New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-02-19
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ready referred 70. assumes TO give easy lessons n
craftsmanship when he is by no means above the
,scs..ity Of taking them His primary and persis
ran. mistake is an assumption that those for whose
conversion be writes never before read or consider
what he has b offer. whereas he gives no shade"
Of argument that has not been twenty times exam
;osd discussed and as think rciuted IN he
ror,s on the floor Of Congress aud ia our journals
Tn. easy arrogance OF his lecture is such as could
hardly have been expected from a merely natural
;znd Britop-its spirit is racy Of the soil And
We, Mr. Brown ha, not thought one honr upon his
subject, where many he looks down upon and a.
surnes 70 instruct have given two hours to its Pc
tent and pains taking Investigation He Is con
tinualy holding up false anslogies as axioms ano
counting house shrewdness as the perfection Of ex
oapsive statesmanship For example,
"You seem together forget that you mus buy 70 e
able to sell the property you can possess your
self Of At home import from sbrosd-si ne essi *
,snduye az vo ptal or abOr-ths you become
ncl. presume this viii not be Gened
Here lucrative and all pervading Foreign Com.
merce is couounded with National Prosperity
which is quite another thing. You seem to forget
that you must buy TO be able TO sell AS much as
20 say that an American Minister Of Finance don't
know that two bills imply valley Nj. Meredith
had made no such mistake He had not proposed
TO dispense with buying But is ii wise IS it
profitable, 10 ship our home grown Cotton an
Wool 10 Great Britain close our mines, set the
miners 10 wheat growing and import our Iron and
Cloths from Europe, paying for them IN Cotton
Wool and Wheat Yes, surely. say Free Traders.
for we can get there the products Of hafstaryed
labor much cheaper than we can buy like products
made by American labor az American wages and
80 we shall make money by importing our metals
and fabrics while the merchant Browns on both
sides will Amass immense wealth by The exchange
'Don't you Soc chimes in Mr. Brown, that you
must buy in order to sell o yes Sir but need
we buy abroad Suppose ton days labor viii
make rs much, or nearly as much Iron or Cloth
here as in England, is not the labor employed IN
carrying our produce to England and bringing
back her fsbrcs absolutely wasted Mr. Brown
and other Browns have made a commission on 1t
forwarders have been paid for the transportation
both ways but has not Labor lost all that Trans
portation and Traffic have earned II not 'chy
not Suppose the Grain aud Woo and Cotton
had been turned over directly TO makers OF Iron
and Cloth living near our growers Of Grain. Wool
and Cotton. there would still have been Trade but
no mercantile risks. commissions and profits
entries in Custom House Returns or Treasury Sta.
tistics no entries ia Mr. Browns ledger bn,
there would lave been bread IN the mouths oil the
.pinners and weavers and clothes on the backs Of
the farmers planters and shepherds-and more Of
them than there could be when the staples were
shipped of four thousand miles 10 be swapTed Ter
fabrics. because the number Of producers would
have been greater and OF non producing, toltakine
Intermediates far less II tins is not manies; truth
what can be Admit that 1t would take time ior
the new machinery to wear smooth and supple.
still this would not counterbalanco the vast saving
already indicated. All says MIR Brown. as II he
had discovered perpetual motion, You must buy
40 order To sell Very true. Sir but need we buy
of yoal II an article we need can be made with
out waste Of labor within hundred mules OF him
who needs it, why send four thousand
Why to buy cheaper, OF course, is the Free
Trade answer Blu, how cheaper WHAT'S cheap
orl Have you ever looked into tins subject
Suppose the people OF Clarion County, Pa are max
ing their own Bar Iron al a cost, at Aaericsu
prices for Labor, ami Iron is but Labor sohdihed
Of Sixty Dollars per tun when England steps IL
and offers to supply them for iortyhve. They arr
devotees Of cheapness. and readily close with the
offer But they must not Only buy In order 10 sell
bu, sell in order to buy, Mr. Brown. Hitherto then
Vegetables, Fruits Dairy Products. Wood. Char
coal. &c &c Constituting al their Agricultural.
staples found ready markets and go0dpnces among
and around their hon. Works, where the wages
paid for labor rendered cash abundant and sach
products in good demand With the closing Of the
Iron Works all this is changed nobody has al!
cash 20 pay for such articles ime Iron mer
have gone OF in search OF work, or are Idle ALL
penniless OF have betaken 70 such farming they
can do in order to keep soul and body together.
The Wood that was quick al 81 per cord is nov
slow at dollar, and no money for it at that the
farmers surplus Cd Potatoes. rurnips, BeetS, Ap-
pies. Caeeages, &c. which would have brought
hun three hundred dollars in cash within ten nal, :
OF hIs door when the Iron. Works were Soinc. have
now no market there he can barter little ofit IL,
GOODS or labor, but the most Of il mus, NJ, sent DIV
the river 10 distant market. where tn, whole VI
not net him hundred dollars Tits worse in Eas,
Tennessee, and hks tins almost every where
Every section does Tot produce Iron but ever,
one must produce something to sell in orde- 10 huN
aud there is scarcely any product which is 10
affected by the prOstrSsion Of Manufactures l, i
truth susceptible a palpsble demonstration III
our Ircn imported at $40 per tun would actual,
cost the country more than ii made At home Tor sec
The data which usually meet the public eye a.
defusive and calculated 10 mislesd ,un OF in
pOrted Inn We viii say costs IN New-NoFk 81
or eigh; barrels Of Flour. while the same, mao
here. would cost in New York 500. or twelve hs
rels. Here is clear boss. says Free Trsde OF 10,
barrels to the farmer by Protection. But holj
the farmer neither grows his gram nor uses his no
ia New York. He hives two, FIVE, or eight hansre
aniles inland. and pays for imported iron IN -four 4
that's the staple Of his resioo a, two three fou
dollars per barrel instead Of 1--WE while The ioreig
iron BY the time it reaches him. vii cost iogty fv
,ogty dollars per tun. Shat out this iron. and lror
Works spring up throughout the interior, neare
and nearer 10 the great body Of the farmers, sep
plyiDg majority Of them with iron a, New'iorl
prices for their iarm-produeis- Many iaTme
can bay tun Of American iron =, $50 Coz product