New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-07-15

~. The Buffalo Courier notices our recent cx
nose of the condition Of par, Of the Laborng PEG
ple of our City, and tries TO base on il an argument
against the Protective Policy. Now we stated III
that article and stand ready TO prove, that the az
grcgatc employment and reward Of Labor in our
City has been immensely increased by Protection
We know whole classes of empoyments created or
transferred to this Country by the present Iariii-
we do not know one which has been destroyed OF
seriously injured by 1t. We have not doubt that
millions of dollars more have been earned and re
ceived by the Working Classes OF this City within
the pas, year than they would or could have re
ceived If the Tariff had been framed with a view TO
Revenue solely.
Rut tho power of any Na,onai Policy ." ss"-r"
general thrift and comfort is necessarily limited
and a Tariff is but an item Of National Policy. No
body has ever conendea that good Tsri would
redress all INEQUALITIES remove all evils. In IT,
sphere. the present Tariff has done vast good, bu,
we have ever contendcd that there are evils incl
dent to the condition of Labor generally which
no Tariff or other measure OF Government can RI
move Yet the very evils still subsisting demon
strate the benciccnce OF Protective Tariff. Our
Shocmakers for instance, are mainly working al
starving prices and why Simply because Shoes
can be- made in the rural sections of New England
where Shocmakers abound, and Rent Board &c
cos, less than half much as here, so cheap that
our City Shocmakcrs cannot compete with those OF
New England and live. The application OF this
truth To unrestricted competition between Ameri
can and Foreign Labor would not 10 be
difficult
..l,1.,, folk nj seias
about the great prosperity of master manufacturers
tof whom some are making money and amassing'
while others are losing and falling but there is no
need of following IL over that ground That ample
capital and rare capacity for business make money
while inadequate means and indifferent abilities
realize li,ic nothing, is true but i, is not pecu
lary true under the present Tariff. Nearly all the
great fortunes ever made in this Country Were made
by Commerce; very few by Manufactures The
leading Boston Capitalists were enriched by Com
mcrce long before they ever owned spindle
They will make money in some way if you abolish
the Tariff bu, they will not probably secure EN-
ploymeni and good wages to one fourth so many Of
the Working Glasses in doing it.
The Courier deals dishonesty with the prices OF
Agricultural Produce to show that they have rather
been depressed than enhanced by the operation OF
the present Tariff 1t asserts that the Crop OF last
wear was diminished" one-,hat Z" Wool has
fallen several cents pound and 40 on. The i'm
preston here given is that Wool is several cents
lower now than when the present Tariff was on
acted but the contrary is the fact. Ii is true,
moreover. that the Farmers are receiving better
prices now than they were then though Grain has
been somewhat depressed by succession of good
harvesis in Europe. diminishing the demand and
the price there. The prices in this city afford no
criterion of the farmers receipts. Millions worth
OF Farmers Prcdacc formerly sent TO the grca,
Cities is now consumed around the factories, iron
works. &c. nearer home, and gives a much larger
ne,, return to the producer though the articles may
be lower in New York than formerly
We will discuss Association with the Courier
after the Editor shall have made himself better &C
quantcd with the subject