New-York daily tribune., 1844-11-05

pay the deficiency Of the next five, for as quail
by competl'ion Is improved, the necessity OF
import is Uhviated and the amount of imports
wilt be 50 ltssened as 10 make this early excess,
very desirable to the wants of Government.
We think this answers the objection Of our op-
Ponenss IN relation to AID oyergrown treasury,
ARISING out of high protective duties When the
rich choose TO induliein the use Of foraign CON-
n.odhes, merely because they are foreign, the
mass Of the comm unity cannot object TO their
dsfraling the expenses Of the governmen., fer oy
them alone will foreign products be MADE use Of,
when those of domestic origin can be afforded of
an equal quality at a less price.
The efiecto of Protection on the prosperity Of
country cannot be doubted, and ss farther in
stances in support of my assertion relative TO de-
crease of price By home competition, l would
state that in the year l640 Pennsylvania alone
produced S22 G00,000 worth of iron. Nature
has there supplied the ore and coal in alternating
strata and they have only to build their furnaces
at the mountain side, throwing it in at the top
and shipping fromi its mouth Lon to the value
before stated During the last year of the Com
promise Act and previous to the passage Of the
present Tariff, Pennsylvania produced no Iron,
and we now call upon a sister State whom by
| improper legislation VIC have stripped Of an
| income nearly equal to the whole expenses OF our
General Government, per annum, to pay prompt
| ly debt, her inability to Go which arises out Of
| false legislation alone.
The necessity of Protection to our paper ma
kels is peculiarly evident On the passage of the
present Tariff they consumed annually S. 0UO,-
900 worth of American rags, which thelegisatve
policy of other countries will not permit to be
ported from this, they being prohibited article.
Should our paper mills not have received the
slight protection which they asked These rags
would not have been consumed. The habit OF
saving them would have passed into disusc, and
we should haze been losers at least to the amount
of this S5 900. These rags are furnished
principally from the six cotton growing States.
The article of Nails which, within the memory
Of every person present, were worth ten cents per
poand, by competition alone guaranteed by Pro-
lection, has been reduced in price to Al cents.
Refined Sugars which were sold at Ia cents at
the time of the passage of the present iarii, are
now sold at l03 cents pound, and Of quality
superior to those manufactured at that date.
The mere Improvements in qualities alone is
strong argument in favor of Protection. No loco
motive boiler is now built in England ofany other
than American boiler plate iron, its strength and
ductility being entirely superior to any olher-
The sum kept in the country by the protection on
nails, boiler plate, aud other articles of iron by
the present protective policy, which would other
wise be sent abroad to pay for these articles is
now more than equal to four times the expenses
Of our Government or Of the total amount of re-
venue collected.
FsEe TRADE.-We have row reached that
political paraco1 FREE Trade, very pretty
axiom, which England has used rs mothers do
the word lullaby to sing her colonies to Sleep
Sne is So fond of it that she has prluted hundreds
of thousands of copies of The efiusions OF that
political Peter Farley called Adm Smith, ono
reading of which is sufficient TO discourage any
system OF abstract truth. lis doctrines are like
those OF the adventurcr who, IN company with an
lnni4n, found stray horse, and proposed dl-
vision of The spoils, he said, IN take the horse
and you may take the saddle or, IT yol prefer II,
you NAV take the saddle and Hi take the horse"
The Indian answered. "Y You me all saddle, you
vau all horse" If England would 1e'er other
nations to Gees work OF Political Economy,
(Which, by the by, was published for The use OF
the Lords of the Treasury alone, and has never
been publicly cfculattd.) she would exhibit The
fact that her advice to others and herp.actces for
herself are at variance.
Tit were possible to find any two of our oppo-
nents who would describe what they mean by
Free Trade alike, or any one who could clearly
make us understand what he means by Free
Trade, IRE might possibly become converts; but
like the drunken man, who was asked TO give
definition of the word sobriety, he answered with
hiccup, "Sobriety is so6riety."
Now for the practices Of England as Free
| Traders. Throw out Cotton, and she charges us
an average duty on our products Of 800 per cent !!
| In the wear 1910 she received of the Febacco
crop of Kentucky and Virginia S3,3S0,00O, and
CHARGED duty thereon of 1922 22,551000. The
Kentucky and Virginia planters get but cents
per lb. over expenses for their Tobacco Let
| England practice the Free Trade principle she
would teach, and on this article alone we should
benefit in amount larger than the present total
revenue of the United States.
When she makes mistake or oversight in her
legislation, we soon convince her that our ma
tional ingenuity is capable of profting by it. We
would cite as an example Wooden Clocks not
p,operly enumerated in her Tariff. a majority
of her cottages are already supplied with these
time. keepers; and if they should be of no other
service TO her, they will at least teach her uneou
Gated peasantry to count from one to twelve.
England Processes to legislate for honor. This
| reminds mo of an anecdote related oy Camore-
sas in his compilation from tho European And'
A French officer in conversation with SWISS
General, remarked, "Why is it that you Swiss
always fight for money, while we Frenchmen
fight for honor (" The Swiss answered, "We
each fight for that which we stand most N need
Of"
AS farther specimen of English Free Trade
principles, until within few ycars, she would not
permit her artisans to leave her soil; and up to
this time, her jealousy of Russia has prevented
the export Of cotton machinery to that country
An American, travelling in Russia, intima'ed 10
the Emperor that it could be obtained IN Ametlca
of an equal quality. This consequence was, that
| the mschinisis of Lowell have since sent more
than 100000 of cotton machinery to Russia.
Norris, of Philadelphia, is now in Russia, erect
ing works for the manufacture of locomotive en-, n
ginos; and the fame of American Ingenuity will
be driven through Russia at the rate of 4o miles
per hour Notwithstanding the boasted llberaiily
of England, she suffered the American Whitney,
who invented her spinning Jenny-the cause OF
| 1 cheated