Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-05-03
EsRICHIxG THE 5MANUfACTUR'
ERS.

matter of cotton ties alone. he COT
ton growers each year, pay to SIX man
ufacturers OF ties some hundreds OF
thousands more than they would nave
to pay for the same article manuiac
tured abroad, yet they are not sa'is-
fed.
When we come to recapitulate, the
many articles Oh which the people
have to pay bonus to the compare
tive few Eastern and Northern manu-
facturers, the fact becomes apparent
that the tillers of the soil are the
beasts of burthen OF the favored mo-
nopolists of this country
While raw sugars from Havana are
admitted, free of duty, through the
ports of the Pacific, and for a very
small one from the West Indies, the
sugar refners are protected by a high
tariff in manufacturing these raw su-
cars into crushed, TO the detrlment OF
the first-elass article produced by our
mills.
Yet. we have self.Styled progress
siye men who tell us that the pro-
tective tariff of the Republican party
is lust the thing to be maintained
It is apparent that the eyes of the
pcople are being opened on this I'M
portant question, and that the DEM
ocratie idea of "a tariff for Revenue
ooly.ni is the one which the men are
going to follow mp, who want to eX-
tricate the country ont of the hands
of the insatiatc monopOlists.
Import duties should be imposed
mon a few articles only, so that the
manufacturers viii be compelled to
aid in extending our commerce all
over the world, instead of riding tc
death, almost, the agrlcnltnrists o.
tue South and West,
The following extract will give an
INSIGHT into the question at Issue:
There are only six or seven manu-
factories of iron cotton ties III TN
countrv--tvon Ohio and the other
in Pennsylvania, the largest being Il
Pittsburg. These ties are made 9
hoop-iron, but as they are a specla
fabric with peculiar fastening, an
are made, not in the usual form {
hoop iron, but in the form of ties, tn
treasury department very proper
distinguishes between them and hooI
iron. and decides that the duty on I'll
latter does not apply to the forme
1t makes the duty Oh ties 30 per Gel
nd valorem, while the duty on hool
iron in +! cents pound, The o
method of tying cotton bales wit
hemp rope has been discarded, al
The cheaper and better iron ties a
now employed exclusively, and it I
ouircs about 100000 bundles
them q year to supply the planter
The question whether these ties sh'
be subject to duty Of 35 per cent
valorem as a special fabric, or
classed as hoop and iron and made
pay j. cents a pound twice as gre
4 rate as the other--involves abe
100000 q year; and the point at
sue, next to the proper construct
of the law, is whether the hal1-dol
hoop-iron manufacturers in Penns
yauia and Ohio shall be allowed
extort this extra amount OF MOI
from the cotton ralSers OF the SOU
or not. The manufacturers plett
that the treasury ruling is great
Justice to them, inst as the new t
land manufacturers Of knit 20
pretend that a similar ruling
these goods is very injurious
their vocation. But, suppose
treasury shall alter its ruling
decide that cotton ties shall
4 duty of Que and a half cen
pound-about 80 per cent al vi
rem-would not this be a far gre
Injustice to the cotton planters,
buy and use these ties? The dut
l3c pound, which the manota
rers demand, would cost the pla
5000 900 Il year. 1t would be
hibitory duty: it would prevent
from being imported and give to
haIf-dozen home manufactures Il
,popoIy of the market with pow
make their own prices, 1t W
in short, deprive the govern
of the revenue it now receive
imported ties and place the pla
at the mercy ofthe halt-dozcn
hined manufacturers III two st
Yet these manufacturers have Il
frontery to say that a ruling
prevents them from roboing G
planters of 100000 q year Is "