New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-09-10
How our adycrsnrie. Reason.

How our Advcrsnric. Reason.
We have mnny readers who take view ofPolit
cal matters different from our own, and these may
very naturally desire to see in The Tribune some
specimens Of the arguments Of their party
Wishing to do justice to all, we copy for their ed
fcation the following article from late BHrlJneton
IVt.l Sentinel s. Democrat, on the eve Of the late
Election in that State The theme is WOOL, and
the Editor thus handles it:
VINO AUTHORITY yoR THE PRICE OF WooL.-Thc N.
York Tribune says TINT the price of Wool in the differ
ent markets OF the country ranges from 10 10 % cents
per h. Arc the farmers prepared dispute this
ZION We predict not and rather inter that they have
little fenrs that it will be any cheaper under the new
law Just think Of these facts under Inckeons Demo
cratic Administration. 1880 the price OF Wool ranged
from 81 10 per To- and in $50 il vas even high
or ranging from 60 to 30 cents per TO- Under the Dem
ocratic Administration of Van buren, the price of Wool
nearly the same In 1879 Tie price varied from %
TO 60 cents per lb.
But when Harrison took the Presidential chair when
the monopolsts the monied nabobs the spectators and
stock job6ers having got the people drunk on hard CT
der aud made the whole nation crazy when tue farmers
and laborers treated unworthy OF notice, the
price of wool quoted from the same table rs the
above for the year sd down to from - 10 10 cents
After the wings had taken full time TO put the machine
~ of Government in operation upon their own plan we
find the price OF wool in 1912 ranging from IL to rs cts
per h. From that day to this the price has fallen, FAIL
LEN till now when the n. y. Tribune does not
scrupe to quote il at from l6 TO p cts pound The
farmers know all these truths by sad experience. and
will they sustain party longer that deals thus with
them VIII they not indignantly resent the insult when
they called upon to lend helping hand to such
party"
Now, reader let us suppose the writer OF the
above speaking Of some article purchased instead
of sold by the Farmers md which ii is therefore TO
his advantage to represent bearing dich price
under Wing rule aud lom one under that OF his
own party. He finds ofcoursc that the price
high in 1896, when every thing Who do
YOU think he would lay the blame Oh Jackson OF
Van Buren, All no it would be ne Boak, or tho
Banks or the Internal Wing Spectators. but never
Il whit OF would be laid to the charge of Jackson
or Van Buren,. IT. is all Heads win-tails YOU
lose with this class of cgicans. Can it be worth
while to follow their windingsl
If there be any Wool grower who does not know
better than to believe that Wool has fallen FALLEN
since 1912 we pity him. We know that it at
least 25 per cent higher in lsl4 than was in 1872.
We know, too, that the immense multiplication OF
nocks on the Western prairies, where their pas
turing costs nothing, and their winter fodder very
little has strongly tended to reduce the price OF
Wool. So of the immense extension ct Wool
growing in Australasia and South America. Wool
is cheaper now than in 1896 not merely in this
Country but all over the World Such being the
fact The Tribune does not scruplc to state it,
but tina, the same Wool which now ranges from Is
TO % cents, ranged in ls36 from co to 80 cents we
do not state, and never did But that the price OF
Wool will DO regulated by the proportion OF Sup
ply to Demand whether there be n high or low
Tariff, we have ever maintained. OF course, il
more be produced than formerly, while the demand
is diminished by the apprehensions OF our manu-
facturers OF Woolcns that their market is to be
shared by Foreign competitors, the price will be
lower; and if the price of Wool be falling all owe,
the world from great increase of production thi.
result will be more obvious and decided. Yet
there be one man, the land over who does no
know that the price OF Wool is now lower than |
would have been il the Tariff of 40 had been sus
tanned, we are sure he is not qualified to buy o
sell Wool
The Journal of Commerce is far moro adroi
advocate Of the same cause with the Burlington
Sentinel and generally operates ii it had char
acter to save or lose. Yet it had yesterday an ar
ricle claiming the recent stenins OF Bread-Statis
&c, in our market We believe we will make
room for the whole ofit-as follows:
"FRKx TRApE AND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. multiply
upon us, demonstrating the entire tasehood Of the heo
res of proteconist They assured the farmers tina,
protection and home market the only guarantees
OF high prices Tor farmers products. and that after the
passage OF the nd vaorem tariff OF 1896 universal ruin
would spread over the country But since the passage
that tariff nonr mas risen half dollar abare wheat
the proportion hvc cents and rye one or two
cents They told US that they would be ready 70 adopt
free trade when other nations would do so an6 .na
ciay il England would take our bread.stuts and pro.
visions, we ought 10 trade freely with hrr When
Great Britain adopted the liberal policy and rajnccS
her duties ON all things to standard and on
most OF our great articles OF farming produce abolished
them entirely the pro,ectionists false 10 their p,r,
declared tiat England selfish still that She only
took what she was obliged 10 tSke and especially
that her repeal of duties was OF no value 10 Us for
her market would De supplied from Germany the
Baltic and the Black Sea, cheaper than i, could bc
done from the United States, They have evidently
been lying 10 US honorable gentlemen though they be-
a.! Of them Mos. OF The recent advance in our bread
stufs has been caused by the from ENGLAND nv bc
last steamer. On Monday the English market lifted
hour to 81 50 For that market 500 barrels Crnese
Ohio and Michigan -four taken AZ tina, rr,, T'bs
English market and nothing else has done rs Ibis bcne
1T Here the facts in the records of trade Arcu
uent theory. prophecy all are frustrated denied de-
mol;shed Bread stutas IN fact going from us
to some of those very markets from which was said
England would be supplied 10 our utter exclusion The
farming interest must credit the tree policy OF England
with three cents pound cheese ten cents bushel
on wheat FIVE cents and so on, Just for this
cent advance In addition 10 this the farmer viii find
The articles he wishes TO purchase ehespe 50 tha II be
gets 10 per Ter his produce and buys his fam
Ny supplies AT 20 per cent cheaper prices he Is gamer
of 30 cents every dollar OF his earnings This qae
moderate estimate OF the value of the ncw policy OF
England and tho United States the agricultural IN
tercsts OF our own country This is the way the farm
ers and laoorins men TO be ruined by Free Trade
Let us suppose now that tue Journal were advc,
eating the other side of this question how would it
reason from the existing premises lie, US give a
sample viz:
PROJECTION AND THE FAKMERs.-Fscts multiply upon
ps demonstrating the entire iasehood of the theory Of