The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-10

become its President They will appreciate
that from that moment the glory and power Of
this government shall increase in like ratio with
the decrease of the rotten monarchies OF Europe.
| We shall then witness no more evidences Of the
| i'll will and hatred of England or France Both
of these governments fully understand that
General Grant will not tamely submit to insult.
He has way OF knowing at once against his
| enemies,r and wholesome fear of this tendency.
will cause cessation Of the hostility of the
Western Powers of Europe. The United States,
with Grant az President, will be feared and
respected
Tas NyusTrcs AND INEQUALITY on CERTAIN
| Internal TAxEs.-We have received numerous
communications complaining of the injustice
and inequality of some Of the excise duties
levied and proposed to be levied on ma
terial used in the manufacture of certain
articles for home onsumption-articles Of
usefulness as we'll as ornament. Of necessity
as we'll a. luxury. The field covered by our
correspondents is . large one, and we cannot
spare the space to enter upon it for the pur-
pose Of discussing the merits of each individual
case of alleged injustice. We will therefore
oonfine our remarks to the illustration of few
of the incongruities of the excise duties act, as
now administered, and as proposed to be
amended by the recent Congress of United
States Assessors at Cleveland, Ohio. The chief
objection, we find, is in placing heavy tax
upon material from which articles are manufac-
tured by our own mechanics, OF workers in
tho oft ri hpiO
composed of women aud girls. The increased
taxes on iron in the rough. on rolled copper,
copper ingots, pigs and bars, spelter and
smeited copper, from which innumerable ar
tices are manufactured by our diligent and
experienced craftsmen, seem unfair, when the
heavy tax levied upon the manufactured or.
tice is considered. II is the same with rough
leather patent, enamelled or japanned leather,
and the skins and hides from which great
variety Of articles are produced, all Of which
pay heavy tax, first on the back Of the live
animal, then on the slaughtered animal then in
its different stages Of tanning, currying and
| finishing, and finally in the numerous and
fantastic shapes it takes, from furnishing an or
| nsment to the toe Of lady's slipper to the top
W
contractors too, have already seized the oppor-
tunity to turn the proposed increase of the tax
on leather to their own account. One house in
Newark. N. j., has o contract for supplying the
government with some seventy thousand sets Of
cavalry equipments, aud the pay to workmen
or rather to workwomen-for the work referred
to is mostly executed by the latter class-has
hoo, ,ox2.,ond ovacS1w CTR, NOR oonf frnun hot
it was two months ago. This is the working of
braids on sword belts, &C.; and the advanced
cost Of the raw material, aided, probably, by re-
duced compensation paid by the government to
the contractors, is made the plea of making this
Wholesale reduction in the wages Of q most in
dustrious and destitute class Of people. In
cases like this who pays the increased tax, the
womens
Who can tell how many shapes alcohol
takes after it is distilled and reotiHed? From
the delicate tint and exquisite Inning
Of superb painting to the light which
is shed from alabaster lamps upon gay
assemblages of "fair women and brave
men," from the myriads Of chemical trans
formations It undsrgoes in the hands Of our
scientific savants to the choice and intoxi-
eating odors manufactured through Its
agency by the skill and ingenuity Of our
perfumers from the palettes Of artists
to the palates Of gourmands and connois-
seurs in fine wines, alcohol has always COM
handed most important aud interesting share
in the business and wants of life. By taxing
alcohol, as proposed, you increase the cost of
manufactured article-of perfumery, for in
stance-so as to enable the foreign manufac-
turer to come into our market compete with
our American manufacturers, and finally en-
compass the destruction of the home article,
and perhaps the ruin of the home manufac-
turer We do not understand that our CORES
pondents under this head complain of the pro-
justly, that Congress will so increase the duty
on foreign perfumery as to enable the Ameri-
can manufacturer to compete with the foreign
er in our own market If high tax is to be
placed on the raw article Of alcohol, let il be
put on in such shape as will reach sellers
and consumers who use the stuff as beverage
after it is manufactured into poisonous liquids
and sold in the shape of fashionable drinks
The tax on manufactured tobacco will have
similar effect in causing the foreign article to
enter our home market and come into killing
competition with our home manufacturers.
And 80 with many other articles, the bearings
OF all Of which should command the attention Of
Congress- body that should be enabled to
act as intellgently upon the important inter-
ests involved rs circumstances will admit
TAKE CARE OF THE SoLDnRs-Now is the
time for the government to take care Of the
soldiers. Give them good clothes, shoes and
tents. Our days and nights are cold, and picket
| duty il hard TO perform. The new recruits too