New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-08-17
Effects of the New Tariff.

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eral shutting up Of factories, blowing out OF fur
naces, discharge of workmen. &c. which would
have enabled them to revive their potent worcry,
The Rich against the Poor! and nlame the pas
sions Of the ignorant with accounts OF combna-
ton Of the Employers TO starve the Laborers into
humiliation and slavery. But nothing OF the sort
he's taken place. In very few instances there
have been momentary displays Of petuance or IN
dignation bat the general expression OF those con
cerned in the interests struck At by the New Tariff
has been, +" This is now the law Of the land-we
nre bound TO submit to it till it can be changed,
and to get on under it us we best can few
establishments have stopped-some will
probably have to do next winter, when the New
Tariff takes effect, but we hope not tenth part Of
the whole number in existence unless un-
foreseen element Of disaster should manifest itself
1t may be ,hat general stoppage will result but
we'hope not and believe not Certain interests
will be stricken down but the greater number we
trust, have attained vigor and soldty that will
enable them to defy Foreign rivalry, even under the
New Tariff.
But hoc defy it? Here, for example is great
Spike Manufactory. which has been driving all cx
fensive business, proiitaby for its owners and ad
yantageously for its workmen, under the Wing
Tariff, which leves specific duty of three cents
per pound on imported Spikes, while the raw
teria if Bar Iron, pays about cent and if Pig
, less than half cent per pound. Tho men who
framed the Tariff OF ~ deemed it eXpedient for
the whole People that we should import metals
/, and other materials in the crudes, forms and
. work them up into wares or utensils by our own
labor. But the trainers of the new Tariff scout oil
such considerations as behind the intelligence OF
!. the age, and make the duties on Pig Iron, Bar,
Rolled and Iron Manufactures alike thirty per cent.
The owners of the Spike factory say they must
stop-that English Spikes can be imported under
thirty per duty Sc per ton cheaper than they
! can make them. Now it is very clear that no
! Spike factory is likely to be erected and started
y under such Tariff. But here the works arc with
1 the workmen clustered all around them, accus
. toned to and expert in their own business, and
: neither inclined to able to command good wages
Q in any other. What then The owners of the
' works will not run them at u oss-nobody can ask
them to do But the laborers will work for less
81 rather than have work at all those engaged in
J, making the Iron which the Spkefactory works up
will Go likewise so with the coaldiggers, the coal
Of wages Us well as profits in the several branches
of Industry subsidiary to Spike-making, and then
: the work will go again, SO far as it has hitherto
been prosecuted in this country But the erection
N OF new works in any department o. business at
u fected is not likely to be very rapids not likely
v TO occur at all
. There some Manufactures which cannot be
30 affected, except by the sympathetic influence OF
general prosperity adversely. For instance Cot
Ton Spinning and Weaving The time was when
such bill as McKay's would have killed or Grip,
pied these but that time has ceased. They have
ioutgrown the danger OF utter overthrow they can.
no: be directly rvaled except possibly nthe finest
goods by Foreign competitors But they can be
injured and will be, by the importation Of Europe
an Cahcoes, Ginghsms. Mousselin de LANES, &c
which sell higher than equally valuable American
goods on accoun. of the nveterate prejudice OF our
country women in favor of farfetched articles OF
taste or fancy rs superior. We believe 1t will be
s cheaper to make Calicoes in England for our mar
kets and pay what will pass for the IS per cent
duty thereon than TO make them here, considering
the relative prices In our market OF British and
American Calicoes of equal value II Gen. Mckay
had seen fit to put the duty plain cotons costing
less than ten cents the square yard down TO 10 or
Is peg can't aud put that on Printed or Coored Cot
tons up to 40 per cent. We believe he would have
avoided some OF the worst effects of his bill. We
are unable to cypher out a cheering prospect for
American Calico Printing during the lifetime of the
New Tariff but still hope for the best. Perhaps
some important invention or improvement, will ope.
rate in our favor as we understand that a certain
in IN
our people TO afford costly Carpets, Ginchans &c
&c. much cheaper than hitherto, and enable our
sG;nghams. Of any rate to defy all competition
There is one other large class OF American Manu-
sfactures which we cannot discover any reason
whatever for serving as the New Tariff proposes
TO serve them and its friends subbor,y refuse any
answer to our most respectful snd esrnes, inquiries
we allude to Linens, Cutlery. Needles &c which
the Wing Tariff charged but 80 per cent duty. ad
yalorem at that aud which McKay's bill cuts
down TO 20 per cent We imagine NO reason
Er this but perverse and unworthy disposition
70 change ior the mere sake 0. changing aud SO as
10 have nothing where the Tariff OF ~ placed it
For surely if Protection in any possible shape is to
be regarded then such infant and feeble manutac-
tures as these ought to have least much as the
sturdy and aourishing manufactures OF Pig snd Bar
Iron. woolen Cloths. the growing of Hemp, Sugar.
&c Why, then cut down the weak and leave the
,rong? We ask, and ask in vain. Recent I'M
psovemeuts in the machinery for dressing Flax have
,acourged us to hope that Linens would soon
se mainly made at home instead Of being imported
d they have been. They mostly purchased by
usrsons in comfortable circumstances. and as the
ssmers of McKay's bill Were anxious TO prove
Aemsclves especially friendly to poor men, we
link they should on this account have rated L in
., at least as high Woolens and Cot,ons, which
fery body buys. 1t is public misfortune that
h Wing Tariff had NOT imposed higher
pscihc duty on Linens Cutlery, Needles, &c
tsss Walker and Mckay could have made