New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-10-23

Imports than either Carolina because her ls0orlng
classes are better educated better employed bet
ter paii-have larger circle Of wants and the
means Of gratifying them. If every person in
this country were steadily employed sad fairly
remunersied, the demand for every description OF
goods would be increased beyond all calculation.
This is the end contemplated By Protection
- Bot what is the need Of Protective Duties
asks doubter, II il is our interest 70 buy at
home - U1ose interest It is our interest
rs a People that no iniguities shall be committed
in the and, yet they are committed daily because
individuals fancy their several interests may be
promoted By tia. which they know 70 be hostile
b the general interest. The fine lady does not
step into fashionable store IN quest Of such a
dress a. the public interest may dictate, but such
one g. will increase her personal attractions
The lawyer who has Just received 30 for plead
ing the cause Of an American citizen turns into a
tailors shop % expend bis fee IN suit Of clothes
aud, though he f. quite aware that IF sreryt0d
would " ear American cloth the general prosper
ity Of the country would be promoted and be
having more suits % plead. might have more u
wear also, he yet says. Ny one suit can make
no material diference-the British cloth IS more
fashionable and IS SAID 20 be more seryicesbie' So
] will take it'-not considering that the very
fact Of such general preference tends 70 KEEP
American goods Inferior ia quality and cheaPness.
50 We 90 on, keeping our own fabrics in the BACK
ground so far as possible BY constantly insisting
or conceding that they belong there.
But If England will sell Us Railroad Iron Tor
go or $50, while good American Bars cost 500
why should We not buy Of ber'-For several gooa
reasons and among them these Because buying
mainly Of our own makers would stimulate them
~ continued Improvement in their machinery pro
ce.es. Sc. and would thus unless all analogy is
deceptive soon bring down the price OF American
Iron. a. the prices Of American Pins, Cotton TAB
rics. Cut Nails, Wood Screws, and hundreds OF
like articles have been reduced. Because the
money price at which the two articles are respec-
lively sold in NewYork affords no reliable crte-
ron Of their relative cost, and our Iron made at
home for $50 hs. really cos, us less than that I'm.
ported aud sold for s45. For the $50 cost Of ton
Of American Iron is made up Of the prices OF Ore
Of Wood. &c. which would have borne no value
otherwise. and Of Labor, Vegetables Fruits But
ter sc. SC. Of which the money value has often
been created and always largely increased by put
ting Iron Works in operation In the vicinity. Il
u nv deliberate conviction that the Iron used IN
this country would cost the consumers far less If
made here at 800 per ton than # imported at si5
while am equally certain that steady and eff
cient Protection FOR twenty years would reduce
the cost Of American Iron AZ least twenty and
probably forty per cent 1t is not, therefore for
the sake Of Iron makers especially, but for the sake
Of every class Of producers Of wealth, that we in
sist on the comprehensive and efficient Protection
Of American Industry at every point at which
foreign competition is encountered or could be
ehectually attempted.
Take another familiar example The People OF
Illinois and Wisconsin have an excellent soil for
Grain and Cattle, and are abundsntly proiiered
W ares and Fabrics IN exchange for their great
staples, at prices lower, it is said than the cost OF
producing the Wares and Fabrics within their
own borders But is there one rational being who
imagnes that their wants would not be better
supplied If their State were thickly dotted with
Factories, FORCES, Foundries &c. and the i'm
portiti Of Wares and Fabrics were forbidden
Suppose the Broadcloth now imported for -
should thus be made at n nominal cost even OF 3,
and other Manufactures al proportional rates
what of it, Who believes that the farmers
Of these States would then sell their Wheat and
Pork as low as they now must in order to under
sell in distant markets the producers on farms ad-
iscent TO those markets or that they would not
find better use for their arabic acres than growing
Grain and making Pork even at double the pre-
sent prices The farm on the Western Praries
which Yields barely ten dollars worth of Wheat 10
the acre would if surrounded by thrifty manu-
featuring and mechanical population readily pro-
duce fifty TO one hundred dollars worth of Fruits
and Vegetables whose bulk and perishable quail
ties forbid their transportation and consequently
their culture at a distance from extensive markets
of consumption The Wisconsin farmer who tolls
early and late to raise five hundred dollars worth
Of Grain and Meat from bis quarter.section could
realize one thousand dollars from It with lighter
labor II there were Lowell or Paterson at hand
where Milk, Chickens, Apples, Cherries, Potatoes
Turnips. Wood, sc &c. could at all times be sold
Tor cash. And, So far from Protection being al
verse to the dictates Of dihusve Bencvoence and
lnluutfupts IS - sometimes NpHitAN'Di A"n'i
tam hat d We looked T. this point sione-i W
oous dered solely our duty 80 brethren Of The hard
iaLuz il-fed trfissns and sboros o. Europe We
g-lt1 to t19-. i.e Protective Poly. .n order no'
- -.a-. = VIC ,te- q or Stoves - trey are
c.--.g -sv..s ear1-. e. n tec-re tacn. stead.
err ,9,-e.s a. -tr stzes sl.er l1eg a. cone
a. Ie-lasr aYau -l.r. b. rs-r@..t cegrs-s;ir
an la-l,s 1 ..s t.e a ..sr .-~l -ef 81 a'
Inadequate AZ preetroa, -sc.-- ;s-fe arss
sccorecd - Arr.-a tara t.cr .- 9s-.-'g . .-sr'
mo- other ls purs.ed D i..s Jc-ry s,-.r ts-.-s r
place the produoe, ri Foot - .s 80 n 80
producers o. Clothing. enabling "a .sss;,y "a
wants at hrst cost without psy.ls t-,'.;s - 1ti
hne Of forw srders shippers, 'actoni. sto.sia'
and retail merchants &c. he 20, that ~h.ch tr.'
Philanthropy would dictate, then ar .ndse'
| grossly in error.
But why. It may be asked DO recall al TIN
In addressing you, when l know that you under
stand il already. and that many Of You are per
icc,ly competent TO teach Political Economy to III
College Professors aud theory spinning Doctors q
that perverted Science - do II to call Your after
ton 70 the deliberate conspiracy Of your would b
leaders and rulers 10 betray you into the power G
the bitter adver,aries Of the time -honored convic