New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-12-05


tcle on the Tariff question, bat declines to follow
our example by copying our remarks, preterrng to
answer
on that most excellent plan of Mrs Caudes lectures
without rehearsng the other side of the dialogue w
true that the time the Tariff Of 1912 was enacted
trade manufactures. and business generally were IN
condition Of great depression and qul.e me :, ave-
row the case The country then suffering 's - A
did before"
The Journal does not confine its imitation oi Nt'
Caudle to single particular That nothing u
do with it. is its standing answer 10 all ia's proving
the good Influences OF the Tariff True, the Coun-
try was in a ,xretched condition under the Revenue
Tariff and is now very prosperous under project
i've Tariff bu, that proves nothing the condolences
.re o,j,e accidental. But, sirs, the Country nap
renea to be suffering very severely from stagnation'
PARALYSIS and glut,ed markets when the first Tariff
was enacted, in 1890, and there was no National
Bank then to father the mischief upon. A Taria
was enacted and Bank too great accession Oh
prosperity and industry followed Again. an III
crease of duties in 1920 and "a was urged on &C
count of the depressed and paralyzed condition oil
the National Industry. and granted IN the latter
vear. also an addition in 1923 When the high Tariff
was nulifed and reduced in 1888 the Country was
enjoying a remarkable degree OF prosperity Again
in 1912, when Protection was reestabllshed, inc
Journal says our condition was one OF Il great de
preston" and " quite the reverse Is now the case
Rather odd these condolences are they not IL rec
Trade plainly conduces to prosperity and fro'ec'
tim TO the reversed Would Mt it be best Tor Inc
Free Traders lust to stand back until the Protective
Tariff gets the Country into trouble, and then try
Free Trade to pull her ont? If they take hold
bart tvb N
tiers should follow the overthrow Of Protection the
People might begin TO suspect that these conciden-
ces are not entirely accidental.
But the Journal says the theory Of Home Mar
ket to sustain Agricultural prices has proved a
fallacy" and proceeds to state the Home Market
prices of farm products according 10 its convenience
Now DO friend of Protection every proposed to con-
tine the sale of our Products to Home Markets, bat
simply TO create extend such markets, and leave
our producers liberty choose between them and
the Foreign. Our Foreign market would never
have carried up the prices OF Produce 10 their pres
emf range, but for the immensely greater market al
forded in and around the factories, mills, FORCES,
furnaces &c. now in operation or going up all over
our Country These afford certain market for our
Farmers while their European market is mainly
derived from the failure Of the crops in that quarter
"a calamity which may be expected perhaps once
in Eve years Ii we are all Farmers here, shall
have chance to sell something in FIVE years but
If we make cur cloths and wares our Farmers will
have sure market always, and double market
with high prices when the British crops fail. But
we are always ready TO sell under any Tariff and to
buy abroad as much we can sell TO pay for, ex-
Dept when Free Trade has so in deb, that
we have TO hold up and pay off old scores.
The Journal strains its liberaity In admitting that
ITO be sure the people in NewEpgland near manu-
factories sell their cabbages aud for better prices
account Of the factories
Enough said. The principle operates the same In
Ohio or Iowa as in New. England. Pittsburgh, SYRIA.
cuse, Buffalo, Cleveland, Hamilton (Ohio,l Cincin-
natl Louisville st. Louis. &c. &c. each centres
of Manufacturing activity and growth which the
Tariff called into existence invigorated. People
talk of Manufacturing as though it meant nothing
but Spinning and Weaving, when in fact onefourth
of the Labor of the Country is employed in Manu-
featuring, and most of ii in departments palpably
benefited by the Tariff Whoever will inquire will
find that the progress in manufactures OF Glass Cut
lery, Wire, Screws Pins, Jewery &c. &c has been
very rapid within the last three years-tar more so
than for six years preceding 1t is easy to say
Mrs Caude like, that the Tariff had nothing to do
with it. and even TINT Manufactures would have
done as well without, or are confined to New
England, but practical men know better; and that
there is scarcely valley in the land embosoning n
mill stream which is not this day richer account
of that Tariff. Yet says the Journal,
Whether any portion OF the local manufacturing vii |
lagos the creation of Protection ii has nothing
10 do with the great of products. There is
price of the whole will always be controlled by the
foreign markets''
No, again. The price is not controlled by the
Foreign any more than by the Home Markets. Price |
depends on the relation of Demand TO Supply and
Domestic demand affects it just as much as Fo.
reign of equal amount If our Domestic demand for
Flour, Pork, Beef &c were twenty-five per cent
less-as it would be if our workshops were in Eu
rope-the ruling prices would be far lower than
they now are But hear the Journal again;
why should the growers of beef and pork be COM
PEELED to damage their goods with imperfect salt and be
forbidden, except with heavy penalties from obtaining
pure iock SAT- made by nature in Turks Island. where
the whole human furniy invited to come and Get as /
much as they please without money and without price
Ansrer-Prove TO US that pure Salt can only be
obtained from Turks Island, and that =" as much as
they please can be had there and j, is established
not tina. Protection is unsound but that Salt is not
proper subject of Protection. But we deny all these
assumptions. We say that pure Salt may be manu-
featured here well as any where; that New.
York and other homemade Salt will cure Beef and
Pork as well as any other if rightly made and appl !
ed, while by looking to Turks Island alone, TO
say nothing OF our Hesitation in case of war we |
should draw hard on the supply and increase the
prlce Oh the article Our hoyae made Sal, is rap
Idly improving as 20 quality. and is afforded a,
low rates. Tough the price of Turks Island is un
usually high.
The Journal INDUCES in its usual flourish about
every body turning against Protection, but that we
have heard from these fifteen years and expec; 70
do for fifteen more. The Tariff is never destroyed
by;
The Journal, while admitting that Protection
cheapens the articles protected and consequently
does no, tax the consumer, tine danger, it now ar
CUES being rather that Of undermining and destroy