The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-16

our expenditures OF not less tnan ~ eOO 600; and II
the new regulation as TO the whIskey tax, should
prove practicable, there Will be much greater re-
duction This Will leave us net loss of revenue of
$1,000 900, and with margin OF SCI 000 900 Tor the
reduction OF tariff duties. Upon what articles and
upon what principle shalt this reduction he made
The House OF Representatives propose to repeal the
uties on coal and salt, articles largely produced Ia
this country, and on teas and coees, which are not
SALT 81, 5s7 lea sS3!2e 94; coiee, sos 0os;
In ALL s2lO06,O56, or just the amount we are able
10 repeal Why single out these articles Tor special
repeal!
COAL Production AND CONSUMPTION.
The whole quantity OF coal imported last year was
431, Jos tons. The amount Of bituminOus coal pre-.
duced this country last year is estimated at
or an aggregate OF a. 100000 tOns SO that the i'm
ported coal Is less than one and one hall pet cent or
would inure to the benefit OF Nova Scotia and not
TO any part OF our country The cost Of the pro-
Of Of s Ioa M hxe Re the Price and the
foreign coal for the benefit Of Nova Scotia miners
and Iand owners, or more especially for the benefit
oil American spectators IN Nova Scotia IL Will
not appreciably inure to the benefit OF our con-
sumers. To the precise extent that the repeal In.
creases the Importation OF foreign coal It will di.
minlsh the mining OF our own. Finding our vast
market open and free to them they Will force the
between their land owners, their miners and their
sailors. Our INDUSTRY VIII be diminished to the
same extent without benening our consumers.
Again, free coal Will nave the same effect upon
Nova scotia that the Reciprocity treaty had In
Canada-i, Will give them the
OF our taxes on home producers. IL will make the
annexation or those kindred countries impossible.
Again. IL Is gross Injustice not only 10 our miners
but 10 our shippers. by the settled policy OF our
Navigation laws no foreign vessel can carry our
coal from Philadelphia to Boston, but they can
from Nova Scotia 10 Boston. IL Is said q foreign
vessel can carry cheaper than ours. THUS
you discriminate In favor OF Nova Scotia by allow
ing their products to be carried in the cheapest ves
seis in the world while our miners must snip IN an
American vessel You must repeal your navlga-
ton laws before you can make coal free. The
vessel that carries coal from Nova Scotia to Boston
cannot carry domestic coal there, ana yet Boston
at the same moment insists upon the navigation
laws, and upon the repeal OF the duty on COAL
Again, so far as The duty on coal Is concerned, Ii Is
only claimed that 1t may slightly reduce the cost Of
coal consumed northeast OF New York. 1t cannot
AFFECT the prices elsewhere, for without duty for
egn coal will not be used south or west OF New York.
Now New England has the benert Of our navigation
laws and our duties protecting their industries.
Coal Is the finished product oil the miner as much
as cloth is the manufacturers How can you con-
vince the miner that he should not have the benent
Oh coal when you demand II on cloth
TIE SALT QUESTION.
so with salt. Salt Is largely produced in this
country. 1t Is chiefly the product OF In
terror sections where other manufacture.
ing industry does not exist The chief
source Of supply IA o. SYRACUSE. n. Y; al