New-York daily tribune., 1851-09-25

ton, we have BY Protection uaturalized on
cur ovr soil, which mas not been and is not
still afforded cheaper to our consumers ia
consequence OF this change. That not
merely cur own country but the wo-ld has
been immensely enriched by American IN
yerticns and Discoveries wai,h owe their
existence t. our eIoit- at Protection, ca
Iricious and hating as those efforts have
Leen, we have 10 manner Of dolbt
The cool assumption Of c. NJ that
Free Trade would transform millions Of
TcyeHue officers, &c, iato producers Of
wealth, shows how bhadly he swallows
what the doctors of his sect PROFOUND.
Does he suppose that Governments are to
he administered without Reyeauef And
if Revenue be still necessary in the Free
Trade millennium. 1t VIII have TO be COL
lected somewhere, somehow and By some
body. for not many governments have been
or are likely TO be supported BY voluntary
contributions Now 1t is easy to say that
1t would not require so many taX-gatherers
to raise the requisite sum by direct as BY
indirect assessment: but the facts look the
other way. Instead of a belt Of revenue
officers around our frontier. we should need
one in every ueighboThood throughout the
country-an army where we now have
regiment. There would he thousands try
ing to undervalue or hide their property
from the tax-gatherer's ken, where there
now are dozens. There would be dilatori-
ness instead of punctlaity and disailection
where now is unbrokcn content. Nay, We
do not believe it would be practicable to
maintain our Federal Government on the
basis of Direct Taxation Who would un-
deItake to collect th-Carolina's quota,
for instance, at season Of Quattlebum ef-
fo1yescence, such as she undergoes at least
every five years? What is the reason that
there has never been even a party, squad,
II. Congress, who seriously urged an lboli
ton of the Tariff and a reliance on Direct
Taxation
Put Free Trade would abolish Wars
also, says G. W. Then surely Wars should
not have existed before Protection was
thought Of; yet in fact Wars are as old as
Governments at least, while Protection Is
a very modern idea. -tenths Of all
the bloody wars ever known on earth were
waged by Nations which had no such idea
as that Of Protection t. Home Industry by
discriminating duties.
So Direct Taxation, we are told, viii
infuse Economy in Public Expenditures.
Then uhy doatit? Niue-tenths OF our
City Revenue is obtained by Direct Taxa
ton Yet our city has for the last genera
ton under every phase Of politics, been
quite as prodiaally, wasteiully governed as
the Nation has. So with other cities gener-
ally. The facts are directly at war with
the Free Traders assumptions on every
material point.
But we viii not now contsue the dis
cussion, the main features Of which are
familiar to our political readers. What We
wish them to observe is the fact that, while
we read tie Free Traders arguments. they
persist In d stubborn ignorance OF ours.
Tley take hold Of the question to-day as if
nothing had been said on our side of 1t for
tie last thirty years. and, while we answer
What they odered yesterday, they viii seem
to be intensely ignorant Of our answer to-
morrow and ever after But there is
large class who hear both sides, and on
these resi- our hopes of an ultimately correct
decision.
An Appeal that Will be Needed.
F4rnER MATHEW has reached our CIty on