New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-07-13

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The prices boots and shoes reduced lsom so
These goods ON the shelves of the Springfield store
probably imported last year, under the ow taif,
featured here while II operation, Yet the prices have
fallen near 90 per ceut Notwithstanding that imports have
nearly ceased since the expiration Of the compromise ac
What appalling evidence this of the prostra,ion of bu
sness under the influence OF Ubiquitous legislation BY de-
troyng the outlet for agricultural produce the OF the
great of consumers of goods have been far DESTROYED
as to deprive them Of the buying their usual sup
plies. the extraordinary sacrifice which dealers Of
Ter TO submit Ofwhat 1t TO the fame! that his toll
is rewarded By bounul Proydenc with prolific crop, if
after the of his family supplied human egslaton
:nerferes and fobids hm from selling the surplus which
is the thing from receiving foreign goods payment
OF what him that Grea, Britain has
che barriers 10 trade her part the United States Coy
eminent interposes new ones'
We wish to fix the public attention on the des
perate shifts and devices Of the journals IN the
British interest in this country. When the New
Tariff was under discussion, and some time after
its passage, they plumply asserted that TIE IN
crease of Duties under this Tariff trouid greatly
increase the price Of oil Protected articles, espe-
eially Manufactures The resolutions of Tamma-
ny Hall and the several Congressional Conven-
tons of the Loco Focos of our City asserted as
a conceded, notorious truth that the Tariff would
increase the price of Manufactures % TO 80 per
cent. Even in the interior, that numerous and
worthy class OF men who live by hiring their labor
by the day or month to men of greater means were
taken aside by Loco Focos who dare not openly
oppose the Tariff, but who said to Them privately.
* Why should you support the Tariff! Your en-
ployerS may make money by it, for they will
sell their products at higher prices but you will
have TO purchase those products and pay third
more for them, while your wages will remain
where they pre. loar interest is clearly on the
side of Free Trade and cheap goods By such
secret thousands of Wings were In
duced last Fall to vote Loco Foco or not vote at ALL
When we asserted that Protection would reduce
speedily the cost of Manufactured goods, and I'M
dertook to explain schy and hor it would our H.
lustrahons were treated with contempt, as oppo,
sed to common sense, and retuted by the simple
rules of arithmetic.
Well year has rolled round, and even our
adversaries can no longer dispute the fact that
the price Of Manufactures generally has fallen
since Ike Ne'o Tariff aeas impoSed-that Cotton
and Wooden fabrics, and almost every article
efficiently protected by the New Tariff are lower
than the low prices they commanded before the
Duties were raised-lower than ever before Here
the result we were sure would be realized, and
which they dsdained to consider possible What
is to be done with it Evidently, their asserted
rise of price in consequence of the Tariff has not
been realized, but oar predicted reduction has
been.
What then? The Herald is driven to the US,
sumption that the marke, for our Agricultural Pro,
ducts has been destroyed by the New Tariff. 50
that the Farmers can TO longer buy Goods
whereupon the goods cannot be sold, and their
price falls rlinousy But this tissue of assump-
non Is contradicted by facts at every point. In
the hrst place, the Farmers of the West have sold
more produce during the last than in any prece-
ding year: IN the next place, they are getting u
fair price for 1t. In the third place, the receipts
Of Tolls on our Canals, as well as of Grain, Flour,
SC, OH the Hudson, prove that neither the Trade
nor the Production of the country is paralyzed as
the Herald represents. The Manufacturers never
turned out more goods in six months than during
the last six, and the owners say they are doing
Living business. The keenness Of competition for