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The Tariff Resolution

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
August
Year
1870
Copyright
Public Domain
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If it was the design of the Rcpublican Stato Convention to comtnit the party to botb sides of ilie tariff question for cimpaign (urpuj'-H, but practiuv.ïïy to the polioy of taxiagall that the iiicneys o ruisüd rwy be arlit'd, in j part, to enricli the fyw, the '.riff i tï'UlOf tbe pla'ffTIB üswer the pui pose as ■ ell as cuutd lo expeclett. That "a tüti'} for rovei.no is indUpensabln am;l should nr udjuted as lo be 1. ist rt judicial tu tbe industrial imd proilmii'g Iliteitits óf uil cVses," ifi ti.xacily what i claimcd liv llmso wlio l'ppoaa a taiiff lor uuy oiber pupose thun to raise revenue. Il 'm Dut ti tl e t a riff of ts;l(', et. n ni'do of laxatinn. tlist objeotion is ma.le, but to any scnh' ui d ities comrivid to ensillo fuvoritc c'a.-ses of manuiaè iiriun capitalista to advance ilie pric8 of their wbits ut. thf expeDwe of coiishhits A taïiffoi that Bort is pimp'y clnss Itgislation, and u-nd to huilt) up o!iroxiou inoi.of.olies. Any lariM iiddn to the cost to the 0H8Utiier preoiaefy tbe amount of the duty ; if that goes into tlie tieasury it is so lunch tax i-olleit'd; if it be jmid to or.e of ho pet niaiiufactiircrs, it is go inuch exicteil under colur of law, to be addcd to his fortune. In cae dulios nre impos'd upon iniports of SUcl) kird na are also mainifio tured in this country, our manufactiirers are protected ugaiott foreign compoli tion, n aivanoirifi the prici-s of ilicir O'idf ptccircly so ïnucli as the tariff ncrens s the cost of the tnporled gnods In effect, therefnre, the duties fall upon all ronsumerrt of the nrtic'e in questio:1; but f rom t lic ecnsunuT of the iiuported goods, it ia collecled b_v the governtnent for the revenue; from tbe cotisumer of the düint'stic goods it is eollecied by the miinu'acturfr to cnrich hiniself. - Wb.tt is claimed by the revenue relormers is that such a tariff id taxation ol the people to eni icb private indiviiluals, an invasión of personal rigbt, and prijudi cial to the industrial and productive classes, who are is well corsumers, and, unies extravagant and invidious ditiujtion8 are indu'ged in, comprino the etitiro population. A tariff, ihen, sn ailjusted as to be ut:prejudicial to the industrial and productive classes, would be one under which all the motieys throuyh its operatiou extracted froiu the pi opio would go into the nationul tieasury. Hut the rcsolution is not for a tanff of that sort. Il is ijuulified by a dtclaration for "eecuring to the home producer a fair competition agahist foreign producfrw" - "coiiipetiiioi),: sccminply, iiaving been carefully substitukd for the as equiroosl expression "prott-ctioti.1' Now, what tbe few, Hpeeiíl, maaufacturng home producers, who alone ak to luive laus passi'd to i!lcr!■ae their ravenues, from the bogiiming have clainied i-, tbat their business is iu an iulantile t!!ge, aml can not fairly compete with forcign manufacturcts. That they might oouipete, they have ncver atk d, hiid without doulit evpr ili ask, for the imj pisitioD of u duty upon the fonign ninufaetured produot, so that tliey can make a correspondïng artvance in the pi'iccs of ho produe b of their establighnif tits And j'riiutirg that. the resoutio") means inyltiiug, whioh, pt-rhaff, is open to 'doubt, it is tlut f ach of uu tuanufac'urers as are iven to complaint t!iat iln;y eau nut fuirly eotiif-eto niMi foreisin uianufaotureri', should lo enableil to do so by a tariff whioh, iu the mauner we havo iii'lic-t il, tiill taz 'he wb"ln peoplef'r tticir udividiiMl benefit SI Idly piit, lhi i- the doctrine (f n r.ivi uue t .ivitf wi'rh incid "t i protic tion, vvhiih, direct'y s:ated, in that ,lut:of shouki brf iuijiDSOti out y on foreiuii ■uauufuctui ■ d goids of suuh so:t as are utaniifucturid luie, so thut our nianu facturera an oollect from doiiicntic conBumeriJ pr cs.ly an mucll as ihe griveir:iueDt colleut8 ol the iaipoiUr, for céve i uo. I ineaHü laxitiou fur joint nci-ount of 'hw governmotit uuil favored rnnnufactorcn, and it eavc.s the que"i n (.'pen to a gunietii as to how uiath protretion is in-ceKSM' y tó en:. ble iur luanufaciu'crs to "i'aii ly" cojnpe'e wi li toreign proiiuecrs, lo suit the bentinn.ii' of every IdCuhty. As to wbat de.ro .f protrctiiii is necessary to secure to uur inmufaoturers such fair competí :ioa the res Ju ion is emphat'caUy non cotnmital. Evidentlj the pirty managers were afraiJ to niako i square dce'aration ol their principies upon tliis gubji'Ct, and it is really left to the canddate for Cm g'csp, each for hiniself, to tuke Lia owii poMtion uu to it ; for we do not bclieve ■ bat anj uuce:ta n uttfirancc, such as t'iat of the Stilte Uonventiun, will at this jnoctore satisfy the populnr detnnnd The hole que tion O' tui i f f is now reiuced to tliis : Either the man ufacturcr has a riglit lo have hU bus - nesi made more pri litable by lans whtcli in etltut, compel punple to ay more for bis wares tbmothers if pormilted, would sell for, or he has uot. All quegtions as to how umch shall be so exacted from ousumers for the mauufacturer's bounty, are identicnl in principie. The penple understand tt, and if we mistake not will be apt to di'tnaud uuequivocal defi nitions as to the pojitiou upon it, from every aspirant to CongroPS.

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