New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-07-23

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"These figures CAMEO, lie, says the farmer, land
i am sure MIR. Webster would not. In fact he on,
asks u question, and my answer TO Mr.. Webster
must be, that my produce forty per cent dearer
last year than il is this, while the goods which bay
from the protected manufacturers, were twenty per
cent cheaper than they are now. My answer To MIR.
Websters question Is, therefore, that the products
ofmy industry produce me only halfas much cloth
ing for myself and daughters us they did year ago.
Why, MIR. Webster, what IN enormous diminution
Of comfort have my family suffered! We can have
but half the comforts this year which we enjoyed
last year, or rather my family can have almost moth
ing this year. for my taxes and other matters OF
absolute necessity will exhaust every thing. hnve
truly an interest in two prices, and between these
two mlstones am ground TO powder"
Remarks by the Tribune.
We publish the above Editorial from the most
willy and deadly Free Trade organ in the Coun.
try, because we wish our readers to see what arc
the strongest arguments advanced on that side OF
the question. We give every word of the article,
because we are not afraid that Truth can suffer
from a collision with Error; but the Free Trade
journals never permit our arguments to be seen
by their readers, even when in direct answer TO
theirs. They occasionally pick out parag graph
which they think they can answer but not one
of our articles showing at length hOn and why
Protection must benefit the Farmers has ever
found its way into Free Trade journal, not
even into those Of them which say they are better
Tariff men than we are, but arc careful never TO
frame or insert defcnce of Protection against the
constant assaults Of the Free Traders.
Now let us look into the Journals logic:
That paper states that Pork on the LIST Of jane
was worth but S. so $3.50 for Mess and S625
s63S for Prime. Very true bur why did il
not state that on The doy ,ohen its article ,cas
made up FRIDAY LAST good Pork was firm il our
market at 50 IS for Mess and s. S71 for Primo
an advance OF more than dollar barrel since
June LIST. in the face o! an enormous receipt and
the sale of 5000 barrels here within ten DAYS
There is no Cheese worth the name which sells
st 2 cents a pound. The Journal knows that the
marke, for Grain and Provisions has been crushed
down this season by an enormous supply-some
fifty per cent. greater than that of any former
year. This would have ensured low prices at any
time, unless there had happened to be at that time
a great scarcity somewhere else, which is not the
case now. There has been no former year since
1887 when such an excess of Provisions as have
reached the seabcard since January would not
haye forced down the prices more than they have
this year.
Blu, ON the other hand, how quickly the Jour.
nal gides over the advance Of Wool, and now il,
con,riy,s ~ behttle it Il parades Mess and
Prime B ef, Mess and PriG.e Pork, by the barrel,
but gives only one description Of Wool, and that
the one on which it can make the rise on pound
highest Now we i, know that the actual adj.
vance ia Wool of all SORTS from las! year has been
equal to forty per cent.-that Is, SO much more
has been paid to the farmers this year than last
We are sure that for the three articles OF Beef,
Pork and Wool the Farmers have received as
much for their last years product as for that which
preceded it. Yet in the Journals aggregate
tho Farmers lose Elercn Dollars end sirty.t,oo
cents on their Beef and Pork and gain SereR
esnfs on their Wool. THIS is the way Free
Traders use statistics hab.tually.
With regard to Manufactures, the Journal is
equally uncandid, even allowing its tables to be
correct so far as they 60 ltpurports TO be show
ing that Cotton and Woolen fabrics have ad.
yanced some twenty. threep per cent in consequence
of the Tariff: but how does i. Prove this Does
j. compare the prices of those goods before the
!. present Tariff was imposed and when the duties
were down to Mr. Folks twenty per cent with
the prices at any time since the duties were sd-
yanced1 Not bit OF it! Yet this Is manifest
what its careless readers will suppose it to be