Show tho tax on imported pods is DOW universally called thi tand A tariff is therefore a tax and any who denies it is a fit for an insane asylum the result of tha tariff then in nearly all cases is to increate the prica of tha article to lh consumer the will nut be denied by any one the alavo r quoted from the columns of a local democratic organ and it is with tho fear of being called a lit subject fur an insane asylum that we venture to deny it however reason helln us that the writer of the above i regard to a protective tariff duty lefiad on goods that can bo produced in chis conr itry is paid by the foreigner our hata tho advantage of tha to tho extent of the duty imposed and the latter reduce hia price the amount of the tar iff leviod in order to sell in our markets in tha casa of free trade tariff a duty is imposed on such articles as aro can prodica t homo and the foreigner ol 01 absolute control of the market hence if we buy his products must pay his anco plus the duty levied by the government budar a protective tariff americans do not have to buy of foreigners uner a tariff for revenue only wo do under ahn former foreigners come to us and want to cell under the latter we go to them and want to buy under the former we say to the foreigner you must pay the duty if yon would sell in our marketia marke under the latter we must pay the duty assessed and there id no way of avoiding it unless we can entirely do without auch articles the say ahat our people can make choir own woolen good their own prints and calicoes cali coes their own steel rails their own nails and own tinplate tin plate hence assess th foreign articles of that kind and let t ie foreigner reduce his price it ho to campeto with our home manufacture but our country is nt adapted to the raising of tea coffee or rice and the 0 illy lot such goods enter our ports free of duty the reader can understand that our denial is logical and truthful huce ho will know that the following il a balsa falsa assertion but thy tariff has another i raises ue price of all domestic manufactured goods athe country we should ba pleased to have our one single article that dearer now thin in that logoua lo noua free trade era of alia country that we read about wa atiat every iu this aate ia chaapel now than twenty five years ago when the protective djs tem look the 0 the democratic free trade policy I 1 wo are gioi correct will our democratic friend gleaso name an article that is dearer we suppose be trill be able to do the adiv a bertion is made vry emphatic aud of course tha writer ii able to bak his t on |