New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-02

nufac'urDR enterprise has b9en unhuy sumnln
must undergo q corresponding depression, aud auer'
ward if the Government will let It alone, Il VIII no
doubt enjoy reasonable md moderate prosperity
Remarks.
It is so seldom that Free Trade jour
nal can be induced to look at the Great
Question in the LIGHT of transporting facts,
that we gladly welcome any attempt of
thet nature, however partial or uncandid.
Messrs. Corwin and Winslow, it appears
have d" Iron Works" at Albany; these
works were recently burned down, and
they have bulls them up again: Hence
tn. Post argues that no Protection for
on-making is necessary.
Now Iron is a general term, covering
almost as many distinct varieties of pro-
duct as the term Manufactures itself.
There never was time when some descrp-
tons of Iron could not be made in this
country at profit, even though three
fourths of our Iron works stood idle, per
force, and seven-eighths of all the Iron u.s.
ed in the country was coming from En-
rope. Whether Messrs. Corning Il Wins
low are actual producers of Iron at all, or
only manufacturers Of castings or some
other advanced form from Pig, we do not
know. Our impression is that they buy as
many tuns of Iron as they sell. But the
fact was never denied nor doubted that
some Iron can be made in this county at a
profit even under The present Tariff.
Bot it is to US a matter Of little moment
whether Dlessrs. Corning & Co. can make
Iron at a profit or not. save as that fact
may bear on the great public question:
Can our country produce her own ironl'
Whether Messrs. Corning IL WinSlow
shall or shall not continue to make Iron. is
a question in which we feel no interest;
but we do greatly, anxiously desire that
the Iron required by our countrymen shall
be the product of American Labor and
Skill. We deem that matter of emiLent
National concern. Under the Tariff of
1912, We were rapidly advancing toward
the end we contemplate; had that Tariff
been permitted to stand untouched, we
should by this time have made more Iron
at home than we now make and impart
together. The Tariff of lS46 has closed
a great part of our furnaces and ruined
most of their owners; it has enormously
| increased our Imports of Iron, for which
we are giving bonds for our children to
pay. But what of all this = exults Tie
Post: 'since Messrs. Corning q Winslow
of Albany are able to do something in
the Iron line without loss? What more
can anybody desire ?
We appeal from The Post to its own wit
ness. Fir. Erastus Corning (of Corning q
Winslow) is one Of the leading mon Of
the party its Albany candidate for Con-
gress in $780, and its probable candidate
for either Governor or Congress in 1852.
Now Mr.. Corning, notwithstanding bis
ability to make or transform Iron under
the present tariff, is decidedly of the opin-
ion that said tariff ought to be revised
He has labored at Washington to procure
such revision, and he was voted for by sew
eral Wing manufacturers in 1850 expressly
on the ground of his assured willingness to
do as much, and his alleged ability to DO
more than his Wing competitor for the
revision Of the present tariff with view
to more efficient protection. Mr.. Coming
is able to live under any tariff, but he is
willing also to let live We commend
his example to The Post.
That journal advises our Iron makers,
when they cannot make iron proftAbly, to
shut up and wait for better times, as i'm
porters withhold their orders when goods
do not sell to advantage. Alas TIE Post
has not learned to consider the want, the
woe, the misery, inevitably resulting from
such general closing of FORCES and far
naces as it coolly suggests. Some of the
IrOn-masters may be able to ahJrd it, but
what shall their tcork,men do ! These have
their families clustered in cottages around
the homtly old furnace where they have
found work for years; their scanty saw
irgs are nearly all invested in property
which the blowing out of the furnace d.
vests of marketable value; they know not
how to work effectively in any business
but Iron-making; and, if they did,
there is no work within reach The neigh
boring farmers, losing the cash market
for their Fruits, Butter, Vegetables, &C.,
which the furnace has hitherto afforded,