The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-06-08
From the Pitts5urgt Gazette.
Tho Tariff Question.


What will Congress do to relieve the suf
fering interests Of the Northern States2 is n
question anxlously asked by hundreds and
thousands who are daily experiencing the
injurious. nay the blasting effects of the tar
i'll OF 1916. From various causes. the evil
consequences Of the present tariH were slow
in their development, but they have steadily
and surely, like "A wasting and fatal disease
upon the human system. been embarrassing
paralJ Z;ng, and destroying the industrial in
terests Of the country.
The cotton and iron business are suffering
greatly, and through Il ose branches. and by
the direct operations of the tariff every other
business is more or less effected. The cotton
mills Of Lowell are put on half time. or en-
tirely suspended, and those in al! our East
ern States have already arrived at, or ATE
! fast approaching, to the same state. The
cotton NILS in this vicinity will sooner or
| later be compelled TO succumh. unless some
thing takes place 10 relieve them from the
pressure of these adverse circumstances
I We have been Informed by one oil our heuv-
lest manufacturers, that unless some change
for the better soon takes place, nOt u mill will
be running in this vicinity after the present
took Of cotton is worked up.
We shall be told by the Free Trade party
that this state of affairs is not a consequence
tected already. These persons reason very
specifically. Although coarse cottons arr
sufficiently protected trer ones are not anC
, the consequence is that all the American
. mills have been driven to the manufacture o
coarse musins, thus increasing the competI
5 ton on branches least able to bear it. TIL,
o increased quantity of cotton goods Of films
= character, thrown upon the American MAJ
4 ket from abroad, paying very little duty Of
the ad valorem and foreign valuation system
: has further tended to interfere with the sal
y of the home made article. Another reaso
II exists in the depressed state of other branch
es Of business. also caused by the tariff
which renders that class of community whic
principally consumes coarse cottons unabl
- to purchase as freely as formerly. These
and other causes traceable to the ruinous Ell
fects Of the tariff of '46. have depressed til
cotton business to the verge of ruin.
e The iron business, the great staple manu-
Il facture of Pennsylvania is still more depres:
ed. In the eastern States the furnaces. rol
ing-mills, and nail factories, in nearly ever
, case, present the solitude and desolation
!, the ruins of The5es and Palmyra. No fire
- are seen on their hearths, no hum of indu
IS try, no indication of life and activity gre,
the passing traveller. The baleful sirocco
the - Polk and Dallas :" tariff have passe
IN over them, and hushed them into the silenC
and inertitude of death. In the West it
ri but little better. The rolIing-mils of Pitt
- burgh are running ha time one furna'
alter another is blowing out and soon the
will be no supply OF the raw material TO ket
re our mills in motion. The furnace men Ca
ed not live at The present prices, and the roln
We mills cannot give more and compete with 70
eign iron.
These are plain unvarnished facts, whia
cannot be disputed by any who regard Il
ne truth. The present il embarrassing al
X. perpIexing, and the future is gloomy, indee
er Pittsburgh, and Pennsylvania, which dePeI
no so much upon the prosperity of our ma
=, ufac' turing operations, have but little e
" couragernent for hope and confidence in Il
future