, 1861-03-29

1ekI@Q!!A N LIE NVl4tatEIdCE.
It then proceeds to describe the 1aW;-
using the Identical language employed By
the New York Herald: ,For. example: 49,
Tho dutieainpogea by the bill asp mot only in,
moderately high bat1hey are levtet tpon imports
orthe drst necessity. The articles taxed are not
mere 1uxuiies. OF commodities entering into tie
consumption Of! the opulent alone. tits upon COL
ton goods, woolen goods and hardware that The
imposts viii tall, and SO enormous are the duties.
proposed that the result be- little short OF ab-
solute prohibition, Cutlery Sssto be taxod up.
wards OF dfy per cent. In The lowest instance, In
the highest nearly two hundred and fiftT. In ,ad-
dltidn to this, thahiu enacts 50 many complicated
arrangements, ana throws such intefmiuable OBJ
struedons in The May of business, that commerce,
will bs next to impossible under: conditions 80
Difficult ..,:'.. So: : -: 4. 8. :
The statement that the ":daties imposed
Sare immo1eEate1y high" is sheer. false
hood, without q seintillaf of truth, for {;
basis. The assertion that thetax on "cot-
@ton goods, aid wooden goods and hard.
/" ware il; so enormous as to be- almost pro-
!. hihitozy,e =, . is equally destitute. Of sub:
stance These reckless assertions are q
recoinage Of. the nnblushing :mendacity Of
the New York Hezald, and! the, wi1lful
fahrlcahons Of the. Journal Of Causn,erce:
TteAcutle1y" story We believe origii-
nated with the New: York 1zaaes, but was
quickly seized upon By the, ,saanie, and is
now reproduced by: The London 4 iiales and
retailed over Europe: The New York
free trade organs copy, the comments of
the English press which are founded on
their own falsehoods. and exaggcraions;
they reproduce these echoes Of their own
lies and parade them as original authori-
ties against the new tariff = -
We published the new tariff schedule
fewdays ago. # our readers will turn to
it they viii find that K cutlery" is taxed
on the average only thirty per cent. instead
Of fifty to two hundred and fifty, as the
London Times and New York free trade
papers falsely ASSERT, The duties on these
articles are lower than was imposed by the
tariff: Of ~, and scarcely as high rs under
the Democratic low tariff III. '46. The
features of the new tariff which gives the
greatest offense to New York importers
and foreign manufacturers is the >substitu-
ton Of specific for ad sao7em duties. The
foreign competitor must: hereafter pay &C
oording to the. weight, measure and quality
Of the article, and not BY the invoice 7alua-
ton at the point Of export The new law
puts atopto cheating ind -swsmdling the
Government The frauds that have been
committed under the tariff Of 1867 are
enormous. The Treasury has been an.
nnally robbed Of millions Of revenue by
: false invoices The amount Of perjury
committed was trightful to. contemplate.
Honest importers, who :wonld not swear to
lie, were being undersold, ruined, and
driven. out Of the market. A bale Of goods
worth. at Hamburg, say $1,000, would be
entered at the Custom House as having
cost but $500, and this falsehood would he
duly Infested and sworn to. Instead of
paying $500 on a 80 per cent. inpost, this
bale Of goode would escape with $3.50.
The Treasury would thereby be defrauded
of$150, the honest importer would be in.
, dersold by like SUN, and the American
man manuiac9afei found himself stripped o.
nau tne incidental protection which The
Law professed to give him, and lis busines.
undermined and wilIed, and himself driven
out Of the field or i nto bankruptcy !;!>c ii;
Under thead valorem tariff Of 1916, This
system OF: cheatlns was commenced, and
:: every year the operators became more
dexterors in swindling Tie. Government
They have graduated under the: tariff d
1857, which happily expires on the 1st .ol
April -, -; ~:
The per cent Of duties imposed, by the
new set average about the same as unde,
the Democratic low tariff Of 1e48 whtch
lssted thirteen. years: The tax on sottuue
artictes, which come in direct competitior
with the productions Of. our own !; nechan,
les, is a little higher. bnlt II +. inwer Or
many Other =t,inss! sugar Ind @ 1nofSases -
for inatnnce ;: : t. t5s ,;;nS;s;.rs @ 80 as - .oa.s
tar;ff rt,-,saf =. 49, = tae new
49, ,aa % aa "s steEpso W ~ 81 noles, ou'
49, ~ ogen .ae same aae1A!les 1or SYN:
.s % .a9 ,!osetnn as exists under the
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