New-York daily tribune., 1843-11-28

articles so protected Then we he ana VIZ
! Webster has lied, and SO aid Collector GURUS IN
his letter on the subject to the secreta1o Oh ',e
Treasury and SO has every boo wno hea w.
tempted to compile comparatiEe ts~ y
prices of protected fabrics before end H..
New Tariff was imposed. The free ! laos'
dsse5t that the Tariff has raised prlces' ano say
-. nr;ces current will show it. Then aohy d"n =
,5su s5on III We and others have co1nplleo
statement after statement showing the contrary
where is the table showing general increase IN
,r;ce Of Manufactures consequent on the 1arlf
Mr. Post will Won bear in mind that your state
n,ant on point where demonstration is easy is
disputed and your evidence demanded DO not
pick out two or three unimportant items but
show u.s. if you can, that there has been an aceroge
advance of prices on Manufactures IN consequence
Of the Tariff! You cannot do 1t J And i not,
what becomes of your base attempt TO excite
jcalonsv hatred, and war between Agriculture
and Manufactures
And now does any one believe, or begin to I'M
acine, that the Manufacturers generally are ma
king any thing like 20 or 80 per cent. There
NAV be establishments which have made good
dividends, just as we know farmers who have
made money the past year Just as we know
steamboats, and railroads. and newspapers, which
have done very well the past year. But suppose
we should publish the fact that some steamboat
company had made 20 per cent. and thence draw
the inference that steamboGts generally were
clearing 80 or 40 per cent. We hope and be-
Eeye indeed, that the Manufacturers are doing
better this year than they have averaged for five
years past, during which many Of them have
made little or nothing, and the owners of not
fc,., have been ruined but is any man so simple
as to imagine that, while Money is seeking IN
yeStment at 5 and even / per cent. Manufactu-
rers can be making 25 {? Who does not sec that
hundred new establishments would be rising IN
sixty days. if any such profits were to be made in
them, and that the profits would very soon be
brought down to an average with other things by
competition, a glut Of goods and reduction OF
prices New establishments we know good
factories, excellenty located, that have stood idle
for years past, though they might at any time
have been bought for half their cost, and set run
ning in a week, if any one had chosen to under
take it. They are still idle, Why do not some
OF those who profess to think Manufactures so
profitable 90 into them The opportunities are
abundant and at hand But no-thcy do not
bslevc what they assert. They know that Man.
ufacturing is like other business-scme make by
il others lose, according to their amount of cap.
itnl and skill, advantages OF location or connexlon,
-.l Sroo1 fortune. &c.
It is moi a great while since this same Evening
Post chuckled over the alleged bankruptcy of
Senator Simmons, a heavy Rhode Island manu-
facturer, as proving that the expectations of the
Tariff men had been disappointed-(ust as if we
did not know that money may be lost in Manu-
featuring under the new Tariff or under any
Tarif)-and as showing that Manufacturing
was poor business in spite of the Tariff. Now
it is clear of on the other tack. Why make two
statements so directly opposite without having
one ofthem come hear tho truth
7-Une last illustration A story was started
d siij.; ilrr;r SINCE ihst Tie namakcrs Of Pitts
bnfgh had had their wages cut down 90 per cent.
ESQ much for Protection +" was the general
shout Of the Free Traders. Well, we published
their story; and, as soon as our paper reached
Pittsburgh Our regular correspondent there in
quired into the matter, and found the story lie.
There had been since 1910 no general reduction
Of the wages OF naii.nakers there, but single
establishment, which has hitherto kept up the
high prices it paid it's worklncn in 1855, when
ten dollars were no more than six dollars are
now, has been compelled, by the keenness of
competition, 10 cut down its wages to the prices
paid by all its rivals in the business which are
the same us have been paid by all the other nail
factories in Pittsburgh for years.-Yet what Free
Trade paper has published this correction Not
one Their readers, to the best Of their ability,
are kept in the belief that the wages of nail
makers generally in Pittsburgh are now twenty
per cent. lower since the new Tariff and because
of this Tariff
Are the great Producing Interests Of the
Country to be lied down in this manner Are
they to be involved in an insane hatred Of and
war with each other, which can only result in
their common destruction Z? Can laborer and
| employer, farmer and artisan, be made each to
believe that the other is his worst enclny2 If
so, there is nothing TO be expected but universal
CONFUSION and ruin
ILLNESS og THE PREs!pEST.-Reports were in
circulation yesterday that the President was very
i'll. Our correspondent from Philadelphia states
that private letters have been received in that