New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-20


Tho Corn-Luws and our Tariff.
Through the whole period that The British Minis
try have been engaged In remodeling their Corn
Laws-sorne six seven months-the prices OF our
Grain and Flour have been steadily declining; and
now, when the Corn-Laws are entirely repealed,
and vas. quantities of Wheat has been admitted
into English consumption at duty of ~ cents per
bushel-less than Revenue rate-i rules as low
here as has done at any times these twenty year
And there 10 no prospect that it will be carried up
by the British demand These are undoubted facts
Shall they teach US nothing? How are we to help
our Farmers by repeating our present Tariff Can
any one tell7
But, says Free Trader, your Tariff has been
in operation all this time why has II not upheld me
price Of Whea,7 Why, Sir, you might as wen
ask why man In prison under sentence OF deatn'
has not cleared farm and got crop growing.
Ever sinca Polk was chosen President, 1t has been
the confident expectation Of half our People and the
fearful auprebension of tho balance that this Tariff
xvould be broken down. or course, prudent men
have no, acted as lift to be perpetua,ed There
have been a number Of factories. furnaces iorges,
mills machine. shops &c. erected, but not one where
there would have been several if the permanence
OF the Tariff had been secured by the election OF
Mr. Clay. That Manufactures now dearer and
Agricultural staples cheaper in consequence we
can no more doubt than that the sun will appear 10
morrow Every new enterprise OF the kind would
have distracted Labor from the production with
out diminishing the consumption OF Agricultural
products-not merely the labor employed in
the new works. bu, that engaged in building dams.
fabrica,ng machinery, opening veins OF ore, house
building, &c. &c. Above ALL we should have had
factories going mp on Rock River and the various
tributaries Of the Upper Mississippi iron making In
Missouri, &c &c That is great, fatal mistake
which regards Iron merely Pennsylvani inter.
es, and Coitons and Woolens as the products espe-
cially OF Old or of New England. SO long as the
West and South West shall devote themselves to
the production Of q few great staples, and purchase
their arcs and Fabrics with Cotton Grain Meat
Hemp, &c sent from 1000 TO 4 900 miles TO n mark
et so long will the average price OF these staples be
low-so long will their producers be mainly poor
aud in debt-so long will they give twice as much
labor for the comforts and luxuries they thus pur
chase ss they would If they fabricated mainly for
themselves Is not this evident? And do they not
know that the overthrow of the present Tariff will
complete the paralysis of Manufacturing progress
Westward which the apprehension OF il has begun
Bot says The Union, . Is not thirty per cent Pro
lection enough T. How knayish Is this question in |
view Of tho fact that the duties imposed by Mckay's
bill in favor of many important branches OF Indus
try RANGE from 10 to 90 per cent. while that bill nc
tually discriminstes ten per cent. against very i'm
portant manufacturing interests. With 30 per cent
doty on raw Wool. and but 90 to a5 on Fannes,
Blankets, Wool Hats &c Ia it not outrageous in the
II. til ID. or 80;
umph II 30 per cent. is not Protection enough =
Silk Needles, Linens and great variety of articles
which most need Protection, are admitted at
duties of Is to 20 per cent ad vaorem, and yet
the apologsts of the bill seek 10 blind the eyes of
the People by asking 10 not 30 per cent Protec-
ton enough They dare not attempt TO meet our
exposures, any more than than those made in Con.
gross, Of the injustice aud suicidal character of
many important provisions of this bill. They tacit
ly admit that our objections well grounded. To
every argument, every expostulation. they return
but the answer We have power and will use it.
When you have done talking, we shall pass Nc.
Kays bill.
As to the changes from Specific to Ad Valorsm
duties, we have nearly all the American Importers
Of Goods demonstrating against IL. The Silk I'm.
porters Of this City speak from knowledge and
very cogently Those who want goods assessed
honestly and equally choose Specific duties; those
who hold the evasion of Tariffs meritorious, and
know 1t to be profitable, clamor for AID Valorems,
under which the Foreign pays less than the Amcri
can, the slippery customer invariably less than the
upright, responsible citizen. But American Mer.
chants are needed by the masters Of Congress no
moro than If they were guilty of owning factories
7 nd hal tharo
and our business men must stand back.
In regard to Revenue, moreover, the discontinue
of the Destructives is complete, Mr.. Evans has
proved, from the tables of Messrs w alker and
Lewis themselves, that McKays bill cannot yield
over Twenty Millions per annum. while we ere
now expanding at the rate OF al least Fifty Millions
and commencing n new National Debt by ordering
the issne of ream after ream of Government Shin
plas,ers Mr. Walker has tried twice TO reform his
broken columns 10 ciph out Rove
nue. from this Tariff adequate TO the wants of the
Government in time OF Peace. In each instance.
he has taken the field only TO be routed. The last
time Mr.. Evans Immediately pointed out one mis-
take of Five Millions in his calculations and others
Of Million or So The authors OF this bill know it
will not produce adequate Revenue. Benton
growls at the bill turning the Treasury into shin.
plaster Bank, by authorizing the issue and reissue
Of Ten Millions Of Treasury Notes and is doubtless
Inclined to defeat the Tariff project. But we ap-
prehend he will DO eoaxed and plored into loyal
~, a. Sempie has just been driven into il by drag.
ging him back from the cars in which he had taken
passage for Philadelphia. The whippers in Of the
Palace know what means to use according TO the
circumstances OF the case. strong deputaion OF
Members visited and labored with Benton on Fri.
day evening TO prevent his killing the bill,
We cannot close without thanking the Whs
Senators for their dgni6ed refusal thus far to resort
10 any bargains or strategy to defeat the BILL and
We trust they will so persevere TO The end. We
know they will be beset TO swervo from This course
by many WHOSE personal interests are deeply in.
volved, and who look upon the overthrow OF the
Tariff rs The end of the World but we ,rus, they