New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-12-30

tages they concede TO their subject Hndoos, of
paving for the manufactures need IN agrlcul-
tural produce Z" England, not content with
having ruined the greater part of the German
manufacturers, and with having overwhelmed US
I with immense quantities of wooden and cotton
goods, and Colonial produce, repe!led from her
shores our corn and timber, and occasionally
even our wool" In vain did the Germans de-
base themselves until they became hewers of
wood and drawers of water for the proud Bri-
tons: they were used worse than subjugated
people,
The Statesmen of Germany opened their eyes
to the depressed and ruined condition OF their
country; and the result was the adoption OF a
Protective Tariff system. So soon as this pro-
ect was started. the English amused themselves
with the same strain of music, SO often played
for our cdifcalon They were assured over ana
over acain, that they would be entirely ruined by
such a Tariff: that a protecting duty enhanced
10 the amount of such duty the price OF the home
manufactured articles to the consumer; and that
their depressed condition did not result from the
state Of trade between them and Great britain
/ The Germans. however, placed no faith IN these
assertions. and fully established their Protective
system. And what has been the result Let
the Germans speak for themselves. The same
pe'iool1'' I apo,e .''N'''>' -
wv. Wi 49,, h.s o,r aoricuItnrc suffered anv
It,; fro,, tho Hioh Tariff? Ouite The
r, l,., ,oc,, ,on.fold cain dur;n9
tbo 1.s. 70, rna~s The demand for acricultu-a
nrod,,co has increased and the prices have every
pf,,oro -.or II c notorous TOO. that in conse
quencc of the prosperity Of our home manuiac-
lures, the value of landed property has every
who're oynorcnced an increase Of from 80 to 100
rer cont Dai,v labor is every where better paid,
p and IN I'll hands ;mnroved means of conveyance
aro N ,,ro,rrass 70 comnletion or projected"
This Is certainly a beautiful picture of the
prosperity necessarily following the adoption Of
= nro;ectivc system. and it is no more beautiful
than true and the same effects will follow in
every country which has the wisdom to give
such system a firm and permanent basis, not
subject to the fluctuations of party politics. But,
notwithstanding all these advantages, the British
statesmen and their agents had the address to
inculcate into the minds of some of the leading
men in Germany, they have also into the
minds Of many IN these United States,-tnat a
Protective Tariff system should not be firmly cs-
tablishcd but that they, and we, should rather
continue to look for repeal or modlhcaton OF
the English Corn Lawson that subject some OF
the Germans seem to have had very correct
ideas, soon after the establishment OF their Tariff
That valuable periodical, which ! have already
made use of in this matter, justly observes on
this point,-that since the establishment of the
ZoU Verein, they had arrived at clearer insight
of what is really meant in England by the term
{" Free Trade - for since that time, as DR..
Bowring himself says referring to the Doctors
Report on the German Commercial Union,) the
Zoll Vcrein has brought the sentiment OF Ger
man nationality out OF the regions OF nope ana
fancy into those of the positive and material IN
tercss" The Report is right in this behalf, that
KNOWLEDGE is widely spread among the Germans
II is precisely for that reason that in Germany
noonlc have ceased to induloe in cosmopote
Groa,,,s to rocoIloct thor Fanst-tbev trust to
thor own judgement to their own experience, TO
tbo;r own Sonnd common sensc rather than to
c,,lt IN contra ;ct;on with all eyperi.
onco-tbev bpo;n to comnrehend whv Burke
oonGdort,al,v ,,,rnod Adam Smith that countries
oro ,ot ~ ho GOVERNED accordno 70 cosmono-
Etc Vows hrt hy knowlodoc founded on search.
; ;,,,,ostratons Of tbo;r nocnar national in.
toTests thcv d;strust connselors who blow hot
and cold With the same breath: thew verv well
know how. 10 estimate the value as Well as the
,dr;cc of manufacturing councillors: in word,
,bo,evor ,herc is anv question about offers from
ENGLAND. thew recoIcct the well known caution,
and say" We djs,ust the Greeks, even their
ursseniso
have quoted this somewhat at lcngtght, be-
cause it is entirely applicable to our own situa-
tion: and | most sincerely trust, that it may be
s.;d &C nc &C # ;s of the Germans, that we trust
;,,aoncnt TO onr own cyperience,-
ia - o,,r own sound common sense: and that
anu ~ oa -" to no boodw;nkcd
va Az m ,ho ytarostsd md false system Of
"lt ',rroa ,nar ne hv Croat Rr;t,in And