New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-17

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cumstances far more favorable to her than
we (by reason of our greater distance) can
hope for, and yet the Patriots of Ireland
say it would be far better for her people
to manufacture for themselves and we
think they prore it. We copied, months
ago, from The Irish american, an Address
Of the Parent Board of Irish Manutac-
lures in Dublin. clearly proving that it
would be far better for Ireland to manu-
facture for herself than to buy from En-
gland, even at what are nominally lower
prices. That Address took substantially
the grounds we have always taken in favor
of fostering american Manufactures, and
made no reference to LandlOrdism. We
believe its doctrines sound and beneficent
and, so believing. gave them publicity; we
understood The Irish american 70 do like
wise. But when we ask our neighbor to
act in consistency with the principles
there cnunciated, he flies the track.
1t is melancholy to hear one who is able
to influence other mems opinions talk, as
our neighbor does, of Protective Tariff dc
priving our Western farmers of market :
Suppose that God had made the earth
without Europe, what desoIaton our
Great West must have remained to the end
of time But why! Our people need to
sell Wheat, Flour. Pork, &C., abroad, be-
cause they buy thence Iron and various
Fabrics. If we made our own Iron and
Fabrics. we should consume far more
them than we now do. and so create far
larger market for our Agricultural staples.
Even now, New-Engand bugs and con-
sumes far more of Western staples than Old
England does, and would consume far more
if her Manufactures were all active and
prosperous. Those who make our Metals
and Fabrics must eat whether they live in
Europe or America; and the simple ques-
ton is, Can we not supply them with food
more cheaply and abundantly if they are
induced to live and work within a few
hundred miles Of our farmers, than while
they live thousands of miles from them !
Surely, this question need not be hard to
answer.
We think it best to let our neighbor
enjoy his display of unsparing hatred to
England without controversy. John Bull
would like several millions more of Just
such enemies as he is-full of buster and
denunciation, but all the time the Simplest
servitors of his policy, content to live and
die the coral insects that build up his pros
perity and power. He can well afford to
laugh at the Hibernicism which denounces
Bulwer as member of a traitorous junta,
meaning that he is shrewd and successful
diplOmatist in his native lands behalf; aud
he who argues with certain class of dis
putants must expect to have such words
put into his mouth as '.fealty to England"
which he never said any thing to Justify nor
even excuse. We never owed, felt nor
protested any "fealty'' to England ; we
have been and shall be an unyielding OPP
ponent of that policy which exalts her into
the commercial arbiter and manufacturing
focus of the world; but our impulse in this
is not hatred TO her but love to our own
country and to mankind. Whether the
feeling cvinccd by The Irish american is
more creditable than this, our readers will
Judge; but there can be no doubt that Bull,
who, with all his faults, has keen eye for
the practical, is far less likely to apprehend
| danger to his interests or power from
our neighbor's enmity than from ourfriend-
cham