New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-11
The Message on the Tarin.

The Message on the Tarin.
Tbs, Mr. Polk is incapable OF compreh blending the
.,H es,on is less his fault than his misfortune
but surely he might learn something from exPer-
enee Under graduated Rerena> Tanh, our
Treasury receipts sank from Thirty to less than
Fifteen Millions per annum. and there renamed
rendering the Government. penniless. involving II
in debt prostrating its credit and drifting 1t toward
tari,-,,,cy A Protective Tariff imposed,
,vb;cb sneedily enhanced the Revenue TO Thirty
Millions again restoring general Prosperity IN spite
osMf Polk positive predictions that II would Prov
nildew TO the National Industry and so dry up
rho Revenue that we would be compelled to 60
back TO Horizontal or Revenue Tam IN order %
preserve the Government from bankruptcy Inc
very wear In which this prediction was uttered Tue
Reveuue largely increased. and the next year II
sweIed 10 Thirty Millions very nearly, where II
has ever since renamed
WHY should not the President Learn something
from facts ike these Why should he not suspect
the theories which lead him into blunders so gross
prophecies so put 10 scorn By events ought ne
not at least to be induced suspect that those VINO
take view Of the whole subject adverse 70 ms
and whose anticipatio,is justified By the Subse
ouently transpiring facts, may he toner III '''e"
convictions liz this too great stretch o. courtesy
70 be manifested by Chief Magistrate To more IMAM
bar the People of this Coontry, IN an ot'ciai mani
festc TO the world Is not common decency out
ragged by his assertion that the Tsrlh OF lei2 was
imposed to afford advantages TO tdrored n"ssc' at
the erpsns. OF large majority OF their ielo" cit
zens1" Is that proper answer 10 our arguments
ouroorting to show that Che Protective Policy bene
FITS the whole community Why does he not
attempt TO meet those arguments :. Does ne
irnnpine that casting gross imputaons VIII answer
instead Tnke for example the well known letter
of Gen. Jackson to Dr. Coleman in favor OF Prnec.
,op and let US see if Afr Polk assertions rciute ITS
rnain propositions. Here 1t is
WASHINGTON CITY April 20 l-2I.
Heaven smiled upon US and gave us lber-
ty and independence Tha, same Providence has bless
tionsl defence II omit refuse TO use the gifts
which He has extended TO deserve not the conln
uetion of His blessing ne has hiled our mountains ana
plains with mneras-with lead. iron and coppcr-and
nivsn us n climate and soil Tor the growing oil hemp and
wool These being the great materials OF our national
defence they ought TO have extended 10 e; adequate
ro,.r,ioh That our manufacturers aud iaborers may
fo nnred In a fair competition with those ot Europe
and that have within our country asGppy OF those
leading and important articles so essch',ai W "n'
will ask what Is the real situation oil the HStlcututst
Where has the hmericRn farmer market Tor MS sur
plus producei Except for cotton he mas neither Tor
sigu nor "A home market Does not thia clearly prove
when there no narke, at home or abroad thai hers Is
mo much tabor employed dRrcnsurc Common sense
al once points out the remedy lde PROM a2'te"fafe ~
N, Tinted States sir hundred thousand men 1oHst and
chiirsn aud you m at once gice "drta iof more Drdd
,fs ,Lau all Europe FURNISHES as In short sir, We
have been too long subject TO the policy OF british n'er
chants 1t is mc should become little more
aud instead OF feeding paupers ANA LABOR
ers OF England feed our own or else IN short time
py continuing our present policy we sns oe ienosieA
psupsrs ourselves aNpf1hN 'a@H2SN-
Here. it will be seen. People were buying
their fabrics mainly abroad-our Imports IN ls.'
being over Eighty Millions vastly more IN pro
portion to our Wealth, Products aud Population
than they now me-aud Yet those whose Goods
re Were buying So protusely afforded MS no market
for our vast and low priced surplus OF Bread StuiiS
Meats. &c Except for Cotton says Gen. jack
son ." we have neither Foreign nor Home Mar
ket Common sense at once POINTS ont
theremedy' Certainly; bat the sense. or lack Of
sense OF James X Polk utterly refuses 10 see it
He insists that if we buy Goods abroad En
rope must take our Provisions in exchange at
fair price Ill defiance OF many years OF experience
and suffering. For seven years IRON '92 TO '5si
we had no Tariff, and bought almost every article
otManuacture from Europe yet our Farmers We're
without adequate Markets our Lahorers without
Employment our People without Money, and our
Government without Credit twas the necessity,
universally felt OF Tariff tor Protection as well as
Revenue that overuled the decided, inveterste
anti National prcudices OF our politicians and gave
birth TO the Federal Constitution.
That Mr. Polk should speak of the increased de
mand for and increasing prices OF our Provisions
4s caused BY the removal OF artificial restrictions
is hardly surprising He probably does not know.
vha, every merchant and nearly every farmer must
Know that these prices decidedly iorey this day
than they were year ago before this removal OF
artificial restrictions had been effected or even at,
tempted Instead OF increasing prices Tor our
articles OF ood the tendency OF thei: prices has
been decidedly downward for the last month. during
which tins Wanted removal OF restrictions on our
part has taken effect The simple truth is tina,
Europe Will buy Food OF whea her own har-
vests prove deficient aud very little otherwise.
under whatever Tariff Redundant, her Popu.
lation is said 10 be, her Soil under good manage
,nent will usually subsist twice the number, and
the march OF Agricultural improvement Is tar more
rapid than the increase oil Population II the Sol
of Europe were the property OF ITS actuai cult
vators, they would raise Gram upon II cheaper
than It could be transported thither from Illinois
though our producers should give 1t away
The notion that Europe is to purchase any con
siderable proportion OF her food regularly from this
Country is preposterous The expense and charges
Of Transportation too great The cloth maker IN
Manchester who exchanges products with wheat
grower In central Illinois must subsisi AT least one
man steadily IN the business of iu,erchansiss these
respective producis-an utter and sbs"rd waste OF
labor, when the farmers cloth might well and
with as little labor be made in Illinois as IN Eng
land and save this waste OF human energies in un-
productive functions,
We ask the reader to consider in connection with
Gen. Iacksons doctrine above quoted the following
passage from Dir. Polk
Our farmers deeply Interested in maintain
ing the lust and liberal policy OF the existing law than
ANY other class OF citizens They constitute large
majority OF our population; and IL is well known thai,
when they prosper all other pursuits prosper also They
have heretofore not only received OF the hounes
or savors Government but by ;he unequal operations