New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-06-24

invited 10 unite IN ,ttu>lh- ~ any Inn II
can. from whatsoever State. the smallest
cjvilitv until the Union should agree 60
nav the debts of Maryland and Michigan,
Florida and Mississippi The tune Is
now changed. The columns Of this We
racjous journal now discourse Of the
freedom Of our people for the promotion Of
British objects. where before it could see
no freedom except for the picking of British
rockets and the relations of the two coun-
tiles are cow those Of parent and child,
whereas they were before those Of the I'M
fortunate capitalist and the unprincipled
swindler. The abject seryility Of to-day Is
thus in perfect keeping with the shop
keeping' insolence of the free trade period
of ls4l-2. How long it viii be before it
will change again how long it viii be be-
fore the same pen now employed in admin
istering soft sawder" Will be employed in
denouncing Us again as nation Of bacdegs
and swindlers. tine viii show. The day
for this is probably not far distant.
The burden Of this song Of The Times is
the growth of public revenue. Provided
that keep up, it is quite unimPortant that it
should be accompanied with decline Of
pirate revenue, accompanied with dimin-
ution in the power Of the people to obtain
the necessaries. conveniences and comforts
of life Talk to a genuine Free Trader
that is to say, an advocate of the system by
which England seeks to maintain her mo-
nopoly of machinery for the production OF
iron. or of cotton and wooden cloth-talk,
we say. to such man, and tell him that we
consume less in quantity of cotton now
than we did four years since, and he will
tell YOU to remark the growth OF public rev.
enue. Tell him that we consume less iron
than we did four years since, and he will re-
peat his request to study the growth OF pub
lie revenue. He is, as he thinks, an adyo-
cate of the system which teaches the doc
trinc of la,ssc> tare, i0ISsec pasSer--paS
trop gOurcIner-yet provided the governors
have more to spend, he is Indifferent as to
any diminution in the power of consumption
OH the part of the eorerned \ more incon-
sstent set of people than these nominal
Free Traders it would be difficult to find.
We are here assured that this growth in
the receipts from Customs will render 1t I'M
necessary to impose any higher penalty
on the American citizens who desire TO
"use British and other foreign manufac-
lures" and the beliefs expressed that " be-
fore many years the federal debt will
probably expire, and with it the greater
part of the import duties" In regard to
the amount of penalty" imposed by the
system which looks to protecting American
labor against the half-starved, ill-clothed and
down-trodden people of England, We find
MANY important facts in an article from the
last number of THE Pio,c, the LoOm' and
the AnrH given in another part OF this
DAYS paper, aud to which we desire
10 call the attention of our readers
1t is an inquiry as to lrho II IS that pays
the dl,fv, and the facts that are gwen
can scarcely, as we think, fail 10 satisfy our
readers that the distant British producer OF
iron and of cloth Is III the same position as
the distant American producer of wheat and
of pork-that both have to pay the cost OF
overcoming the difficulties IN their way to
market, and that the only effect of reducing
the duties ON British products is TO transfer
to ourselves the payment of a portion OF
the cost heretofore paid by foreigners. II
so. then II must be that under 4 system OF
efficient protection the consumer obtains his
cloth and his iron at the smallest cost OF la
Dor, and in evidence that II IS so, we invite
the attention of our readers to the facts that
the consumption of Cotton, per head, almost
doubled in the five years that followed the
passage of the Tariff Of 1912; and that IN
the last three years 1t has not only not IN
creased, but it Is actually less IN ac-
tual quantity, Notwithstanding the great IN
crease of pepulation-that the consumption
of Coal, per head, doubled in that period,
and that il has since remained stationary
that the consumption of Iron far more than
doubled. and that it Is now less in actual
quantity than it was four years since. The
Times assures US the strength and greatness
of the Union consists in its Numbers, It's
territory, and us command IF the necessarIes
Of hte;" and as the power to obtain the
necessaries of clothing, and fuel, and the
machinery By which 10 produce food, and