New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-11

coarsest and cheapest goods. while the purchasers
of the more costly and fanciful, on which the
larger profits are made. must have Fabrquo dc
Pans OF some such label affixed to render them
current. our manufacturers have no iar chahce'
While fools could be found to buy Cashmere
Shawls' costing fifty 10 4 hundred dollars, ioI
FIVE hundred to a thousand under the absurd de-
fusion that they came from Eastern ASA, the
fabrication and the profits were European; let
an American begin to make just such Shaw!s
and the secret Is out 50 the price sinks at once
tn the neghborhood of the cost Of production
Sc with De LANES CounterpaneS, Brussels Car
potinqs. and fabrics generally and yet Ameu'
cans will talk as though the encouragement
given by Protective duties to Home Manulac-
lures were given at the expense OF our conSum-
ers Vainly arc they challenged from day to day
To name one single article whereof the Produc-
ton has been transplanted from Europe to Amer
lea through Protection, which has not thereby
been materially cheapened to the American con-
sumner it suits them better to assume that the
duty is tax on the consumer than to examine
the case and admit the truth But deluSlon can
not be eternal.
That our Country would at some future day
work its way gradually out OF its present semi
Colonial dependence on European tastes, Euro
pean fashions, European fabrication, even though
all Legislative encouragement were Withheld,
| firmly believe The genius, the activity, the
energy. the enterprise of our people consPTe to
assure it. So the thief the burglar, the fOrger,
are certain to suffer for their msdeeds though
all the penalties Of human laws were repealed,
and We, consider state prisons and houses OF
correction safutary if not Indispensable 1t Is
difficult for even an ingenious and mveR''e race
10 make Improvements IN an art or process
which has no existence among them. whitney
Cotton-Gin presuPpOSed the growth oil cotton ;
Fulton's steamboat the existence OF internal
commerce and navigation; without Lowell ol'
gelow might have invented new trap for musk
rats but not looms for weaving Carpets, Glng-
hams. Coach. Lace, &c | deeply feel that our
Country owes to mankind the duty of so sus-
tanning her Manufacturing Industry that further
and more signal triumphs Of her inventive ge'
MUS may vet be evolved and realized, not mere
" in the domain of Fabrics but IN that OF
Wares and Metals also, and especially IN that OF
the chief metal, Iron Had Iron enjoyed for
twenty years such measure of Protection
among us as plain Cottons obtained from 1916
through Mr. Calhoun's minimum OF SIX cents
per square yard, we should in all probability
have been producing Iron by this time as cheaply
as drills and Sheetngs-that Is, as cheaply
EQUALITY considered) as any nation on the globe
as cheaply as we produce School Books, News
papers, and nearly every article whereof the
American maker is shielded by circumstances
from Foreign competition Had the Tariff of
1912 but stood unaltered till this time, who be-
leves that even the grcenest and silhest Ameri-
can could have fancied himself bushIng for the
meagerness of his countrys share in the Great
Exhibition. II. G.