Western Statesman, The (Newspaper) - September 8, 1842, Marshall, Michigan t AJ V y VOLUME r r From Raymonds et w tions means being AS in long the and Sesame large is up A tariff is the state im on the importation of foreign I ihe question who payi The commonly doctrine has that the consumer pays the whole the duty any considerable of an ar of is ol pro it is perfectly manifest that the consumer does not pay the whole duty on I the foreign articles All admit that and do I article of ihe same must bear Ihe j same in ihe same If then a duty of twentyfive per I raises the foreign article twentyfive per it will also raise article I twentyfive per Hence it will follow that if one half article of be a and tho other half a I foreign a duty on the foreign which produces n re venue of one I million would be a burden of tax on of two millions of I and if the domestic product should constitute three fourths of the tion of the then a duty on the which should produce a i of a million would be I a burden or tax on the oC four millions of and so the burden or i i the of a pounder two hundred tind fifty thousand dollars in gross on charge of thai amount produc and transportation to which must be equally shared by the producers and and therefore an addition al duty five per cent upon an article of the whole of which L f M t M is of foreign price of that article lotho will raise consumer the at titles of the and comforts of at enhanced Any considerable increase of the duty upon an article wholly of foreign produc would undoubtedly affect the price so as to fender it but even this increase of would be as by fhe erroneous calculations of sis to the effect Of the duty as to the lar calculation that Ul Ul uw instead of 25 per Ithe article would rise in the full be sent to our although burdened an impost of or thirty This then beinS the of tbe additional and the merchants would hold expecting to realize that and inthis way the article be kept above its proper ad for a short time mistake to its proper which foreign to an of the whole of which is of foreign how will it be with regard an a part is of production v Suppose there is no duty on woollen and that the United States would half the amount of the y consume woollen to the amount I The of production in the world of twenty mil lions of and that tert is much greater than the means for con millions are of and ten millions of foreign Government lays an impost of twenty five per adva equal to two millions five hundred thousand dollars on the foreign The question how much will this duly would be in proportion tts and hence there is a constant tendency in the supply to exceed the de Hence uniform tendency to a reduction in the price of all espe those which the ingenuity and pow er of man can multiply increase the price of woollen goods upon being one of the laws of the an average in our market How much I permanent effect of a tariff of ever so will it the price to the consumer I great a per never can to raise the w i i 11 I Af per in addition to the cost of ma nu There is not a or woollen manufacturer in that could afford o send their goods under the pre sent and yet every manufacturer in England may fine it for his ad vantage to send a Tew per of his annual production to our under a higher drily than we have to de termine which is the policy for to a constant and regular of goods from at fair by securing to them out own or trust to the chance of from the sur pluses of tbe English at less than the cost of manufacturing and importing the of the principal of those who oppose the encouragement of domestic manufactures an increase of impost that it were an upon the It is a sound maxim of political lhat the imports of a nation and will ul about equal its mer chant who cargo oi goods and ordinarily an equivalent for ibis equivalent must be and the amount of the revenue which the govern ment will receive for the will be in to tho rate of impost Lf the duty there is fairly the higher the impost ihe as that of Hp first I ihe House had no right appoint such a at The he that when ft is wim lite objec it shall be and although the appointment a committee isone step of such a he maintains that arguments of the as not better thus settling to his satisfaction that the House had no right to appoint such a proceeds to debate the first discusses the that the President is a branch of the Legislative and that lie Has rightfully exercised his rogative In vetoing the several bills which have been laid before He goes on to review lha doings of the and o the present tea ng which t lie cites of poi which he he contends that the in the Little Tariff of suspending the was in fact the enactment of a distribution law appended to tho revenue 1 Ho thinks it a great mistake to suppose that there is a ny issue between the President and and that the issue is between Congress and the Country 1 This is the of his whole It is a mere repetition of the shallow try by which the apologists of treachery have A IT f h AMBLES UNDER root AND VIOLATES tu OF NATURES as may be Seen by the is oho of the cardinal principles of Loco It is advocated defended in Washington the Albany Richmond and the Loco press thro the politicians preach it up at the corners of the and Legislatures and of sustain it in their and their andi wheb President backs with Loco Focos laud the of tax oe m price of an article of domestic the Unless a high rate of hP domestic product was greater than the the amount of is Tha tendency of a tariff is to keep the has the effect to the ex to twelve and a half per on twenty market at its present by excluding a it never can have ihe effect to diminish IUJ 1A I f I AM I 1 a conceded that the of the portion of the foreign until ihe do more extensively tvn article is produ An impost ol five per on Supply Comes up to the ced or manufactured in the the half of ihe of the coun which caa never be at a very distant pe 1 Uter the duty on the foreign which by the supposition is the a unless there is some imped o J f I tn thn in certainly is than impost or highest on those articles extensively on the whole consumption manufactured in the and lowest country I can see no upon wholly of foreign any the whole con Bat if it DQ true of should be char x J n tno coun the pie whole any t In ng than to he and the duty which the impost imposes upon those articles lhe most extensively produced or manac But 1 deny that the consumption o in the country and highest upon country is burdened with any thing those wholly such like in conse j r of an 25 We have already sect that when the whole article is of foreign as en which an impost must be when this comes to be the then prices commence again to The different tariffs passed by Congress have never afforded any encouragement to domestic by raising the It is net however true that the consum er pays the whole duty even upon those articles which are wholly of pro and more not upon production a large portion of is of by the and the other half sc the and consequently an Lef United Stales impost of twenty five per will only as they were in when the the price of the article to the con ntli ment went into en a half per and for mainn that same reasons I now freehand no impost on any article consumed in the ID this stale where one half of the article consumed is of suppose the nation to of and the other half of foreign an article wholly of Woe eign lo ihe amount of one on ion of dollars in Suppose Ihe av Average price of ihe whole III im i price of coffee to be twenty cents a both domestic and only six and a which would make the quantity quarter per f All flint consumed five millions of pounds a I and thousand dollars on same price in the same market AH admit that the domestic and foreign article of the same must bear the The for which a duly equal eign article must lall to a level with to twenty five per ad or five and the domestic rise to the and it with the Adu y of twenty post of five cents a pound on How hve per on one half of the con Lch will this impost raise the price y and a half per ou Uie whole cou to tln firt eo to dimmish the the price will aud The nation has been in the habit of paying a and a million of dollars a year for and the I Tsay it must be shared equally between people the producers and tbe is from their other ordinary the natural consequence of mutuality fee ail additional sura of two hundred the buyer and the iic price of trie domestic article above what it was at the time the tariff was These have v pro tec ted by excluding a portion of the foreign and thereby enabling the domestic manufacturer to sell his pro ducts present instead of selling them at reduced The effect ot a tariff is to prevent prices from falling so fast as they but for the No tariff for protection ever has or prob ably ever will high enough to enhance the prices of the domestic It may perhaps be asked why it that the manufacturers are so zealous for an increase of the if an an impost has so slight an effect the price of their goods Two answers may be given to this 1st The manufacturers are not themselves of the slight effect which an impost in any have upon the price of their goods in antici pate much greater effect from such meas that possibly and their zeal is in proportion to their Although a tariff may have little or no effect upon the price of yet its effect the prosperity of the country may be extensive and very An additional price of a or even of five millions of ordinary expenditure of the country when paid to our own may be of very little consequence to the nation yet ihe on the will aug ment A high tariff or a prohibitory on and woollen may dim nish i be revenue on woollen but cient duty on all other it will augment the revenue on unless the value of exports is What probabili y is that a protec tive which will have the to aug ment the annual product ofa nations indus will diminish the value of its exports It is no doubt thai the proportion of our exports to our production is every year and has been rapidly diminish sought to defend the grossest assumption of tho most undisguised contempt for the will of the and the most alarming usurpation that have ever been attempted of the It is perfectly hollow and inconclusive and no man can read it and in the light of the first principles of out being more thoroughly than before is a of the Peoples York A SHIP OF It is mighty problem to contemplate all the essential elements con with the construction of so massy and stupendous a a ship destined ing for many years past will continue to perhaps forever but the of our exports has not and never will and of coarse oar revenue trom imposts will never bo di unless shall be for the terrible purposes of what effect na it is upon the ness of he Mechanic Let us will take one the Tariff her gone down to its lowest ebb under the com there has been sin gle cargo into France of thousand pair of These Boots are now like from the corners of the at from eighteen to twentytwo shillings per pair wno are benefit ted by this operation the French being enabled under tbe present to introduce their Boots into our arid undersell our own manufac obtain a new and pocket tho amount which they formerly paid under the Tariff laws and which went towards defray ing the expenses of our Who else aro benefited For the life of us we cannot Is tho farmer To be sure his Boots can be purchased for less but how jand where is he Jtp obtain Tlie corn vent him from soiling his there to any advantage freight for transportation to come off of being will amount to a trifle with the other loss which must inevitably be sustained from its perish able Therefore the if he seeks a foreign will a vastly the average rate of doty la although pay and fifty thousand for this single consequence of the laws of snp of They will and ir the or fore use coffee wilh more has the power and the right to other for and ill this way put his own price upon his Ihe buy diminish This will er or consumer has an equal and produce a partial glut in the not to buy at or to buy at his The producers pr is the own Igo further and that ex cepi for the absolute necessaries of the the exclusion of that of foreign which shall at the same time afford an additional market for that amount of domestic will have a very salu Cary upon the whole Wilh who understand ihe the object of an additional impost is not so much to raise the price of as it is to afford a market at present tho gross amount of oar exports is greater now than h was twenty years and prob ably will be greater years it is yet we do not export so great a pro portion of the annual product of the nations labour now as we did twenty years and probably shall not export a propor tion of it twenty years hence as we do But all the nation wants of a revenue from enough to defray the expenses of government and as the expenses of our gov are not likely to increase in a great er ratio than the amount of oar there is no danger that the revenue from imposts will not always be folly adequate to the pur poses for which it b Some politicians seem to suppose that the test of national prosperity is the proportion which the exports bear to the annual product of and that the greater this propor the greater the This is most certainly a fallacious mode of estimating na tional wealth and The newest and least improved country always exports the greatest proportion of its and ol coarse impacts the greatest proportion of its it will hardly be preten that the newest and most coun tries enjoy the greatest degree of prosperity and thing will not f iof is flve cents get necessity or to than the A to a the amount oi the consumer is to and therefore the lat producers are all as anxious to the 1 ter will have the most influence on the consumers are lo consequence and upon ihe will lhat they must reduce An of twenty five per and I maintain that according ad valorem upon ac one half lo the universal laws of which tween seller and and of supply and that the price of instead of being enhanced hve be enhanced two and a half a In other the impost must be equal ly shared between the producer and the instead of paying twenty cents n pound as will pay about and a haU and is possible for the English manufacturers to send their goods to our under a tariff averaging more than twenty five pec ad if point of fact the duty paid tho goods their price in our market in so very trifling a de We haye been and I admit the fact to be and woollen goods can be manufactured in 001114 iry very nearly as cheap as in There is no great difference in It being lhat the produ cers and consumers share an impost duty be tween it as a large propor tion of the duties is paid by it is ibe true policy of ihe country to keep up a high on foreign It also that if the English tariff on American goods is higher than the American iMi English then the people of the e magnificent voyages it has to cross wide and agitated at times by the of the subjecting it to strains of the most formidable kind shall possess mechanical strength to and at the same time be adapted for stowage and is expected in all cases to overtake the ene and contain within itself this materiel of a six months many other complicated inquiries which the naval architect has to must all be involved in the general conditions of his the elements of which he must esti mate while he is rearing his mighty fabric in the and be prepared to anticipate their before he launches his vessel on the turbulent bosom of the Charles Emperor of when he abdicated a and retired to the mon astery of amused himself with the mechanical and particularly with that of a He What an egregious fool must I have been to have squandered so much blood and in an absurd attempt to make all men think a like when I cannot make even a few watch es keep time PITTSBURGH Glass of all descriptions is manufactured in this and this fragile production of her factories fee we are in elegant mansions of New and as well as in ihe log cabin of the western The cut glass made here is of excellent white and very The cutting of glass consists entirely in grinding away successive portions by hold ing the glass the surface of small made ol metal and are made lo revolve means of a reduced profit upon his surplus And how will he find his home market The if he pursues his must sell his and he cannot sell them unless he puts the price down to a level with the imported No man will pay five or six dollars for a pair of when can get as good an article for leas than the If Boots are manufactured a sold the wages of Ike be put down low also With low two shillings a day for his Fr manufacturer pays we journeyman Bootmaker pay the samp for his his his Certain v He must pay or eat Then will the farmer have less which to pay for his Bat maker is driven from his bench by and as the Free cates say he should to turn his to agricultural pursuits in order to stcur the surplus produce of the i try will of necessity bo the same tho home market is deceased Then will the fanner receive still lessor the produce of his is tt mer The Boots upon his fe can get cheap but he mast sell his cheaper still But look must be and how ill lo be done Under Tariff laws a the money is raised from a tax upon the ii ported the remainder upon other im i M J It under the Trade raise the price of the whole consumption of the country only sis and a quarter per and lifts increase of price will be re in proportion as the domestic pro duction In theory I appeal to the about twentytwo aug A half the producer instead of receiving twenty cents as will puly about seventeen and a half the The on the much in his compel tl iff laws that have passed by Cong WHee an article is ni the no induced any perceptible effect upon is W consumer unless buy tf his own more ao for the e the various tar Jailed States contribute towards the support of the English han ihe people of England contribute towards the sup port of the Untied States government MEL Our readers have already beyond with cordial approval of its labor in the two countries and at any rate where machinery is extensively used the manufacture of an the ihe masterly Report of the venerable upon the latest Veto of John in the compact and forcible ence m the price of labour is not great enough lo majie any material differ ence in Ihe expense of manufacturing the How then can an English manufacturer pay a of twenty cent on his and still sell them far so small an advance in onr market Tho is to be explained in this what greater than a HOB tbe price off aaaS ol most be sold at reduced pn a great Protest of die ol it in the that tariff of This surplus is to so t DOI accidental and utterly every pretext urged in justification of his course of conduct especial reference to the Revenue he haa strangled ia its We believe with the Intelligencer that this will become the text for the whale Whigs all over the irom which they draw whole some of instruction to iha young aod confirmation to the ia the at thy of this meal maintenance pf ia their ancient Us b given by wheels of after wards wheels of iron arc having their edges covered with sharp or with emery ol The last polish is given with brush covered wilh oxide of or To prevent friction from exciting so much heat aa lo endanger the a small stream of water continually drops upon the surface ot the One of tho principal glass manufacturers mentioned an amusing inci dent Indians had been as a lion to about some reserved and they few days here on their One of a had seen all that was curious in Baltimore and Philadel phia without being much While here he visited the and watched all thf various operations with At length he saw the process of making some cream The body of the jug form ed and when the for the handle was formed it was found to be a perfect Seeing all produced the Chief him no rushed forward to ihe took him by the And declar ed tha spirit of the that money is put into the pockets o the French and carried France thus enriching him and from us what little specie we is the alternative It is pip support derived from a Direct Tay ine p When the fanner is to bear he must prepare himself to the Taxes which are already onerous ana to pay ah immense So say Free Trade sjy Loco Foco say Loco Foci members of in their speeches lay vales are benefits of Free Trade to W farmers it the of iq do not bow to live Marshll wer in in their vindication ofi as yet received only Owl of W t Where thrift doth fowning doubt tbe Father or hj could not have
