The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1870-10-13
THE TARIFF ISSUE.

The tariff issue is raised very directly in
the contest in the Third Congressional Dis
trct, of Ohio, between l.. ID. Campbell and
Robert G. Schcnck. Both Of these gentlemen
have been i'll Congre IS, have been Chairman
of the Committee Of Ways and Means, and
have reported tariff bills. Mr.. Campbcll's
bill, in 1857, which was passed, made IN ay-
crage duty upon all the articles taxed of
fourteen per cent. II was the lowest aver
age OF any tariff for sixty years The tariff
erages torty-siX per cent, or nearly fou,
times as much as the law his competitor
framed or assisted to frame. The great OBJ
pressivencss of the Schenck Republican tariff
strong illustrations of Mr.. Campbell 1t
takes torty-one pounds Of wool now TO buy
forty pounds of Liverpool salt. In 1860
twenty pounds of wool would suffice Com
pared with the purchase of axes, we find
that fifty pounds OF wool, under the Demo
cratic tariff, would buy thirty-thrce axes,
while now, under the Schenck Republican
tariff, it will only get twenty two Mr.
Campbell continues the subject, and says
"Takc wheat In 1850 ten bushels Of wheat
would bny seventy five pounds of Sheffield steel
in 1870, under my competitors tariff, the farmer
can only buy with ten bushels of wheat t1y-tiNe
pounds Of steel. The duty under my tariff wa, l.,
per cent, and under his, | believe. Is or more.
We win take wheat and cloth In 1860 one hun
bred bushels Of wheat bought >eventy-three yards
of al-Wool cloth, weighing fourteen ounces to The
yard duty 24 per cent in 1870 one hundred BUSH
els Of wheat will only buy tfy-llvc yards Of the
same cloth. In 1860 a lahorcr 1T 4 dollar and a
halt day could buy, With one days work. eight
and one-thlrd yards of flannel; now in 1870, VITA
a day work. he can only buy five yards.
Take the seamStress-the widow, if You please.
of soldier, who is somewhat skilled in that LING
working for fifty cents day In 1860, Il woman OF
that kind with one days wages, could buy ten
thread; and now, i'll $50, under the present tariff
she has to sew two days to get the same amount OF
thread. SO these ladies, if they had just as soon
sew two days as one to Get the ten sponls of thread
ought to go to their husbands, and brothers, and
SWeethearts, and tell them to supper. my good
looking competitor, General Schenck and leave
me at home.
''But fellow-citizens, let me call your attention
knit goods, hats, and goods composed wholly OF
wool, valued at not exceeding forty cents a pound
there is levied twenty cents; on the same goods,
valued at forty and not exceeding sixty cents
thirty cents and over sixty cents, and not exceed
ing eighty cents, forty cent; and over eighty cents
fifty CENTS and, In addition to said rate Of duty
lnrty-tivc per cent. nd yalorem. desire the gen
leman to explain to YOU why it is that he makes
that discrimination between the different grades OF
cloth Why didn't he make it all nd valorem
Th!, coat that have and the coat that General
Schenck has on, both of them being pretty fin" arc
neressaryslisht, and the coat the poor man, the
aboring man, the mechanic wears, being made OF
coarse and heavy goods, would probably weigh
three or four pounds, 50 that if my coat weighed
only one pound would Get oil with paving only
seventy-tivc cents duty, while the poor man. with
Il coat weighing three pounds and ah,lf, would
pay one dollar and sevcnty-ive cents | want to
know why it is that he makes this discrimination
against the man who wears the coarser goods 4