New-York daily tribune., 1844-07-31

York, and yet the Farmers be immensely ben |
cited Thus ii the Manufactures now con- |
sumcd in the Wes; were two-thirds produced
there, docs not every man see that the pnce OF
Wheat, Pork, &c. in that prolific region must ac-
vance, Who ever heard Of Wheat selling ;or two
or three shinrs a bushel in the midst Of long e.
tabshed Manufactures Who does not know
,ha, these give cash value to Wood Timber
Vegetables, Fruits, SC. in sections where they
would hardly ictcha price but FOR the ready mar
kc, which Manufactures afford And this, in
our Judgment, is the way, and the only way, in
whic!, Agriculture is to be Substantially benefit
ed-ly raising up new markets for lis products
in those sections where they are most abundant,
and giving value to articles which before had no
cash market. Thus manya farm IN New Eng
land which, if devoted to Wheat, Com and Pork,
will Weld no more now than twenty five years
40, does actually net twice as much TO lis pos
SCISSOR, because he now produces articles more
profitable in view Of near market acd not neI-
chantable at all without such market. And SO
f our South Western States would gradually
work in to the production Of the Silks, Wines,
and other products Of the soil sc now import
from abroad, they would greatly raise the value Of
their present staples-not SO much Their value on
the seaboard as their value where pToduced-bya a.
lprding market for them at hand, and obvletIDg
the necessity of sending them ono to four thou
sand mics to find consumers.
Need we make any reply 10 the representa-
tons of The Plebeian that We insist that erery
farmer of the West, even before nc has made
clearing MS lands, shall jump into the p:oduc-
ton of Silks, Wines, &C.? No, we have too
much respect fox the good sense Of our readers
Whether the statement Of The Plebeian originated
in stupidity or dishonesty, its absurdty is equally
evident When We say the West ought TO man
ufacturc at least It's coarse and common fabrics
Of all kinds, we do not mean that ecery man, nor
one in four, should engage in manufactures. Just
so of silk. sc.
The Poughkeepsie Telegraph (as We find
appropriately quoted in the Nerark Morning
Post) also ruus over with sympathy for the poor
It has the old Free Trade statistics, which we
have so often handled, grumbGng that Goldis not
as heavily taxed Us iron by the Tariff, and that
coarse goods are charged higher duties (under
specific duties or minlmums) than the Gncr quail.
tics-as it was impossible that they should not
be if the ad ualo,em opening Tor fraud and tempt.
alton 10 Custom-il House perjury was 10 be done
away with as far as possible. These tables iell
US that Coal is taxed 100 per cent by this Tariff,
but do rot state the other fact that 1t is consid-
crably cheaper in this City and all over, than II
was a; any time when The duty was lower.
So it is complained that Wines arc only taxed
90 per cent by tho present Tariff, but it is not
stated that the Loco. Foco bill Of last winter
cut down these duties more than half. So VIC
are told that Hammers, Anyis, Saws, TaiIors'
but we arc not told that they are this day
cheaper than they were under the Compromise
Act even when the duties were down TO twenty
per cent. Ye' such is the fact. =" Striped Shirt
ing, for example," says THIS Free Trade article,
worn principally by the lahorer, pays duty of
65 per cent ,chich hoS the efect to increase It's
price ttro.thirdS.'' OF course, if such monstrous
unlruths as this arc 10 be received as authclNic,
our side will have 10 chance at all. We have
Just made inquiries on this point Of several
merchants in this City, enc Of them now and
always a Free Trade Lyco. Foco, and they all
assure us that Striped Shifting is at this day as
cheap as It was III 1912, when the duty was but
20 per cent. or al any time previous-that as good
an article OF Striped Shlrting can be bought III our
City for fifteen cents yard to-day as at any
forner period. And so il is with Manufactures
generally. A few common Cloths are ceaier;
but take the whole range Of Manufactures, and
lhcy can be bought this day as cheap in New
York, whether at wholesale or retail, as at any
,iric before the present Tariff was enacted
And yet the Farmers are daily and most falsely
told that the Tariff makes them pay twenty five
10 hundred per cent. more for every thing they
have TO buy We dare our opponents 10 contro-
vert cur statement by full mot PARTIAL array of
facts and figures. They dare no, attempt it,
Now let us give an example OF the Teegraph's
logic
'WooL.-Keep it before the people. that the prices oWool
under the pFeNt Tafhave ranged from 10 TO 80 cens lowe!
under the Ia ns duties OF the COMPROMISE Act and ;nat
eGua2e the present system by sv:n= the Farmer Ike Pctec
on with the Manufacture, and o that end proposed 10
The duty Wool lfcm 10 Is per ceu steadily
opposed and ultimately defeated by the UNANIMOUS vote OF
the Whg members
Now this paragraph abounds in misreprcsenta-
tons and untruths. That the price Of Woolwas
good in lS34-5-6, before the duties on Wool and
Woolcns were seriously diminished, and when
prices in general were high, is true; but this is a
part of case, not of our adversaries'. The vital
reductions Of the Tariff under the Compromise
were made in lSl0-l2, and then Wool and
Wooicns came down. The present Tariff WAS
imposed in August, 1912, and the business ofthe
Country did not all at once feel its effects. A
nation so vast as ours cannot be brought up from
The depths OF depression to the hight of Prosperity
III day. 1t was not till late in last year that the
market ioy American Woclens ieIt the impulse OF
this bencdceut change in our policy, carrying up
the price OF Wool. To quote the low prices OF