New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-10
Tariff Compromise.

end TO agitation the subject Let "a consider
That there i, en- end 10 fighting when one side
give, all the blows and The other quietly takes them,
is no new truth. 1t as old, certainly, as McFin'
gal-probably as Hudbras-quite likely still older.
If we, who have learned from both sorro~tal and
joyful experience, that The Protection of Home In
dos,ry Of vital consequence 10 The Labor 'he 0af
rency, and even 10 the Commerce OF the county
will quietly surrender az discretion 10 our aoVe'sa-
ries allow them 10 fx the Tariff asthey please aDo
keep il So of course there will be an emo 70 sul'e
on The subject but wha, sort OF an end have we
not recently tried the experiment OF Re1enue a
riff and found il alike destructive 10 Industrial Pros
neri,y and Treasury solvency7 We have fought
on, way on; Of tha, Slough Of Despond, and will
no, ,amely sink back into it, Our universities have
full sway, and can do what they please but how
can they ask Us 10 help them do il? No, let us
stand on our own ground, and il the People are not
with us we at the worst can out fall there Bat
they are With u.s. We were lied out Of victory
in the las, Presidential contest by dishones. shirk
ing Of the Tariff issue on the part OF our adversa
RES In all the Northern and Middle with mos; OF
the North Western States, they were anxious
to talk about Mr.. Clsy's duels Mr.. Clsy's letters
Gen. Jacksons services, the Bank, Tyler or any
thing else rather than Protection and Free Trade.
They ready to pick flaws here and there In the
act of az to decaim against it as taxing the poor
mems necesssries rather than the Tach mans !u1u.
ries, themselves hostile 10 high Protective
Tariff, any kind Of dirty, evasive trick TO avoid
distinct issue on Protection against Free Trade.
We could have beaten them out of sight had The is
sue been on such Tariff they now propose
against The Tarffof 1892 Let stand, then, firmly
unitedly. where we have hitherto stood without
equivoca,ion and without, fear The Country knew
what sort Of Tariff we advocated in lsi1; and
they approved it. If they find us there STILL they
will not again be cheated into opposing their own
bes. interests by opposing us.
But if Compromise were desirable nothlng
of the sort has been offered US. The abolition
of all Specific duties with The substitution OF AID
yalorem throughout, is the inteHible rule oil
McKay's bill. Let us give single Illustration OF
the operation of this principle as bearing on Pro
lection Take Iron for instance. A large amount OF
capital mu st beinvesed 10 order TO manufacture Iron
probably, and he inves,men, is dead property the
mornen the fires are put Let suppose it to
cost $50 per ton to manufacture middlng Bar Iron
/ in This Country. Say the price In England Is siU,
duty Of 30 per cent. fairly levied and faithfully COL
ected is Protection enough. II will let In peculiar
kinds of Iron which need and do not make and
I keen out all Others Now let Iron take sudden
rise, and the duty becomes heavier. iorbidding i'm
poru,ion lust when it is most desirable fever. But
let the price on the other hand, fall TO s25 in Eng
land las /, has done) and the duty is diminished 10
S7i Just when the very existence of our works de-
Il. L. load ..odu lnFRn
duty thus becomes complete saw or sliding
scale. but sliding always in the direction which the
stability Of Iron business and the interest OF con-
sumers unite in deuounciog So with all other ar
,icles Give us specific duties, and we may live
under them, though low but talk not 10 US OF Com
promise with the deadly sd valorem. Shoot as
down if you can but don't ask us 10 surrender and
be shot.
Then again the astounding anomalies with which
the bill is chequered-how we be asked to &C
quiesce in hem7 Thirty per cent. on Paper and
ten on Books thirty Wool and 20 to IS on
Blankets, Flaunels Baizes, Wooden Yarn, Worst,
ed &c &c did mortal man ever imagine that such
determinations against our own Industry could
make part of permanent Revenue syslem7 Alb
solute Free Trade cannot ask 10 go farther than
to put our own Labor on an equal footing with For
eigu in the supply Of our own markets. but here Is
direct bounty offered for Foreign as against Home
production Do you call this compromised II
we were suing to be taken back into Colonial sub
lection TO Great Britain she would not venture 10
impose such terms.
Blu, the utter glarng in6deity of this bill to every
principle on which il was advocated forbds the re-
hottest presumption that shall form the basis
Of permanent Revenue System. To talk, as Mr.
Walker and his followers do Of Protective duties
drawing thrice the amount Of Revenue collected
from the pockets of the consumers, giving third
of it TO the Treasury and two thirds the Protected
classes and then proceed levy thirty per cent.
Iron. Coal, Sugar. Clothing, &c. but lie, Tea and
Coffee come in free, is plain proclamation that
those who do this either disbelieve all they have
been saying grossly uufaithful TO their own
convictions For Free Traders 10 refuse 10 tax Tea
and Coffee, the poor mans Injuries yet tax bis
Salt Sugar, &c is palpably hypocrisy or idiocy.-
One OF TWO thingsw we must ultimately have-genu1ne
Free Trade or frank, open Protective and Revenue
Tariff, such as we now have. Tosuppose that sucn
bill as McKay's, ranging halfway between any
where and nowhere, can stand as an adjustment OF
the Tariff controversy is to forget the earnest
searching character of the age.
REWARD or LABOR IN CrTIEs.-lt came out
yesterday in one of our Courts. on the trial OF
young man for defraudins his employer OF SOU
tina, this young man had for nineteen months per
formed 10 the satisfaction OF his employer The duties
of confidential clerk, book keeper cashier &c toF
the beggarly salary of tco dollars and Ae zee.
Out OF This pt,ance he had TO pay for his board his
washing and his clothes. Will the young men all
over The Country who are 80 anxious TO crowd into
New.York, and be employed here as Clerks,
Agents. Sc &c think OF these fsc,sl There is al
no rme less than Thirty Thousand persons in this
City-many of Them athletic, willing and competent,
who would gladly find employment al any price
which would relieve them from the fear OF utter
destitution. Why will go many young men and
those old enough to know better, crowd to the
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