Do the Opponents OF the Tariff Mean 10 be


Honest:
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This question we are compelled TO ask every
day. Surely such mis=ta.ements could not be
ignoran,y put forth as appear every day IN the
columns of the most respectable Free Trade jouE
nals-the Ereniag Post, fox example. That pa
per picks cut OF speech Of Mr. Clay a remark
that in general il may be taken as rule that
tie duty upon an article forms portion Of lis
Price" and ,hereuPgn proceeds to assert that
everything on which Protective duty is levied
IS made 50 much dearer thereby. Yet every IN
t.ligsnt man knows this is not so-knows that
our Wheat, Beef, Cheese, Butter, Gotten, sc.
are aot raised ia price by the Tariff at all in pro-
Dorlion to the duty upon them. Just so with The
article mentioned byth Pcs, which are:


O1.Chains, Sugar, Brass Kettles,


Salt. Retinsd do. Fustians,


Shirings, Caliccs, Smoothing Irons.


These articles, according TO the Post, are all fifty
to one hundred per cent higher than they weuld
De if it were not for Mr.. Clay's moderate and
reasonable Tariff" Mark it, Tariff men this
IS no. Mr. Polk's Tariff, ror is any Protective
Tariff Mr.. Folks; it is Mr.. Cldys. Pennsyl-
vania do you hear Ycttake this very picked
list Of articles ard we are ready 10 maintain against
auy one there is ne nati0n on The earth ei1se
People obic;n them SO chs1ply as do those Of our
Country. Refined Sugar, which the Post declares
20 be fifty per cent, higher on account of the
Tariff, is in truth lower (the cost Of the raw
material being considc'ed) than it erer was under
low duty. Salt and Smoothing Irons are also
lowcr than almost ever before, under whatever
Tariff; Brass Kettles as low as ever ; Fustians
as ow when the price Of Wool is considered +;
and Shirtings and Calicoes as cheap as evert they
were before lS42 and certain to go lower before
Spring. Bot what are facts that they should
stand before the theories OF the Post


1t is undoubtedly true that duty increases
to some extent the price of the article, so long
as that article is mainly imported. The moment
it ceases to be 50 imported, the price is not at ali
controlled by the duty. In other words, Rsr-
enue duty does increase the price OF the article
on which it is levied; Protectire duty may do
so, bu, oitcner does not, and frequently makes 1t
cheaper. The dutyon Printing Paper is now ten
times as much as in August, lS42, but Paper is
as cheap as ever. So Of most other protected
articles.