New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-05-19
The Confusion Of Babel.
The following article appeared IN yesterdays

and other parts Of Ncw-EnCiand have sold their heavy
stocks slick and clean and working on contracts
gentleman who in Boston on Tuesday was unabie 10
buv bale Of slcetn Of the make Of either Of eyera acio
.s whose goods have heretofore been lying piled up he
good, have recently paid we'll wherever they have been ship
ped exciting demand that has swept the market com
arsou OF cash price Of the lower grades Of cotton cloth
Boston aud Manchester proves that Prices are IRON
10 twenty per cheaper on this side than ON the ON"
or: so that the Bostoniars have actually made shipments 10
Liverpool with orders to pay tie duty which Is b"i
cent and forward the goods TO Manchester Tor sale "ha
become, NOW of sill the Gscloods which have been rnng
through tie country for twenty years phst, soo". me
aibity of coatcndns successfully with the ranper labor
Of Europe r. We can out-work The world IN M? TANG Tor
which, our circumstances are fitted.
And the following appeared in the Eren'ng
Post OF Wednesday:
A COMMERCIAL PurSoMENoN--A few weeks siocS
6ye hundred bales of brown cotton drilling were shipped
fam Ibis port to London. The last advccS mention Their
arrival at their pace Of destination where they Produced al
most as nuch the arrival OF Dcker: IN this country
All Chancc was struck with wonder AT seeing cotton fabrics
from the looms OF America exposed for sale IN The mar' OF
the crea, manufacturing nation Of the world
This brown drilling sproec''i ash IS called
in this country by duty equivalent 10 seventy per cena
very absurd regulation chich has 40 erect any 1ry he
artifc has ceased this country for mar! years
past
We rubbed our eyes vigorously al this, and
looked again at the head of the paper, but II read
The Eaening Post nothing else. What could
Il mean We turned to our file of that same
Ersning Post, and read as follows:
From the Ercaing Post Of March 22d
"FuRrnrR OrrRArioN OF rnr TARIrF-jht nof"rct
operation of eser Tariff raise c price OF every at
IL on which duty is imposed sqGi 10 The nGfn-
,ai or free trade price he dfy II THIS has not been
the case under the present Tamil perons have beei more
soc,y dsaopoin,ad than the Wings who imposed H. was
what they designed to accomplish by the law also prom
ssea 10 do IL the prices of articles which dates ae .
posed BY present Tariff hsyc not risen to the sum OF the
natural price and the duty least IT IS because som" dts
kat. IL.
cut the markets. scarcity OF money or great indebted
ness among consumers sc. So soon as @ casual n"rnts
removed, sod the present Ianh has ' " 'o'
which il was designed shall the change IN P''tS
and feel the soreness of The burden imposed npoh"S
i,now then the OF the IaF' every oaHa n"na
would Judge OF It according to as natural "iSn'''' '"
fected by temporary causes
Eve stated thai The operation OF the iarii was TO raise
the Of article the consumer to sun fga' 10 The
,,o,,yal price and the ds. does far than thiS
The wholesale aud the retail dealer each profit The
duty advanced by them the about twenty aud
che other about, tiry-thcc per cent is almost doubles
;he duty by the the artiteIcactS the Consumer &c Nc
But lc, us follow Of the mos, important articles Of
domestic uc though all ,e steps 10 the consumer The or
dinaV cdico which used, or less, 10y halt III The
country can be brought the CGStom.hooSc for about
eight yard The first duty OF the Collector under
this Tariff consider each yard costiac thirty
Cents Fer each yaId he then eSNcs duty oi h,ty Per
Cent This duty cents Add II ntle sctrd cast al
right cents aud the expense the Importer Ihus far
entee, ccp,s On ,hs he charges proh, Ct sb2at twenty
considering The obbc, tweH ctUt yauI On this the
tail msrcan, chsrs profit o! about thirtyhrce aud
irA per Cent, aud the article goes INTO tr sods % lhepoor
cost OF urehN,>cNra cents yard The natural
orice with fair profits the merchant would hlye been
eleven cents a ward. Let follow tls is farther
Eight yards are uecessry for the drcSs OF female
Under i've operation oi the Taf eichi Yards would
rwo dollars aud ceptS; Ugdo ire trade elsi Yards
would cost eighty-eght cents. Thr trimmings and the
making OF the desc a' 10 b added before the es'eo Is Of
aay use. Thesc millions Of females IN tins cou
Yry who labor for wages, Naa whose wages and two
dollars week II would rcqai:s the work Of moth for
such pe.>oa 70 obtain the eh>sptst calico dress
Can there be any mistake, any doubt. about the
positions of the Post Is ii not clearly, positive
ly, affirmed BY that paper, that, cdenerer a a"ty
is supposed or Ire imposta'ioa q an drttcle The
price of that G,ticlc IS rGi&d BY he fall Gaoaat
al the Gaty VIII i; be attempted to escape by
shc bubble that the price OF the Foreign article
only is so raised, and tina, no reference ismadc 10
the Domestic That would render the whole ar.
sualen, ridiculous and null The Post means As
ii says that the price of CG}jca-no matter wheth-
or Foreign or Domcstic--is raised BY the Tariff
10 the t,,ll amount of the duty. And yct who
does not Sno,c better than this Who docs not
know that Calico and all Cotton Goods--all Man.
nfactures, in fact-arr CHEAPER IN fAis CoaafG
s,ader Proteetice TariJ then they erer ,rere
maocY Free Trade The iaeis the facts let
ms look 10 them. The Prices Cusrcct have q dry
way of overseeing false theories ve1y uncercmo-
n;ousy. They cause even the Post 10 ssul,iiy its
own logic,
Pslpab,y untrue is the Posts assertion that, /:
the prices of Protected articles donot rise IN con.
sequence of the duties, the advocates of P.o,ec-
ton are disappointed Year after year we have
been showing, by every array of fact and argu,
ment, tina. Protection would dissiaiSA the cost 0.
the Protected articles. Witness Clay'S Speeches
lIudson's Speeches, Mess Register, The Tribune
throughout, &c. &c, The Free Traders have
consradicscd US, and, asserted, as Van Buren,
does in his letter, the Post did in March, Tam,
many Hall in Its resolutions last fall, &c. &c
that Proteetise Duty Increases TIE cost Of eeer,
article protected, By The em0aat Of The daty.--
who was right and who wrong-ous enemies