New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-07-17

,yices OF these staples must inevitably have Sunk
Jar lower than they have done The excess q
production over l542 isrno.e than we could make
sale Tor N EuroPe, though VIC should b:'arril
ourselves IN purchases Q: British goods. The pre-
tencc that the Tariff has cn: OF Foreign markets
Is absurd. The British Corn Laws arc less stF1n-
rent than they were in fsfmsf years, and we aye
saving largely Of Foreign pTodac's-quitc as
!a,rcly as we should if we ever mean 10 pay the
acavy deb. winch (nainiy in the shape of State
>tocks.) We now owe to Europe. 70 wipe this
cu.. VIC must sci! more abroad than re bay, winch
is JUS: wha; re began last year to do.
We are sure that the West generally under-
stands this matter ofprices. We were asked N
April what would probably be the range oi Inc
Flour market this season and. seeing iiahu:ac-
lures, Building, Sc mos, active all a5oct u.s. VIC
rave the opinion that it must advance. The
Western merchant who made the inquiry re-
sporded, You aren2t aware what extraordinary
quantities Of Produce arc waiting TO come ioT-
ward as soon as the Canals cpen." lie YVES
light.
How, then, is the price OF Agricultural Staples,
now much too low, to be advanced We say,
Not By bu,ing ,norc Manufactures IN Europe, but
by extending and diveEsiying the sphere Of Pro
duciien in the West Instead Of looking even
to New. England and New.Yo.k FOR market Tor
Flour and fork by the hundred thousand barrels,
the West must create a market FOR good part Of
her produce at home. She Iuust increase her
produc, Of Hemp, Iron, Hardware, &c. which We
cow largely import; she must introduce new
branches Of culture, as the SIX, the Vine, &C.
She mus, begin 10 make the greater part Of her
own Cloths, her Cutlery, Crockery, &c. &C.
This is what the Yves! needs, and ID rapidly
acquring-a greater variety OF ernPioyncnts and
of products, 50 that she shall consume great
part of her Agricultural Staples west OF Buffalo
and the Aleghenics, and her people no longer
stand agapc Tor the newspaper which tells the
nrice of Flour or Pork in New York. Those
prices are not properly decisive, may very well
he, that prices should even be lower IN New York,
and vet the producers receive larger reward for
their labor.
And now ofthe prices OF Manufactures Why
will not The open and the insldicas opponents OF
the Tariff treat these with some show OF honesty
They continue u assert that Manufactures gene
rally have advanced some 90 to so per cent. since
the passage and because of the Tariff In vain
do we set the ind;sputable facts before them,
showing that this is wholly untruc-they reiteratc
it next day as though it were undsputed fact.
Thus Judge CHEEyER Of Albany, whom we have
known as an ayowcd advocate Of Protection,
made speech on the iih at Schuylctyi'le, which
we find reported in the Atbo"y Are@s, wherein
he assumes that, if duty is laid so high as 10
shut out impor,ations, ii must inevitably increase
the price of the article protected, and even $50 his
argument runs by the amount Of the duty =
Here is his example,
1--WE have example of tbs under The present afi IN
the very ulco oil good; Hy the present. anti c"ton
, r:l; - per yur and EG6r are 10 he waited ut
~ o 70 ,. GOOD. cost much les than . csni. the
average duty that chs - c cent ms hiea.> Oy '''e
Some OF iesa S,a,Gmmt,ce of Ways nrd Means
cents actually co, Ru;5 NowSsl IRE =" pe s"ued p 20
ne@ cent duty The elect iore'en goods 81 that
scn,,on ure driven from MARKET dnd tie goods We lald
cent. f;r rs months ago. pay q, and Sor.
To the same purport is the New, Hampshire
Patriot, which assumes Ike advance on Manu-.
acturcs, but is careful not 10 give figures for IT,
Il gives statement tina; Appleton Sheetings
have risen as follows:
Priee; ,ss. rrcssi "A. Risen y1 E''ens5 Ct
7''S':''' " = 8, j Z
Now mark the dishonesty Of this Free Trader
He has given the prices Of Agricultural products
for every year from 1870 so as TO take advantage
of the high prices of 1910 TO show great de.
cline WIZ thea, did he not giue The price Of
appleton Shcetings from $50? Simply be-
cause that would have upset his whole business
tie wanted 10 show that the Tariff had advanced
the price of Sheetings, but how does he prove It
BY showing that the price in lo4I is higher than
than that of 1913, while in both years the present
Tariff was in operation, having gone into effect
in 1912. This is the way the People are 10 be
cheated out of the Tariff.
Now we give, from the books of mercantile
house in this city, the actual manufacturers prices
of Appleton Sheetings in all the years named by
the Patriot, comparing it with thcprice of Upland
Cotton in each year:
$50 ISL lsi,. 1888. 1874.
yp'srl Gotten. lb....;......."ss, q $, !. 3
he,e prices OF Cotton ARE those OF Aprln each he
cause we have tina, al hand OF Shsetngs August near
As may be-
Here it will be seen that Appleton Shectings
are bu, one quarter of a cent yard higher than
in 1910, while Cotton is hall a cent a pound
higher. Sheetings are cent yard higher than
last year, while Cotton is cent and 8 half n
pound higher. We have given the price Of pre-
ciscly the same quality and description of Cotton
and Sheenngs in each year. Is there any shad
ow of justification in these facts, when fully pre-
scn,ed, for the pretcxt that the Tariff has largely