Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-06-11
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The Tariff.

The Tariff.
The new tariff bill imposes duty OF one
cent pound on the low grades of raw sugar
and on syrups, which, estimating syrups at
ten pounds to the gallon, would make an ad-
ditional charge Of ten cents gallon to the
consumer. In addition it will be remembered
that our present free-trade Secretary Of the
Treasury orders that the weight of packages
shall be added, and duty charged upon them.
On the better grades of raw sugar the new
bill imposes duty Of one and half cents
pound on refined sugar, two and a halfcentsi
and on colored sugar and candy, FIVE cents.
On such qualities of sugar as are required
for table use, and for preserving fruits, the
people are to pay two and half cents a
pound tax for the benefit of Louisiana sugar
planters. To what end2 Will they ever be able
tomakosugar without this Government favor
itism? Nobody believes that they will. Neither
soil nor climate are going to be improved
by protection, nor labor cheapened, and as
the production is made by slave labor, there
is no excuse ofthe low wages of pauper labor
in Europe to offer as reason for protection.
In the case Of ron and coal there is some ex-
cuse for enormous dnties, in political neces-
sity, as the support of Pennsylvania ineeded
TO carry the tariff bill, and it is thought that
the State may be secured to the Republicans
by conceding it all it can ask on its special
tiles. But neither the tariff bill nor the Re-
publican party will get any support from
Louisiana. 1t will pocket the two and halt
cents a pound on its sugar, taken out Of the
pockets Of our farmers and laborers, and abuse
the party and the people who pay it this
tribute. No one will pretend that this duty
does not increase the cost of sugar to pre-
cisely that amount to the consumer. 1t
comes with particular hardships on
Northern farmers and laborers. The tariff
bill provides no protection to Northern
farmers which can compensate for the tax on
this one article, although it does provide a
nice protection on hay and pumpkins. The
Louisiana sugar-planters are supported by
Government bounties. 1t would be far het-
ter that they should be retired from business
on Government pensions, and the sugar
trado thrown open.
Another sop is offered to the Southern
Cerberus in the shape of duty of Fifty cents
pound on all kinds of cigars, and ten pei
cent ad vaIorem; ten cents a pound and
twenty-five per cent. Gd odlorem on leaf to-
bacco; being prohibitory on all but high
priced qualities.
Pennsylvania has, of course, had her own
way in adjusting the tariff, and has cut it
thick on every thing in the shape of iron and
coal. On bar iron, which is made to include
slabs, blooms, and every thing move advanced
than pig iron, the duty is fifteen dollars a
tun; railroad iron, twelve dollars tun; on
boiler-plate iron, twenty dollars tun; on
rolled or hammered iron (other than one
fourth ipcb, or less, iron wire,) one dollar Q
hundred pounds; on pig iron, six dollars q
tun; on hollow-ware, stoves, &c, one cent a
pound; on band and hoop iron, nail rods, &C.,
twenty dollars tun; on anchors, iron chains,
cables and anvils, one dollar and fifty cents a
hundred pounds on wrought nails, spikes,
rivets and bolts, blacksmith hammers and
Sledges, malleable iron in castings, steam, gas
and water pipes, two cents pound; and
every species of iron manufacture is favored
With similar duties while bituminous coal is
protected" by duty of one dollar tun, as
If coal could not be digged out Of the bowels
Of Pennsylvania without protection against
that which is excavated under much greater
disadvantages in England and transported
three thousand miles.
The duties on blankets and shswls are
more than doubled, and throughout the new
tariff is arranged SO as to place much
heavier burden on articles of general neces-
nty than on fine goods which are more in
the nature of luxuries. It is remarkable fOr
the enormous protection it provides for a
few interests, such as the sugar, iron, pitch
and turpentine, and the wooden manuiac-
lures, and for sacrificing the other interests
of the country to them.
Great opposition has been made by pro-
tectionists TO the dd pdlorsm system as open
ing the way to frauds; and one great reason
urged for a revision of the tariff was, that
specific duties might be substituted; but this
bill provides both Gd VaI0rem and specific
duties, even on the same articles, preserving
the frauds Of the one and adding the inc
quality of the other system.
The necessities of Government require 8
hsayy tax upon imports, and make it neces-
sary that it should be adjusted with some
regard TO uniformity, to prevent its being
oppressive. Even horizontal tariff would
provide all the protection that manufacturer
nsed-that is, if they need any, which WI
deny-but this bill sacrifices revenue TO pro
lection, and has saddled the Republican party
with system which has been thoroughly
contested in this country and beaten, anc
will be beaten again, as often as it is fairly
brought before the people. The Republican
party in Congress has taken the earliest op.
portunity to show to the country that 1t il
merely restoration Of ancient Whiggery
with the Bourbon virtue of learning nothing
and forgetting nothing.