Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-02-19

co"HS " tUe N tSSeSS1pPe. As before stated, ]
the total home product for 1856 is but !
Toe, 900 hogsheads; while TIE merchants of
the Mississippi valley alone purchased at
New Orleans 142, g53 huyshea.is in 1855. !
and 131 ,027 hogsheads in 1856, besides the
consumption of that city and It's neighbor-
hood, which reaches about 10000 tons an
uually This leaves the whole Atlantic
ea-board and the Pacific coast to rely up
on foreign markets for their entire supply;
and the question for this Congress to decide
is< whether they will continue to enhance
its cost to the millions Of consumers who
are TO purchase it, by refusing to abrogats
a tax which Is as needless for our revenue
as it is oppressive to those who bear it,
Even this, however, does not put the case
as strongly as the facts warrant; for some
Of the burdens Of this tax are felt even by
the States for whose almost sole benefit it
isievied. In Louisiana alone, which in 1890
produced Just nineteen twentieths of all the
cane-sugar raised in the country, its city of
New Orleans, in 1856, imported of foreiga
sugar for consumption IL. $40 tons, or over
%, 0OO. 900 pounds, fact which is certain
" full Of significance in its bearings on
this question. Another fact also, remark
able in its character, is, that the duties paid
on our imports Of foreign sugar during the
last''year amount to a considerably greater sam
THAI IL scould hare cost to purchase at Ha-
rama all the sugar raised In our sckole cossn-
try during that tscelremoath. In a word,
that it would have been cheaper for the Uni
ted States to have abolished the duty, and
given every sugar producer In the Repub-
lie bounty of the total value of his crop.
Itmay be replied to these arguments, that
If the duty is removed. foreign countries
would increase the price to the same amount.
But this was not our experience when tea
and coffee were placed on the free list some
years ago. Though now enhanced in price
for reasons to which it is not needful to ad-
vert, no one pretends that the repeal OF
our tariff upon them had any such effect or
tendency. Great Britain is not compelled
now to paw more for her flour imported from
America, the Baltic or, the Black Sea, be-
cause, in compliance with the demands OF
her people, her Paxliment abolished the du-
ties on this necessary article of food. And
neither viii oar citizens suffer il, in the ar
ficlc Of sugar, conceeded to be nutritious in
its aualitica. and, therefore, akin to food,
their Senator'S and Representatives, repeal
an impost which places almost the only lux
ury OF the poos man 'ao'e peyohu lie
reacn; Vn tne contrary, no sooner was 'h's
rePeai moo.ea, 'nan we neaiu ,ulhors ilcnl
cuoa tnat II wcnld oe borrowed up on tn ne
Par'' Il suessS:.u.' y we aolosa.lon "a ~.
..mos' Pronloi.ory ou'ies now lss,:u Is
souniervaillns tax upon .I illlp1s'a',ons .
nour rom our pI',S % 'lei,', mus opening
new anu sa IW n,al s =, .iol 'le siea
staple oi Inc W. est. anu 'he nlsh pre-
exls'ihs lor all articles o OF looa = an aadl
s'onai arg .iichs why uoseI''llen' s'loui'
no. assist m increasing them ~ any ''Ae'
"a1en are el.nsr oneroas OF nes ton.;en u,
10. .ho,e VINO aasoca'e : ls....on u on an'
onty Ior tne oenen, o. me sorghum OF IN
nese susar-eane, winch = ~ De eAenS'se''
's'ed All over 1ne country "a; P; !. .s sea
son nsea on,y aeP'y INA; :; .,.,aS &C. J.
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