New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-04-16
rhe Tarir-The cayuga Tocsin.


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The TariE-The Cayuga Tocsin.
We like an open, manly opponent, and IN this
spirit always welcome and commend any move
ment of the Loco Foco press to take up It's natu
raj and fitting position of hostility to Protect
i've Tariff. We are willing it should abuse and
misrepresent Protection to the full extent, so that
it will only allow the People to know where To
find it. The Cayugd Tocsin, therefore, has
earned and receives our special commentator.
But the Editor must abandon thickness and
juggling evasion If he sees fit, of his own motion
to discuss the Tariff question with us. He is
welcome TO indulge in such and as much person
aGty as suits his taste, without inducing any
reply; but when he attempts to deceive the Wool
growers, he cannot escape SO easily. We cite
hira to the Tariff as is to prove that the present
Tariff provides several new and admirable safe
guards against the importation at a low duty,
Of such Wool as rivals our home product; we cite
him to facts to show that these provisions have been
efectual in excluding good Wool and increasing
the price of our own. No candid man can read
this Tariff and compare it with its predecessors,
without admitting that 50 thorough Protection
for the Wool grower was never before afforded.
Formerly good Wool was imported at a low duty
By mixing it with worse, or with foreign substan-
ces; but this is now thoroughly prevented, and
such only can come in at low duty as does not
interfere with our Wool. growers. And that they
are fully protected by the high duty against
direct competition, is abundanty proved by the
fact that no Wool of the better quality is now
imported.
If we have ever stated that the effect of a
Protective Tariff has uniformly been to reduce
prices we certainly did not say that prices on
an article inadequately produced in this Country
will be instantly reduced by q Protective duty
We know well that the prices Of that large and
important class of articles Of ,phich the cost Of
Production is in direct proportion to tie amount
of the Product-such as Grain, Wool, Agrlcul
sural staples generally, with such manufactured
articles as Boots and Shoes, Log Chains, Ready
made Clothing, &c.-will not be so reduced in
price BY Protection as will that far greater variety
and amount of Manufactured products TO the
cheaper production of which steady and err
tensile demand vitality conduces. We know
that good Wool, such as is produced here,
Is higher to-day than if The present duty had
never been imposed; but whether II is higher
than it ,oould be now if no Protection had erer
been afforded here, is another question. We be.
Ieve our People are this day supplied with
Wooden fabrics essentially cheaper than if there
had never been a duty on the importation OF
Wool and Woolens.
The Tocsin cavs at our incidental remark
that some Of the best of the manufacturers
failed under the low prices of year ago. He
says it must have been the small fry-not those
who were thoroughly initiated into all the petty
devices and frauds Of the Opposition journals
He to have forgotten that the failure concern.
inc which the most noise was made BY the Loco.
Foco press was that OF Hon. James F. Simmons
then and now U. s. Senator from Rhode Island,
vho aided to frame the Tariff, and was and is one
of its ablest and strongest champions. He would
be little likely to be deceived by petty device:
and frauds whether of Wing or Loco Foco jour
nals.-The fact is notorious among business mer
that, for considerable period last Spring anC
Summer, owing to the supply largely exceeding
the demand, Cotton goods could only be sold fol
less than cost, and those who were obliged to sci
then were ruined. Mr.. Simmons was among tn.
number, and the Free Traders moralized over hi
stoppage with il-concealcd e1ultation. Yet be
cause Cotton Goods are not still sold at the ruin
Gus rates OF that period, when Cotton has riser
largely and the market greatly improved, the Toe
sin and its compatriots say, See how goodshav
risen under Protective Tariff" If the Manu-
facturers had gone on breaking one after another
that would also have been an argument agains
!. the Tariff. Any how, it is fish to their net.
The Tocsin repeats its juggle with respect Il
the comparative prices of Cotton and Cottol
Goods. We had stated the truth that Cotton hat
! risen so per cent from March, lS43. To dis
proye this the Tocsn quotes the price IN May o
that year. Then i, quotes from the Evenin!
Pos. comparative table of certain description
of plain Cotton fabrics, showing an average ms
of some 80 per cent. between Feb. 1913, ant
Feb. 1914. Here is the old and repeatedly eS
posed cheat of quoting the prices Of 1913 as Ere
Trade prices, when in truth the present TART
had then been six months or moro in operation
Wky do not The Tocsin and the Free Trader.
compare prices UNDER the Tariff rcith prices BE
FORE The Tariff This is what their readers un
derstand them to be doing, while they are in truth
erely showing that at two different periods, bott