New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-01-30

- We were Ill last Tuesday, or we should
80 coon and answered an article of unusual
,,orerness in The Plcbeian entitled Wing
Inconsistencies 1t is full of misapprehensons or
;ncoles. For instance, we had said Sc We do not
doubt that Tea and Coffee would cost US the
nation] less if we taxed them 25 per cent" This
The Plebeian interprets as asserting that Tea and
Coffee would be cheaper to the consamersm tins
Country if it were taxed IS per cent. than II not
taxed at all! We did not dream OF this. We
meant that The increase of cost here, consequent
on the duty, would diminish the lmpertatlon and
fins lower the price in the market production
90 that we the American People, would bay
cheaper than now, and in effect fill our Treasury
partly at the expense of other Nations, wichita
our products unsparingly.
So Of wider and steadier markets. We want,
for illustration, a wider market for The Tri-
bune; but we do not wart it in Europe or Asia,
where its doctrines would hardly be palatable,
but among the American People. A wider
Market according to our meaning, would be a
market for more COPIES and not circulation
merely covering more space. And we are sure
that The Tribune, The Plebean, and ali other
American papers, have more subscribers now
than they would have if Foreign Newspapers
could take their place and answer their purpose
Just as yard of foreign calico or broadcloth Will
take the place of an American one, and II they
were allowed to do so free of duty, while ours
were virtually shut out of Foreign Countries.
The Tribune necer contended that high duties
uniformly ensure low prices. On such articles
as require mature experience, with extensive con-
centration of capital and labor to produce them
advantageously, this is the result OF persistence
in efficient Protection as million OF facts estab-
fish on articles which require more Land than
Labor, or but rude and simple Labor to produce
them, this effect will not be so obvious or SO
speedy, and often will not result at all. We
never said that Grain, Meat, or Boots and Shoes
would be cheaper under Protective Duty than
without; but there are articles which aoill be,
most surely-as Newspapers are now cheaper IN
this Country than they possibly could be if they
were wholly or one-half supplied from abroad.
The Plebeian is never at loss for facts, but
invents them with great facility. Thus 1t says
Prices of Manufactures generally daily growing
dearer and the prices OF Agricultural products generally
growing less"
Now it is true that some descriptions of Manu-
features have recently risen, owing IN part to a
large improvement in the price Of raw materials,
and in part to the general improvement in the
condition of things which the New Tariff has
caused, making demand for more goods than
had been provided; but, SO far as the present
prices exceed the cost of production they can be
but temporary, and must soon be cut down by
the consequent increased activity of production.
But it is most untrue that "thc prices of Agricul
tural Produce arc daily growing less" On the
contrary, Cotton has advanced 80 per cent. ;
Wool IS to 81; Pork Gn the growers hands,
full 80; Beef IL, &c. ST.. since last Fall. What
can The Plebelan mean?
uJ3 The Ncw World copies at length scurr.
lous and spiteful attack attributed to Boz on
this Country, its People, Literature, &c. purport-
ing to be a criticism on Grswod's Poets and
Poetry Of America, in the last Foreign Quarterly,
and thereupon calls out tauntingly to US Yam
KEGS
Give these slandeers of your names these foul mouth
ed bees upon your nation, the International Copyright.
they deserve it.'
The morality and justice of this passage
would do honor to the best days of Robin Hood
or Dick Turpin. Dickens 1--WE suspect) abuses
US; therefore use his productions without paving
him; and not his merely, but those Of Words
worth, Bulwer, Macaulay, Campbell, James, and
even the men who defend us against such stu
pid malignity! We are accused of having no
morality honor; we are indignant at the charge,
and go to work to prove it true, to show our in
dignation Great country this!
The New World denounces the current British
Literature as trashy and Anti American, and vet
advocates that policy in regard to Copyright
which secures almost monopoly of our Genera
Reading to British authors. We steal then
. works, and thereby cheaper them, so that they
/; secure monopoly of forming the opinions of the
INDECENT, indifferent and plastic. Give US Inter
national Copyright, and British works would be
no cheaper than their American rivals and we
should have three times as many American as
, hitherto, with fewer British books read by oul
People than now. Why not? We demand Jus
tice for all men, but seek Protection for the Amer
lean author.
u The GREEN BANNER is issced weekly at
Hartford, CT. devoted to such reading as the Irish
citizens of Connecticut desire. 1t is courteous
though firm in its bearing, interesting in its con-
tents, and costs but 81 50 year. The Irish
men and those who sympathise with the wrongs
of their native land i'll Connecticut ought to SET
that it is well disseminated and supported