New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-06-14
Friends Of Protection: BE Ready:

/ part 10 pidv. tor months II INSISTED iilal TIC
/ Black TarifI world destroy cur Commerce ana
Navigation. increase tee p1ce OF every article on
which the duty was raised by the aHoun; OF sieh
increase OF duty, compel the American cosF'''l1f
Of fabrics to use an inicrio- article than orIneFi
while paving higher prieo. q. &c. Thus has
The Post persisted il. &:lockins its head against
+ The most stubb2ra facts untI il can no i2!izes
/ keep lis countenance in 80 DONG. e"T '9ifi-
merce and Na,igation are at 'c1st as prosperous
now rs before this .s-:=: was enacted; while the
articles or which It imposed Protective Duties
are ~ the average lar cheaper and jrttcs-sone
+ Of them established to be 50 by the Posts o9n
/ -qnguarGcd admission. Now' the Post trics 20
bear .lp on the other tack, and u1sists that be
cause the Protected articles arc lower, Therefore
Protection does no good This argument the Post
tried upon SUGAR on SATURDAY. Sugar is cheaper
in OHIO under Protective day Shan il ever was
under q lower Reeeauc one. says an OHIO Wing
paper. Then your Protection does the Amcn-
can sugar planter good retorts Tie Post Bot
the sugars planter happens 10 understand his own
interest very differently and the LOUISIANA
Loco-Focos while they abuse tie duties lcylc1
7
taininr orincrcasing the d.:ics on Foreign Sugar
They do not dare 10 iInt there that the duty IS
worth nothing TO the Louisiana planter they
knew better, and (Which is more To the purpose
he knows better. SO they decry the Protection
Of Manufactures, but 80 l!e.r death upon the
Protection Of Sg~af. Was there ever such
beautiful party
The Post docs not understand, because 1t 'ciA
not that Protection benefits the producer OF any
| protected article by giving him stcadler anc &
surcr market than he could otherwise Obtain, and
tho consumer by reducing the cost Of 1t, as csti-
mated in the products Of his industry. BY bring
ing the producer and the consumer nearer TO
each other, it cuts Off an enormous tax upon each
Tor transportation and mercantile profits, thus m
crcasing the MT rewards of labor. At present,
the average value OF Agricultural products III
England is three times as much III Illinois.
Abolish our Protection and this viii continue, 10
the detrimcnt both Of the cioth.makcr in England
and the g-ain-growcr in Illinois. Sustain the
Tariff, and Manufacturers will be attracted 10
the cheap soil and cheap bread OF Illinois when
the products OF It's Agriculture will have a surer
market and bear better price. Here the cloth
maker viii obtain more Bread ior his clcth than
nc could do while hcrcmanedin England 1Dakln9
cloth for the Farmers OF Illinois, and the farmer
will receive moro cloth for his grain--thc heavy
cost and charges of its transportation 10 England
being saved outright, and divided between the
two classes Of producers. This simple view Of
the matter we have tried dozen times to put in
the eye of the Free Traders, but we have not yet
been able to make one Of them look at H. We
believe they dare not try to meet it with fair ar
runcnt
But when there arc any Free Trade Jobs to be
done that nobody else be be cot to undertake,
Benefits Herald is the ready resource, and the
inimitablc brass of It's Money Reporter is never
deficient. Ii the thing to be demonstrated were
the probability OF lucrative trade with tho planet
Jupiter, he would array and conterinarch col
umn or two OF figures and declare the matter un-
denably established In his essay of 'hc 9th
(scc Weekly Of the l0i,) he actually asserts that
the average rates of duty imposed BY Great Brit
ain on American Productions are l0rer than
those imposed by the L. States on British produc.
auctions. This would be a staggercr for q com
mon man, but not for this genius lie first al
s,racts from the clements Of his calculation our
Tobacco, on which Great Britain imposes duty
exceeding SOB per cent, and on which she raises
500 53ll 235, or mere haa tie 'cboie Rere"ne u
Ike United States. This is dcxtcrously set aside
and the Moncy-man proceeds 10 show that Great
Britain does not Tax our remaining products but
about s per cent He does tins BY making =
table Of the leading articlcsof American Products
the duties charged on them by Great Britain res
pectively, The total amount Of export of each TO
Britain, and the total of her Revenue derived
thercirom, as follows
EXroH1tp TO GREAT BRITAIN.
article. Quantity. GiGe. Brush Dsp. fat col
! ASheS. Sl.l: per cwt.
Bread chip bbis. y SIco
Butter, lbs So, lss 500 1861 Slsope7 cwt. $s257
! Candies. sp, lbs. 800 li0 60c. pcrlb. go
Cotton lbs. 10; .9lj,o90 zoe. pr cwt. ;, 81. $50
! Fish quin,as % 30 Prohibited
Hams aud Bacon, l,i6l ll5 $6.72 pt cwt.
Hats, each, l,o95 each. LII