The Present Tariff and the LOco-Foco


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Better take what we offer you, is the insult
inp admonition of the Free Traders to the Home
Industry of the Country If you don't you vii
fare worse Such is in effect the threat of The
Evening Post, Journal OF Commerce, &c. Who
are you, Sirs that so threaten us who IN sub
stance brand as monopollsts' nne-tenths OF the
Producing Glasses in the Country? The Tailor
Shoemaker, Halter, as well as Farmer and Artl
san, are all protected by the present Tariff; how
do you propose to punish them IN case you ever
have the power But we are not yet vanquished
Messicurs and till we are 1t Is idle IN you tt
proffer terms of surrender Wait till we ask
them!


The idea that the Vandal Tariff bill is any
sort of compromise between Protection and Free
Trade is simply ridiculous. purely and wisely
adjusted Reuenue Tariff with no idea of Protcc-
ton. would afford more rea! Protection than this
bill does. The levying of Twenty Dollars ton
on Rolled Iron, and of thirty per cent. on all
Manufactures of the same, is clear discrlmina-
ton against our Home Industry. The Agents
of British Manufacturers can inundate our Coun-
try with their wares under this Tariff, paying
less duty thereon than our artisans oooutd pdy
ON the ra,o MATERIAL Yet this is called Inciden-
tai Protection and we are told that 1t gives our
workmen thirty per cent advantage over their
foreign rivals! The cheat is transparent.


Now compare this Loco Foco legislation
against Home Industry with the Whigprovisions
on the same point in the present Tariff. After
providing effective protection to our laborers by
cogent specific duties on almost every possible
variety of Manufacture of Iron, the clause is
wound up as follows


Pyovided That all articles partially manufactured not
otherwise provided fer sha the same duties II wholly
manufactured find Prortded atS0 That no articles manu-
factured from steel rod hoop ether kinds OF Iron,
shall pay less OF duty than chargeabe the mater al
which composed whole OF ~ pat[ paying the htgh.
est rate of dutu either by weight value and duty IF


fifteen per aG valorem the cost othe article added
thereto"


Phe clause of the present Tariff of which we
have quoted the conclusion, has set thousands of
wheels in motion, securing employment and far
wages to many thousands OF American workmen
who but for it would have remained idle or made
quately employed. 1t has been whitfield away,
as much as possible, by Treasury construction,
and now the whole clause with the provlsos
above quoted are to be expressly repealed by the
Van Buren, bill. But it is not yet law by con-
siderable, and it's advocates may well go on
with their operations, and not waste their breath
in calling On the friends OF Home Industry to
surrender. If they want our arms, let them come
and take them!