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/ The average of the above prices from 1915 to
1925, in which latter year the Erie Canal was
opened from Lake Erie to the Hudson River, was
63 ccntsp per bushel, and the duty on importation
| 20 cents per Sc lbs. From 1926 to 1880, when
the market for Domestic Salt, in consequence of
our Canals, became greatly extended, the average
price of Turks Island was 53 cents, although the
duty remained at 20 cents, the same as in the
! former period In 1881, when the duty was re-
duced to Is cents, the price advanced to 62
cents. when, according to the Free Trade theory,
| it should have declined. 1t is worthy Of remark,
that in the same year there was a great falling
off in the previous annual increase Of Salt manu-
facturcd at the Onondaga Salt Springs in this
State, and the amount paid into the Canal Fund
from the State Duties on Salt was little more
than in 1880. By the Tariff of 1882, the duty
was reduced to 10 cents per Sc lbs, and by the
Compromise Tariff Of 1888 there was pros
pective reduction from that rate, until it reached
cents and 6 mills per Sc lbs in 1871, and last.
ly 20 per cent on Home valuation in July, 1912
AS the present Tariff, which fixes the duty at s
cents per Sc lbs. went into operation on the lst
September, 1912, the 20 per cent duty lastcdonly
two months, during which the price of Salt de-
clined to 231 cents per bushe From 1882 to
l64l, the average price was 80 cents, and the
average duty about cents per 56 lbs. Finally,
ourlast quotations, for December, 1913, show the
price to have been 80 cents per bushel, small
advance on the previous year, and the duty was
cents per Sc lbs. in both years.


If the price is controlled by the duty levied
on the article as contended for by the free ira
ders, we ask them to compare the price in 1915
with that of 1929, the latter being onehnT that
of the former while the duty remained the same.
How DO the free traders account for this ? We
know very we'll that prices are affected by the
supply orthe article in Market and the latter by
competition, but this does not accord with the
free trade theory. Again, does any one believe
that the price of Salt would have been as low as
it is at present if the article had been admitted
free of duty from 1915 to the present time, and
if the Erie Canal had not been constructed, as it
would not have been, if Loco Foco counsels had
prevailed in this State. thus leaving our people
to depend entirely on foreigners for supply
of this necessary article Now, our Onondaga
Salt Springs supply about one-iourth OF all the
salt consumed in the United States, while nearly
another fourth of the consumption is supplied by
the Salt Works west of the Allegheny mountains.
During the last War, Salt was sold in the interior
for four dollars a bushel-a heavy burthen on
the consumer, which early and efficient Protec-
ton would have prevented.


Quantity Of Salt manufactured in the Uni
ted States.-The next table we present, is COM
piled from the Census, and shows the quantity of
salt manufactured in the United States in the


wear 1899 as follows: