New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-31
Enec,s of the New Tariff on new Branches of
Home Industry.

We have already noticed 10 condemn the defer
ence paid by the trainers OF McKays Tariff bill 70
the strong interests hitherto protected and the
terbalanciag serocsy with which it pounces on those
winch are TOO weak 70 send Members to Congress
or even TO pay lobby agents to dance attendance on
the meetings OF Committees. Thus while American
Iron .Suear, Hemp, Wool &c. have norlilally q
duty Of thirty per cent in their favor though real
~ IN good part neutralized by lower duties on the
fabrics thence manufactured we have SIX cut
down to fifteen per cent on The raw staple and 'he
ruder STAGES OF manufacture, with treHty5Hre per
cent on the more finished and costly fabrics
We ask why is SIX admitted at fifteen per cent
while Wool Hemp and Sugar pay 'Aifss - II
more necessary of life than they are Is ~ 80
peculiarly consumed by the i,"or that 'hsH '0'-,
mouthed champions now predominant IN congress
sbonI5 40 disc-;mipare in its favor? Is the heTe-
~. en- redundant tia. this great reduction on an
.-.;cio of rnre luxury is desirable! " nat reason
was there ior putting silk be.o" thiF'S per cent
Tho cIonse had evidenty but one obJect-to break
do,e the nfan, manufacture OF SILK IN this country
We earnestly hope-nay, We feel sure-that the
peone will come to the rescue before this purpose
can be accomplished.
We do most undoubtingly believe that no part
of Europe is better calculated for the growth and
fabrication Of SILK than are extensive portions oil
tins Countrv We can make our own SILKS cheap
er than Europe will ever sell them to us, after We
have had time to master the business and apply
Yankee ingenuity to the perfection OF its processes.
The poor children Of our Cities, the inefficient or
decrepit persons of both sexes who abound IN
every land, might by hundreds OF thousands II we
had but the silk Culture and Manufacture estab-
lished earn all honest livelihood although they
are now idle and burthensome TO public or private
charity The new Tariff does It's best to prevent
this benefccnt change We entreat al! engaged
in the silk business to hold on. There must be
more Revenue provided mex. winter or the Treas
ury Shinpasters will drag; and duty on Silks is
an obvious and surely available resource.
So with regard to Linens, Needles, Ctronometcrs,
and many Home Interests just struggling into life
in this country The low duties on their foreign
rivals cannot stand. The sober contemplation OF
the past will ,npcl people Of all parties to say
after the excitement OF the moment has passed
These interest. shall not be broken down IN their
infancy: Give them fair chance They will
have it,
The falschood Of the common assertion that Pro
tccted interests always need end canior for more
and more Protection is happily exposed in thought
less editorial paragraph in last Evenings Post
Read
Improve d PISs-Wc have seen beautiful! specimen
Of Pins by w c. Langley & Co. Theyaro solidhesdcd
and without exception the most perfect article OF the
kind ,vo have ever seen. They manufactured by
the knckerbocker Company which is the iIst ever es
4 t,.I yIs
pisrs for any proecire day and they dty The cor'd 70 com
pete Nth them
Such is the state which Pin-makinG in this coun-
try has attained under the stringent Protection OF
tho Tariff of 1912, which allowed it specific duty
with minimum equal to at least IS per cent. ad-
valoreEl we forget how many millions of dollars
on people have been taTed on homemade Pins
since lal2. according to Mr.. Secretary Walker.l
You will ruin the Pin-makers if you pampcr them
with so much Protection urged the Free Traders.
The answer IL a rapid and great Improvement i'll
the quality and sensible diminution OF the price I'M
til we now undersell any European inmakcrs, and
our own, who had hardly name to live prior to
1912 now declare themselves independents OF Protec
ton and say they defy the world. So it is with
some other interests SO it would soon have been
with many others ii the Tariff had been let alone.
We can Just US well undcrscll Europe III many
other things rs in Clocks Pins and Cut Nails. ii We
would protect our artisans steadily and eih
GENTLY until they were firmly established. But we
timidly and halfway protect few years then os
cilate toward Free Trade, and then back again, as
the tides OF Politics cbb and flow; SO little or no
thing is thoroughly settled. Shall it ever be so