The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-05-14


the United States must raise their by tariff
efefors the only tariff that will fit them, rs Just such
prefecture tariff and SO they must hold TO their po
ectve policy, and enact tariff for the express purpose
of diminishing their importeaions that are taxed, and
sugmenting their home manufactures whch ed""0' %
taxed, And Mis-us this--is argument he first. to
show ,ba, wba, Is scien,i6 truth at Liverpool, is
.c;en,;fc gooley a, New York Truly, his is one OF
,hoso ..rrumeu,, of which it rs hard to say how ii
n,n,,;sss anywhere 1t may very likely draw one way
in one place, and another way IN another We oplne,
however that its direction" will generally be found to
traverse to that very point OF the compass towards which
the oship of fools" is constantly sailing
And now we TO argument number trco-and
thus our doctor is careful tell is his strongest
ro,nt" Here it u.s. in all its strength, and again exactly
in its authors words 81:
.Bu. strongest point which be made favor of
protective policy in the United States IS the peculiar posi-
lion in which the United States stands, when compared
sparely inhabited country with immense Of yet
cultivated land the latter densey peopled countries.
u the production of food and With nearly all their Ill
vated The former produce the raw material Which the
ias ter giants"
The clnch Of this logic is binding indeed One is tempt
ed to cry out with poor Cassie in his cups, 81 faith.
this is more excellent song than the other % Because.
,pant and because Europe makes the fabrics which the
United STATES tcan therefore the interchange of our e-
erials for her fabrics should be shackled and tied up
and diminished by part to restrctiv We
policy. Why, .cho is this eterwrer from London who
can be 50 blind as not to see that this is the very of
things on both sides of the Atlantic, which mustof very
necessity,.s. make the very rees possible interchange
of products and fabrics between and Europe (Which
l. V<cltr Saf
revenue at the customhouse the greatest possible BEN
eft both to us and to her Europe has vast surplus OF
crowded population to employ in manufactures and she
cannot feed them We have vast regions OF the richest
land living untitled She wants the harvests OF our soil
We want the fabrics of her looms and workshops In
the name Of all sense, then, why not exchange
Nth her to the extent of this reciprocal want taxing care
to tar the interchange only enough to provide the fequ
site revenue! Why this strongest point a our doc'or
for protection tariff turns out to be the leading ana
most unanswerable argument for much free trade as
will consist with tariff for revenue! If we wanted
nothing from Europe and she wanted nothing IRON us,
then we suppose this writer, true to this strongest point
in his creed would go for the reest trade and the largest
possible interchange of the desired nuites And now
il is the utter and unredeemed OF this argument
number tpo which the "Naonal lnteligencer" condo
scends gravey to put forth reason why the most
manifest testimony OF facts, of its own showing should
be set aside and the doctrine proclaimed instead OF them
that what is phiosophc truth at Liverpool is plain folly
at New York, The whole direction" Of this argument
is indeed, in both those Places and in all places, most
diametraiy opposite to what its author and its endor
sers appear to suppose.
In farther elucidaton of this second argument its
thor refers to the often-expoded sophsry OF the ome
Market which it is alleged that the protective policy
will create among On this point we cite for his IN
struction the following brief but most pregnant passage
from one of that series of mastery official papers
which the present Secretary of the Treasury has placed
the whole arg ument for liberal commercial policy be-
tween nations on basis OF solidty and strength
We quote from Mr.. Walkers last Annual Report
nOur farmers now have, and retain, home
visions cannot prohtaby be imported here. The few di-
vertcd from sming to manufacturers by high tar, bear
no comparison mum Der with the people oil the world
whose markets lost whole in part by high duties.
Nor is chiefly le farmers but the merchant, the ship
builder and shipowner, the and the thousands of
aborers of our foreign commerce. that furnish
the larger portion Of those who are driven by high
samna as they ali did, breadstu and provisions,
I,ionn market rs thereby secured to the farmer Indeed
there absolute ps in so far as the machinery of the
is substituted manual labor engaged in agriculture,
commerce, and navigation The number of manufactures
tenth nv the derenc between the tariff OF 1872 and that
of 1876: and of tenth, than one-half would
have changed from agricultural pursuits. In the mean
time when and navigation flourish under low
provisions nc diverted those pursuits from agriculture
than would be driven from it into manufactures by high du
ties Nothing, then, is gained in home market the
farmer by high duties, whilst the markets OF the world
lost or diminished
But the gem of this extraordinary series of arguments
is found in the WRITER'S concluding proposition He tells
Ms that the trade policy and the protection policy
the other side OF the water and the thing
We quote once more his own words:
"Aoain; il the steps which the British government have
taken in the direction of free trade be looked into it will b.
found that they all have tendency the protection of III
ifish instead of the your Aneri
can legislation has BEEN
And on such talk this country is to be per
suaded to forget all that the experience of Europe eache
against high tariff policy, under the notion that the sci
ence of political economy, when rightly understood
evolves tsco of fundamental principles diamerca
opposite to each other Ii the protected interests Eng
land really thought Sir Robert PeePs reduction of thu
British tariff an additional protection, they managed
o,neal their opinion Of that wonderfully /
their orcosition to it all joke, it the graves
and most earnest joke wot Of But, at all events
free trade is such efficient protection in Europe, it is
,v that the o2ectoniss here will not take its princi
ples more kindly
We have refuteh this writer's attempts to refute hi
| rru,~p rarefuv nerhans than our road