New-York daily tribune., 1842-09-08
Th, Eoeet, OF protection.

Protective ann Is toliy ana curse ana yet
will be the first to express disappointment and in
dgnation that it does not answer az cure for all
our National embarrassments. Although they
have always stoutly clamored that Protection taxes
Agriculture and cripples Commerce for the sole
bcne6, of Manufactures, yet if Commerce does moi
at once to fifty cents pound, and Wheat, in
the face oe an immense crop, both in this Country
ana in Europe advance in price, these stand ready
cry out, There! why don't your Tariff put every
thing right, as ece hare all erpectedr ~
Now we have never recommended or asked
Tariff as cure for all the evils under which the
country now suffers; we have never regarded itas
such We know that there is great need also OF
Sound and Uniform Currency throughou the
whole land; we know that Internal Improve
ments, where they are .judiciously planned and
their construction justified by the business of their
surrounding Country, require TO be prosecuted to
completion We know that the Finan of several
fthe States as well as of the National Government;
require renovation; and we believe that the Land
Distribution is from this and other important con-
sderations absolutely essential Yethrst and most
vital Of all we regard the Protection Of our Home
Industry; and, if one only of the necessary mea-
sures were to be chosen we should have preferred
this to any other Webelieve that its good effects
have already begun to be felt by the Country, and
that they will be felt more and more benefcenily
! for many months to come. Under itx auspices,
we are confident that the country is already tend
ing toward restoration Of moderate prosperity.
There are thousands of resclute opponents Of
Protection who will not see how Tariff cen prove
benefit to the producers Of eny article except by
raising the price Of that article. They will notsee
| that certain and steady demand for the article
and deliverance from capricious and often runous
rivalry may be extremely desirable, although the
price be not increased farthing,-nay, though it
be actually reduced. In vain have We piled up
mountains of facts showing that such is the srHth
it is enough for them that it stands opposed to
their theory. Not for their conviction, then, but
for the general illustration ofa great principle, do
| We cite the following case:
The supply of Starch for this country has for
wears been divided between the foreign and the
domestic producers, as circumstances dictated.
| Sometimes the supply of the Foreign article
! (Which came in free) would be light, or the
price high and then the domestic manufacturers
would hire q number of workmen and enter largely
into the business. But soon the news OF the de-
mund or price would attract hither large guam
tity of the Foreign product; the market would be
gutted and the price fall SO low that the domestic
producer would be driven from the competitions;
his workmen destined to NOPE in anxious idleness
and lose perhaps their skill, so that they could
hardly be expected to exhibit equal perfection IL
their product with their constantly employed rivals
But by the new Tariff duty of two cents per
pound is laid on the Foreign article. Immediately
one of the principal houses in the City in that line
engaged half dozen hands in the manufacture OF
Starch, intending to employ them permanently and
at tho same time reduced The price Of Starch hall
a cent per pound. They will now do steady
business, employ workmen steadily, manufacture
cheaper than ever, and yet prosecute their busi-
ness more pro6tably than heretofore. Foreign
Starch will doubtless be still imported, but not to
the extent, nor thrown so excessively, capri
ciously on the market as it has been The duty will
protect the American producer, and yet reduce the
average cost to the consumer. Such, we do not
doubt, will be the effect of the Tariff on many if
not most articles of greater importance. We have
not doubt that the proposed duty Of two cents
per pound on Sheathing Copper would very soon
have reduced the cost of that article to the Amer
ican consumer, while it would have given employ
ment to many American artisans, and encouraged
the working of our Copper Mines in Wisconsin
Such, without exception, is the general effect Of
proper Protecting Duties.
| ~ The Plebeian says it is now ascertained
by all but few Wig Editors that there is a
| LecoFoc majority of eight in the Indiana Legis-
lature while the Journal Of Commerce (also Of
yesterday says, 81 1t is certain that the Wing
candidate in Adams and Jay is elected to the
House. This would give the Wings majority OF
one on joint ballot, Counting Dekalb and Steuben
district tie,) if the member from Shelby, Mir
Tevis, were Wing, claimed by the Indiana
| polls Journal" He is Wing, but claimed as
| pledged to vote for Howard for Senator.] What
say you to this, Pyrotechny?
| OVr friends assure US that four Loco-Focos-
the Senators from Wayne and Bartholomew, with
the Representatives from Bartholomew and Cass
all representing Wing Districts, pledged to
| vote for Wing U. S. Senator.
I Hon. WAsHrNeToN HUNT of Lockport, who
ha, been run for Congress by the Van Buren, party
in that District, has openly renouncea all connec
tion with it, account OF its hostility to Protec-
ton and the Land Distribution. He takes his
stand boldly, fully on the side of Home Labor and
Justice to the States He is a valuable accession
to the Cause
| nRM. Calhoun ,ra. nonainnted fnr the Presi-