New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-03
SALT
SILT
The World reiterates its disparagement of our

The World reiterates its disparagement of our
homemade Salt, as follows:
al That every barrel Of beef and pork which comes to
HewYork TO DO shipped seas has to be repacked
with West Indian solar SALT for II left packed in American
solar salt, they dread It's spelling. q That the most
prominent beef and pOrkpackers in Brooklyn and New
York give moro money per bushe for tho ST. Martins
salt than they could buy American solar salt for That
they millions Of bushels every year, and less
likely pay than they need for It than THE TRIBUNE
Association is to pay too much for its white paper They
have tho kecnest possible interest in getting effective
sailing done at the lowest price 4. That il anybody
chooses go to Messrs. Woodruff Robinsons he
buy bag 22i pounds of Liverpool salt duty paid, for
s20s2 IO in bond for 81 40. This tax OF Co cents bag Is
IA fetter upon American industry"
Comments by The Tribune.
/. Our Government, at the request of the
Syracuse sat-men, instituted the most rigorous
test of the comparative virtues Of Turks Is
land and Syracuse Solar Salt respectively, as
preservers of barreled Pork in all climates and
under every trying ordeal. The general result
Gas reported by officers who did not know
which Of tho barrels were cured with
Turks Island, which with Syracuse Salt was
decidedly favorable to the latter. The most
rigorous chemical analysis confirms this de-
mOnstration. If, then, our City packers still
use only Turks Island, because, if their bar
relied meats DO cleft barreled in American
Solar Salt they dread its spoiling," they sin
against light and knowledge, and deserve to
suffer by paying into the Treasury the extra
price they pay for Turks Island Salt
II. That extra price is a part of our case,
with regard not merely to Salt, but to Amer
lean manufactures generally. Free-Traders
fa pI
Gas cheaply as their European rivalsp We
answer, MANY of them do; but large pOr-
"tion of our people will pay q higher price
"for foreign article than for homemade
one at least equally good 1t is so with
Salt, with Steel, with CaliCees, with Silks.
The most serviceable fabrics of Silk now
produced on this planet are spun and woven
in this country but they bring no such prices
as their moro snowy but far less durable
French rivals. British manufacturers, Ivy
using the short, cheap Cotton of India
(Surats) for Drilling, make both plain
and printed fabrics that look "a wei
as our fabrics OF equal fneness, but
are not worth 81 much, because they Will not
last nearly 80 Ions. In almost every depart
ment where competition is maintained, foreign
manufactures sell higher in proportion TO their
intrinsic worth than their upstart, pdrrena
Yankee rivals; and this is one unfair advan-
tage which our Tariff is designed to (and
dOeS) cOunteTvail.
III. Our packers, like all other sellers, must
favor the tastes and prejudces of their Gus
toners. So long as these do not know that
our best Syracuse Salt is now (as it once was
not equal to Turks Island, they will pay
more for meat packed with the latter, and
packers are obliged to act accordingly. They
cannot afford to save ten cents per barrel
on the Salt at the cost of selling their Pork
fifty cents barrel cheaper
". The duty On imported Salt is exactly
eighteen cents per hundred pounds mot busheD
neither loss nor more. When imported an
bags, twenty-four cents per hundred pounds is
charged-eighteen cents for the salt, six cents
for the bags. We rejoice in the knowledge
that this duty, beside putting large amount
into the Treasury, has tended strongly to increase
the production in the heart of our own coun-
try, and in widely separated portions OF it, of
cheap and good Salt.