New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-19
FaIlacic. and Frauds of British Free
Trade.

VI
From l-il-2 to lsl6-1 the consumption
of cotton goods increased 10 per cent, and
had ii continued to increase at the same
rate. We should now consume to the extent
of 600, 900 bales.
In the same period the consumption of
iron grew from 100000 to $4,000 tuns.
and had il continued at the same rate, we
should now consume two millions and a-half
of tuns.
From lol2 to 1877 the consumption of
coal grew from 100000 tuns to 3.000.00o
of tuns, and had it continued at the same
rate. it would now reach eight millions.
With such a growth, the domestic market
for the farmer and planter would have
grown more than one hundred millions of
dollars and the necessity for depending on
/ foreign markets would have 50 far dimln-
+ ished that it would have been left for them
to determine for themselves when they
would sell, and at what price they would
sell.
Prosperous farmers would have had no
need to pray for the potato rot, nor would
prosperous planters have had to pray for
/ short crops
Instead of thus waxing together, all have
waned together. The consumption of cot
1 ton has diminished In amount that OF iron
has greatly diminished; that of coal has
! but little increased. and that increase Is
due alone to the substitution of steam for
sails. A substitution that would have gone
on with twice the rapidlty had the manutac-
ture of cotton and WOODEN cloths and of iron
+ been permitted 10 increase. The farmer
finds his wheat falling in price from day to
day. with no hope of rise unless he can be
farored bV Pr0rdeHce with 4 repetition of
the starvation of lsi6-7, and the planter sees
his cotton, with the small crop OF 100000
bales. already fallen almost to the low prices
of lSis.' aud has before him the prospect
of crops Of three millions, with a fall OF
prices thar must bring with them certain
ruin.
We would now ask The Journal Of Com
Derce who it is that benefits by the Tariff
of 1916.
Is it the consumer Of IRON, whose power OF
consumption trebled under the tariff of l'i2-
and is now so rapidly diminishing
Is it the producer, whose furnaces, and
mills, and mines, are generally passing ln.o
the hands of the sheriff
Is it the farmer and planter, who find the
domestic demand for the products of the
the earth diminished fifty millions, when
it should have grown one hundred mil
lions
Is II the ship-owner, who carries back
TO Europe the miners and furnacemen,
and the builders and the artisans
of various trades, when he should
be importing them by tens and al
most hundreds Of thousands, IN addition In
those IRE are nor importing? Or, Is he
benefited BY the diminished demand for
sugar. and coffee, and tea, and wool. result
ing from the closing of the mills, and fur
naces and mines, by which the workman
and his children are deprived Of the power
70 produce cloth and iron, to give IN ex-
change Tor tea and coffee
Is il the planter, who finds himself be-
coming daily more aud more dependent on
the single market OF England, with the
prospect of mountaineering crops
Is II the merchant, who passes through ms
hands three-quaness OF million of bars OF
iron. when it might aow be exceeding a
million and a half
i It the shop-keePer. who finds daily
diminishing power TO produce commodities
- he exchanged
Is +, the railroad or canal owner. obliged
70 take his share OF business OF three mil
lion, of tuns OF coal when he might send
six millions ,
Is it even the miner OF Pictou. who finds
the demand for MS coal diminishing from
wear To year
Is it the importer, VINO operates from
dav to DAY under the belief that crash
/ must come. that viii annihilate IN ! week
I The profits Of years.
Is there. in fine, any single interest that
| Is, or can be. benefited BY L system that
/ ARiaishes the power Of consuming cloth,