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

our kcoptt NOuiO id!iuiN ItuECc Auc tI4CC
| of every article, even while paying better
wages to labor. and making reasonable pro-
fits that is, that with protection the great
mass Of consumers would presently be en-
abled to procure articles Of comfort and
luxury at . less price than without it, at the
same time that they would be vastly better
able to ray for them.
II, then, protection Is premium on Iazi-
nc IS, a. TIE Post asseverates, We should
| like u nave 1t expl,in how. with this 30 per
cent. duty, the Lowell shaw-makers have
got on so triumphantiy. And If the effect
Of admitting competition from other coun-
tries be to cause the home manufacturer TO
seek the means of afording his products
cheaper, or of making them better, instead Of
breaking him down altogether, how happens
it that so large proportion of our furnaces
and cotton-mills have been closed, under The
operation of the tariff of 1876 Why
have mt they been led to cast about for meth
DDS of aifording their fabrics cheaper or
making them better!
The Post has something to say about the
honor of the country, and lets our artisan.
know that they ought 10 be ashamed to ask
any other protection than their own IN
genuity. Why not refer them to Canada
by way of example, where artisans have
never had any other protection, and where
they have had the full benefit Of that compe-
tition from England which ought to stimulate
them 10 the supremest excellence Ac-
cording to the argument to which The Post
treats Us, Canada ought to be far ahead of
he United States in respect of arts and
manufactures. Those who look at that
argument, in the light Of the facts all around
them, can Judge whether it is the perfec-
tion of wisdom or the silliest of fummery.
rs for our shipping and ship-building in
terests, il has, We believe. been generally
supposed, hitherto. that they have received
quite efficient protection In times past,
we believe that foreign-built ships have not
been admitted to the privileges of an
American register, 50 that in fact the pro-
lection has amounted to prohibition. Even
now the British are clamoring that we are
protecting our own ships to a degree alto
gether too prejudicial to Anglo-SaxOn' In
terests. They complain especially that we
VIII not admit them 70 an equal chance in
the uade between our Atlantic and Pacific
ports, and declare that, By means of the ad
vantagcs of that trade, we are stealing
away from them the carrying from China
and India to England. And this state Of
things. THE Post tells us, IS no protection
to our ship-building. The truth would
seem to be- that no interest has been better
or more steadily protected than those con-
nected with navigation. What shall be
thought ofthe system or of the teachers of Po-
litical Economy that have to treat facts after
the fashion employed by The Posp Be-
sides, if free trade in ship-building can
create great commercial marine, how
happens it that Nova-Scotia and Canada
are without any
Now let US hear the creed of TIE Jour-
nG'of Commerce We give It at length for
it is toerably entertaining, and besides, we
like to let our readers see what is said on
the other side, though we have no hope that
our opponents will ever learn to copy 80
good an example. We take the liberty of
marking with figures the great points IN the
following article, for convenient reference,
in the reply which we subjoin.
The TAPIFF AND THE SHAwLs.-ANer copying
our statement that the Bay State Mills have recent
ly sold 100 cas3s numbering nearly or quite 500
shaws. for the Canada market, to a regular dealer
there VINO can afford 70 pay duty OF IL per cent
and SCI! his goods alongside Of British productions
at profit" The Tribune exclams
Here IS conclusive 1ment n favor Of Protection
Which no amount " astaet sophstH or bold hy2othess
Cah 9NeitA9" ms manufacture alIeanf very lnpgrlahi
and deslned 70 attain sui greater MAGNITUDE the t u
under hat Is falsely called Free Trade"
In the next column OF The Tribupe Is a communi-
cation, GRATED to show is Importance. which begins
thus
The pressure 4 or None uaTke; raging. jus,
what even man, sound his Of po cal economy,
predicted when the taTf law ii 1910 enacted
Now II 30 happens thai the Bay state NILS were
not established nor even the foundation lad un.!i
after the Tarn OF 1916 went into operation. The
same Iarlr irresponsible for the pTesen, scarcity OF
money, and The extraordinary success of the Bay
state Nils Which horn VIII Tls Tribune take
l. 4 Free Trade 1auf x Protective TaT!f The
IritpHes answer j., n effect, that II Free Trace
farm when II makes money scarce, but farm OF
Protection Whef. II enables OR shawl Manufacturers
10 undersell me British shaw manufacturers IN their
own dOnlLlonS To such palpa5le inconsistencies
the ProtectonIss compeedto resort, order 70
sustain their theory. a.
Under what TaTld the grand bubble OF SO
and $50 blown up and under what Tariff dId n burst
Under the highes; Tauf Inch existed thc
United States VIZ that Of $50 for until the begin
mig Of 1885 only one.6fh u ne e1cess aJore 20 per
cent fxed oy the TaTld ot 1884, had been taken OF
O. In the single yeaG ending 3otA September. 1890,
the value OF imports INTO the United States with
population Of about lJ0tg,0C9. STAG. go. IS,
Is. L. a 40 xnnIieL of "a r-cl only &llN