New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-21

putting l6 pcr cent ad valeras upen Cd ousiit,...
rom saxony down through al Descriptions =
snoddy and trusting TO their oustom-house oicers
to use their eyes and do their duty In the M.
miseIs While this percentage sharply apui.d
France may hold her own against the tbou,.,s
forms Of imposture that are practicable j,
broad cloths. On glassware mirrors. ana
plate, 8-k0 cents per pound and 10 NJ,
cent must be entirely sufficient protection sg.p.s
England, although she has been improving create
| of late in these manufactures. Glass sbow. -.
qualities clearly, and the fine products of Franc.
are in danger Of being matched in market nri..
by inferior goods As in the case of CUTLERY N.
purchaser knows what he is getting, and The he.t
article OF the kind will hold the market agsi,h
all rivalry Again, on cordage and cables.
| coarse artces-the French duties average a.
high as ours; and so. through all the schedules.
the rates Of duty are in the measure of tina
threatened mpetiton-always protective. and
never losing that aim for any other object. Ths
free list takes the same explanations the artclss
in it which France produces or manufactures
are those in which she is safe in her own mar.
kets against English rivalry, and those that Gator
into her own manufactures.
w. The completely and minuteness 70
vehemently complained Of in the Morrill, tariff
are simplicity itself as compared with the oassif.
cation of the Golden schedules. Flax and hemp
yarns, single unbleached, single bleached OF
dyed, and twisted uubleached, twisted bIeached
or dyed, are put into "a classes, and under 90
many different rates Of duty. Linens have ~
descriptions, determined by the number Of
threads, ranging from to "a to five square
mllimetres. These qualities are run through the
several conditions of unbleached, bleaohed.
printed, and figured, with the duties raised ia
every case; the lowest at 30 francs, and tha
highest at 535 francs por 100 kilOgrammes, GEO
pounds ayordupois). Jute yarns and tissues stand
in the tables in equally numerous descriptions and
varied duties; and in cOttons (by the way, the only
example of mnuteness and completely in the Nor
Yi tarf) the classification is carried to the extent
Of providing different rates for Is qualities of sings
unbleached yarns, Is Of beached Is Of dyed. ID
kinds or qualities of twisted in two strands, kinds
of yarns of three threads, and As kinds of warped
warns with the duties raised according to 6neness
I4O times, raised from 10 ceutimes to francs pee
kilogmmme (22 lbs) OF the cotton tissues We
have given in our table only the coarsest, the me.
dium and the finest qualities. In the schedule thera
are eight qualities The de4arir..;oon Of ono will
serve as specimen. 1t reads thus: Cotton It's
{" sues weighing III kilogrammes or more the 100
square metres, OBS threads or less to the square
miuimetres so centimes per kilogramme."
The Morrill, tariff, compared with this infui.
tisima graduation Of qualities and rates and COM
plexity of calculation required at the Custom
House, looks like hurried, lazy, Jumping Of tho
matter in hand. IL dispOses Of linen in two lines.
with the rates of duty and they ad ralorem. Il
puts wooden yarns into three items-the Frenck
schedule has thsty-six-and the only thread
counting it requires of four qualities of cOttons.
with a variety of duties easy of calculation 40
| fngercounting.
We need not decide whether in the averages
the Golden tariff is heavier or lighter in tue
duties imposed than the Morrill,, with which it
has been so confidently coRtrasted BY people OF
foreign interests and free-trade faucies. 1t is b.
no means easy to settle such point as this, for
il must be decided by the actual operation aud
results of the two systems. Each is in turn
higher and lower than the other, and 1t Is only
by knowing the amount of merchandise imported
under them, respectively, that we could approach
a correct decision of their relative effects upon
foreign trade and domestic consumption. IT y.
however, manifest that the French tariff 10
thoroughly protective in every item Of its sehed-
ues, according to the conditions and require
ments of French productions and manufactures;
and when this is shown, the only question in the
cue is settled concusively for all the purposes
of the inquiry.
The name of Richard Golden, esq, is affixed
to this Anglo French tariff and the treaty wears
it in his honor. His admirers talk OF 1t rs his
achievement, and as triumph Of free-trade doc
trines. Our deliberate judgment of it lie, that
there is not on record a Customs tariff that
conforms 80 exactly and maintains so efficiently
the legitimate system of protection as this one.
A hundred obsolete prohibitions were formally
repealed, and a number of excessive rates Of
duty were reduced by it, but every article 40 set
free in terms is efectually prohibited or pro-
I! tected by the superior manufacturing skill and
experience of the French people.
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