New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-31
IN well aware ,ha, many Will DISPUTE the fact

am well aware !ha! many VIII dispute the lac.
that The rate Of cuty so seriously affects the amour.
OF imports or the general prosperity, AMI some wiz
even trumpet forth the old aGage that the consul
mer pays the protective DUTY" For the oeneht OF
those admirers OF tia, political Peter Farley, Adam
Smith | will inform them of some facts IN relation
10 the passage OF the tarlf OF lei2 Win ~Mcl lhtt
NAV not re acquainted.
4 Committee from New-York. or which was
m. mber called on the late Hon. Sllas Wngni OF the
senate ard endeavOred 10 engage him IN a CONVEX
saticn on the Tarif. He objected mildly, for atthat
time his party had not fairly declared on which side
of that ouestisn they would array themselves.
Mr. Wright said that his great objection 70 a / 7o-
tectjve Tanff was that the consumer paid direct
.s1tO sustain the manufacturer" We then asked
him If he DID not think that the competition arising
from prote soon caused the protected article 10
be furnished at 4 reduced pnce. lie Salt ne had
heard that argument before but was not ready TO ad-
NIT Truth That such had not In his opinion Oeen
the result with articles formerly protected
Well. Mr.. Wright, fit could De clearly shown that
every article vhica has ever received hVe years CON
secutIye protection by tanh has been furnished ri
the end OF that time at less cost TO the consumer
than the foreign cost al the time the protective GulS
was imposed. would then agree 10 vote Tor PrO-
tectiye Tariff Yes. certainly said Mr.. Wright,
and will undertake to name many articles 20 when
your rule Will not apply We'll, sir" SAID our Com
mtiee man, eve hold you TO your promise either 70
find the exception or to vote for the tarlit
Are youreally serious. Sir sad MI W. IN sup
posing that cannot find the exception - Certain
". sir we defy YOU from the many hundred articles
one which is not within ON rule. The very moment
capitalists find that manufacture IS protected they
Immediately invest their capital and others dong
the same causes competition and consequent I'M
provement in machinery. and thus the price IS re-
cuced, and further protection, al the same ioreIgu
cost rendered unnecessary" why SAYS VIZ. W.
look at the article Of mats their cost is IN the ma
teria Why have they not been reduced by your rule
$50 they have, and II you Will recouect, a lew
years ago nails now worth cents per pound were
then sold at l2l and ltno for the use OF
American machinery. invented III consequence otthe
competition arising out of protection, the same nails
could not now be imported from England Tor less
than TO- cents per pound" After proposing lew
other ARTICLES of manufacture with like success, Mt
Wright said. ." Wei. gentlemen. yor have my prom
ise and shall fulfil II but you Will find Will be by
pointing out the exceptions to your rule and not by
voting for the tariff" need not tell you that Mr..
Wright was dilIgent in trying to find the exception,
and with full time he distinctly failed to do so. and
therefore redeemed his pledge by voting for the Ia
riff Of 1872 and by doing made II a Law. II the
opponents of a udiclous tariff have any Statesman
more capable than Mr.. Wright of finding the eycep-
ton to the rule. let them produce him but until they
do So they should cease 10 assert that the consul
mer paws the duty" &C. MORE ANON.