New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-03-23

as possible, has it increased them, the cost Of
the raw material being regarded. But on de
LANES and nearly all descriptions of Fancy
Goods its effect is inevitably To reduce prices, by
rendering the market lor our producers palpaby
broader, steader and surer than it could be in the
absence ola Tariff, or under low one
1t Is most true, therefore. that some articles
have been made cheaper, others dearer, by the
present Tariff. That our Farmers will this wear
realize an average . per cent more for their
various productions than they would do under a
horizontal 20 per cent. Tariff, we are confident
not that Agricultural Staples will be much higher
in the great Commercial Cities perhaps not 5 per
cent. but because this Tariff gives vitality and
vgor to Mechanical and Manufacturing Opera
tons all over the Country, and these afford the
great majority OF our Farmers market fox their
products in their own sections respectively, obvi-
ating the necessity of producing mainly Grain
and other staples, and encouraging them to pro-
ducc the more profitable fruits, vegetables, SC.
which will not bear transportation to distant
market. This is the way the Farmer is benefited
by Protcction--not BY shutting out Foreign Grain,
Meat, Vegetables, sc. on which the bare cost of
importation is equivalent to an average Protection
of fifty per cent. Wool, being Of little weight in
proportion to It's value, forms an exception to the
general rule, as Cotton would measurably do, if
it could be produced almost every where, as Wool
may) But the Farmer Of the interior sprotcct-
ed by whatever tends to bring market for his
surplus nearer and nearer his door, and the Farmer
of the seaboard and the vicinity of the great Cities
is protected by whatever checks the ten
dency of the produce Of the interior to crowd to
the scaboard by finding it narke. nearer home.
So much for the seeming inconsistency which
has graveled the Courier II we could devote a
page to the subject instead Of a column, we could
easily illustrate and enforce the general PROPOSE
tons here indicated by particular examples ;
could show how and why Protection has re-
duccd the price to our consumers of Glass, Pins,
i Screws, and whatever articles require for their
production large aggregations Of Capital Ma
chinery, &C., with superior Intelligence and Skill
in the workman while it has not reduced the cost
! of og-chans, trace chains &C., which are form
| ed link after link by simple hand labor For the
same reason, the Tariff will not reduce the cost
of Boots, Shoes, Clothes. making sc. &c. where
the main element of expense is the labor simply
requisite thereto, but Screws, Brass Kettles, Cast
ings &c. will be made cheaper and cheaper un-
der it, if sustained Bar Iron is dearer to-day
than it would be under 30 per cent. Tarif-thc
chief clement of its cost being the Labor employ
ed in producing and transporting it; but the
causes are already in silent operation which will
reduce Rails to $40 per ton, and plain Bars to
1872 within three years, if the Tariff is kept up,
so as to encourage and justify the investment of
the capital essential to the improved processes
which are requisite to such cheapened Produc-
ton.
The Courier docs wrong in saying we complain
of the enhanced cost of our staples. Nothing
like it. We knew that Wool, for instance, would
be increased in price by Protective duty, and
desired that result. But to charge good Wool
thirty per cent, and admit the fabrics manufac-
tured therelrom at fifteen, twenty and twenty five
per cent, is ruinous discrimination against our
own workmcn such as no Government ever be-
fore contemplated.
But The Tribune, says the Courier, is the
| oracle of the Manufacturing interest," Indeed
The Tribune was established without encourage
ment or aid from any person interested in Manu-
features; it has never been aided by any such to
this day, only so far as few have chosen to adj
vertse in it at our usual prices. OF course, many
persons engaged in Manufactures take and read
it. but not one fourth many as are engaged IN
Agriculture; and very small proportion OF It's
patronage comes from Manufacturing towns. No
effort was ever made to give it circulation there
! and at this moment more master manufacturers
take the Journal of Commerce ION account of its
picty) than the Tribune, though they nearly all
agree that the triumph Of the Journals princi-
pies would demolish them. No matter: The
Tribune is the organ Of no class it is devoted to
the interests of nonc but advocates the Protec,
tive Policy because the interests OF the whole
People, and especially of the Laborng Glass, I'M
pcratively require the maintenance of this poll
cy. We scarcely knew manufacturer when
we started this paper; we know but few OF them
now; but we know what course the General Good
dictates, and shall pursue it.
Eg O. A. Bowe, Esq. has withdrawn from the
conduct of the Herkimer Journal, because its pat
rons are mainly Wing and he has become thoroughly
Abolition. His opinions on slavery were not made
matter Of difference by the Wings ) but he has come
10 the conclusion that he act longer with any
other than the Abolition party. The Wing County
Committee have taken charge of the paper till