New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-02
HOW THE TARIRF Is OPPOSED


% rics rs,pectyely What per cent. will it average
" on Iron 7 How do its rates compare win tne
8. average of those imposed by our former Tarih'
90 from 1916 inclusive 1"--and nine OF them, un-
less they refuse to answer at all, VIII 80 answer
=. 70 show beyond dispute that they really know
nothing about this Tariff, and are merely echo
ina the baseless denunciations of its newspaper
assailants. . .. ...r.-.. IL. ....I. -
The Herald Of last Sunday affords fair sam
ple of these attacks. Hear 1t
- THx REPUBLICAN PARTY THEIR PRoyzsioSs VoR THE
PooK-Durins the late Presidential campaign Repuonosn
orators. and writer's tired OF talking about
a. oor Of freedom free labor and free everything else AL
M inds. were also to be provided with free farms What
- pr.ecesf They have passed Thrift which impo es
nrohory taxes the importation Of hedry wooden goods
such As ot cloths used by the masses for overcoa and also on
oay,, blankets enne brcsdclo'h' heavy COARSE carpets
hosiery &C. while fine qualities Of brOadclOth' cassimeres,
blankets Aannels &c. chiefly by the rich have light
a iDpo,ed upon them as they all taxed by weight
The only answer that this wretched dema7
oop,,e appeal requires is simple citation of that
section of the new Tariff which imposes duties
on the various WOODEN Fabrics. Here it is
rerbatim, from the official copy Of the act, pub
lished by order Of the Senate, May 6:
ssc 49, And beabs further enacted That from and ser the
dsy and year oc shall be levied collected and paid
i. on Wilton ss,Ony and Aubu.son Administer patent vel
vet ourpay velvet and tapestry velvet carpet. and csrpeng
BIa.se, carpet. wrought By jacquard machine and all me.
dalton 81 whole Ss .aaps % Valued over S'P?
sr Soc PER square ysdprovded carpet rugs Ofthe
az on u..e. sid tarsity Brussels CARPETS and
pe,ing printed the warp or otherwise PC per square yard
ON all tiebeinz.in and woIed chain Venetian carpets ana
earr,tng Csc per square yard hemp nte cspeng &C.
per ,quss yard dutse bookings and ei carpet. and ca.
other tnds Of carpets cafens flax cotton
parts Of ethel or Other maer por G Tbs, md. .creen
bedde and other portions Of carpets or car
ps 'hs pg ls ssSse,sr az on III other ms screens, has
socks and rugs duty Of 30 per cenum sd yaloTem
wool Of every de,crpon made wholly In part q wool n9
for Sp "a Of 10 sSG SSSSf
per and bsnkeng for printing machines - per eeniu
on q, SsI, vso'S SuSd SoT. cents per .aTe T
and on a.nn.s coloed printed or ptded and hAnne' %
posed P s o. cs"m aa vsoTeh on WOODEN and
valued at 50 and not per pound u cent, per
nS u dd Ssn per pound
and addition thereto Is per eeniurn I'D vaots os n n
round and moi exceeding knenes number fourteen - per
ID vaSI'S sISs'SS Ss apparel
every composed wholly CT II part Of wool mace "
IL ssE. Per PodRd and in addition thereto q
I'D yaOrem on blankets Of al Kind, mace ace oS there
p Sss duty Of .iI cents per pound and In addition
hound but not exceeding 40 per pound there sh Dc
CHARGED duty OF cents per pound and 10 aoo & corJ
,s. ss be changed duty u pound snd u .da
ton thereto % per esn,gG ID G s co.. ssmposa nasr
duty Of per pound and In addition h'I'o " per
IA On All dne. Cashmere deisine' muslin dslsines e.ies'
desne composed wholly or 10 part Of wool fsy o.
s ssq ps or es"m a. roem on bunting a. .,.irsd col
Orsd printed and .. 81 oIhs s,s1 so ohsrSie pro
| yided for % per eentum al vsloism -, . 1919 -,
an On OIL .o1 .i sS aus. ysd 10 osaum
valued so 'qSse yAid aud oa all ''hs Oh e'
30 per cenium ad vaorem
Reader will you compare carefully the above
section-and it is the only one that imposes
duties on Wooden Fabrics-with The HeraIds
defamation Does this section impose prohib'
&" tory duties on heavy wooden goods Does
it impose such duties on " coarse blankets, Han
nels, broadclOths, heavy coarse carpets, hosiery,
&c." and admit fine qualities OF the same
fabrics at /" light dutyi" Just mark how e.
actly contrary to the facts are every one Of
,hooe assertions See the nner ana costler VIII
ton carpetings charged fifty cents per square yard
and the coarser and cheaper but forty; while If
any are so fine that fifty cents per yard would
he less than twenty-five per cent, they must be
made TO pay that higher rate, whatever it may
be. See Venetian or trebleingrniSs Competing
twenty-five cents per square yard and hemp or
iute but four. See the tax on the cheaper fan
nels OF twenty-five per cent, and on the dearer
of thirty. See the same discrimination in favor
of the coarser and cheaper fabrics carried through
blankets, and almost everything else, and judge
what must be the honesty or the trustwOrthiness
of a journal that can thus falsify the most i'm
portant aud accessible statutes.
If this were q single case, we might judge it
charitably, but it is not. For example, The
London Times misled by the furious din raised
by the importers organs on this side asserted
that this Tariff imposes duties Of fifty 10 t,oo
hundred and fifty per cent. on Cutlery; and those
organs all copied the article without whisper
of correction We promptly exposed the mis-
statement, showing that this Tariff imposes duty
of exactly thirty per cent. on Cutlery Of all
"kinds" (sec 22), which ia precisely the duty
imposed on Cutlery by Robert j. Walkers Dem
ocratic Tariff (sce Schedule b.. Here is this
awful Black Tariff Of '6l-that is going to stop
all importation and reduce our city to ruin
imposing precisely the same duty on an important
class of manufactures that was imposed BY the
Wanted Free Trade Tariff of 1916; and yet the
people ON both continents are told that enormous
prohibitory duties Of so 10 $50 per cent. are I'M
posed OH Cutlery by the new Tariff and wher
we correct the misststement, not one OF its In
dorsers retract the falSehoOd. How is the
country to act intellgently On great questions i
such recklessness may pass without rebuke