New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-22
Nh. UELLSS TARIFF PROGRAMME.

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One of the meanest tricks of the Free
! Traders in the West is that whose aim is the
! Indictment of Western hostility to Protection
as device for the special benefit Of Ncw-En-
gland We call the attention of these persons
to Mr.. Weiss programme of Tariff reduction
as follows:
"The Commissi oner recommends:
FIRST That the importation OF hides md skins ~
ry description and all leather except morocco npanned
patent leather be hereafter admitted free Of duty
- en-. Il: That the importation OF hcnock or other
hail. ,.ed 20 tanning Of sumac, and OF the fabrics OF
wool known as lasn su serge, when the same are wo-
ven or made I'm patterns Of size, shape and FORM and
cut in such manner as De NJ TO- shoes or booees
clusively and not combined with Indn>rubber.
Third: reduction Of tho existing dciy Of nine dol
lars per tun on importation Of pix iron 10 10 three dol
Fourth: The abatement Of the duty on salt and the
removal the duties coal and on manufactured lum
ber Oh the general ground that the benefit likely TO DO
experienced by the few from the continuance OF these
taxes affords no sufficient compensation for the detment
which these continuanccs to entail on the many.
rim: The entire removal Of all duties imposed upon
the importation Of coal on tho broad general principle
that tax upon coal is not jusGblo except In the
OF such extreme emergency would justify tax upon
the brcadstuhs aud food Of a nation.
Sirh: A removal Of all the duties the importation
foreign WOODS ana general or
the duties manufactured WOODEN fabrics OF every do
scription TO % per cent. al yalorem ..
SeUenM On copper Ore, entire removal OF all duty
"On bronze Dutch metal Florence leaf, In leaf
powder entire removal OF duty is recommended. On
crude sulphur soda ASH chloride Of me waste paper
parto barley hatcrs and cut furs silk plush. silk Innings
and hat bands, entire removal OF duty is also
mended. On gunny cloth aud bags, he recommends
ducton OF the duty from three cents per pound to one
Comments by The Tribune.
/. Hides and skins are eminently Western
products, largely purchased by the East.
Leather is produced for sale mainly in this
State and Pennsylvania-Ne England buying
largely for home use and for sale as Boots and
Shoes. New-England could stand this. ... ..
III. Tanning barks and their extracts are also
largely bought by ngland-not sold by
her. Hastings she has just begun to make,
under the impulse of the Woolcns bill of 1867 ;
ard it would probably ruin two or three con
Germs to adopt Wellss recommendation but
New England buys more Lastings than she
SELLS and would not suffer by this change.
Ill Pig Iron, though largely used, is scarcely
made in New ngland, save by the solitary
Democrat now In Congress from Connecticut
and few of his constituents in the most Dem
Ocratic corner of his district; so that New
England would be less harmed and morobene-
fitted than any other section by reducing the
duty on Pig Iron from 50 to SO per tun.
". Salt is largely consumed, while but
slightly or not at all produced, in New-England.
Lumber is not produced there to half the OK
tent that It'll is consumed there. If any
section would be benefited by the success of
these recommendations, it must be Ncw-En-
gland
v. New-Eugland buys largely of Coal, yet
produces none whatever. She is near the Nova
Scotia mines; she alone would be able to buy
her Coal cheaper if the duties were abolished
VI. A reduction Of all duties on Woolens to
2j per cent. would hit some of her manufacto-
ries staggering blow; but then she buys
largely Of Wool and Dyestuffs, and has used far
more imported Wool than all the rest of the
Union |; so this item would have its compensa-
tons. The new Wooden factories, run up un-
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