, 1870-05-04

uaks eunuEh to supply the dae5fsd. Is co1aes
- ballast n ahps On shetT. Hay fIoto LdTaFpoo1
for load Of cotton, aud hfnSs ne pfsoe aadeo
By the taziN for the reason that the syrscnse
salt would. il sent, cost more on account Of
the addition Of freight ths1 tho imported n
tic1a
Philadelphia ahips petroleum to Liverpool
and the continent Baltimore shps corn,
wheat, cotton, tobacco and oil Gaze. 49, Aeisa- si3s
cotton and tobacco. Charleston, Savannah,
Mobile and New Orleans ship cotton: 4 vessel
owner sta1t5 from Liverpool for PlulsdeIPhIa,
for instance He tzkus out as ballast csSgo
Of salt, costing in Liverpool from 5000 to
IS, CO. Tho tarin makes it cost $50 per cent
more Ihe load Of petroleum carried oaek 1s
worth frorn. $50 0g0 To 81, 900, upon which ha
does not pay in Europe any tariff Tbs
salt is = expected to pay the expenses
Of the hip over, and the profits arc derived
from freight charges on the petroleum. The
Syracuse monopoly, in reaistmg tho reduction
Of tho outrageous taziH On eal, haye succeed
ed in crippling the business Of exporting Pc
hpleum, by causing ahfpoWnerB either to re-
fuse to como at ali or to charge EXCESSIVE
freights on return cargo, which Is, Of eourse
The great decrease in shipping Of ali kinds
since tho oxorbitant duty was first 1eyied Is
partly OWING to this fact. Apply the principle
to all ports in tho United atates and the fact
is IN each case the same T. IL argued here
ks4A4 tuG 58tkuAH NuIhS LII lkE9 Ytt1k~
ern Pennsy1vania and Western Virginia works,
and the Louisiana Salt Islands, domand pro
lection with Onondaga. This is untrue Sa-
ginaN does not ask for protection except from
the Syracuse monopoly The Southern people,
Of the Louisiana Salt Islands, say that Il tie
attempt to get salt from those salt beds is
successful thoy viii not need protection, and
that while the experiment Of developing tho
mines is being made they ask ehesp salt
for the people and de- not
as revenue for the government The naines
Of Pennsylvania and West Virginia do not pro-
duce more than enough salt to supply their
near ueighbors. Now, while Syracuse taeka
the argument to tho tail OF their petitions that
how the miners themselves want it admins
tered They aro struggling to keep up, not
against the tsrin, but against tho Onondaga
Salt Company. This company sell them
goods in the neighborhood Of their mines, il
need be, at half The price they Do At Syracuse,
the market for the local product. They make
any sacrifice to run all opposition out, not
content that the Saginaw people ahau exist
with them, or Pennsylvania or West Virginia
make enough salt to pack tho winters pork in
the counties where the mines are situated
; BIZ. Wells in his report, and others who have
written on tho subject, have shown the out
rngeous ctIe ct OF compelling the consumer in
Now YoIk1nd the Eastern States to pay this
enormous tribute to q single gripping mo-
noroly.
extent that the bounty paid In the tariff levied
for the sole benefit OF the monopoly tends to
inju1o the Western farmer By Gripping the az
port trade in grain and his other products to
njuze tho Southern planter in that it injorea
the export trade in, cotton, tobacco, DC, and
depriyes him Of cheap aud highly efficient
fertilizer. The proviHiou packer, tho fisher
man, the chemist also pay tribute to Syracuse,
and every mar. woman, and child in tho United
Stntes, being obliged TO use salt as one OF tho
prime necessities Of life, Is, TO greater or less
degree, directly. or indirectly, forced to con-
tribute to the already enormous wealth OF the
Onondagn Salt Company.
Bat Of one thing tho people may be assured.
Congress is, .notnithsta anding tho efforts Of
Mr.. Denis Mccarthy, opposed to the duty on
salt, and before tho adjournment, II the Judd
graph reducing The duty on that article atleast
one-hslf. Mccarthy Is beaten Qby actual can.
vnss Of Congressional votes), and ,sa1t will
certainly DO reduced II the present tariff is
altered at all.