New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-10-17
VOL. TX. No. 1853.

-avoos.es Of Free Trade, there remains bat TIE
other c'u.ingercy. tina. Manufacture. should Be
suffered o. run out among or be restricted 20
few Of the radest and cosrsest branches, and that
we should import all our finer fabrics, as IN the
DAYS Of our co on.i dep sndence, paying for them
10 ouf crest Agricultural staples What obieo-
tons Z, s inquired can there be to this We
sill poirt on. the heads Of them
J. The re transfer Of our workshops 20 Europe
vii in no considerable degree diminish the amount
Of sbor required to supply us with fabrics.
very few might a. hrst be made more easily there,
because Of she ripper experiences and more gigantic
combinations q European manufacturers but
many more would require 1o1Ie labor 70 produce
them 10 Europe than here, owing 20 the superior
ingenuity and intelligence # cur vofkmen. And
90 the other hand. in addition 70 the labor now
required 70 gov the grsiD tho WOO, the cotton,
e.. which are wrought up or consumed BY our
artisans, ard 20 q axe the fabrics which they pro-
doce and exchange for those staples very l.rge
expense would b. incurred in merely conveying
me products Of the American farmer 10 the Euro
pesn artisan, and rice rerSa. Let us suppose that
a. Ohio township grows ten thousand bushels OF
Surplus Whesi, which It row exchanges with
Pittsburgh for tive hundred tuns Of Pig lron-snd
one effect Of Free Trade Is % undersell ard shut
up the Pi,tsbureh ir0n-workers Iud send this
Wheat to England after Pig Iron. Ten thousand
DAYS works, We may assume were required TO
produce the Grain, eight thousand to make the
lroE snd two Thousand more 10 effect the ex-
chsnges and deliver the wheat to the ironmsSefs
sad the iron to the farmers Now The tendency
Of Protection and Home Production Is 10 BRING
the producers Of Iron and Bread constantly nearer
and nearer eacn other, thus diminishing the
amount Of unproductive labor required to effect
this exchange but buying the Iron iron England
largely increases thus dead weight ADD renders its
removal hopeless Instead II two thousand days
work. It will require at least four Thousand to
transport the Wheat from Ohio TO Great Britain
and bring back the Iron to Ohio. Now, no matter
whether the prices o. Iron and Gram respectively
are termed high or low here is surely an influence
a. work which depresses both producers The
Ohio farmer may ohuchlo over the chespness OF
his British Iron but he pays far more Wheat for
II than he would # our Iron were all made at
home and an ample market thus opened near his
door for the produce OF his fields while the iron
maker gets less grain for bis iron than be would
If ne lived near the grain.grower. There IS a
heavy loss to both producers growing out OF their
mutual distance part Of which loss accTues az
profit to Commerce, but the rest IS sheer waste
Why should this continue and be extended
NERMosr-The foil vote for Governor includ-
lug two towns not officially returned, Is as fol.
lows.
Carlos Coolidge (Whie) ..----.-....-. 25,6O3
Horstio Needhsn, Coalition. 1900 2J,362
| jones' Clark. (Hunker) .--..------.-.. 1921
Scattering q. Total against c. ---- 26.7l0
Coolidge lacks Of popular election. los
Gen. Tsylor's vote in Vermont was SJ,l22 :
| Cooldge's gain thereon 3,is1, while the com
bned opposition increase is only l,s9s. like
effort 10 other States would ensure like result.
NEw-YoRK W i'll heed the lesson