New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-05-01


inhabitants engaged whcy agriculture, clearing &c-asa
good road led s.. Louis Is capital Trade Is
brisk enough direction silks ie"elr spices, hnery
and toocry OF all kind. be constantly on the
But what Is there come back They have
mountains grain beef wood and all the substantials OF
Fife but o. these viii paya tenth the cost o. bringing
them 20 ST. Louis The settlement constantly plugging
deeper debt and embarrassment. Eventually. through
revulson calamity, AID depression OF prices it will arrive at
the manufacture f whatever shall but II 1t could
have reached th end directly by the poston OF
strong tariff, it would have AVOIDED much disaster and sui
ferns
Such are some OF tse which lie the basis of the
Protective er American. System.
| wi. aid few three four psiats made
BY my opponent which ay not be fully reached BY the tore
going.
Free Trade t2t is the doctrine protection
lists that il; sugar be produced jamaica for three
pound while production in Louisiana six
the, il the duty of to lay impos OF
three the imported article. This statement does
OF Justice views. We have commended
that because the production any given article
in country should therefore be protected
or that all articles which be produced here though at
greater than elsewhere should be made the SUBJECT OF
protecting duties hat contend for as have already
sswn the protection of such producing interests give
reasonable promise OF ultimate perfection AMI
thrift among though unable withstand. their infancy
tbs competition ot the older and rival interests OF
other countries We contend that may be and Is neccs-
sary concrva generally the high postS ot other
tons suffer the embarrassment depression and evil to
which heavy and always auguentins balance of trade
against us-;.l other words, Gripping foreign deb-nus
subject think sagar may be produced nearly quite
cheap in Louisiana in jamaica would therefore
protect the interest OF the former but II tar ral
prove this belief be Mistaken and Jamaica IS acttng 10
JsciProcate FREE TGde would take ell the duty aud buy
sugar OF her. But she, While abundanty willing to supply
with sugar, shall refuse take ur Hour, our timber and
our products generally in payment. but insists having the
free trade all OF one side would say her Hold We
shall TAX YOUR sugar oft of markets until you take
And Mr. V.liW
that my policy would approach to absolute
Free Trade than that Of my opponent You do not always
secure immunity this selfish World by procanins ever
ncckness and aon-ressancc injustice anu I'M
poSitoa.
Nv opponents assertion that protective duties unjust
and oppressive would have pausbity Il only one IN
cre protected and that for Tie sake OF that interest
alone But the reverse, both points, is VIGOROUSLY the
truth And any man, who has what these eyes have
closely observed of the effect of protecting the manufacture
ing Tot nstaSce upon the prosperity ct all other
produsl2c Interests within the sphere OF manufacturing ope
rons, only regard such sweeping assertions as me
melancholy evidences of wandering from the paths OF puc
ca knowledge the cratic pursuit OF arspun theories
Free Trade objects protection, that it offers bounty
to smuggling ard fraud This objection far 1t has
any weight only applies all imposts but TO all tardft0n
whatever Tax gold watches heavily and the owners will
them invade the payment Tax real estate
ald landowners will sometimes resort to aTtiice and kna-
very 20 have und.rvaucd in the assessment Nay more
the legal appraisers Of particular district country VIII
their friends and neighbors shall bear smaller portion OF
The general burdens Ny opinion decidedly that customs
afford the very cheapest mot equitable least oncr9s ana
least demorizng mode OF taxation that can be devised
that though they give rise to greater roguecs they
make infinitely fever rogues than more direct and compn
sorv imposition OF national burdens Yet am ready TO adj
nit that nposts may be exorbtanty high as to tempt to
systematic smuggling winch serious evil Butt not Inc
prevalence of this evil exaggerated? Probably the average
npo.t on American tobacco throughout Europe exceeds i've
hundred per cent and what proposition OF 1t Is smggied
thinks not twentieth. But long the advocates OF
protection II, this do ask for duties exceeding
thirty per cent uSuit that this argument OF my opponent
lacks force.
OF the truth Of the general proposition at udcious pro-
lection increases production. fear shall not co~vnce my
antagonist Yet think should have difficulty IN con-
ircno iretv.ne out OF every Hundred individuals of good
sense had formed opinions the SUBJECT do TINS,
should begin by exhibiting statement OF the annual products
ST the protected industry OF England compared with those
of an equal population any free trade country would
then contrast the present annual products Of Massachusetts
with those OF am community Of equal numbers whose great
producing have received legislative or other
equivalent protection. would compare them asa win
what thew we're from 1916 1924, rider comparatively
Free pradr' system. from these and sml!2i premises
should endeavor 10 Convince the tribunal that community
,rsng nnny different branches of industry, especially such
a. minister wants and necessities VIII produce
much more and grow rich faster than one when coNe' It's
xertion. manly the production OF one or TWO great sta
ne One principal of this Is the comparatively great
cost u.d disadvantage at which community which purchases
most articles of ifs domestic consumption always pro-
cure them if farmer bought and paid for the products
which he consumes be would generally fall behind at the end
of the wear But still greater disadvantage aader which
the community which confined the production of one or
two staples must labor the inability employ all its
industry In no country probably the aggregate prodact
of its labor one half what nj ht be if all hands were fully
employed and all efforts wisely directed In my view the
great end Of all rol economy provide each indi-
vidua constantly employment best suited to his ca
pacitics and him adequate reward New-E"g-
land has graty proted by her manufactures mainly from
the amount Of female and juvenile labor before nearly or
wholly unpreductive which it has enabled her 20
good account Ii some phan'lropist could devise new
branch of industry which would give agreeable and perma
nent employment the twenty thousand idle and suffering
females Of this city, and enable them earn fifty cents each
dav he would be greater public benefactor than Adam
Smith or regiment Csndy Raguets know that Maine
long period anos, entirely numbering and snins