Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-12
PROTECTION.
The scOurge og the EabOgine
CIassea.
From the National IuteIiigencerI

/ From the National InteIigencerl
/ The LateUi9eRceT hiss much deecanie6
/ upon tbs viciousness Ct shat is czlleG
/ The policy OF protection. Il is a policy
1 tnaJ fatteCs capital and claes-iateTestf
/ from the hicad and fsEh and sinews O.
I POOR labor The protection spoken o. 4
that which the wolf gives to the lamb
1 l. has been stated, without eOntrsdie-
/ tiOD, that The protective system has Gu
eb.ed Eastern class interests to augment
| their capital eight times over. II IL
/ known that during the war many @.
them declared dividends, OF made yearly
profits apprcxlmstiDg one hundred PEI
cent.
We would Ike to have seen Ia Mr..
Washburue 8 speech-sn apparent pro-
grslm r the policy os the coming ad
ministraliJu-io -iomsthing 70 give hope
that the Immense Iargesses that labor
nov pays geaIiy TO the class interesjs oi
the Elsr aCOUld be measuTRbiy prefer
miLted.
We would wish to see movement il
some superior quarter Of Republican au-
thOrity for a IeimpositiOn OF the i've per
cent. eZCiAi3 upon home manufactures,
WHICH, FOR eleciioneeTiag purposes, Wert
taken or ore year since. This fact v as
great shame ia mgrican legislative his-
tory. lNhat q picture it IL to sea the
fathers % tie Republic stripping pool
labor VI its robes, and casting them al
Ia5 eef cf ihs monster class mouopOlies
o, The E Ct.
Sscrrsry McCul1ch estimated the
lCes oi receipts from excises by ths infs-
m7u5 n 1asure ia question at $50 900 600.
All this bag-to be made Up by agricul-
tggai, mechanical ard operative labor.
Why should not Congress now relieve
the latter and replace the burden upon
the blcsted E2sters manufacturers
Were it 10 d. - the heavy duties UPON
tea, sugar, CoiP5e and salt might he vast.
iy d, 70 the advantage OF the peo-
pie at large.
Ia other days, patriotic American
statesmen had HOg the sudacity, OF
rather the disposition, to tax to any ex-
tent the four commodities we have men-
TONED, namely tsa, coffee, sugar anu
salt.
Behold the M glituds OF the imposi-
lion upon the people by such taxes as
seen in the following taUis from the New
York Tribune Il says
The following schedGie shows the re-
suit OF tle calculation Of the duties pay
a6ie or thusa kinds OF imDorts which We
cannot prstuc7. and to which, therefore,
he priEeiri4 o. protection has no 8ppii-
cation o.asT than to demand that they
be as io7s as possible. We inCiGie sugar
and maiass5s il this statement, because
our L~gi-iin7 product and cur maple
syrup and ~ Jars are so Inadequate 10
supply rhs demand that these are as
uecessarig r iclss Of import as II We
pr Cuc -i a3I- WhAtGyer:
n rala t... 8: .tes OF Tariff. Tarln Value.
Coco s---.--....-.4 rff per 10 on
-5H lbs..... ei27 74] sls3 70.
Coz ..,.........sr i5-r lD On 2l2,-
1874 - tiT'.........-.-l2r 6O9, ,6Z3 p 9S3 tbN
For ign CHS. t.-r8ge p@re-. 81 500 l25,Il8
Prec-ou stones 5e- cen4..-.. lv0,L0O lOd2,45a
N1uuart.r,> a5 per ccut...-.l0 4, $40 I30Il.s SO
SOIt ana -.r
e'Eu IS AIS ..-1 par ceut-.-.... T76qsG 3SsiGS3
spice --..-...-. o. rC. ge f...... i;sj2p al III
Sugar - r gas % peril
oG i.-a, -4 JOSS lbs 81, COO B46iGS 81
AiH .4-.'ii-..--'.... per . o. Hr- a.
.ufVi .aIi1nB... $4,000 l2G-J,0CO
t--a-....-..... go par 10 ON 81
U.3. s ..i--...... 90 t91i llUsj,ln
fiu--..---. "a v-ras5 40 Ier CEN l72f i7i 8Gl22G16
Foreign IS ilts Az 8 % par gal
O-t-- gj t=u gals, $1,000 4asl ,8O1
To,a,-.- si42, lC4, ,755 slSG7a3. 100