Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1867-03-06
How the Tariff works.

Following interesting article:
Say the cost Of making yard Of cotton
cloth is eight cents, the tariff is six cents per
yard An English vessel arrives in Boston,
freighted with cotton cloth. The owner
steps on shore and inquiries what the duty
is. He is told that it is six cts. per yard,
this added to the originsl cost Of the cloth,
makes it cost him fourteen cents, and the
expense of bringing it across Tie Atlantic
once more, so that when he goes to market
with his cloth, he is obliged to charge fifteen
cents per yard to get his money back, and to
make any profit he will have to charge seven.
teen cents for his cargo. A Lowell manu-
facturer steps up and offers goods, Just as
good, for fifteen cents, two cents less than
the importer can sell at, the results the i'm.
porter withdraws from the custom house and
departs with his cargo. He pays no duty
to the government, and yet the man who
buys the Lowell man 8 cloth pays seven cents
more per yard than it would have cost him
had there not been duty on it. And tho
Lowell man pockets the amount. He gets
the tariff and not the government. This is
no fiction it is exactly the case Hence
we derive no revenue from thisclasso Of goods,
the duty being proihbitory, and yet, the con-
sumcrs--the farmer and laborer--pay seven
cents tax on every yard Of cotton cloth they
buy, and it all goes to the manufacturers
Hence the high price Of cotton goods, and
not q cent of this additional price goes to
pay the public debt This will hold good on
nearly everything the farmer uses, on all bis
impliments Of wood, iron steel and bras
Their prices are enhanced and yet no revenue
accrues to the government from them because
the high duties exclude foreign competition.
Thus it will be seen, that in addition to the
$500, 900, 900 paid to the government fully
as much more is paid to the Eastern manu-.
facturcrs.
Such is the tariff as to the manufacturer.
There are some among us who think the
system good one. But if good system
for manufacturers, why is i. not equally as
good for agriculturists Suppose an English
vessel arrives in Boston freighted with for.
eign wool, and ties upto the wharf side by
side with the vessel freighted with cotton
cloth; why is the owner of one cargo per.
mitted to sell his load without paying duty
while the owner of the other cargo is taxed
a hundred per cent for the privilege? Those
farmers and workmen who have just voted
to retain the high tariff party in power cau
have the use of our columns to answer.
I'M
AFFAIRS IN UTaH.-General Hazen has
addressed letter from jefferson Barracks
to Representative Bidwell, who had request.
ed a report of his observations upon affairs
in Utah while there in October last. He
says: 81 think it important that the Gov
crnment should in some way strengthen its
authority in that Territory, and at the same
time increase, by whatever means possible,
our friendly relations with those people, and
elevate their intelligence until they come to
feel that they are part of us, and that we
are their friends. Harsh measures will only
the more strongly consolidate them-it can
not much more deeply cmbittcr thcm-but
of all things be awake to the real state Of
things growing up in the centre of our Ter
ritory. The lands of the Territory are still
held by the Government. If it is the in
tention to give actual title to Mormon occu-
pants on the same ground as to other emf
grants--and do not see how we can do
less-a land Office should be opened there
and commission appointed to settle conflict
ing claims. AS general thing there will
be little trouble, as they have very correct
land system of their own, to make it con-
form to the Government system. The long.
er this is neglected the more trouble can be
expected in reconciling claims
An ANEcDoTE WORTH PREsIRRINa "A
Paris correspondent guarantees the follow.
ing:
A Frenchman, prisoner in Edingburg,
having managed to escape, took refuge in
the powder magazine. When the authori.
ties wished to seize him, they found hi& sit.
ting on barrel with lighted match, and
threatening 70 blow up the town. The au.
thorities reflected prudently, and the result
of their deliberations was that it would be
better to starve the Frenchman out. But
they reckoned without their prisoner, who
loved good cheer, and was determined to
live well. In consequence he called out
that he would blow tho town to pieces if he
not get three meals day; he would write
out the bill Of fare. Swaney succumbed,
and the demands Of the prisoner went on
increasing. Sometimes he had serenade
under the window; then review Of the gar
rison, aGerwards sham fight in which the
troops representing the French army beat tho
Highlanders. At last he exacted that every
Sabbath morning, before breakfast, the
Lord Provost, in full uniform, should make
his appearance and read an address, This
lasted until the allies entered Paris.
nN~ A newly married lady in Pittsburg
has been surprised by the receipt Of let
ter from a former husband in California,
whom she had supposed dead, stating that