New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-01-31

&C. The Plebeian cannot see now We sup
nortinq Tariff alike for Revenue and froteclloh'
can favor duties on specified fabrics intended 10
keen ont the Foreign article We believe thus de-
feet of vision is peculiar to that paper. Most Ger,
tainlv VIC see no discrepancy in adjusting farm
80 that it will protect generally the Industry OF
the Country and at the same time afford adequate
Revenue TO the Government Yet the present
Tariff imposes duty of 50 per cent. on Ready
Made Clothing, not with the design OF obtaining
an increase of Revenue on such clothing, out u
keeping out the Foreign articles when nao Des un
70 All orr stores and warehouses, and thus IN
cre,s;no the work and wages Qittle enough at
best) Of our tailors, seamstresses &c. Now we
contend that it is a wise National economy to
have our clothes made at home, employing and
instructing our own people, even though 1t could
be done nominally twenty-five per cent. cheaper
abroad. And more: we insist that, II we pur-
sue this policy of securing employment and bet
ter reward to our own people, our Imports gen.
erallv will not be thereby reduced but increased.
We shall import less Clothes, less Boots and
Shoes. &C.. but more Dye-woods, more HIDES
and more of every thing our climate does not pro-
dnce And remember that the Importation OF raw
materials gives immensely greater employment to
our Shipping than that of finished fabrics. The
dvewoods, &C. which we import to produce one
shipload Of Cloth require t,oenty ships to import
them.
We are tired teaching The Plebeian the rudi-
ments of Political Economy. lit does not know
that Foreign Manufacturers will send their goods
here and sell them, in the absence Of Tariff, al
though we can make as cheap as they, tits igno-
rant of fact known to everybody else If 1t
does not know that Foreigners sell in our mar
kets those articles which are rivaed by our own
artisans much cheaper than other articles Of equal
cost and value, it does not know what million
of facts establish.
But says the Plebeian,
ut costs per import English manufac-
lures, and export the articles to pay for them"
True enough; but only three per cent. of this
is paid by those who import and sell the Foreign
article; the balance falls heavily upon the gen.
eral industry of the Country. The depression OF
the price of our own staples, caused by the ne
cessity of forcing larger amount OF them on dis
tant and more distant markets, The Plebean does
not vet understand; but we think the Country
does.
The Plebeian quotes us as saying,
"There is reason, there be none why we NAV no
supply the whole world with the leading articles of Com
MERGE"
Whence this is taken we cannot imagine, but
it certainly was never written by the Editor of The
Tribune. He endeavors to speak more concisely
He is decidedly in favor of having every nation
do its own Manufacturing, so far as possible
drawing from other Nations such raw product:
as they have superior facilities for producing
and in the main these only.
C Maj. HENRY M. RUrLEDGE, only son o
Edward Rutledge, Sgner of the Declaration o
Independence and afterward Governor of South
Carolina, died at Nashville, Tenn, on the Goth
aged 6S. He was born in 1875, Secretary te
Gen. c. c. Pinckney, ambassador to France, in
1897: commissioned Major in the U. S. Army in
! 1900. served several wears in the Legislature O