New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1842-04-08

| US genuine Freedom and Rcclproclly, where
one.sided Free Trade would have soon stripped Us
Of any Trade at all.
For many years man has dreamed OF OF asked
for the repeal of our countcrvailing or protective
Nayipa,ion Act. while thousands ficrcely clamor
against all other Protecting imposts On what
nr;ncipIe is this distinction made! Are our Free
Trade importers AID ship-owners unwilling to
submit their own business to the policy they would
impose on the internal industry of the country
DO they cling to Protection for their interests,
yc, DENY il 10 those of all other classes these
are questions wklch should not longer remain u'i-
answered.
But the principle of Protection is inpregnab!y
entrcnchcd in other considerations than that oi
defence against positive foreign aggression. we
maintain that there is obvious policy, wise econo-
INV, and true r.soeing craftsmanship IN that view
of Protection which regards it nitselt, and without
respect to the course of other nations, Us means
Of fostering into healtkful yigor new branches Of
industry and increasing the general product OF the
country. We disclaim all aggressive Protection
all legislation policy whose aim shall be to ell
able American producers to undersell those OF
other nations abroad. We demand simply that
the toiling masses Of our OWE gOodly land may be
enabled 10 sit III peace beneath their own vihc
and ig-troe secure i'll their several cmpoyments,
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industry in ministering 10 each Others wants and
cni-ymcnts to mutual advantage. We seek to
build up no policy like that Of Great Britain,
to make our own Country the Ralto of Nations.
the maker and refncr and trattickcr and car
T. or for all other Countries. We do no, want ether
| Nations constrained by policy craft to bring
their bread TO be baked in ovens. any more
than TO carry ou loves 10 theirs. We ask 40
policy like Britain's which shall bring hithcr the
gold and gems of all climes and kindleds, and
! pile them up on our shores. Its because we are
utterly hostile to that grasping selfshness which
seeks to secure and pcrpetuotc in its ewn hands a
monopoly of the Trade and Manufactures OF the
| w ord that combine to resist IT, and counsel
our countrvmen to that it be teadiastly coun-
icractcd so far as it affects ourselves those,
therefore, who argue against defensive Protection
from the effects of British policy in the depression
of British labor, wholly mistake the nature and es-
scncc of the controversy. That depression isa
part Of our case-t is an impressive, urgent reason
WHY the Colossus of British monopoly should be
attacked and overthrown, us injurious 10 the great
tutoring mass even of Britons well as others 1t
is for this reason that, while the restrictive policy
of England is felt as an intocrable burthcn by her
own working people, the conntervailmg acts OF
| Germany and the other Nations OF Continental
Europe are recognized by their People as essential
10 their individual welfare no less than to National
| independence and Prosperity.
We cannst therefore but regard The assertion
that proper Protective Duties will not promote
the interest. of the Laboring Glasses here because
what are called Protective Duties have an uilta-
vol1he effect in England, as addressed TO the l9no-
rance rather than the understanding OF those
whom it is employed influence. There Is no
thing like analogy in tho cnscs-the seeming re-
e &c hns
/ who employ it are careful TO keep it as far from
the light as possible.
Let us endeavor by an illustration, to place this
important truth in vet clearer light, and cstab-
fish at the same time the wisdom and neccssltyo OF
J genuine Protection. We will take the case OF
Great Britain, a country of boundess wealth, ex-
pericncc and skill in mechanical processes and
ar,s great and established facilities for all branch
es Of manufactures, and abundance Of cheap labor;
ON the other hand we will our own States oil
Michigan. Indiana, and Illinos-Stutcs AZ yet
mainly agricultural, mpcrtecty snbdued and tllIed,
with labor scarce and in demand, and soil Yield
ing abundan,lv all the fruits OF the earth II bri-
tain were wise enough TO take freely OF these States
their grain in exchange for her cloths and wares,
!, would seem at first blush their manifest interest
to procure of her their supplies Of Manufactures
Beyond doubt they might thus obtain their goods
| for fewer dollars than by encouraging their pro-
! duc,ion ON their own s.il. But experience album
dainty demonstrates that, i'll order TO buy their
cloths of England at the cheaper money prices nj
which they, being Of triHing bulk, could undeubt-
cdly be transported and sold, Western farmers
must sell their grain at snch prices rs would admit
of its transportation TO Eng land and sale there III
! connection with the grain of all other countries
Estimating the average plico OF Wheat through,
! OUT tie world a, dollar buShei, #cona
/ i md
hardly. under system OF Frec lrade commune
more than dollar and qu;,rtcrn England ana
in view et the close proximity OF tue great gram
Growing regions of Germany and Poland, with
their cheap labor, VIC may we'll doubt tha, ii would
be so high The effect of absolute Free i radc
would therefore be TO supply the farmers OF the
West with British cloths 1T prices httc above
those of Leeds and Brmns ham, but TO reduce the
yalu. of their own products far below tha,. oil the
cariesp omdins products OF Germany and i"!;li'a
he r.osou of Tie fur greater extent OF tho devious
varied, and for months OF EACH year interrupted
,ranspor,atioa to England Allowing that tlle
average price of Wheat in England would be 4
dollar and quarter, ITS average price 'sr""shou,
rho Wes, could not certainly exceed hty cents ana
would often fall below twenty-five. Admitting
therefore. that the money cost OF producing the
Cloth on their own sol! woad for time be twenty
five ner ceu, more the simple question to be de-
eide! hy the farmers of the West is, whether they
will nav FIVE Cellars yard for Cloth IN Wheat al
dollar IA buShcl, or buy ii at four dollars yard
and nav in Wheat at thirty cents cuSilei. ne
,,s,y,r could not long dctain any who had
mastered the simple rules of Arithmetic
! Orwe NAV state the question iii another torn
Which is cheapcr-to send Flour from Peoria ana
Ch;cago 10 Leeds and Sheffield for cloth, paving
fnnr barrels out of six for transportarionor to IN
yi,e the clo,h-nakers TO our own SOU ana mere
NOV, ,ben four barrels instead Of TWO for the cloth
| tana got saw. ,wo of the six to the farmer who