The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-15
From the National IntelligeHcer.l
The Power Of the Ciass HnteVests oi
the East-A Cabiues from the East.

The Power Of the Glass Interests o
the East-A Cabiues frem fhe East.
Some of the better portion of the Re
puolhean press of the WEST, as the Chi
cago Tribune, oppose with 'vigor th'
form OF prohibitory tariff legislation
which has its results in the fact of
prostrate commerce, and shipping In
terest so depressed that this day ther'
are more vessels at New York bearing
the British flag than of the stars and
stripes.
The tariff is so prohibitory for th'
greedy purposes of extraordinary galI
by the class monopo.ists of the East
that it has been found necessary to re
sort to the unexampled step in eur his
tory of putting enormous duties upor
what goes habitually into the uses o.
the laboring Glasses, as tea, coffee, sugar
and salt. From the duties on those
articles of common necessity most Of
the revenues are derived. The fact Is
an ineffable disgrace to our national
policy or legislation.
A few days since the copper interest
got that protection which must dimin'
ish revenues and increase the cost oi
articles in copper. Just in the ratio
that they are relieved by laying heavy
imports upon them will taxation upon
the poor be augmented, as we'll as the
cost of the articles themselves.
In view of the prospective holding OF
the Treasury seals by Mr.. Stewart, a
great panic sprung up among the pro-
hibitionists, or protectionists. The
Journal of Commerce gives some idea OF
the excitement:
"Says copperite, will he strike a
death blow at our interestsf will
he close my foundry = says the wealthy
iron and steel worker; while from Sagi.
naw aud Syracuse, and from those who
feel interested in the little islands on
our Southern coast, comes up cry OF
horror at the expectation of Turks ISL
and coming to this country as salt bal
last for merchant ships"
Says the Chicago Tribune:
"rhe Syracuse Salt Company sell
their salt for seventy cents barrel less
in New York than they do in Buffalo
and further West. There is large
tariff on salt. On the Both of January
cargo of 6l0i tons of salt was deliver
ed at New York. The cost, including
freight, was $l91O.9S. The duty on
this salt was $3353.79, or equal to IT'S
per cent. That duty is not considered
high enough, and the OnUndago Salt
Works have a bill before Congress to
increase it.
even at this heavy rate foreign salt
| is largely imported, and the Syracuse
works have to sell in New York at the
prices of the foreign article. In the
absence of foreign salt they would de-
mand the highest prices in New York.
'Tc prevent foreign salt being brought
TO the West they have had the tolls on
the Erie canal so arranged as to levy a
prohibitory rate on foreign salt
Western members of Congress who
sustain the present duty on salt compel
their constituents to pay at Syracuse
from thirty to fifty per cent. more for
salt to come West than the same COM
pany sell their salt for, freight includ-
ed, in New York. To vote to add
to that duty is to vote to add to the
extortion already practiced on the peo-
pie of the West. Twenty millions of
people are subjected to tax ofover two
hundred per cent. on salt to protect a
company which has divided two mil
lions of profits in seven years, upon a
paid-up capital of one hundred and
sixty thousand dollars"
The Cincinnati Enquirer refers to this
grave subject as follows:
"In the arrangement of the standing
committees of the United States Senate,
we notice that the following chairman
ships were given to New England:
Foreign Relations-Sumner, of Mas
sachusetts.
Military Affsirs-Wilson, of Massa-
chusettS.
Appropriations-Mr. Fesssenden, of
Maine.
Pensions-Edmunds, of Vermont,
District of Columbia - Hamlin, of
Maine.
Public BuildiDgs-Morrill, of Yer
mont.
Auditing Committee of Contingent
Expenses of New Hampshire.
Printing-AnthOny, of Rhode Island,
"Thus we see that of the twelve New
England Senators eight of them are
made chairmen of important commit
tees, such as the Foreign Relations,
Military Affairs, Appropriations and
Pensions. 1t thus appears that New
England, which has only the population
of Pennsylvania, is now running the
Senate of the United States. 1t has
been so ever since the Republican party
came into power, and will be so as long
as it is retained in it. New England is
the head and the West the tail of their
organization"
Now, in view of facts like the above,
we ask how are the burdens imposed
upon agriculture as a leading interest,
and oflabor generally, ever to be lifted
while the vast power Of the Secretary of
the Treasury, aud the Speaker of the
House, through his appointment of com
mittees, are vested in Eastern men, who
act for the class interest of the Eastern
monopolistsi
The Speaker of the House is from
Maine, and was a Pennsylvania by
birth. The Secretary of the Treasury
is from the seat of the manufacturing
interest in the East; and so also is the
United States Attorney General. The
weight of Cabinet power and influence,
so far as men are concerned, commences
near the Pennsylvania line, and proceeds
northeast to find five of the seven men,
bers. None are selected south of Mason
x Dixon's line, and west of the Missis-
sippi, even unto the golden realms upon
the Pacific slope.
Saving or CattIc,s Horns