000 in The duty. This
system Ct ad palorem duties gives. therefore, to the
foreigner the double advantage of a fall III the price aud q
fall in the duty; and when the home producer wants me
largest protection agains, low prices abroad, the tariff
gives him the smallest ; when uader hlgh prices ABROAD
he requires no protection, then the tariff gives him a
heavy one. BY The operation Of this absurd and rainous
system the manufacture of railroad iroa in The U. States
is utterly Frustrated, and one million OF dollars, invested
in The mills of Pennsy lvania alone, is a total loss. The
furnaces, manufacturing pig iron, are in an equally pros
,raie c ni ian, and tho sands oftons a Scotch pig metal
are imported for the purpose Of being manufactured INTO
bar iron. whilst our own own furnaces are daily going
oul of blast. All these losses we encsunier under inc
tstherly protection Of The Walker tariff. for the benehio
English manufacturers aud importers. The i,nperia'tsns
Of railroad Iron f,om + 'eland have Amounted TO l3o,pu
toas within The LAST two Yeats. Tie inohry, which we