New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-08
TdY4TION-SAJT.

That a Copperhead should hate those VINO
lent orr Government money to be used In put
inc down the Shareholders Rebellion. is a mat
fer of course. In crushing the Rebellion, that
money powerfully aided to crush the hopes
and blight the fairer prospects of Sham Democ-
racy. The news of Sheridan's victory at rive
Forks, and of RichmOnd's consequent surrender
reached Connecticut rs her people were
going to the polls april, 'G5) and reduced
the Democratic vote from 1926 to 3l,359'
sending up the Republican majority from
9.4O6 to 11,O35. "There you, and /, and
call of us fell down." says Mare Anthony,
lamenting the death of Caesar or course,
Sham Democrat hates the National Debt, and
if he be a bold scoundrel, he proposes Its out
right reputation, like Mr.. Isaac Butts OF
Rochester; if sneakng one, he talks OF race
ing and compromising it, like The Wortd. Dut
the more usual and adroit fashion Is not TO
assail it directly, but denounce and deiame'
generally and specially, the taxes whereby 1t Is
and must be paid, if paid at ALL The intelli-
gent know that we cannot shoulder such Debt
without heavy taxation-that to denounce the
taxes means resistance to the payment or the
Debt. But all people are not intelligent; hence
we find The World stgmatizing the present
impost on Salt as "a practical embargo upon
packing beef and pork in California for our
Gown or any other market" as lone of the
"most wantonly destructive and wasteful in
stances of legislation known in history" &c'
&c. and quoting zone of the best recognized
authorities on the Pacific Coast" as fOllows:
AT present. the duty Carmen Island salt amounts
almost to prohibition and but from 5000 10 4uOO tus arc
hn
rate OF duty. the consumption OF TINS one variety @
amount to at least lSOOS tns per nv marta Of Cali
forna and Oregon by packing best ana poR Um S
which upon the Carmen Island product amounts to more
than per cent OF the original cost exclusive VI es'
%ieS would be advanced BY cheap sa these will be
ultimately very important, as the sulphIets conthlne
in California and salt in this Is one OF the principal Items
of expense" ,
Now, if these kindred authorities had
simply told their readers that the present duty
on imported Salt is exactly eighteen cents per
hundred pOundS-less than 16 cents per meas
ured bushel-each would have been enabled to
iudge for himself whether that duty renders 1t
utterly impossible" to pack beef and pork at Il
profit in California. Pure rock Salt, they tell
us, is quarried from the adjacent isle of Car
men, and costs next to nothing; but this
terrible impost - amounting to less than
twenty cents on each barrel of beef or
pork packed -compels the growers of Cat
tie and Swin,o to throw away the meat
all because they must pay the Govern
ment these twenty cents tax on each barrel
of beef or poI& Nobody can pretend that
any Of this goes into the pockets of "monopo-
"lists !" yet The World does not hesitate to
assure its readers that the Californians make
and use miserable apology for Salt from sea-
water rather than pay their Government
eighteen cents per hundred pounds duty on
frst-rate article, quarried in blocks from an
Adjacent island, and costing (beside the duty
scarcely any thing Only let their readers
know that the duty is eighteen cents per
hundred pounds. and the Copperheads are
welcome to all they can make out of Salt.