Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-16
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without whichGit must lose its ability to
discharge its obligations3E What else 4
Why the widespread general ealamity
which must follow, such a stoppageT lis to
I,1verspread the country. You break down
Interests with Millions of capital invested,
You prostfate hard dzWorkings industrious
lsi;onlmunitfes, you create distress,Y on scat
I ter ruin on ever hand, you arrest Oational
progress and national DEVELOPMENT. lit is
the old stOry." "--Yelc York TribuReesI,oU
p We can endure i good deal, Of hypocriti-
cal cant and mend aciopsI lying. but the
above mess of trash is rather more than
flesh and, blood can bear The defeated
lobby Vultnrss must have been in an awfnl
frame Of rtatiId to haze caused their organ
| to spew forth such stuff, just consider {;
place a. few facts Ia contrast with the reck-
less assertions contained in this extract:
. i. The present tariff averages fully Jfftt-
'si1 per cent, in gold, on the invoice val ua-
ton OF; dutiable imports while on most of
the leading articles which compete with
hoHe-made goods and wares, the existing
duties range from so to 100 per, cent, as the
NeU 7 York Tribune very well knows. .f.,R
2. The highest internal tax ON any arti-
eles of domestic Manufacture, whisky, to-
baecO and refined, petroleum excepted, lis
ont five per cent. in currency. or three and
a half per cent. in coin, while s0R Nlarge
range of domestic manufactures s the int"r-
others the excise has been reduced to three
and two per cent. s79gTo1Ia u DOB Ghtiho
g., Lastsummert Congress repealed taxes
on mestioamad0f1Uetufes toltheSextent or
forty millions; and made two additions to
the tarif+the first imposing heavy duties
on. all Canadian products, and the other,
the act, of July 2S, 1866, increased the tax
on everything from five to twenty per cent.
Why does the Neto FORK Tribune decline to
state these things? at5-3 snii1D i'7h0| ~ =,
4. The session of Congress Just ended
has again reduced internal taxes, and this
time to the extent of fifty millions-one
halt of which comes of domestic man ufac-i
lures and on the same day this was done,
heavy addition to the tariff on all classes
Of woolen goods was made, for the express
purpose of enabling domestic ,manufac-f
turers aud wool growers to charge the
rest of the community thirty or forty per
cent. more than their stuffs would fetch
without such special legislation. f.--yrU 4ri
! Thuswe find that, within the past ten
months, Congress has repealed one-third of
the internal taxation on manufactures, and
within the same period has made three con-
siderable additions to the previous high
Tariff. And yet we are told that Congress,
by such legislation, repeating internal and
imposing more external taxes, is rapidly
Distinguishing the mechanical industry of
the country" We are told, also, that 'swide-'
spread and general calamity are impend-
ing" because Congress failed to heap more
taxes on imported property, Is not such
croaking and deception disgusting and
contemptible? Never since the, landing of.
the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock was the
tariff so high as it is now, and not for four
years past have internal taxes been so low
as they are at present. If manufactures
are not flourishing, if industrious cemmu-
mites are distressed" it 'ENational progress
and development are arrested, - it is in con-
sequence of an excess of tariff, which has
so increased the cost of living and produce
ton as to destroy commerce and the ability
of the country to pay for its imports with
its exports. When the tariff, six years ago,
was but third as great as now, manu-
factnres Honrished in wonderful degree,
and the gold value.of a, single years me-
chanical production exceeded two thous.
and millions of dollars. Will the prohibit
tory maniacs of the New York Tribune put
that fact in their pipes and smoke tt?