New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-05-09
pnt,as and Prices. Iron,

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Duties and Prices. Iron.
The Columbus Tones, Georgia, quotes parl OF a
recent article on Railroad Iron from our columns,
and says:
The above 1, the rci,era,Ion OF the stale absurdy OF
high duties and low prices How It Is that the American
Iron Manufacturer nike Rail- any cheaper be
cause OF duty on the foreign article we find II impossible
70 imagine. We have seen, nor can we think Of
even, a plausible guess at the reason. The
Stand BY the Tariff and we will have hoine
made Rail Irons $40 the tom II is belief that
r Greeley thought so, he would be in favor OF arepe Of
tho Iron duties"
The question asked by the Times we have an
wered al least fifty times. but our patience Is I'M
exhausted, aud we shall very gladly answer II
again Let us try an illustration:
The Columbus Times is very fair weeklypaper,
afforded TO subscribers a, SO per annum in advance
or 81 if not paid in advance. The Weekly Tn
bune ia much larger paper. containing at least
four times as much reading matter, afforded at 81
in advance and to companies much lower, so that
It's average price to subscribers is not over Sll-
Just half that of The Times. And yet The Times
is afforded as reasonably all things considered AZ
The Tribune, and we presume is not more prolla-
bic to its publishers.
What is the reason Of this great disparity in
price, as contrasted with the amount of matter. OF
the two papers Clearly Us it notD because The
Times crcuates over small area, in which com.
paratvsly few papers are TAKEN and those in good
part from abroad. The Tribune, on the contrary,
is issued amidst dense and generally reading pop
ulation, and circulntes expanse almost
commensurate with the Union. Who does not See
that, in the nature Of things, The Tribune and
will be printed at the lower price SO long
lathe conditions rrmain essentiauyas they are.
But suppose state of things should arise which
should enable the Columbus Journals TO dispose II
and receipc pay for many copies as they could
conveniently print-what would be the natural cl-
feet on the price of newspapers in Georgia Would
they not inevitably be afforded cheaper than they
now are? No matter how this change should be
produced-whether by the quadrupling of the pop
alatien of Georgia, the transformation of her Id
boring class into intelligent readers able and will
ling to pay for papers, or by tho substitution OF
Georgian for other newspapers and the taking OF
paper In every family-we know, by experience
and extensive observation, that newspapcrs IN Geor-
sia would be far cheaper than now, equality being
consldsred,) while the publishers would not lose
but gain by the change.
But we will suppose an extreme case-that GeoF-
gia ia buying three fourt!is OF her papers from
abroad, at much lower prices than her own pub
fishers can live by, and that she should all at once
prohibit the farther introduction Of Ito her) foreign
newspapers. For time, OF course, her people
would pay more for her newspapers than they had
previously paid But does not The Times see that,
by an inevitable law, as the circulation Of Georgia
Newspapers gradually ertended, under the influence
of the new demand their price ,ooud be dimtniStcd
We do not care what incredible supposltion Is re-
sorted TO in resisting this law A combination OF
all the publishers in Georgia TO charge higher III
stead OF submitting TO lower prices, would not de-
feat and could scarcely impede IT. II they would
not sell at fair rates, competitors would speedily
appear who rould and the average price OF newspd-
pers (without particle of foreign cempettion)
would very soon be established a. The to,eest point
,rj,ich tcostd afford a Grimg proft.
Is not all this very plain and very certain And
can The Times ask US how il bears on the produc-
ton Of Railroad Iron! Here, in tn. absence of a
Tariff are our Iron. masters, like the publishers Of
Georgia, paying higher prices for their labor, &c
and contendiug for Il small market with those VIII,
have undivided and secure possession OF large
one II costs our Iron men (anllke the publisher
CASEY more in the average TO bring their Iron Il
Nsw-York than it does their BRUSH rivals 10 NEE
them here. New, we say. Secure the American
market to our own producers UNLIMITED IN numbt
and points of operatlon) and they Will soon atiolt
us Iron cheaper Counting the cost In our products
than we could buy it abroad II we admitted II Ire,
of duty. Will the Times tell us II the establish
ment of manufactures in the Souh-say OF Hard
ware. Cloths, &c-has not generally operated tore
duce prices there =, And ist not reasonable 10 sup
pose that, it we give our Iron masters steady DC
n,and for their staple in place OF capr.clons one
and market for four times as much aswe former
" took Of them, the price must inevitably come
downl Surely it cannot be Impossible IL
imagine " this, nor even TO guess al the reason
Co. The Prison Association. Of this CITY has beer
refused charter by the votes Of twelve Senator
all Loco Focos. We give their names, that on
readers may see that II was no horror of Corpora
tons which led them to oppose this Phllan,hropi,
efforts
Sor.-Mcsrs Besfn,an Buraaaa,, Cerniag Dennlsson
Les,er, Ricas Porter, &ort!, Sherman. raees FaT'-
varncy-f2.
Co. WILLIAM w. CHEERy, one OF the mobiles
sons of North Carolina, a Wing Elecior IN the las
two Presidential contests and Just nominated 10
Congress in place OF Hon. Kenneth Rayner, die'
ai Jackson, Northampton Co. the ID inst. Tn
Raleigh Register says:
. accustomed view with philosophy the nscrutati
decisions OF fate and to bow In submission TO that pewe
which tSou human affairs still trcmbe IN
dar the shock produced by The rend
a<.th Had il been the caprice OF the inss;S,e archer
TO eonvulss whole community Ia Srief-'o cause ;hei
bssrts 10 bleed he could not have taken
WILLIAM W CHERRY dear TO The people OF North CarO
lima ana their sympshies win be touched into the mos