New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-12-08


ailop boats board htn. 1. that boat how
ever had pass and used it play most dshonora-
bic game This will no. answer regular business.
Our agent Of course had authority 10 act in bad faith
with the Boston Press unite with any person or as
socia;ion Ia any dishonorabe dishonest act In fair
and honorable competition his instructions as 10 expense
are no, limited.
Tho Report OF tho Secretary of the Treasury
tho Tariff.
Having given place in the Presidents Message,
TO very thoroughly Loco Foco review Of the great
leading questions at issue before the American Peo-
pie we shoald no; hesitate to give equal prominence
10 the Speech of the junior counsel the same side
MFR. Secretary Walker to wi,-which is mainly
devoted TO the Tariff question, had be seen fit 10
confne himself within reasonable limits, or to deal
in any thing else than unsparing and secondhand
assertions. He has chosen, however, line OF argu
1nent which precludes all hope OF profit to any side
from exhibition and scrutiny. What advantage, for
instance can accrue 70 the reader from knowing that
Mr.. Walker positively asserts, while we as abso-
lu,ely deny, the truth of the following
AT least two thirds Of the imposed by the pre-
sent Thrift paid not tho treasury but the pro-
tected classes The revenue from imports last year ex
cceded twen,ysevcn millions OF dollars This. IN itsel
IL heavy tex but the whole tax imposed upon The poo
lions Of doars-of which tweny.sevcn millions are paid
to the government upon the imports and ffyfour mil
lions the protected classes in enhanced prices oi sim
liar domestic articles.
This estimate sbased upon the position that the duty
Is added the price of the import and so of it's domes
tic rival If the import is enhanced in price by the duty
must be the domestic rival: for being ike articles
their price must be the same in the same market Tho
merchant advances in cash the duty the import and
adds the duty with profit upon IT, and other charges
10 the prccwhch must therefore be enhanced TO that
extent" &c. &c.
Surely. tho power and utility Of assertion this
point have long since departed. Mr. Walker knows
perfectly well that the friends OF the Protective poi
icy srenuously deny that such is the effect Of duties
that are truly Protective; and con,entwith mere
denial they produce myriads of facts TO prore the
soundness of their position IT, therefore he desired
to overthrow their position, twas incumbent on him
to refu;e their theory by disproving their facts
Having asserted that the present duties Salt, on
Cotton fabrics or Cotton Begging, on Foreign Ii
quors &c. range from Go to go per against 20
per cent in 1872 ne had nothing to do but just
give table of tie prices of these articles in June
1912 and in June 1916 respectively, showing that the
home. made well as the imported had in each case
advanced propor!ionably 10 the duty, and he would
have put Prptectionists on the defensive. Then
he could have taken Axes Augurs Anvlls, Brsss-
Kettles, Pins Wire, Screws, Glassware &c. on
which the duties were in like manner rendered Pro.
tective in lsia, and compared their prices in that
year with the prices they now bear and Of they had
not happened to come out wrong) made another hit
Books, Hats, Shoes. Gloves, &c. would have fur
nishcd the material for another demonstration. All
this need not have taken half column of The Uaio1
and would have been worth TO his cause tar more
than three columns of his most sweeping asser-
tons. The simple fact is that the facts eracly and
emphaticaiiy contradict his assertions. Prices
rise and fall, and men sell their and fab
rics for the most they will fetch some articles
higher than in 1912 and some are lower but in
every case they are governed by laws of which the
Secretary appears TO be ignorant and utterly refuse
TO give any countcnance 10 his assumptions. Salt
for example, has been higher and lower since the
new Tariff passed than il was before; but the man
who says tho manufacturers nj Sana, kanawha or
any where else, were enabled 10 raise their price 5
cents on every sc lbs upon the passage OF the Tariff
or at any time thereafter, insults the intelligence of
the community There is no, boiler around Onon
daga Lake wood cutter on the Kanawha who
has not better practical knowledge of the laws
governing Prices than this selcomplaccnt Secretary
of the Treasury
But Mr.. Walker is not contented with classifying
the Past. He the Office of a Prophet, also,
and blends such indicative and suhpnctiye miss,ate,
renis as these
lie, US, with duties only. open ports 10
all the world, and nation after nstion VIII follow
our example. y ice reduce our icrt5 the party opposed
to the Corn Lars Of England ond PrepGi and al.
nit al oar oricarGi produces at al ;imes freely Asr
ports. in exchange for her exports And il England
would repeal her duties upon our Wheat Flour In.
M I'm
s,rictve system would certainly be doomed 10 over.
throw. II the question is asked, Who shall begin this
work of reciprocal reducton' it answered by the
fact, that England has airesdy abaed her duties upon
OF our exports She has repealed the duty upon
Cotton and greatly reduced the Tariff upon bread.
stu provisions and other articles and her present bad
harvest accompanied by reduction Of our Tariff would
lead 10 The reai Of her Corn Lrns end Tie ressric.ea
admission, all trass OF agricultural rrodcas"
Who gives the Secretary right ihus TO pledge
England 10 q radical and vital change of her policy
for all time TO come Does History Surely not.
Our Grain was excluded by her involving almost
our whole country in bankruptcy from inability to
pay her o; the very time that We were running our
infant Manufactures by the easy admission OF her
goods She never thought and obviously never
would have though, of relaxing her restrictions 50
long as all nations her liberal customers. 1t lis
py 'Ee ccunerv ailing restrictions of other countries
united States and elsewhere-,ha, she has been
driven into some aba,c,nen; of her own regulations
Even her recen, reduction. to which Mr. w. Fri.
umphantly points, was steadfas,ly resisted during
our ten years of declining duties and large impor
tations until we had VIGOROUSLY resolved TO try the
other tack by returning TO Protective Tariff. Then
she gave way little BIZ, let all the world buy lib
orally Of her, keep her factories running and her
merchants prosperously busy, and she would never
abate farthing except las in the case Of Co,,on to
promote her own Industrial interests. Her duty on
Cotton favored our rising Manufactures at the ex.
pensc of her own, without promoting any Home
interest; SO she wisely abolished it She will abol
ish her Corn.Laws when she perceives similar in
ducement. and not before. Whether she ought now
to do So is question we do not discuss If her
soilw not advantageousy produce the bread s,utfs
she needs, we should think y change desirable. But