New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-02
The New Tari6.

ysho care more Tor theory and Tor personal triumph
,bs, for truth can say anything, bat how news
,sper that appeols to and is supported by an intel
l;pept portion of the community could make the
above assertion passes our understanding. The
ocean Of Free Trade If 100 per cent discrlni'
nation In favor Of homemade Rum and BRANDY
and 90 per cent in favor OF domestic Cigars, Snuf'
nnd Manufactured Tobacco be the ocean OF Free
Trade why should like duties in favor OF domestic
CJotbino Hardware and Calicoes be objected 10 by
+he cbsnn,ons Of that ocean How is 1t that
dn,;e, denounced as restrictive when imposed
BY Wings become simply Revenue when IN
posed BIZ Loco Focos2
The New Tariff seems TO us most hetero
geneous mixture of Protective and anti Protective
provisions On many articles it affords abundant
Protection to Home Interests while on others 1t
profors little or while several II actually
discriminaies against important branches OF Amen
can Industry Now If genuine Free Trade were
good thing, it would by no means follow that tins
Tariff is good one, nor that the change from Tue
Tariff Of 1882 viii prove beneficial.
Time and again have we called the attention OF
the advocates Of this New Tariff to its garing
anomalies, and asked them to tell us by wiiat pro
ces. of reasoning they could satisfy, not us put
themselreS OF their propriety We have che!
lepsed euireated, exhorted them to justify the I'm
position OF such duties 80 per cent on the cheap
coarse Wool which we wholly import. along with
only 20 on the Blankets and ~ on the Fianncls
Baizes &c into which it lie manufactured. We
have asked them to tell Is why imported Hemp is
charged 30 per cent while Gables, Cordaee aud ai
Manufactures Of Hemp are charged but % giving
& clear advantage i'll our markets TO the Foreign
over the American Labor and Capital employed III
shis important branch Of manuscture,-and SO OF
other like proyisions-but no answer is given US
save Down with the Protective Policy HnTah
for Free Trade Well. gentlemen perhaps this
viii satisfy the People whom your measure will
inevitably deprive Of employment or compel to
labor for inadequate wages, and perhaps not Let
Us wait and see
That real Free Trade would benefit our People
generally. or at least that important class who
mainly support the Journal OF Commerce, that
Journal undoubtedly believes, rs We are most con
fiden, i, would work great evil TO both 1t also
processes to believe that majority OF the People
are IN favor of Free Trade opposed 10 Pro
lection indeed it has often represented that every
bodv the Manufacturers included had abandoned
the policy OF Protection and come out Tor Free
Trade Ii this be SO why was not genuine Free
Trade measure proposed last winter Why Is
none such proposed now If duties Of 80 40 and
100 per cent all of them discriminating IN favor OF
some one or another Home interest are Free Trade
duties then the Tariff OF AZ may as we'll be called
Free Trade bill at once, and all distinctions con
al. 10y 'raa Trad
venture TO act fully up to their Wanted principles
and give us opportunity to test the r'vai theories
distinctly by Su appeal to the People When our
eide have power, aud set about making Tariff, we
ALWAYS pass bill based upon and contormed 10 our
svowed principles We may sometimes mistake
In their application overlook some article which
should be protected but we always Try to make
Just such Tariff as advocate, and nobody has
q chance to doubt that ours is Protective Tariff
Why do our opponents take the opposite coursel
The Journal calls attention to TIE fact that Mr.
Abbott Lawrence predicted last winter that with
IN eighteen months after this Tariff should pass
cry Bank III the Union would stop Specie Pay
mont We think this statement is not accurate
that the bin referred to by Mr. Lawrence was
Walkers or McKays original, either OF them very
much lower in their average rates snd less Protect
i've than the bill ultimately passed. The Journal
INDUCES in opposite predictions snd assertions
among them this in reference to Protection
sggravstes the fluctuations oiuad., carrying
sve mrortsoas to greater excess and SO exposes the
country injurious drains OF coin and ITS raoneyed in
st,uuous TO embarrassment and bankruptcy.
Surely the journal may take out a patent for
this We Thought We had already heard all the
hard things that could be said of Protection. but
this we had never heard TIL yesterday Let US
leave Prediction and see If We can agree upon
statement Of Facts
l. 1t a fact is ii not > tina; during the SIN
eight years OF declining duties preceding the pas
sage OF Tie Tariff Of ls&e this Country experience
Cd great revulsions and embarrassments
. lis fact is II NOT y that sitcs the pssssse OF
the Tariff OF 1879 the Country has been compara
lively thrifty and steadily rapidly ADVANCING in
career OF Prosperity No, merely vast and rapid
development 0: Manufacturing enterprise has been
experienced. addins many millions Worth to the
positive and enduring wealth OF the Nation hus
Agriculture has been largely extended snd has
prospered and 80 with regard to Commence and
Navigation
s lis fset as it net p that we had SAD eNpe,
Hence from IS to - o, excessive inporssions
injurious drains OF CON, and the embarass-
mont and bankruptcy o. our moaeyed institu,
siensr
4 Il ia a fsc, is it nos . shss we have had no
such experience andsr the Tautt OF - but instead
Of it our Exports have slightly exceeded our I'M
ports showing very just and wholesome propog.
ton Of one to the other and OF both 10 the means
and wants Of our People while our Banks have
been generally sound aud Currency sseSdy and
nothing hike i9jusieus drsins OF coin or their nat
assl SNnaseuences have been heard Of,
8 ls'ssfsc, is it ao,N ths' the Taria OF iSts
leaves the Country in good cordihon-fsr better
than that wherein il found t-our Commerce Thrift,
y,ear Currency sound and sufficient, our Banks
ssrNnS our Foreign Indebtedness greatly reduced
sinss lsts, ana the Rates Of Exchange n,,re hon,
cradle TO this Country shsu almost ever before ia
hessag heavy isapOrtstioas OF Spec. already paid
sas and juss 81 hand.
30 much for the Pas; snd the Facts A.,o ,hs
Future we shall sse wha, We shall see w.
awai, il with apprehension not ar our caGse but
for our Country