New-York daily tribune., 1843-05-27


cheese would hit, cents! How often have We eS-Fi,'
tnat our duty os tres ceats pound utter
guilty producing effect whatever on the pnce! Dotes
only affect articles reilly imported or would
be imported i( there were no duty" Sc &c
Thus far the JournQl Of Commerce. Let US
now see what an older and certainly not less able
advocate Of Free Trade says on The same subject:
Fror, IN, Erening Post Of Mereh 22d.
fFUKTHER OPgaArIoy OF THE TAEUr.-Ihe notTat
operation Of eesy Tq the price Of every aFtI-
Gle on which duty imposed .quai TO the nqu-
7at or free trade pricsj AyD tie duty
We stated that the operation Of the Tariff 70 raise
.5e Of article the equal 10 The
natural price and he duty doesfcr more than tbs :
The wholesale and the retail dealer each exact profit on e
duty tse advanced by them the one OF about twenty ahd
The other about hirt ytree per This almost doubles
the duty BY the time the aclefeaches the consumer sc &c
Hear, again the Journals Loco-F Foco allies Of
this city, who in Their Sixth District Corgres-
sional Convention last fall
"Resolped Tha, Protective Tariff called By thrice
defeated candidate for the Presidency plan Of protection
10 the wealthy capitalist only giving him from 20 10 30 per
interest has surplus funds winch be paid to
hn through :be Government by tie great NJ The peo
pleiwich but for the establishment Of such Tariff would
be beiter able pay donblc the amount The shape Of
direct tar"
Can there be any quibbe as to the import OF
this Is it not here assumed that the price Of
such Domestic products as come IN competition
with Foreign articles on which Protective Duties
are levied are enormously enhanced by the duty
Is not this the way the Tariff is to give the
wealthy capitalist % or 80 per cent. interest
on his surplus funds p Is it not by such increase
of price that il dminishcs the ability of the great
mass of the People by double the amount '
Surely there is no chance TO crawl out here.
But the Evening Post is palpable and specific.
In It's articles of March 7th and 22d, it asserted
that not only ordinary Callcoes but axes,
saws, hammers and almost every variety of iron
implement, as well as wood screws, &c. are
double the price they should be, and proved it by
showing that there IS a duty Of forty to eighty
per cent. on their importutioa' Just Mr..
Whitcomb, the Loco -Foco candidate for Govern
or of Indiana, has issued long and artful Cir
cular, setting forth that the People of the West
arc paving into the pockets of the Eastern Man
ufacturers twice as much for Cloths, &c. as they
ought to because of the Tariff, and he quotes the
duties imposed on the importation as proof post
tive that the prices thus exorbtantly raised
by that Tariff, The Journal of Commerce is
welcomed to aid in disabusing the country on this
head-tardy and reluctant as It's aid is--but 1t
must not say with mpunity that the advocates
OF Free Trade have never propagatcd the delu,
sion which that paper now repudlatcs.
The Journal proceeds to say that the imposi-
ton of duty on Coffee and other articles wholly
or mainly imported must increase the price of
such articles by nearly its amount. AS this is
entirely aside from the question of Protection,
we might pass it without remark. a duty I'M
posed on Coffee, or any article which our Coun-
try is not congenial to, is wholly Revenue one,
and not at all Protective But, if Coffee would
grow here as well as Cotton or Wheat, there can
be nothing more certain this, that Protective
Duty, which would ensure and cherish the llome
Production Of that article, would d'nl,nlSh ITS
cost TO the American consumer. Coice cannot
be produced here, but Cotton Goods, Woolcns,
Silks, &c. can.
The Journal of Commerce continues:
We will 20 on aud venture 10 express it humble
opinion ta, the manufacturers o! This counr, have
arrived the Of their efforts the val
other nations all the Of Protec-
ton aud that there skill or manutac.
turing the country than there would have been II Prc,vc
had never been appeacdo We do not believe that
Lowell Is larger city, that Boston larger more
wealthy than would have been If flee trade had never been
interrupted &c,
Yes, sirs, we understood before that you be
!iersd or proiessed 10 believe this-unaccoun,,-
BILE as 1t seems 10 us that any one acquainted with
The matter can do so-while you very well under
stand that zoe believe exactly the contrary. Bu;
the point to be settled is not what goa or re be-
heve about the matter, but what the leading
manufacturers of Massachusetts, think about it.
You asserted that they not yoa) had become sat
lStied that Protection is deiuSoa." Ths:is Il
matter OF far more consequence than y0ur opinion
or oars. The conclusions OF practical men who
have been engaged in manufactures through the
last twenty years are entitled 10 great weight.
Let US hear what they say, The Cotton Manu-.
facture, having been sustained, with little inter.
ruption, through thirty years by high Protective
Duties, has at length attained a perfection which
renders Its products about cheap as any IN the
world. II can now hive and flourish under what
would probably be considered far Revenue duty,
so that the Cotton Manufacturers have no longer
1her existence AZ stake on the preservation of the
Protective Policy. They are in condition to
Judge impartially and their experience is of great
value. Dc t5ey believe that Lowell would have
been as large as now under Free Trade Lei US
see what the Journal has 70 offer on this point
The Tribune takes most iCreNerently dc for he
statement made shou, e Boston letter aud assertion
that the eadias manufacturers had become satisfied thar
pro,ec;ion dsasea 1t ycu prces, BE- Chris
tIaus and e truth aud b. Commencing course
Of Christian discipline with The Tribune kss great
deal Of trath pass be!oc is vye short The old
castle o Protection where the editor hAs long cosl,
enng the buIznS OF hnme9s> hss become crar, aaG
tct,srng and will fall again countr,
We call Therefore, upoa the Editor Of the Tribune by
all the soleHinty OF MS professions Of rrnsceadea,alsr
FousieTisa Unirss,ssn Tar, and almost every ether
mysticism which floats the aisi-fo> escape
shine