New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-11

sre 81 ~ perhead Our own country las the Ere.;
est natural Advantages Tor producing this staP-e tnc
entire COS. o. good grazing land here not beng e4Ia
70 the annual rental IA England 50 that It woull
that the duty Of 30 per cent UPON the raw ma
tsr-sl as opposed o. sound policy, and az Har "ith
the tGfOfy even OF the prOiecuonisis, who N tAs
! case are encouraging Manufacturers Win ven
B gcance. ~
! The success Of the Bay STATE Mills has induced
/ ether n nuiacturtrs 10 embark n the same enter
Prise, and the only quarter from which Danger ! a-
pretended i IN TIE home competition, which AZ one
| moment seemed likely 20 increase the production
/ beyond Tie demand for consumption. Il Is >o,ae-
what singular hat neither Germany nor France has
SIcCeeCeG IN his branch II Manufacture 7'tirltf-
sf0rdsrE RI mast eTa. rsss'sHrs from flsr rsS7ef-
80 Co -7- safs Every attempt las been failure,
anc Trey nave gwen up the contest. kFtn ing ana
could not rival Ter Scottish uelsh5OrS and 10 il-s
tay yarn Is spun IN TIE Midland and northern coln-
ties o. the former kingdom and made into shawl, on
he other SIDE Of the border. 81
/. This bubble Is eminently worthy OF
its source The J5,rnai Is well aware
that one Of the objections which the PTo-
teotonists have always brought against the
present tariff, is that it : neither one thing
Tor the other. neither fish. flesh. nor fowl,
neither in accordance with the principles OF
what Is called free trade, nor with those Of
protection. Thus. while as 4 general thing
Il IS SO framed as to favor foreign industry
in preference 70 our own. and to keep the
United States in state of semi-cOlonlal de-
penGence on Eng Land, speclaly,and thereby
IS certain to bring depression and bankruptcy
upon the country: there are still cases in
which. from peculiar circumstances, it acts
protectiyelv. and helps the growth of par
ticular branches of American labor. There
fore il is both free trade and protective
tariff. There is no dilemma in the case,
nor any Inconsistency except that in the
tariff itself: its general character and ten
dency are hostile to American production,
and calculated 20 produce enormous impor-
tations. run the country in debt, and bring
us up short amid a universal smash. (Which
but for California would have arrived al
ready, and cannot be postponed by any de-
vice Of kite.fying beyond a full crop of
cotton, bringing down the price Of that
commodity y but at the same time it is. in
some respects, incidentally protective, and
has accordingly aided into success the in
genuity and enterprise which now produce
these shavls. In this way, while the tariff,
taken as whole, is proving and VIII prove
by the btterest experience the tutility and
absurdlty, not to say wlckedness, OF that
sort of free trade which consists in main
tanning the same British monopoly that
has ruined Ireland, India, and kept Cam
ada in state of stagnation, it here and
there offers a striking proof OF the excel
lence of protection, as in the case of these
shawls. Here Is, we admit, palpable In
consistency, but it is none of ours. We
did not make this tariff we never praised
it or its authors we never rejoiced at It's
passage nor foretold good from Its opera
ton. But The Journal did, and let it
therefore make the best of these incon-
sistencleS.
,. The sublime assurance OF this COM
pels our admiration. 1t IS gigantic and
grand in It's kind but what that kind, OF
what that grandeur, politeness forblds US
to declare We may, however. say that it IS
not precisely the grandeur Of truth Still
it often happens that the exigency Of argu-
ment leads to peculiar view of facts, and
such would seem to be the case in the pres
ent instance.
If, as The Journal would have US be-
heve. the duties were higher under the
compromise tariff of 1923 than ever
before or since, what becomes Of the fact
that It was . compromise, agreed upon for
the express purpose Of reducing the duties
from the previous standard. IN order 20
please our masters in SOUTH Carolina :
But in order to show Just the value Of
what The Journal presumes to say, we
give table of the dutie. on several ar
ticles, as they were under genuine protec-
ton in 1881. under the tariff of 1892. SIG
and as they are now.
1881 lsS2 1912 1910