New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-06-12
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Pree Trade Considered.

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Free Trade Considered.
few weeks must now decide the fate OF the
Tariff of 1912 involving the present recognition OF
the Principle of Protection. Not that Protection
will or can be practically and utterly discarded in
any Tariff which may be adopted in its stead-quite
the contrary. But the opposition to the present
Tariff not based any defect in It's working or
objection to its details SUCH but hostility 10 its
vital prnciple-Protection; and the success OF any
eHor, to overturn i, be owing to tie prepon-
derance Of tha, hostility deliberate verdict OF
Congress against that principle the act will be one
Of great significance and farreaching consequence.
We shall be pardoned, ,hen one more bret discus
sion Of some OF the fundamental considerations In
volved. That our readers may have before them
both sides of the question IA kind OF Free Trade
rarely encouraged by Free Tradersl We copy In
the preceding column recent letter from William
Brown an eminent and able Free Trade merchant
of Liverpool to Abbott Lawrence OF Boston COM
menting on passage in a recent letter from Mr. L.
10 Hon. VIM c. Rives. This letter has been sent
TO this Country for and is published in the Bos-
ton Post and Journal Of Comm cree as conclusive
argument against Protection and it is as good
statement of that side OF the question as we have
recently met with. The reader after carefully con-
sidering that statement, is requested to consider
also what we have say in reference TO its leading
positions Those less material must pass unnotced
for want Of room.
l. Mr.. Brown quietly assumes that whenever
Great Britain can manufacture article 30 asto sell
it for fecer dollars than 1t would cost us ii
manufactured here then it s obvious interest to
buy it of her But this is the main matter in dispute,
and is by no means to be settled easily. We say
it must be proved that the Foreign article can not
only be gh for fewer dollars but for fetoer days
cork, or the fruits Of fewer than the domestic would
cost For example: The people Of Londonderry
and Bedford, n II. buy their fabrics of the ad-
iacent manufacturing villages of Manchester
Nashua aud Lowell, paying, we will say. an aver
age of ten cents yard for their Cottons and One
Dollar for their Wooden fabrics of all kinds. Now
suppooe bv taking off the Tariff they could obtain
these from England twenty per cent cheaper In the
average-,hey would save, according to Mr.. Rs and
the usual Free Trade computation, twenty per cent.
by the charge. But no, say we In behalf oil Proiec-
ton these towns produce no gold and silver they
buv with The products Of their SOIL and these derive
half their value from The proximity OF the markets
afforded by Home Manufactures. Let our fabrics
come from Europe, and their Fire God Ia heavy
iteml which they now sell ak or eight miles from
their doors at "a per cord would hardly bring So
their Fruits Vegetables, Fowls, Batter, DC. would
not bring anything near the prices they now COM
rnand. While the English manufacturers could
send their fabrics TO New Hampshire at an average
cost of not more than three per cent. the New
| Hampshire farmers could not send their w God 10
England to pay transportation, nor their other
staples SO half their present prices. They
would doubtless raise something that would sell TO
pay for clothes but in the absence of their present
markets. We give it as our deliberate, undoubt-
ing convicion-the result of Of patient obser-
walton and earnest nQuiry-that they could not
realize i,gothirds as much in the average from the
same labor applied in any way 10 their several farms
as they now do We believe oae-haD would be
nearer the mark. Whoever will take half the pains
we have done TO learn what has been the effect on
the value of farms and the price Of farm produce of
the establishment OF neghboring manufactures, will
be convinced that we are within the mark. Look
to Maryland or Virginia, and see what an oasis OF
fruitful, thrifty industry in the general desolation
springs TO light al around a mandatory
wherever established. And this process of calling
into existence new manufactories-cot,on, wooden,
silk, iron, hemp, oil, &c &c-ts steadily and rapidly
overspreadng the country. There are regions in
the West where Potatoes would never command
l2l cents in cash per bushel, Hay IS ton,
Wood 81 cord until factory has recently been
setup; when AT all these and other products
genial TO the soil command money and good prices.
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law. Does any man doubt that the barrels of Eggs.
the boa,loads Of Bacon the mou ntains Of Flour and
Corn, which annually float away from prolific
West would command far better prices TO the pro-
ducers if the Cloths the Silks, the Hardware, Cut.
lery aud immense variety of articles of utility or
luxury constantly tending from Europe 10 the West
were produced Iherel Who can fail 10 see that not
only would these command better prices there, but
that many w estern farmer would sell thousand
bushels Of Fruit for more than he now obtains for
much Wheat, which costs him ten times the labor
the Fruit woald The farmer W no has ample mar
kets at hand may produce for sale any one or more
of thousand different articles, as his SOIL or capa
city. or taste, shall dictate but he who is separated
by thousands of miles from his principal markets can
only sell few articles and these ordinarily the least
I pIoHtdO!e tHu dCtee NcH dpPhSu W TUG PiV-
duction of Fruits, Vegetables &c with good mar
kets al hand, will yield greater aggregate return,
with easy, agreeable. diversified labor thereon,
than three hundred acres devoted wholly 10 the pro-
duc,ion OF Grain and Meat farms mainly
must be with our workshops in Europe.
= But why urge all this over and again 2 asks 8
reader we all understand it. Why don't the
Free Traders answer i'll ask in turn. For the
last six years al least have been pressing it on
their attention and never yet have we been able TO
make one of them look fully and fairly in the face
Instead of this, we have their same never ending
round of common places-the same gross impuia
| tons of blind prejudice sordid selhshness-the
same cool assumption that all knowledge, iberal,y
and common sense their side and nothing but
boa,ed monopoly obstinate sioGdity on ours
We smile at their insolepce-we throw back their
imputations YOU Mr. Brown would add TO your
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