New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-26

in our columns we reprint il entire in making it the
subject Of comments-viz:
TzrlsURY DEPAETrryr Sept p. 1853
sra The rcrecsn- and couuAlinE Of money
IN the Tr,sury render obbs thar tie rf vii b, made
tie sJpTosehs ofCozssss In TIRE
and early de- >; :y Be- "a e,,ss: Sen T5s' ne
Jrent duty The eeas o. nd1s o. ta'
eogntIy ard Of the erect 70 &c '' H proposal '''
tSderisndDs that you take an interest n t' s.a hive
given niOn 70 il and pTs. have ZEN s stuaoas e
Tce within your eaes ytIy "a; vo 81 5s-sap
md b lists Of articles nov subject to d1ty Sseh seeora
ins 70 ,ss1 ,i.v s ssS .bo 90 Il rse1ed
The ng tariff beer oesne1 generally and -
for revenue fair and equal operation ton between ne
adm The county and the various branches OF Industry
yers II v shall be made should Be arranged IS to siord al
equal participation the benefit 70 eyerJ interest nd 20 every &c
,i6r Aces which manufactures and those "hch
spo IT. which there viii doubtless Be- the question.
Pss es ees in the proposed reduction Of the Id Of s1eh
vii aoId .opoIIoss benefit ana st 70 s,y
no be rddl Te@D to sedse ths labor Of ns
M general e9h.gon s.d artiels' psylas s say
JAMES GUTHRIE, Secretary Of the Treasury.
The Tariff now importation was indeed proiessed-
" based on Free Trade principles, but it was never
conformed to them To tax Iron, Sugar and Wool
Thirty per cent yet to permit Tea aud Coffee to come
in free Of duty is not Free Trade all men do know
Our present One Hundred per cent impOst on Wines
and Spirits is not Revenue duty but in the highest
degree Observation-Disclosures Of the very meanest,
most dishonest, most pernicOus manufacture in the
country-tlat of counterfeit Brandy, Madeira, Cham
payne &c out of our homemade Whisky and Cider,
adulterated with various nOxous aud poisonous Drugs
And on what Revenue principle is raw Hemp saddled
with thirty per cent duty, while that same Hemp,
manufactured in England on its way from Russia TO
this country. is admitted at a duty OF twenty-five per
~ IL. lpff.
the day this Tariff enacted till now, we have been
foed in every effort TO elicit from advocate of
this Tariff any kind of justification explanation OF
these perncious anomalies.
Mr. Guthrie's Circular is cautiously wOrded but il
proves to us that his views are much sOunder than they
have been represented He is clearly hostile to uni
form rate OF duty or any other consistent application
OF the Free Trade dogma 10 our Tariff system. lie
plainly recognizes and believes in the duty Of SO adjust
ing our tariff to protect and encourage the more ex-
posed and endangered branches Of American Industry
He would reduce the Tariff as it should be reduced,
BY abolshDg the present charges articles produced
only abroad which form the ba Of American Manu-
factures and such others do not compete with our
Home Products. We should be willing TO commit the
revision of the Tariff unTeseVedly into Mr. Guthrie
hands, only STIMULATING that be should first all
Political aspirations and solennly pledge himself in
such revision TO regard nothing else than the permanent
wellbeing Of the whole country.
To add 10 the Free List very many articles which do
not compete with any product of our own Industry is
indeed the true way to reduce the accruing Revenue
and WILL as the Secretary ntimates reduce the amount
of Custom House labor also But why not go further
in the same direction and substitute Specific for Al
Valorem Duties VIGOROUSLY, great proportion OF
the most arduous and perplexng labor now imposed on
our Revenue officers is that of fixing the amount OF du
ties actually payable If this could be effected by mere
" putting the articles in the scales and ascertainiug
their weight not only Custom House abors but Custom
Houfe frauds would be essentially diminished. May
we not hope for SO desirable contamination
We only wish that Congress could approach this sub
ect forgetting that theme of partisan con-
tention Were that point secured, should feel con-
den that the approaching Revision OF the Tariff would
prove beneficial in many Ways !, Ia largely extending
the list of Free Articles, especially those which form
the basis OF Home Manufactures, and reducing the
cost TO our people OF the fabrics thus produced; 2, In
reducing the amount of Revenue collected, and so d.
nnisLine the public burthens and the pressure OF that
leaden incubus the subTreasury the Currency ani
Business Of the County g. In efaeing the grievoas
anomalies in our present Tariff whereby larger pr cent
age is levied ON certain raw materials imported
than on the Foreign fabrics manufactured there
from: and 4, In great! simplifying oar Revenue
System and closing to Fraud by substituting
Specific for Ad ValOrem Duties Nothing but party
spirit party drill, and the influence Of Foreign money
at Washington, prevent the prospective Revision OF
the Tariff taking such shape will prove beneficial to
all the great Producing Insetests OF the country.